As a new business within the group, we will start offering M&A brokerage DX business "MtechA". This service is a new business following the Internet real estate marketplace “RENOSY” and the real estate DX business “ITANDI” developed by the Group, and is the first to venture outside the real estate field. We have already established MtechA Co., Ltd. on August 1, 2022, and will officially start providing services today, March 1, 2023 (Wednesday).

Since our founding in 2013, we have been promoting DX in the real estate industry, which has been said to be analog, under the corporate philosophy of "Create a world-leading company excitement with technology and innovation." We have worked to improve the quality of business operations in the real estate industry by integrating technology with real estate transaction practices and by accelerating the PDCA cycle, such as streamlining operations and moving online through the use of technologies such as AI and RPA, or improving the customer experience through the use of data.. As a result, the Group's consolidated sales exceeded 100 billion yen in the 10th year since its founding, and it has been recognized for promoting DX in the analog industry, such as being the only company selected as a digital transformation stock for three consecutive years in the growth market.
At the start of the M&A brokerage DX business, we decided to enter this field because we believe that it is an area where we can make use of the organizational strengths that we have demonstrated in the real estate field and where we can expect great synergies. While the number of M&As has increased in recent years and is attracting attention as a means of solving social issues, many of its operations and processes are analog and dependent on individual skills. Based on our track record of promoting real estate DX, we will bring technology into the M&A brokerage area to increase the transparency of transactions and improve the overall M&A experience so that stakeholders can feel more secure.

We provide planning and development capabilities that make it possible to complete all the procedures necessary for leasing and buying and selling real estate online, and services that make use of the research and development system of our own AI research organization that reduces real estate Purchasing operations to 1/3. 

MtechA is joined by members with proven track records in the industry, such as consultants for Japan's largest M&A brokerage firm and product managers for Japan's largest M&A platform. By combining human resources who are familiar with the M&A industry and practice with our development capabilities, we will provide services and products that customers such as managers truly want.

It is possible to support asset management using RENOSY for business owners after business transfer. RENOSY offers a wide range of products such as second-hand compact condominiums and single-family apartments in the city center, overseas real estate, etc., and provides one-stop support for housing purchases, rentals, and land utilization issues.

Approximately 2.45 million managers of SMEs in Japan are said to be over the age of 70 in 2025, and about 1.27 million of them are facing the problem of lack of successors (*1). ). The number of business closures and dissolutions in 2022 is 53,426, which is the third consecutive year of decline following 2021, but more than half of the companies are still profitable, and the loss of employment opportunities due to profitable closures is beyond 80,000 people, and the total lost sales amounted to 2,367.7 billion yen (*2). Since the shortage of successors for such small and medium-sized enterprises leads to a decline in Japan's GDP and the loss of excellent technology and employment opportunities, in recent years, revisions to the system and formulation of guidelines have been implemented to make M&A an option for business succession. rice field. In response to this trend, the number of domestic M&As is increasing, reaching a record high of 4,280 (*3) in 2021. In addition, the number of M&A intermediary companies and platformers is increasing, and as of January 2023, the number of M&A support organizations is about 2,900 (*4).

We put "tech" between "M" and "A" to express our desire to integrate technology into M&A and transform the M&A experience into a better one for all parties concerned, and we have also added "tech" to our company name and service name. express.