We have recently invested in Anyplace Inc. (Headquarters: San Francisco, California, CEO: Satoshi Naito, hereinafter “Anyplace”), a US startup that provides housing sharing services for remote workers and digital nomads. I have, so I will let you know. This investment is part of the startup investment business "GA FUND" centered on the X-Tech area, and will be the third investment project of GA FUND.

◆ Comments from both companies

・ Comment from Satoshi Naito, Co-founder & CEO of Anyplace Inc.
Anyplace has been developing products with the aim of providing the infrastructure for life without settling down for millennials and digital nomads. Our service, which started in San Francisco in the United States, has now expanded to 70 cities in 23 countries, and is used by users both inside and outside the United States. Through this funding, we will further expand not only in North America but also in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. We are looking forward to creating synergies in the overseas expansion of both companies by sharing the knowledge cultivated in Japan and overseas expansion between GA technologies Co., Ltd. and our company. In addition to Jason Karakanis, an early investor in Uber and a leading Silicon Valley investor, we are very encouraged to welcome GA technologies Co., Ltd., a leading PropTech company in Japan, as a shareholder of our company.

Based on our corporate philosophy of “impress people with technology x innovation,” we have gained a lot of support from millennial customers, who are becoming the center of consumption, by providing real estate services that utilize technology. I have come. Anyplace is an attractive company that creates a new option for remote workers and digital nomads: “global housing sharing”. I am also fascinated by the vitality and personality of Mr. Naito, who has moved to Silicon Valley alone and continued to challenge the development of new markets from scratch. We have high expectations for the value provided and business growth of the company, and as partners who challenge value creation in the same PropTech field, we will work to provide better services while stimulating each other.