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Money Forward

Fintech · Tokyo, Japan · Founded 2012 · IPO 2017 Unicorn

Personal and business cloud financial management software

Valuation
$1.74B
Market cap · May/2026
Revenue
$387M
Latest reported FY
EBITDA
$75M
Latest reported FY
Featured in Unicorn$1B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026 $10B+ revenueThoroughbred · Power Law outcome

Investors

20 investors on Money Forward's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series A 1 investor entered at this stage
JAFCO
Series B+ 19 investors entered at this stage
Gunma Bank
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company
SBI Investment
North Pacific Bank
Shizuoka Bank
Mizuho Capital
Fukui Bank
Dentsu
Pegasus Tech Ventures
Credit Saison
Isetan mitsukoshi innovations
Yamaguchi Financial Group
SOURCENEXT
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
The Shiga Bank
Toho Bank
Mitsui Global Investment
GMO Venture Partners

Global footprint

Where Money Forward has talent and traffic

AI talent share
0.1% of workforce is AI talent
(1 of 1,126 staff)
Core AI10.09%
Other AI00%
Non-AI workforce1,12599.91%
Workforce by country
15 countries with
team presence
🇯🇵 Japan91.6%
🇻🇳 Vietnam3.6%
🇮🇳 India1.5%
🇮🇩 Indonesia1.3%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom0.4%
Top 5 of 15 shown
Web traffic by country
49M monthly visits
across markets
🇯🇵 Japan99.4%
🇨🇦 Canada0.1%
🇺🇸 United States0.1%
🏳️ Korea0%
🏳️ Republic of0%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$2M patent portfolio · 93 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$2M
0.12% of market cap · 1.5× smaller than top peer Freee ($3M)
93 active patent families
Where Money Forward innovates Information processingInformation handling systemData scienceDatabaseData mining

Where Money Forward concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Money Forward and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

Money Forward's 26 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Money Forward appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2017–2025. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

26 deals across Money Forward's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

By sectorCount
    By stageCount
      By periodCount

        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        Where Money Forward deploys vs peers

        Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.

        Compare against

        02 · Portfolio market map

        Money Forward's portfolio, mapped.

        Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

        Stage
        Period
        26 of 26 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Money Forward

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Money Forward on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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