Money Forward

Company

Investment-firm

Last deal

$11M

Amount

Series D

Stage

05.10.2016

Date

3

all rounds

$43.4M

Total amount

Financing round

General

About Company
Money Forward provides an online personal accounting service that integrates with users' bank accounts.

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Also Known As

マネーフォワード, Money Forward Co., Ltd.

founded date

01.05.2012

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Series D

IPO status

Private

Description

The company offers a desktop and mobile app for iOS and Android platforms, allowing users to track their finances by syncing with their bank passbooks and credit accounts. Money Forward has also announced plans to launch a cloud-based accounting service for both individual and corporate users. Additionally, the company will start publishing an online newsletter.
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Taki Toshio

Taki Toshio is the Founder at Money Forward .

count Of Investments

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Taki Toshio

Toshio Taki
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Toshio Taki

Toshio Taki co-founded Money Forward, a leading Fintech venture with over 6.5 million users and currently serves as Board of Director as well as Head of Fintech Institute. He is also member of “Panel of Experts on FinTech Start-ups” at Financial Services Agency. Before Money Forward, he worked at CEO Office of Nomura Holdings and prior to that as a researcher at Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research. He received MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

current job

Money Forward
Money Forward

organization founded

1

Toshio Taki

Nakayama Shinichiro
Nakayama Shinichiro

Nakayama Shinichiro

current job

Money Forward
Money Forward

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Nakayama Shinichiro

Tanak Masaaki

Former Vice President, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Co., Ltd., and Former President and CEO of Japan Investment Corporation.Director of Morgan Stanley from 2011 to 2015. Members of several government conferences such as the Financial Council Financial Institutions Study Group. Since joining the Bank of Mitsubishi in 1977, since he joined the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Head of Business, Third Division of Business, Executive Director of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJHe served as Senior Executive Officer and Representative of the Americas. In February 2017, he was appointed Sanyo of the Financial Services Agency.

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Money Forward

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1

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Employee Profiles
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Yasutaka Hori

Yasutaka Hori

New Business Development / CEO Office

Takuya Nakade

Takuya Nakade

Director, Executive Officer and CTO

Yosuke Tsuji

Yosuke Tsuji

Founder & CEO

Toshio Taki

Toshio Taki

Board Director

Makoto Haruta

Makoto Haruta

Adviser

Chihiro Asano

Chihiro Asano

Chief Technology Officer

Naoya Kanesaka

Naoya Kanesaka

Director Executive Officer

Nakayama Shinichiro

Nakayama Shinichiro

Co-Founder

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