- CEO
- Yusuke Inagaki
- Full Time Employees
- 779
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Financial - Data & Stock Exchanges
- Address
- Mitsubishi Building Tokyo Japan 100-0005
- IPO Date
- May 10, 2019
- Business
- Uzabase, Inc. provides business information infrastructure and platforms to support decision-making in corporate activities worldwide; its core offerings include Speeda, an AI-enhanced business intelligence platform delivering comprehensive corporate data, industry reports, market analysis, M&A insights, and expert research for strategic planning, R&D, sales, and marketing; NewsPicks, Japan's largest social business media outlet featuring original articles, videos, and curated content from over 100 global sources with commentary from industry experts; Mimir, an expert network platform encompassing NewsPicks Expert and Speeda Expert Research for consultations and structured intelligence reports; NewsPicks Studios, focused on video content production for business professionals; UB Ventures, a venture capital arm investing in seed to series-A SaaS, AI, automation, and digital transformation startups; and UB Datatech, a data organization service providing timely high-quality information. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Tokyo's Marunouchi district, the company operates through subsidiaries such as Mimir, Inc., NewsPicks Studios, Inc., FIRSTLIGHT Capital, Inc., and UB Datatech, Inc., with offices across Japan (Osaka), the United States (New York), Singapore, China (Shanghai), Hong Kong, and Sri Lanka (Colombo). Uzabase primarily serves financial institutions, corporations, analysts, and business professionals with B2B SaaS solutions, news services, and expert networks, emphasizing Asia-Pacific markets while expanding globally. Recent developments include the July 2024 alignment of domestic SaaS products under the Speeda brand, a May 2024 partial carve-out of subsidiary AlphaDrive, Inc., the June 2025 launch of Speeda AI Agent for specialized business insights, the August 2025 acquisition of corporate governance data from Japan's Board Director Training Institute, and the July 2025 opening of a new Hong Kong office to strengthen Asia presence; the company was taken private via a Carlyle Group TOB in December 2022 and delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange in February 2023.