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Money Forward
Personal and business cloud financial management software
At a glance
- Founded
- 2012
- Headquarters
- Tokyo, Japan
- Listing
- IPO 2017
- Sector
- Fintech
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A1 investor entered at this stage
- JAJAFCO
Series B and later19 investors entered at this stage
- TBToho Bank
- GBGunma Bank
- IIIsetan mitsukoshi innovations
- MCMizuho Capital
- DEDentsu
- SBShizuoka Bank
- SOSOURCENEXT
- TBThe Shiga Bank
- FBFukui Bank
- CSCredit Saison
- SISBI Investment
- NBNorth Pacific Bank
- MCMitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital
- YGYamaguchi Financial Group
- MCMitsubishi UFJ Capital
- MCMitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company
Pegasus Tech Ventures- MIMitsui Global Investment
GMO Venture Partners
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Global footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
99 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
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.
26 deals across Money Forward's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
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.
Money Forward's portfolio, mapped.
Market sentiment
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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