November. 24, 2021 | |
Company | Japan Investment Adviser Co., Ltd. |
Representative | Naoto Shiraiwa, President & CEO |
(TSE First Section, Stock Code: 7172) | |
Contact | Board Director, Takeshi Sugimoto |
TEL. | 81-3-6550-9307 |
Notice of new investment for the private equity business
～Heartcore Enterprise, Inc.～
Japan Investment Adviser (JIA) Group launched the private equity business in August 2015, and has conducted investment for improving value through "JPE No.2 Co., Ltd.," a PE fund 100% invested by JIA, and so on.
This time, JIA Group have acquired the shares of Heartcore Enterprise, Inc. as a new investment target.
1．Purpose of the investment
Heartcore Enterprise, Inc. is a holding company that owns Heartcore, Inc. (hereinafter called "Heartcore") as a subsidiary. As its core business, Heartcore develops, sells, and maintains a variety of solutions for supporting customer experience (CX) and digital transformation (DX) with mainly "HeartCore," a content management system, which boasts the largest domestic sales*1. Heartcore supports the creation of the best digital experience by utilizing the cutting-edge digital technology, in order to attain corporate website strategies and work-style reform.
JIA Group decided to acquire its shares for the purpose of helping the company expand its business to become a "global DX solution provider from Japan."
*1 Fuji Chimera Research Institute, Inc.: "New software business market in 2021," domestic performance and sales of apps/CMS packages in fiscal 2020 (in value terms)
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2．Overview of Heartcore, Inc.
（1）Company Name | Heartcore, Inc. |
（2）Location of Office | Shirakiji Bldg. 3F, 1-2-33,Higashi-gotanda,Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, |
（3）Name and title of | President Sumitaka Kanno |
representative | |
（4）Description of Business | Development, sales, and maintenance of various solutions that |
support digital transformation (DX) | |
■ Development, sales, and maintenance of CMS (content | |
management system) and CXM (customer experience management) | |
using digital marketing technology | |
■ Development, sales, and maintenance of RPA (robotics process | |
automation) | |
■ Sales and maintenance of process mining solutions "myInvenio" | |
and "Apromore" | |
■ Sales and maintenance of CONTROLIO, a task mining solution | |
■ Development, sales and maintenance of 3D-VR shooting | |
(Matterport) + original service "VR360" | |
（5）Founded | June 12. 2009 |
（6）URL | https://www.heartcore.co.jp/?version=en |
3．Future outlook
The impact of this matter on our group business performance for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021 is minor, at this moment.
Inquiries: PR/IR group
TEL: 81-3-6550-9307
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