kinobo
Let's go on an exciting adventure.
COMPANY

Company

Since our founding in 2015, our core has never changed.
We are a team that keeps expanding the realm of human possibility — playing with the Web as we go.

COMPANY PROFILE

Company Profile

Company Name
Kinobo inc.
Representative
Representative Director & CEO, Ryo Horiki
Founded
September 10, 2015
Capital
JPY 4,000,000
Address
4-11-7 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0013, Japan
Business
Web service planning & development / Marketing support / System development / AR, VR & metaverse / Creative / Media business
Work Style
Full-remote and full-flextime encouraged. Members and partner bases in Japan and abroad. A multi-career-friendly organization.
Shareholders
The management team, Skylight Consulting Inc.
Tax Advisor
Century Partners Tax Accountant Office
Labor & Social Security Advisor
Routing Labor and Social Security Attorney Corporation
Partner Companies
Sensorama Lab LLC / SoftElegance / Kaizen IT Holding LLC / FFFACE.ME INC / illnoa LLC / Vyshy tech LLC

Since our founding in 2015, our core has never changed.

OUR STRENGTH

Kinobo's three strengths.

The strength of an organization — what lets a small team keep winning in an uncertain world.

01

A team that has built from zero × AI

Since our founding, we have built everything from zero — planning, design, and system development alike. Now we multiply nearly a decade of accumulated technical skill by AI. That is what makes our uncompromising quality and project-by-project flexibility possible.

02

Specialists across diverse fields

Kinobo is an organization that encourages multiple careers and entrepreneurship. Every member is a specialist who has delivered results in their own field. Many run their own businesses, so diverse expertise and a management perspective circulate within the company — letting us approach every project with a real "perspective for making businesses win," not armchair theory.

03

The right team for every project

With our core management team at the center, we maintain a team that can complete work in-house while collaborating closely with marketing teams and partners in Japan and abroad, as well as offshore development teams. We assemble the optimal matrix-style team for each project to deliver our services.

MEMBER

The crew who adventure with us.

Different countries, different specialties. Each holding their own "stick," we continue the adventure as one team.

ManagementMANAGEMENT

Ryo Horiki
Representative Director & CEO

Ryo / Ryo HorikiRyo Horiki

Born in Tokyo in 1989. He took up entrepreneurship in his student days and founded Kinobo inc. in 2015. For nearly a decade since, he has led the company across everything from Web service planning and development to contract work. A serial entrepreneur, he also runs several operating companies including IJOOZ (fresh-squeezed orange vending machines), Vircre (metaverse), and Phyca (primary industry). With "expanding the realm of human possibility" as his mission, he leads the team from the front with technology and a spirit of adventure.

Director & CTO

Ogi

Born in 1989, a graduate of a science and engineering university. He started his career at a production company within a major advertising agency group, working on campaign sites for major clients. He supported Kinobo technically from its founding period and officially joined as Director & CTO in 2017. Since then, as a front-line full-stack engineer, he has single-handedly completed system development in every kind of language — from planning, design, and architecture to DevOps and front/back-end. Ranked No.1 in in-house sales for two consecutive years, he also has an overwhelming presence inside and outside the company as a mentor and mood-maker. He concurrently serves as an engineer at a financial company and as a director of a specialized development company.

Executive Officer & CMO

Azusa

Born in Tokyo, based in Okinawa. A marketer with a versatile background and talents. She began her career as a wedding planner, holds certifications as a childcare worker and a diver, and also writes novels. After building a track record in Web marketing as an SEO writer and media editor-in-chief, she joined Kinobo. She handles a wide range of work — from SEO/MEO consulting to marketing direction, talent scouting, and media editing and writing — and has rescued the company from management crises many times by making the marketing division profitable. She also runs a tourism business in Okinawa.

Head of Administration

Sen

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Jiman

CDO

Akari

PM

Oleg

CrewCREW

And there are more adventure companions, all around the world.

HISTORY

Our adventure so far.

2015.9

Kinobo inc. founded

Founded in Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo. We started out by developing a personality-diagnosis app.

2016.1

Award at the 9th Entrepreneurship Challenge

Our personality-diagnosis app "Minder" won an award at the 9th Entrepreneurship Challenge. Our early-stage venture was recognized.

2016.3

Investment from Skylight Consulting Inc.

We received outside investment and moved toward building our business foundation.

2017

Director & CTO appointed

A full-stack engineer joined, dramatically boosting the company's development capability.

2017–

Growing both contract work and our own services

While solidifying our foundation through contract marketing support and system development, we also took on our own services.

–現在

Building a global guild

We expanded our partner network in Japan and abroad, including Ukraine, Singapore, and India.

2026–

Into our third founding era

With our own media "Bharat Hub" and more, we aim for the next leap through systematized contract work and our own businesses.

LET'S ADVENTURE

How about picking up
that "stick" together?

If you have a dream to achieve or a challenge to solve.
Don't overthink it—let's play around together first, then figure it out.
Web, marketing, system development—anything, feel free to reach out.

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