KDDI Open Innovation Fund III Makes Additional Investment in MOSH, Inc., Provider of Individual Brand Support Services

February 5, 2025

KDDI CORPORATION

KDDI made an additional investment in MOSH, Inc. (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Kazuya Yabu; hereinafter "MOSH"), the provider of the "MOSH" individual brand support service for selling services on the Internet, through KDDI Open Innovation Fund III (operated by Global Brain Corporation; hereinafter "KOIF III"), which aims to incubate new business co-creations with promising venture startups.

"MOSH" is a storefront type [1] of EC platform which enables users to easily sell various services on the Internet. In addition to features that enable users to easily create and implement web sites, reservations, settlement, monthly subscriptions, membership sites, and content management using their smartphone, MOSH also supports customer management and the sale of digital content. Going forward, the company aims to enhance their products by adding more advanced features to better meet the needs of individual creators while also fostering the development of a new "person-to-person" economy.

Through this investment, KDDI will utilize the assets of the KDDI Group to support MOSH in creating a system that strengthens every individual brand, with the goal of promoting the creator economy.

As "the company that customers feel closest to," KDDI will continue to promote business co-creation through investment in promising startup companies, and create new business models together with customers and partners.

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• ■Overview of MOSH

  • (1)

    • Company name

      : MOSH, Inc.

  • (2)

    • Headquarters

      : 9th Floor, 2-14-13 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

  • (3)

    • Date founded

      : July 2017

  • (4)

    • Business activities

      : Planning, development, and operation of Internet businesses

  • (5)

    • Representative

      : CEO Kazuya Yabu

  • (6)

    • URL

      : https://corp.mosh.jp/ (in Japanese only)

• ■About KDDI Open Innovation Fund

  KDDI Open Innovation Fund is a corporate venture fund that supports a broad range of venture companies. The currently active KDDI Open Innovation Fund III focuses on the areas of AI, IoT, data marketing, fintech, B2B SaaS, and entertainment with a total operating fund of 30 billion yen.

• [1]

  Format in which owners use an independent (storefront type) of EC platform to sell products/services on the Internet instead of opening a shop within a mall.