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Money Forward

Fintech · Tokyo, Japan · Founded 2012 · IPO 2017

Personal and business cloud financial management software

Valuation $2.24B
Revenue $469M
EBITDA $81M
Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue
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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
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

Global footprint

Where Money Forward has talent and traffic

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

Talent graph

The shape of Money Forward's talent

Dealroom maps Money Forward's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

5 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org
1 AI specialistincl. 1 core researchers
1,160 employees mappedperson by person
DimensionScore
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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

Patent intelligence

$2M patent portfolio · 99 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$2M
0.10% of market cap · 1.6× smaller than top peer Freee ($4M)
99 active patent families

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.

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        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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