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About us

Where Japan andthe world meet.

AlphaDrive has built the systems that generate new businesses with 260 large Japanese companies.

AlphaDrive International takes that method across borders, and builds businesses between Japan and the world.

Heritage artwork: AlphaDrive Japan / International

Where we stand

New business creation is more than building products.

It is building people and culture. Since 2018 AlphaDrive has embedded, inside large companies, the mechanisms that keep producing new businesses: 260 companies supported, 250 commercializations and spin-outs, 23,800 business ideas (as of August 2025).

Across borders our position changes. We don’t hand over a mechanism. We research, build and sell as a party to the business ourselves.

Heritage artwork: four thinking models

How we think

Four thinking models, combined.

From 0→1 validation to 1→10 growth and 10→100 scale.

  • 01Customer Development-Driven
  • 02Market Trend-Driven
  • 03R&D and Asset-Driven
  • 04Corporate Strategy-Driven

Operating network

How we operate across borders.

Capital-affiliated organizations overseas. A business we run ourselves in the Japanese market. And projects where we enter a market together.

AlphaDrive International moves businesses across borders by combining operating bases built on different kinds of relationship.

Global operating base

Synapse International

Capital-affiliated operating organization

Synapse InternationalAlphaDrive Korea

Synapse International operates AlphaDrive Korea as one of its core activities. AlphaDrive is its first and only external shareholder.

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JointHire

GROUP COMPANY / HR TECH

JointHire

JointHire is a group company that develops technology and operations for recruiting and HR.

It automates recruiting work with AI and RPA, provides talent placement and builds HR systems, and forms part of AlphaDrive's international operating base.

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Flagship marketExclusive distributor in Japan

KOREAJAPAN

IPIN LABS

Japan operations led by AlphaDrive

As the exclusive distributor of IPIN LABS in Japan, AlphaDrive carries business development, market development, customer deployment and real-world implementation in the Japanese market as one operation.

This is not market-entry support. We are the operating entity in Japan, and we are building the business over the medium and long term.

Company profile

Company
AlphaDrive Co., Ltd.
Established
February 2018
Headquarters
2-17-3 Nagatacho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Representative
Yoichi Asou, President & CEO/CAXO
AlphaDrive International
The business that builds businesses between Japan and the world. Since 2025

Talk to us

Tell us which border you want to cross.

An early idea is enough. We start with a 30-minute call.

We work in 日本語, English and 한국어.