# aiQ

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/aiq-corp

- Industry: Information Services
- Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan
- Website: www.aiq-index.com/
- Total disclosed funding: $0.7M
- Latest round: Seed (Mar 27, 2019)
- Investors on record: 3

## About

Based in Tokyo, Japan, and founded in 2016 by CEO Yuki Yamamoto, aiQ Corp. Ltd. provides institutional investors who invest in Japan’s shares with investment information through the analysis of big data, including location information, POS data, SNS, and other alternative data sources. In March 2019, aiQ Corp. Ltd. raised an undisclosed amount of venture funding from new investors Deep30, NTT DOCOMO Ventures, and SPARX Group.
 
The company offers products, such as aiQ Geolocation, aiQ CP, aiQ POS, and aiQ Sentiment, that provide accurate and real-time analysis of the state of corporate activities by breaking down different population projections into detailed categories, such as residents or commuters by time at a point. In addition, it analyses web data such as social media (SNS), web forums (BBS), and web traffic to provide an evaluation of sentiment relative to stock price.

## Funding rounds

- Seed, Mar 27, 2019, $0.7M — SPARX Group, NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Deep30

## Investors

- SPARX Group (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/sparx-group) — Seed
- NTT DOCOMO Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/ntt-docomo-ventures) — Seed
- Deep30 (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/deep30) — Seed