Z Holdings
Investments
21Portfolio Exits
8Partners & Customers
10About Z Holdings
Z Holdings (TYO: 4689), a consolidated subsidiary of SoftBank Group, operates Yahoo! JAPAN, an Internet portal site in Japan. Offering more than 100 services including search, news, advertising, and eCommerce via PC and smart devices, Yahoo! JAPAN serves more than 80 million daily unique browsers, and 60 billion monthly page views on average.
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Latest Z Holdings News
Sep 1, 2023
Yahoo and LINE special project for “Disaster Prevention Day”, evacuation simulation and “LINE Safety” trial version, etc.-INTERNET Watch Home » Business » Yahoo and LINE special project for “Disaster Prevention Day”, evacuation simulation and “LINE Safety” trial version, etc.-INTERNET Watch byarchywordys No Comments Yahoo Japan Corporation and LINE Corporation have released a special site for “9.1 Disaster Prevention Day #Prepare for Disaster” and released multiple contents related to Disaster Prevention Day. The purpose of this event is to raise awareness about disaster prevention from earthquakes and floods on the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake. LINE will release a trial version of “LINE Safety Confirmation” as limited content on September 1st. This function is provided when a large-scale disaster such as an earthquake with a seismic intensity of 6 or more occurs, and you can inform your friends about your situation. You can experience the function from the red frame banner displayed in the LINE app. Yahoo! JAPAN provides “Smartphone Evacuation Simulation -Earthquake/Flood Edition”. Supervised by Mr. Yuichiro Usuda (Director of the Disaster Information Center, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience) of the National Research and Development Agency, this hands-on content allows you to simulate the necessary actions to take in the event of a major earthquake or flood damage caused by a typhoon. You can check your score. Smartphone evacuation simulation introduction video “Yahoo! Kids” provides disaster prevention learning content “Chobot’s Disaster Prevention Land”. “Yahoo! News” will provide articles on the theme of “#preparing for disasters”. The shopping site “Yell Market”, which was launched with the theme of “yell for the future”, which was launched in the wake of the reconstruction support after the Great East Japan Earthquake, features disaster prevention goods on the “#Disaster Prevention” special site. For content related to search, you can use a quiz to learn about disaster prevention knowledge by searching for “kensakuizu disaster prevention” on Yahoo! search on your smartphone. Also, if you search for “disaster prevention” on Yahoo! In addition, the Yahoo! Foundation is implementing the “Disaster Reconstruction Mirai Donation”. As an initiative that has been ongoing since before the opening of the special site this time, Yahoo! 2023-08-31 07:50:00
Z Holdings Investments
21 Investments
Z Holdings has made 21 investments. Their latest investment was in Endowus as part of their Series B on November 11, 2021.
Z Holdings Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
11/29/2021 | Series B | Endowus | $25.56M | Yes | EDBI, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Prosus Ventures, SingTel Innov8, UBS, Undisclosed Investors, and Z Holdings | 12 |
4/1/2021 | Series C | Zeals | Yes | 2 | ||
3/23/2018 | Corporate Minority | TaoTao | $19M | Yes | 3 | |
11/15/2017 | Series C | |||||
8/23/2017 | Series B |
Date | 11/29/2021 | 4/1/2021 | 3/23/2018 | 11/15/2017 | 8/23/2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Round | Series B | Series C | Corporate Minority | Series C | Series B |
Company | Endowus | Zeals | TaoTao | ||
Amount | $25.56M | $19M | |||
New? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | EDBI, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Prosus Ventures, SingTel Innov8, UBS, Undisclosed Investors, and Z Holdings | ||||
Sources | 12 | 2 | 3 |
Z Holdings Portfolio Exits
8 Portfolio Exits
Z Holdings has 8 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was eBook Japan on March 31, 2022.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3/31/2022 | Divestiture | 2 | |||
Date | 3/31/2022 | ||||
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Sources | 2 |
Z Holdings Acquisitions
9 Acquisitions
Z Holdings acquired 9 companies. Their latest acquisition was LINE Corporation on March 01, 2021.
Date | Investment Stage | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Total Funding | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3/1/2021 | Merger | 10 | ||||
9/12/2019 | ||||||
7/27/2018 | Other | |||||
7/11/2018 | Series B | |||||
6/9/2016 | Series B |
Date | 3/1/2021 | 9/12/2019 | 7/27/2018 | 7/11/2018 | 6/9/2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Investment Stage | Other | Series B | Series B | ||
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Note | Merger | ||||
Sources | 10 |
Z Holdings Partners & Customers
10 Partners and customers
Z Holdings has 10 strategic partners and customers. Z Holdings recently partnered with OpenAI on July 7, 2023.
Date | Type | Business Partner | Country | News Snippet | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7/1/2023 | Licensor | United States | Z Holdings Corporation has concluded an enterprise agreement with Open AI L.L.C. on the use of all APIs * 1 , including GPT-4 , provided by Open AI . | 1 | |
8/4/2021 | Vendor | United States | Japan’s Z Holdings Enhances IP Management with Anaqua AQX Platform When upgrading its previous IP management system , Z Holdings Corporation chose Anaqua , Inc. 's AQX platform as the group was seeking a global solution that would streamline its entire IP management lifecycle ; improve financial management and budgeting ; and enhance communications within group companies in order to better exploit licensing opportunities . | 2 | |
8/2/2021 | Partner | Japan | Z : LINE and Yahoo! JAPAN Form New Sales Partnership for LINE GIF… With this new partnership , we will cooperate on sales activities aimed at existing and prospective merchants for the LINE Corporation GIFT , Yahoo! JAPAN Shopping and PayPay Mall services . | 2 | |
10/19/2020 | Partner | ||||
7/23/2018 | Partner |
Date | 7/1/2023 | 8/4/2021 | 8/2/2021 | 10/19/2020 | 7/23/2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Type | Licensor | Vendor | Partner | Partner | Partner |
Business Partner | |||||
Country | United States | United States | Japan | ||
News Snippet | Z Holdings Corporation has concluded an enterprise agreement with Open AI L.L.C. on the use of all APIs * 1 , including GPT-4 , provided by Open AI . | Japan’s Z Holdings Enhances IP Management with Anaqua AQX Platform When upgrading its previous IP management system , Z Holdings Corporation chose Anaqua , Inc. 's AQX platform as the group was seeking a global solution that would streamline its entire IP management lifecycle ; improve financial management and budgeting ; and enhance communications within group companies in order to better exploit licensing opportunities . | Z : LINE and Yahoo! JAPAN Form New Sales Partnership for LINE GIF… With this new partnership , we will cooperate on sales activities aimed at existing and prospective merchants for the LINE Corporation GIFT , Yahoo! JAPAN Shopping and PayPay Mall services . | ||
Sources | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Z Holdings Team
4 Team Members
Z Holdings has 4 team members, including former Chief Financial Officer, Toshiki Oya.
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