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Money Forward

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Personal and business cloud financial management software

Tokyo, JapanFounded 2012Fintech
Valuation $2.24B Market cap · Jul/2026
Revenue $469M Latest reported FY
EBITDA $81M Latest reported FY

At a glance

Founded
2012
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Listing
IPO 2017
Sector
Fintech
Power Law
Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Investors

20 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Series A1 investor entered at this stage

  • JAFCO

Series B and later19 investors entered at this stage

  • Toho Bank
  • Gunma Bank
  • Isetan mitsukoshi innovations
  • Mizuho Capital
  • Dentsu
  • Shizuoka Bank
  • SOURCENEXT
  • The Shiga Bank
  • Fukui Bank
  • Credit Saison
  • SBI Investment
  • North Pacific Bank
  • Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital
  • Yamaguchi Financial Group
  • Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
  • Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company
  • Pegasus Tech Ventures
  • Mitsui Global Investment
  • GMO Venture Partners
Employees mapped 1,160 incl. 1 AI specialist
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Key operators 5 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
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
45M monthly visits
across markets
🇯🇵 Japan99.7%
🇵🇰 Pakistan0.1%
🇹🇭 Thailand0.1%
🇺🇸 United States0.1%
🇹🇼 Taiwan0.1%
Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$2M

99 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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Investments and acquisitions

Disclosed deals where Money Forward was the 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.

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        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.

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        Money Forward's portfolio, mapped.

        Stage
        Period
        26 of 26 deals

        Market sentiment

        Posts on X, past 7 days

        An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Money Forward on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.

        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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