About zukan.com, Inc.
Company profile
| Company | zukan.com, Inc. |
| Addresses | 8F, US Building 1-6-15 Hirakawacho, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 102-0093, Japan 1232-4 Kitanaka-ko, Yoshimura-cho Miyazaki-shi, Miyazaki 880-0841, Japan |
| Led by | Junichiro Yamaide, Representative Director |
| Founded | March 21, 2013 |
| Capital | ¥16.5 million |
History
Milestones in the history of zukan.com.
| Sep 2012 | Development of “Zukan,” a web service for collecting images, was selected for the MITOU Program of the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA). |
| Jan 2013 | Launched the service at zukan.com. |
| Mar 2013 | Established zukan.com, Inc. |
| May 2013 | Kenichi Naoe and Ryosuke Nakashiro were recognized as Super Creators by IPA’s MITOU Program. |
| Sep 2013 | Selected for the fifth cohort of KDDI ∞ Labo. |
| Jan 2014 | Won the Audience Award for our presentation at KDDI ∞ Labo Demo Day. |
| May 2014 | Released Mikke (in Japanese), Japan’s first app to identify fish through image recognition. |
| Nov 2014 | Released Zemilog, a platform for life science researchers to share paper presentation slides and other materials, developed jointly with LPIXEL Inc.. The service has since ended. |
| Dec 2015 | Released Ping, a four-character communication platform developed jointly with Omoroki (in Japanese). |
| Jun 2017 | Kenichi Naoe appeared as a guest speaker (in Japanese) at Google Cloud Next Tokyo (in Japanese). |
| Nov 2019 | Released LOCOMOCO, a local information Q&A app connecting people with locals. |
| Jan 2020 | Released Beblog, a service that turns Facebook posts into a blog. |
| May 2021 | Released Mikke version 4.0, with fish name Q&A where community votes choose the best answer. |
| Oct 2021 | Opened the Sakana to Mizuasobi no Collection (in Japanese), an online store for fish and water play. |
| Jun 2022 | Released FishDays (called Tsuriba Now in Japan), a social app combining maps, a timeline, and fishing spots. |
| Apr 2025 | Released AI Coloring, a creative app that lets kids make their own coloring pages. |
| Aug 2025 | AI Coloring was selected for SET SAIL! (in Japanese), Kobe City’s AI startup creation program. |
Contact
For permission to use photos posted on zukan.com, see Using photos from zukan.com (in Japanese).
For questions, feedback, or bug reports about the zukan.com system, see Contact us about the zukan.com system (in Japanese).
For all other inquiries, contact info@zukan.com.