Asilla raises fresh capital, nears profitability with $30M total to date
What's the deal? Tokyo-based AI startup AsillaDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has closed a late-stage third-party allotment round, bringing its cumulative funding to roughly ¥3 billion (about $30 million). The round pairs strategic capital with business tie-ups from Nippon Steel Kowa Real EstateDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → and Charm Care CorporationDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →.
What does it do? Asilla builds behaviour-recognition AI, led by its "AI Security asilla" product launched in 2022. That system now runs across roughly 250 sites in Japan, including commercial facilities, public transit, and office buildings.
Why these partners? Nippon Steel Kowa Real Estate signed a July 2026 tie-up to co-develop AI- and foot-traffic-driven facility operations. Charm Care is co-developing "asilla care," a monitoring system for nursing and welfare facilities.
The numbers: Recurring revenue (ARR) from the company's core product grew about 1.9 times over the past year and roughly 4.5 times over two years. Asilla says that base puts it in reach of its first sustained full-year profit next fiscal year, enabling a shift toward self-funded growth.
What's the endgame? The company is expanding beyond security into building and property management, facility DX, and care. It is also developing a security-focused vision language model under Japan's GENIAC programme, an abnormal-sound detection AI for equipment faults, and robot integrations for autonomous site patrols.
Going global: Asilla won first place at the 2025 Global Deep Tech Geeks Startups Competition and exhibited at GITEX Global in Dubai. In 2026 it joined the J-StarX European programme, basing itself at Station FDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → in Paris and exhibiting at VivaTechnology, with several deployments already live abroad and exhibitions planned in Saudi Arabia this year.
The signal: Asilla has drawn backers across security, telecoms, manufacturing, real estate, rail, and finance — a spread it reads as evidence its AI is treated as spatial-safety infrastructure rather than a single-sector tool. As labour shortages tighten across security and facility operations, the pairing of AI with robotics positions it in the physical AI field gaining attention at home and abroad.
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