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Sansan
Cloud-based business contact, invoice, and contract database
At a glance
- Founded
- 2007
- Headquarters
- Tokyo, Japan
- Listing
- IPO 2019
- Sector
- Fintech
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
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Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed4 investors entered at this stage
Recruit Strategic Partners- IFIncubate Fund
GMO Venture Partners- CCCyberAgent Capital
Series A3 investors entered at this stage
- NCNissay Capital
Salesforce- Salesforce Ventures
Series B and later12 investors entered at this stage
Endeavor
T. Rowe Price- ININCJ
- EIEnergy and Environment Investment
Goldman Sachs- SBSumitomo Mitsui Banking
- NINikkei
DCM- JCJapan Post Capital
- JPJapan Post
- SISBI Investment
- TCToyota Motor Corporation
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Sansan employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
LJLuup JapanEst. 2018
Naomichi OkadaJapan
Hideki HamadaJapan
Yuki HayashiJapan
Tatsuro Tatsu ShimadaJapanGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
43 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 Sansan was the backer or acquirer, 2018–2025. 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.
7 deals across Sansan's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Sansan's portfolio, mapped.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Sansan 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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