BluAge

About BluAge

Founded in April 2018 as BluAge Inc. by Taku Sasaki, the company rebranded to Canary Inc. in February 2024 to align with its flagship products. Sasaki, a University of Tokyo economics graduate, brings a sharp analytical perspective from his tenure in investment banking at Merrill Lynch, where he handled M&A and financing, and later as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. His venture into real estate technology was spurred by a personal, inefficient apartment-hunting experience, which exposed the analog nature of Japan's property market. This led to a mission of creating a "better norm" by digitally upgrading the industry's entrenched, often inefficient, practices.

Canary Inc. operates on a dual-front model, targeting both consumers and businesses within Japan's real estate sector. Its revenue streams are diversified across these two segments. For consumers, the company offers the "CANARY" mobile app, a property search platform that has surpassed 5 million downloads. The app was designed as a smartphone-first solution to cater to the modern user, providing a clean interface for searching rental properties and reducing the prevalence of "decoy listings." This B2C marketplace connects renters with real estate agencies.

For its business clients—real estate agencies—the company provides "CANARY Cloud," a vertical SaaS solution. This platform functions as a customer relationship management (CRM) and sales force automation (SFA) tool, designed specifically for the workflows of real estate brokerages. Key features include the automation of customer follow-ups, streamlined property introductions, and analytics functions to enhance customer service quality and improve closing rates. By tackling both the consumer experience and the backend agency operations, Canary aims to create an integrated digital infrastructure for the entire property transaction lifecycle, from initial search to final contract. The firm recently secured a significant ¥4 billion Series C funding round in December 2025 to enhance its AI development and technological infrastructure.