Change the way translation assets are created and managed today.
Who we are
- Company Name
- Yaraku, Inc.
- Location
- 4-8 Nanpeidaicho, #607 Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
- Since
- August 2009
- CEO
- Suguru Sakanishi
- Number of staff
- 19
- Corporate Website
- For more detailed information about us, please check our corporate website.
- Capital
- ¥ 174,850,000 (including capital reserve)
- Investor
- Konica Minolta, Inc., Advanced Media, Inc., Sony Network Communications Inc., NISSAY CAPITAL Co.,ltd., Nippon Venture Capital Co.,Ltd., Board member etc.
- Business
- Develop and continually improve our tool for optimizing multilingual communication
Management
- CEO
- Suguru Sakanishi
- CTO
- Jonas Rydenhag
- Outside Director
- Yuichi Yatsuhashi
- Outside Auditor
- Yoshiaki Omori
Advisors
- Nobuo Matsuki
- Tokyo Institute of Technology / MKS Partners
- Toshio Furuta
- Claire Law Firm
- Shuichi Matsuda
- Waseda University
- Tomohito Ebine
- Mobcast
- Masataka Matsumoto
- WiL
The Team
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Suguru Sakanishi
CEOFrom Japan. After graduating from Waseda University, he moved to New York to work for an online marketing company for several years. He then returned to Japan and established Yaraku. Winner of many business contests.
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Jonas Rydenhag
CTOFrom Sweden. After working in web development in Gothenburg for eight years, he decided to move to Japan and joined Yaraku. As the head of the development team, he deals with a variety of operations.
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Yohei Maeda
AccountingFrom Japan. After graduating from Waseda University, he worked seven years at an accounting firm in Tokyo. Has worked with over 100 companies. He has been working in financial accounting and various back-office operations in Yaraku since the company's creation.
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Aiden Lim
Language data processingFrom Singapore. Studied multilingual technologies at Nanyang Technological University. After graduation, he got his professor's recommendation to join Yaraku. His hobby is online gaming. He deals with back-end development as well as language data processing.
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Akiko Suzuki
AccountingFrom Japan. After graduating from Gakushuin University, she worked as a forwarder and customs' officer. She joined Yaraku to deal with issues relating to taxes and finance. In addition, she watches over issues concerning general affairs and labor.
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Yurii Honcharenko
Front-end developmentFrom Ukraine. Graduated from Donbass College of Engineering, majoring in computer science. After working as a freelance software developer for several years, he joined Yaraku. He deals with web development as well as front-end development.
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Lamin Sanneh
Front-end developmentFrom The Gambia. He studied computer Science at the University of Manchester. He has worked as a remote freelancer for a couple of companies before joining Yaraku. He is passionate about football, teaching online and being in sync with cutting edge web technology. Currently he can handle both frontend and backend work in harmony.
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Jean Dominique Jaymalin
Front-end developmentFrom the Philippines. Graduated from the University of the Philippines Diliman with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. She worked as a Web Developer for companies in Manila and Chicago before joining Yaraku. Currently, she deals with both front and back-end development of the application.
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Risa Todoroki
Account ManagerFrom Japan. Studied pedagogy and philosophy at Kyushu University and LMU Munich in Germany. After graduating, she worked at a major insurance firm for several years. At Yaraku, she is responsible for sales and account management.