JX Press

JX Press

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The JX PRESS Corporation is Japan’s“virtual news agency.”

JX PRESS’s “FASTALERT” service provides breaking news bulletins for urgent information on accidents, natural disasters, and other incidents detected by AI to all six of the major television broadcast stations in Japan, including NHK, and the majority of the 100+ local broadcast stations. FASTALERT works with more companies than any other service that utilizes information gathered from social networking sites for news reporting in Japan.

The version offered to ordinary consumers, an app called “NewsDigest,” is the biggest news bulletin app in Japan, boasting over 1 million downloads. It is gaining popularity because of its ability to use AI to automatically detect and deliver news bulletins on information worth reporting. Alongside FASTALERT, it is also gaining more widespread use by news reporters as a standardized service for information.

Stakeholders in the JX PRESS Corporation include KYODO NEWS, the leading news agency in Japan, two of the leading commercial broadcast stations (TV Asahi and Fuji TV), and the Nikkei Group. We are a new kind of news agency that provides computerized news reporting to all of the major media groups in Japan.

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Industries

News, Digital Media, Big Data, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining

Founded

2008

Employees

51-100

Headquarters locations

Asia

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JX Press headquartered in Asia, operates in the News, Digital Media, Big Data, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining sector. The company focuses on News and has secured $6.2B in funding across 180 round(s). With a team of 51-100 employees, JX Press is actively contributing to advancements in News. Their latest funding round, Series C - JX Press, raised $22.0M. Discover more about their projects, partnerships, and impact on our platform.

Employees

imagePlace Katsuhiro Yoneshige

Katsuhiro Yoneshige

Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Press Researcher, and President

imagePlace Mitsuki Ogasahara

Mitsuki Ogasahara

Chief Development Officer

Funding Rounds

Funding rounds

9

Investors

5

Lead Investors

0

Total Funding Amount

$34.2M

Details

9

JX Press has raised a total of $34.2M in funding over 9 rounds.

Announcement dateTransaction nameNumber of InvestorsMoney raisedLead Investor
2013Seed
2019Late Stage Venture5.0M
2012Seed
2021Late Stage Venture22.0M

Investors

JX Press is funded by 28 investors.

Investor NameLead InvestorFunding RoundPartners
JIC Venture Growth Investments-FUNDING ROUND - JIC Venture Growth Investments22.0M
SMBC Nikko Securities Japan-FUNDING ROUND - SMBC Nikko Securities Japan22.0M
JX Press-FUNDING ROUND - JX Press22.0M
ABC Dream Ventures-FUNDING ROUND - ABC Dream Ventures22.0M

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