History

DG Financial Technology and au Financial Service Form a Business Alliance for Collaboration in the Payment Business

Digital Garage Acquired Resona Kessai Service as an Equity-Method Associate and Completes the Establishment of a Joint CVC Fund with Resona HD

Crypto Garage Added Staking Service as part of its Institutional Digital Asset Custody Service Lineup

Opened “Crypto Cafe & Bar,” a web3 Membership Space, as a Proof-of-Concept Store for the DAO Model

Digital Garage Reinforced Capital and Business Alliance with Resona Group

Established “DG Commerce,” a New E-commerce Site Development Company

Digital Garage and Resona Group Jointly Developed Payment Service Specializing in the Medical Field

BI.Garage and the “Content Media Consortium” Announced “Quality Media Declaration”

Launched “CloudPay Neo,” a Device-Free Cashless Payment Service

Joichi Ito, Co-Founder and Chief Architect of Digital Garage, Appointed as the Next President of the Chiba Institute of Technology

Launched STARTUP STUDIO “GenLab,” for the Next-Generation Entrepreneurs in Generative AI

Launched “DGFT Invoice Card Payment for Invoice Issuers,” Using an Early Payment Collection Scheme for SMBs

Launched “Onlab Open Innovation” to Promote Social Innovation and Coproduction of Companies and Startups

Crypto Garage Launched New Custody and Trading Services for Digital Assets

Digital Garage and Kakaku.com Decide to Jointly Developed a Fintech Services for the Food Service Industry

Digital Garage developed “Musubell for Property Survey” as series of the real estate DX platforms “Musubell.”

Launched “Quick Money” for Prompt, Easy Financing by Small- and Medium-sized Businesses

Digital Garage and Resona Holdings Formed Capital and Business Alliance

Launched “DGFT Invoice Card Payment” as the first step of B2B Fintech Financial business

Digital Garage established Digital Architecture Lab

Changed Out Stock Market Listing from the First Section to the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange

Digital Garage Developed “Pangaea Delivery” for the Simplified Management of Multiple Online Orders

Digital Garage and JCB Formed Capital and Business Alliance

Digital Garage and Toshiba Tec Formed Capital and Business Alliance

Digital Garage Developed “Musubell for Chukai” to Support DX of Real Estate Brokerage, Following its Service for the New Condo Market

Crypto Garage Completed Registration as a Crypto Asset Exchange Service Provider to Offer New Services for Institutional Crypto Markets

Changed the name of core payment subsidiary “VeriTrans, Inc.” to “DG Financial Technology, Inc. (DGFT)”

DG Partnered with 1plusX to Power Development of Post-cookie Advertising across Japan and Asia

Digital Garage and the Bank of Yokohama Established “Hamagin DG Innovation Fund”

“Cloud Pay,” a Unified QR Code Payment Solution Started Linkage with “au Pay” and “WeChat Pay”

Published "Pitch – Innovative methods of pitching -"

Digital Garage Developed “Musubell” for Centralized Real Estate Contract Management

28 Prominent Media Companies Established the Content Media Consortium

Crypto Garage Launched the Commercial Service of “SETTLENET,” a Settlement Platform for the Crypto Asset OTC Market

Opened a new office in Shibuya PARCO DG Building

DG Group’s “Cloud Pay,” a Unified QR Code Payment Solution, Started to Support KDDI’s au PAY

DG Group’s “Cloud Pay,” a Unified QR Code Payment Solution, Started to Support Alipay, AlipayHK, and Kakaopay

7 Companies Established the Japan Digital Therapeutics Consortium and Launch Activities

Digital Garage and Daiwa Securities Group Established DG Lab Fund II for Global Startups with Next-generation Technologies

Digital Garage, Fukuoka D.C., and Fukuoka Growth Next Launched the Smart City Incubation Program, "Open Network Lab FUKUOKA"

Digital Garage Group Launched "Cloud Pay", a Merchant-presented mode Multi-QR Code Payment Solution

Crypto Garage Developed and Executed the Contract of a P2P Protocol Based Crypto Asset Derivative Settled in Bitcoin

Crypto Garage, The First Blockchain and Finance Project Authorized by Regulatory Sandbox in Japan

Digital Garage and The Hokkaido Shimbun Press Launched "Open Network Lab HOKKAIDO"

Digital Garage launched "Open Network Lab BioHealth", an accelerator program specialized in biotechnology and healthcare

Digital Garage and Tokyo Tanshi to Establish Crypto Garage, a JV for blockchain financial service R&D and business in the fintech field

Digital Garage & KDDI entered into a basic agreement on strategic alliance

VeriTrans and Nissen to establish SCORE, a JV in the postpaid shopping business

Digital Garage validated the value of online media; joined the bureau of the contents media value study group for improving advertisement value

DG Lab supported Scaling Bitcoin 2018

ECONTEXT Registered as Electronic Payment Service Provider

Digital Garage launched "Open Network Lab Resi-Tech," a global accelerator program targeting real estate-related startups

VeriTrans and Toshiba Tec established TD Payment, a JV offering multiple payment solutions for POS systems

Digital Garage officially launched lifestyle service for wealthy consumers business integration with two subsidiaries leads to development of DG Life Design business

Digital Garage and Kodansha established HOLICS, a compilation media service combining superior magazine content with AI technology

Digital Garage formed a business alliance with PureTech Health, a company which works on advanced incubation business in biotech

Digital Garage began support for startups in Fukuoka region in cooperation with the Fukuoka Directive Council

DG Lab developed all-purpose framework "DG Lab DVEP™" for unique cryptocurrency through blockchain's bitcoin

Operation support for the open innovation program TOYOTA NEXT, which will create the future's mobility society

Digital Garage and Daiwa Securities Group established "DG Lab Fund," a fund directed towards startups that specialize in next generation technology

Established "Digital Garage First Penguin Award," which honors those who continue to challenge oneself in the fields such as technology, arts, and sports

Digital Garage, Kakaku.com, and Credit Saison established open innovation-based R&D organization "DG Lab"

Changed Our Stock Market Listing from JASDAQ to the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange

Invested in Blockchain Developer Blockstream

Invested as lead investor in renowned creator Rei Inamoto's Business Invention Studio

Invested in MX Technologies, Inc., a US-based FinTech innovator

Established a joint venture with Kodansha on digital content business for global expansion of Japanese contents and new business incubations

Formed a business alliance with Chartbeat Inc. and started to boost the real-time analytics tool Chartbeat's Japanese expansion

Formed a capital and business alliance with Betaworks Studio, LLC, a prominent startup studio in the US

Invested in PT Bilna, the biggest online baby store in Indonesia

econtext ASIA invested in Citrus Payment Solutions Pvt. Ltd., a leading online payment solution provider in India

econtext ASIA became listed at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange

Formed a capital and business alliance with CrowdWorks Inc., a crowdsourcing service provider

Formed a capital and business alliance with Netprice.com Inc.

Opened an incubation center in downtown San Francisco named DG717

Established BI.Garage, a joint-venture with Dentsu Inc., cyber communications Inc., and ASATSU-DK INC., to provide big-data-related services

Co-founded DENTSU SCIENCEJAM with DENTSU INC. to make new businesses using research results of most advanced science and technology

econtext ASIA established a joint-venture VeriTrans Shanghai in China

VeriTrans, a leading company in the e-commerce and online payment fields, became a Digital Garage's wholly-owned subsidiary

Invested in Authense Group, Inc., the operator of Bengoshi4.com, a legal consultation service site

Established Neo Innovation, Inc. in San Francisco to start software development business based on agile methodologies

Invested in Path which provides Personal Network Service

Started to provide twitter account operation supporting tool TweetManager

Established "Open Network Lab" which is Japan's first mentor-driven seed accelerator program

Made an investment in e-book/Contents distribution comapny "MEDIA DO"

Formed a Partnership with Twitter DG Incubation helped developing of Twitter Japanese site

Absorbed a group of subsidiaries, ECONTEXT, DG solutions, DG&Ibex, DG Media Marketing and Creative Garage Employed a slogan "Hybrid Solution Partner"

Digital Garage capitalized on world's largest WiFi community, British FON, through subsidiary

Digital Garage subsidized major real estate advertiser Sogei through affiliate

IT reinforced solutions business in the real estate sector, where IT promotion is rapidly expanding

Digital Garage became a pure holding company of the group

Digital Garage formed intermediate holding company DG Solutions

Digital Garage established web advertising company DG Media Marketing to cover a wide range of group media, including Kakaku.com and Technorati.jp and other major media

Digital Garage established CGM Marketing jointly with Dentsu, cci and ADK

Digital Garage split and restructured its solutions subsidiaries to strengthen and streamline subsidiary businesses by redistributing group resources

Digital Garage co-founded new IR company with Asia Securities Printing Strategic business company, DG&Ibex established

Digital Garage established blog business company 'Technorati JAPAN'

Digital Garage established DG Incubation, a wholly-owned subsidiary to promote agility and efficiency in managing investment in developing new businesses and strategic investment

Digital Garage co-founded venture capital management company with JAIC

Digital Garage formed new company 'WEB 2.0' with PIA and Kakaku.com to start new portal site and other businesses in view of next-generation net society

Digital Garage established strategic subsidiary company focused on mobile business

Digital Garage announced investment & business partnership with Interscope, major Internet Research company

Digital Garage announced investment in Just Planning,　application service provider for the restaurant industry

Digital Garage announced financial and business partnership with B.U.G. Inc., as part of group's Ubiquitous Network strategy: DG acquired 21% of B.U.G. shares, becoming second leading shareholder

Digital Garage announced agreement in which DG acquired all of the issued shares of Ibex & rims, leader in integrated sales promotion, and made Ibex a 100% DG subsidiary

Digital Garage, Inc. announced business and capital partnership with Zion Ltd., provider of consulting services and system development for mobile telephony and Internet technologies DSI joined Zion Group (June 2003, Zion becomes affiliated DG company)

Reestablished Creative Garage, our creative design firm

Established Business and Capital Partnership with Digital Network Appliance Inc., a Broadband Technology Venture Company

Developed integrated solution package tailored to broadband video distribution for television terminal systems, based on Smoothy (a software for content management and content based commerce)

Announced Smoothy: management and commerce system for broadband contents

Kakaku.com became a subsidiary of Digital Garage. Kakaku.com is the leading price-comparison site in Japan

Announced strategic business partnership with Image-Quest Interactive (IQI), for entertainment and broad content development

Launched business tie-up with ALC, major publisher of language education materials

Combined WebNation and indiesmusic.com increasing coverage for Indies music market

Launched first auction-platform service with JCB Register business model patent jointly with JCB (Ended in 8th term)

Mojo: Purchased rights to E-commerce engine (April 2003, technical cooperation with Sun Microsystems)

Launched auction business platform

Launched auction business platform

Launched first convenience-store-based payment and fulfillment platform business (Registered business model patent jointly with Lawson)

Established G-Port as a joint enterprise with Shaddy, the leading catalog gift company in Japan

JASDAQ, Initial Public Offering of Digital Garage

Developed and launched first convenience-store-based payment and fulfillment system

Introduced open-source application server, Zope

Established the Electric Commerce Institute to provide marketing, e-commerce consulting, and Internet-related research services

Launched Web Nation: EC Site offering music and entertainment related products. Developed fully automated supply chain (Fulfillment and payment systems) (developed with the cooperation of TIS, Yamato Transport Co., Ltd?and Lilac Co, Ltd) Registered business patent for above system (October 2002, service transferred to IQI)〉

Introduced Open-source Zope Launched E-commerce site with automated logistical system (including: Inventory status confirmation, delivery detail selection, etc.) Jointly developed e-commerce portal for convenience store chains with Lawson

Sonic Net JAPAN Localized and adapted of the popular rock-music site from the U.S. (Internet broadcast of Fuji-Rock Festival)

"Fit- Kansei": Web User Survey System with Cluster Analysis jointly developed with the Communication Science Institute

Launched first online CD shop in Japan

Began music-related database service

Localization and sales of Ultraseek search technology began (Now sold under "Autonomy Ultraseek" brand)

Provided robot-based (spider-based) search technology for corporate and government use

Introduced the world's first commercial Internet provider to Japanese market

Localized and launched Infoseek search engine service in Japan (In 1999 sold to Disney Group)

Established Digital Advertising Consortium, a consortium of advertising agencies specializing in Digital Media advertising

Japan's first robot-based search engine

Established of first consortium in advertising industry

Internet World Expo '96, the world's first "cyber-space expo" connecting 80 countries. In charge of technical aspects for Japan

World. Jr. Summit: event connected children from 40 countries by the Internet, hosted by Isao Okawa. Digital Garage provided technical services

Supported Internet streaming media event, and managed public Internet access spaces (Internet World Expo, 96)

"Internet Café in Shibuya"(with IBM)

Began homepage creation business (eccosys, From Garage)

Created Japan's first personal homepage "TOMIGAYA"