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Our Approach

Japan Cloud accelerates Japan GTM and revenue

At Japan Cloud, we provide unparalleled access to CIOs, CFOs, and senior decision-makers at Japan’s leading corporations—trusted relationships that help our portfolio companies reach revenue scale faster.

We’ve successfully launched and scaled 18 enterprise software companies in Japan, including Salesforce, Marketo, Concur, Braze, Coupa, New Relic, PagerDuty, and Kong. Through this experience, we’ve built a proven playbook to accelerate market entry and drive sustainable growth in one of the world’s largest enterprise software markets.

With direct investment in each Japanese entity, our success is fully aligned with our partners. This strategic approach effectively doubles go-to-market resources, significantly reducing time to market and maximizing success.

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What our company founders are saying

  • Looking back at our success in Japan, partnering with Japan Cloud proved to be the decisive factor. While some in our team questioned sharing the upside, their expertise, talent, and customer network significantly expanded our market opportunity and improved our odds of success in ways we couldn't have achieved independently.

    Phil Fernandez Fmr. Chairman & CEO, Marketo

  • Our partnership with Japan Cloud provided Braze the ability to enter Japan at an ideal stage for our growing business, and to do so with confidence.

    Bill Magnuson Co-founder & CEO, Braze

  • After two early efforts to expand in Japan, Japan Cloud was key in helping us get established and scale. Their local expertise, relationships, and ecosystem continue to create long-term value for us.

    Rob Bernshteyn Fmr. CEO & Chairman, Coupa

  • We appreciate the fantastic team that Japan Cloud has built for us, along with their ongoing involvement and feedback. We would never have been able to navigate Japan on our own.

    Pierre Naudé Executive Chairman of the Board, nCino

  • The Japan Cloud team has been amazing to work with and their value-add is real – from bringing together our Japan leadership team, to developing our strategy for market entry and acceleration. They’ve been a game changer.

    Sunny Gupta Fmr. CEO, Apptio

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Team

  • Aruna Basnayake Co-founder and CEO, Partner, Japan Cloud

  • Yasutaka Fukuda Partner, Japan Cloud / CEO, Japan Cloud Consulting

  • Allen Miner Co-founder and Chairman, Partner, Japan Cloud

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