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ABEJA Inc.

Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed AI integrator that has spent over a decade turning retail cameras and factory sensor data into deployable models for large Japanese enterprises.

ABEJA was founded in September 2012 by Yousuke Okada, well before generative AI became a mainstream business category, and built its early reputation on computer-vision analytics for physical retail—reading network-camera footage to estimate foot traffic, dwell time, and repeat visits in stores. That retail and manufacturing focus, rather than a research-lab origin, still shapes how the company sells AI today: as an implementation partner for large organizations rather than a model developer selling APIs. The company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market in June 2023 under ticker 5574, and counts NVIDIA, Google, Salesforce Ventures, and Mitsubishi Corporation among its investors, with Mitsubishi Corporation deepening a capital tie-up as ABEJA positioned itself as a digital infrastructure partner for Japanese industry. ABEJA's current business spans its original retail analytics line, its ABEJA Platform data and MLOps infrastructure, an AI-ethics governance consulting practice, DX workforce training, and a newer ABEJA LLM Series aimed at bringing generative AI implementation to the same manufacturing, logistics, and retail clients it has served for years.

Founded

2012

Headquarters

Tokyo, Japan

Sector

services