Yarakuzen
Yarakuzen

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
29
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 Director
Shinichiro Tamaki (Wakaru Office)
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Jamie Cox

Jamie Cox
全栈开发

來自英國。畢業後在技術支持部門工作了幾年後,他搬到了日本。他利用學習視頻遊戲開發的知識和經驗過渡到八樂株式會社的網絡全棧開發。

Nana Madarame

Nana Madarame
Sales Executive

來自日本神奈川縣。在人力資源行業做銷售和人力資源工作後,她在東京的一家社會保險律師事務所工作。在新加坡待了大約四年後,她被八樂株式會社的多元文化所吸引,並加入了。

Eimi Yumura

Eimi Yumura
合作伙伴销售主管

來自日本茨城縣。擁有製造業、初創企業和網絡製作和管理公司的企業銷售經驗。調往印度後,她現在從事合作夥伴銷售推廣和市場營銷工作。

Shin Sugiyama

Shin Sugiyama
New Project Management

來自日本神奈川縣。獲得電子碩士學位後,他在一家家用遊戲機製造商工作。從事遊戲機本體、控制器、周邊設備的企劃、開發、製造。之後,他獨立並支持初創公司推出新產品開發。

Giovanni Gatti De Giacomo

Giovanni Gatti De Giacomo
自然语言处理

來自巴西。在里奧格蘭德聯邦大學學習計算機工程,同時擔任計算機視覺和機器人研究員。目前在德克薩斯大學奧斯汀分校攻讀數據科學碩士學位。加入八樂株式會社以應用在研究中獲得的 AI/深度學習知識,並實現在日本生活的夢想。

Joseph Scutella

Joseph Scutella
全栈开发

來自澳大利亞。他通過為一所音樂學校開發一個小型教師/學生調度系統開始了軟件開發,之後在日本最大的公關和營銷公司之一擔任前端開發人員。他現在是八樂株式會社的全棧開發人員,喜歡與其他充滿熱情的開發人員合作,為應用程序提供令人興奮的新功能。

Titapa Chatjindagul

Titapa Chatjindagul
全栈开发

來自泰國。在一家初創公司作為全棧開發人員工作了幾年後,由於對語言和翻譯感興趣,她加入了八樂株式會社。