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Tel
Tel：+81(3)-6455-4677
Establishment
November, 2014
Board members
CEO（Chief Executive Officer）：Kazutaka Yonekura
Board director CFO：Yusuke Hioki
Board director：Go Fujita
Auditor：Seiji Nakano
Auditor：Taizo Fukushima
Auditor：Masaki Fujii
Election
EY Innovative Startup 2017
ACL 2017
COLING2018
J-Startup
ILS TOP100 Startups
2022 NEXT Unicorn Survey by Nikkei Inc.; Ranked #3 in Revenue Growth, #9 in the AI category of the estimated enterprise value
2023 Nikkei XTREND's 100 Companies Creating the Future Market
History
November 2014
Date of establishment of alt
April 2015
Professor Hitoshi Matsubara, Former Chairman of the Artificial Intelligence Society, was appointed as Technical Advisor.
May 2015
Implemented third-party allotment capital increase through East Ventures
June 2015
Dr. Hideyuki Shibuki, Researcher from Mori Laboratory, at Yokohama National University, joined as a co-researcher
July 2015
Started collaborative research with Mori Laboratory, at Yokohama National University Graduate School
August 2015
Professor Satoshi Kurihara, the Graduate School of the The University of Electro-Communications joined as a technical advisor (currently a professor at Keio University)
December 2015
Started collaborative research with Dr. Tung Nguyen from Thuyloi University
January 2016
Started joint research with Associate Professor, Ryutaro Ichise at National Institute of Informatics
February 2016
Implemented third-party allotment to JAFCO to raise capital to 500 million yen
March 2016
Associate Professor, Satoshi Sekine at New York University Joins as Technical Advisor
June 2016
Implemented third-party allotment to SMBC Venture Capital, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital to raise capital to 100 million yen
Implemented collaboration with Artificial Intelligence eXploration Research Center
Commenced joint research with Professor Phuong Le-Hong of Vietnam National University, Hanoi
August 2016
Started collaboration with Dr. Nguyen Thi Minh Huyen at Vietnam National University
September 2016
Assistant Professor, Ryohei Sasano at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Currently, Associate Professor at Nagoya University) was appointed as a technical advisor.
October 2016
Started a joint research with Associate Professor, Junichi Yamagishi at National Institute of Informatics
November 2016
Won the first prize in the Vietnamese Language and Speech Processing 2016（VLSP2016）
February 2017
Recognition in the “EY Innovative Startup 2017” in AI category sponsored by Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC
March 2017
Established a local subsidiary, alt Vietnam Co., Ltd., in Hanoi, Vietnam
April 2017
Recognized by Reform Declaration of Tokyo's Work Style
June 2017
Danushka Bollegala, Associate Professor at The University of Liverpool (at time of appointment/current position: Professor) assumed position as a technical advisor
July 2017
Developed voice cloning with a few voice samples
Presented the research on Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition at ACL 2017 (Association of Computational Linguistics)
October 2017
Raised 590 million yen in Series B round of funding
November 2017
Yoshikazu Nishimura assumed position as CTO
Danushka Bollegala assumed position as CSO (Chief Science Officer)
March 2018
Yonekura, CEO, was selected as a committee member of the Kanazawa Industrial Development Committee
Raised fund through third-party allocation to CVC fund of Nomura Holdings, Inc.
April 2018
Won the first prize in the Vietnamese Language and Speech Processing 2018（VLSP2018）
June 2018
Selected as one of internationally competitive and winning startups in the METI's J-Startup program
July 2018
Started issuing the alt emeth token
alt Vietnam lab relocated for further development
August 2018
Acquired patent on our personal dialogue engine
Presented research results on Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition at the COLING2018
October 2018
Professor Koichi Hashida at the University of Tokyo Graduate School joins as an advisor
January 2019
Capital business collaboration with Regain Group Inc.
March 2019
Financing from SBI Investment, REGAIN GROUP, TIS in Series C Round
April 2019
Established ALT Technologies Inc. as a wholly owned subsidiary
May 2019
Professor Emeritus Tomoyuki Nishida at the University of Tokyo joined as an advisor
Mr. Ikushima Takahiro, CEO of Mathematical Science Advanced Technology Laboratory CO.,LTD participates as an advisor
October 2020
Merger with Alt Technologies Inc.
January 2021
Completion of Series C round, fundraising of 1.34 billion yen
April 2021
Patent acquisition for "A device and program for providing multiple video data showing the movement of a subject"
June 2022
Raises 3.5 billion yen in Series D round
September 2023
Completion of Series D round, raising an additional 680 million yen
