FreakOut Holdings

Company

Investment-firm

Last deal

$14.76K
Local Amount - JPY 1.5M

Amount

Series A

Stage

15.05.2014

Date

3

all rounds

$9.85M

Total amount

Financing round

General

About Company
FreakOut is a marketing technology company that sells marketing platforms.

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Sector :

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Also Known As

フリークアウト・ホールディングス, フリークアウト, FreakOut Holdings, inc.

founded date

01.10.2010

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Series A

IPO status

Private

Description

FreakOut offers various products such as DMP and DSP for data analysis and real-time ad inventory transactions respectively. They also provide RTB and FreakOut DSP to collect and optimize marketing information for smartphones and PCs. Founded in 2010, FreakOut is headquartered in Tokyo and specializes in corporate management and control of group companies.
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Yuzuru Honda

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Akashi Nobuyuki

After working as a system development company, joined Yahoo in 2000. Yahoo! He was engaged in the development of JAPAN's advertising delivery platform, big data infrastructure, and billing system. Leading Japan Internet advertising technology through Yahoo! advertising technology. He was appointed CTO in 2009 and senior fellow in 2013. In 2014, he was appointed Freakout Executive Officer. Appointed as Infostellar advisor in 2016. Became Executive Officer of FreakOut Holdings in 2017, Head of Tech Lab.

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1

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Employee Profiles
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Yugo Asato

Executive Officer, U.S. / Head of Business Development

Mohitosh Negandhi

Mohitosh Negandhi

Director - Programmatic Business

Yasukura Tomohiro

Yasukura Tomohiro

Director & Global COO

Kotaro Yokoyama

Kotaro Yokoyama

CFO

Yuzuru Honda

Yuzuru Honda

Founder & Global CEO

Keiji Tokiyoshi

Keiji Tokiyoshi

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Akashi Nobuyuki

Executive officer

Koji Mizoguchi

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