Change the way translation assets are created and managed today.
Who we are
- Company Name
- Yaraku, Inc.
- Location
- 5-1-11 Sendagaya IVYWORKS 4F, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0051
- Since
- August 2009
- CEO
- Suguru Sakanishi
- Number of staff
- 13
- Corporate Website
- For more detailed information about us, please check our corporate website.
- Capital
- ¥ 100,000,000 (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.
Makiko Nakayama
Human Resource And Labor Services
From Japan. After learning developmental psychology at a graduate school, she worked as a school counselor. She joined Yaraku to learn and create new value as our member.
Keiko Takeda
Account Support
From Japan. After graduating from university in England, she worked for a global IT firm as a back-end support engineer, and she joined Yaraku as account support.
Wernich Baumgarten
Back/Front-End Development
From South Africa. Graduated from Stellenbosch University majoring in Computer Science. After working freelance for local South African companies creating specialized software, he joined Yaraku as he was interested in languages.
María Agustina De Miguel
Back-End Development
From Argentina. Studied Information System Engineering at university in Argentina. After working as a programmer, she joined Yaraku where she can challenge a variety of development and self management. She mainly deals with application development.
Masaru Yamada
Chief Evangelist
From Japan. Professor in Foreign Language Studies at Kansai University. Ph.D. in Translation Studies. He has returned to Yaraku as a chief evangelist to work on the social implementation of translation technology.
Artem Kuzmenko
Back-End Development
From Ukraine. Studied Computer Engineering at university in Ukraine. He has worked as a remote developer for several American and European companies before joining Yaraku. He enjoys international environment and likes working with languages, it's why he decided to join Yaraku.
Cohan Sujay Carlos
NLP Development
From India. Master of Computer Science at North Carolina University. Aiaioo Labs CEO. After working in major software companies in the US, he started a business as AI researcher. And he joined Yaraku as he was interested in languages. Cohan can speak 11 languages.
Joel Michael Smith
Full Stack Development
From the United States. Studied Computer Science and Japanese language at university. Has worked as a web developer for multiple companies and clients in various industries before coming to Yaraku. Loves coffee.
Aya Yamasaki
PR/Marketing
From Japan. Stayed in Australia for seven years from high school. Since returning to Japan, she has been involved in a wide range of business operations, including brand marketing and overseas negotiations, mainly for foreign companies. The global atmosphere of Yaraku attracted her to join the company.