Top Tech Startups in Japan in 2027

We started Box in 2005 to make it easy to access information from anywhere and collaborate with anyone. While that vision still lies at the core of our business, it has transformed into our mission to power how the world works together. Today, we're proud to call 97,000 companies and 68% of the Fortune 500 our customers — but we're just getting started. As work continues to evolve, we stay focused on delivering innovation to organizations across the globe and blowing our customers' minds every day.

Braze is the leading customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be Absolutely Engaging™. Braze helps brands deliver great customer experiences that drive value both for consumers and for their businesses. Built on a foundation of composable intelligence, BrazeAI™ allows marketers to combine and activate AI agents, models, and features at every touchpoint throughout the Braze Customer Engagement Platform for smarter, faster, and more meaningful customer engagement. From cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration to Al-powered decisioning and optimization, Braze enables companies to turn action into interaction through autonomous, 1:1 personalized experiences. The company has been consistently recognized as a Leader in marketing technology by industry analysts, and was named a G2 “Best of Marketing and Digital Advertising Software Product” in 2026. Braze was also named a 2026 Best Places to Work by Built In, a 2025 America’s Greenest Companies by Newsweek, and a 2025 Fortune Best Workplace in Technology™ by Great Place To Work®. The company is headquartered in New York with 15 offices across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Learn more at braze.com.

Pinterest is the world's first visual discovery engine. People use Pinterest to discover ideas to try in their daily lives. More than 300 million people around the world use Pinterest to dream, plan and prepare for things they want to do in life. We always start by asking: whose problem are we solving? Is it significant? Are we making Pinners lives better? If products don't work for people they don't work for us. The success of Pinterest depends on the ownership of every Pinployee. We all own Pinterest and work to achieve results that benefit everyone, not just specific teams or individuals.

We eliminate tens of thousands in upfront data expenses, while giving you the instant flexibility to pick up real-time full exchange feeds or terabytes of historical data when you need it. Whether you're a Fortune 500 bank or a single-person startup, we scale with your budget and needs to deliver the same cutting edge performance and data integrity. For more info, visit databento.com

At Atlys, we believe that the path to creating a more open world is by making it efficient to travel. Travelers cite visas as the most frustrating pain point, and we're starting by automating that completely. We're looking for talented people who are interested in building the future of travel alongside us. Building technology to increase global movement liquidity will be one of the most exciting developments in decades.

CROSSK is building Whitebrinjal — an AI-driven decision infrastructure for complex enterprise technology procurement. Enterprises struggle to evaluate emerging technologies because the hardest work happens before procurement: defining the problem, aligning stakeholders, comparing unfamiliar solutions, validating fit, and building the business case. Whitebrinjal structures this fragmented pre-procurement journey into a decision layer—helping enterprises move from complex problems to decision-ready engagement with the right technology providers, while helping providers reach qualified enterprise opportunities with context, intent, and stakeholder alignment. We are solving the gap between “we have a complex problem” and “we know what to buy, why, and from whom.”

Entrupy aims to fight the global problem of counterfeits to become the de-facto standard for instant authentication. Entrupy is a hardware-enabled SaaS company that uses computer vision algorithms and microscopy to bring trust to transactions of high-value physical goods. Currently in use by thousands of secondary resellers and marketplaces worldwide, Entrupy provides the only scalable technology capable of authenticating luxury products from brands such as Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Hermès, among others. The service launched in 2016, following four years of research led by Ashlesh Sharma, Vidyuth Srinivasan and Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Professor at New York University. Investors include DG Lab Fund, deep learning pioneer and Facebook AI Research (FAIR) director, Yann LeCun, serial entrepreneur and investor Zach Coelius, cloud computing pioneer and Google VP of Infrastructure Eric Brewer, and Japanese venture capital firm, Accord Ventures.

Kick Health helps smart, capable professionals overcome the fears that hold them back from being the very best versions of themselves. Our personalized telemedicine service offers easy access to sleep medicine and beta-blocker prescriptions, the insider's edge to blocking nervous symptoms like racing heartbeat, shaky hands, or trembly voice. Kick is partnered with leading experts from Stanford, Yale, and Harvard in psychiatry, medicine, and emotional fitness.

At Deccan AI, we operate at the intersection of humans and AI, enabling groundbreaking use cases in the Generative AI space - powering some of the world’s best models and AI teams in the world. Our AI enabled services across various industries help organizations automate complex processes and elevate customer experiences by blending a talented workforce with custom AI solutions. We also help organizations scale faster by leveraging our top talent across Machine Learning, Software Development, and beyond. At Deccan AI, we don’t just build solutions—we empower innovation, accelerate growth, and shape the future of AI.