Change the way translation assets are created and managed today.
Who we are
- Company Name
- Yaraku, Inc.
- Location
- 16F Link Square Shinjuku, 5-27-5 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0051
- Since
- August 2009
- CEO
- Suguru Sakanishi
- Number of staff
- 23
- Corporate Website
- For more detailed information about us, please check our corporate website.
- Capital
- ¥ 363,961,000 (including capital reserve)
- Business
- Develop and continually improve our tool for optimizing multilingual communication
- Investor
- Konica Minolta, Inc., Advanced Media, Inc., Sony Network Communications Inc., Dogan Beta Inc, Board members, employees etc.
Management
- CEO
- Suguru Sakanishi
- CTO
- Jonas Rydenhag
- Outside Director
- Yuichi Yatsuhashi (Former BCG Partner)
- Outside Auditor
- Yoshiaki Omori
Advisors
- Shuichi Matsuda
- Waseda University
- Tomohito Ebine
- Mobcast
- Masataka Matsumoto
- WiL
- Nobuaki Chonan
- CPA
- Kotaro Furuuchi
- Management Design•Partners
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Daiki Mizusaki
Corporate Management
From Fukuoka prefecture in Japan. He had worked for the information systems departments of several industries. After he experienced tool development and security policy formulation, he joined Yaraku. His interest in the potential of translation platforms attracted him to Yaraku.
Jamie Cox
Full Stack Development
From the United Kingdom. After working in tech support for a few years after graduating he moved to Japan. He took his knowledge and experience from studying Video Game Development to transition to a Full Stack Web Development at Yaraku.
Nana Madarame
Sales Executive
From Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. After working in sales and human resources in the human resources industry, she worked at a social insurance attorney’s office in Tokyo. After staying in Singapore for approximately four years, she was attracted to Yaraku’s diverse culture and joined the team.
Eimi Yumura
Partner Sales Executive
From Ibaraki Prefecture, in Japan. Experience in corporate sales in the manufacturing industry, start-ups, and web production and management companies. After being transferred to India, she now works in partner sales promotion and marketing at Yaraku.
Shin Sugiyama
New Project Management
From Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. After obtaining a master’s degree in electronics, he worked for a manufacturer of home game consoles. He engaged in the planning, development, and manufacture of game console bodies, controllers, and peripherals. After that, he became independent and supported the launch of new product development for start-up companies.
Giovanni Gatti De Giacomo
NLP
From Brazil. Studied Computer Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande while working as a Computer Vision & Robotics researcher. Currently pursuing a Master’s in Data Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Joined Yaraku to apply the AI/Deep Learning knowledge acquired in research and to pursue a dream of living in Japan.
Joseph Scutella
Full Stack Development
From Australia. Made his start in software development by developing a small teacher / student scheduling system for a music school before moving on to work as a frontend developer at one of Japan’s largest PR and marketing companies. He now works as a full-stack developer for Yaraku and enjoys collaborating with other passionate developers to deliver new and exciting features to the app.
Titapa Chatjindagul
Full Stack Development
From Thailand. After working for a startup company as a Full stack developer for a few years, she joined Yaraku as she was interested in language and translation.