Change the way translation assets are created and managed today.
Who we are
- Company Name
- Yaraku, Inc.
- Location
- 4-8 Nanpeidaicho 6F, 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
Suguru Sakanishi
CEO
From 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.
Jonas Rydenhag
CTO
From 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.
Yohei Maeda
Accounting
From 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.
Aiden Lim
Support and Development
From 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.
Yurii Honcharenko
Front-end development
From 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.
Lamin Sanneh
Front-end development
From 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.
Sergio Vidiella Pinto
NLP Development
From Spain. Graduated from Polytechnic University of Catalonia with Master's degree in Telecommunication Engineering. He worked as data scientist for companies in Barcelona before joining Yaraku. He deals with app and NLP development.