What Tribeau does

Tribeau Inc. (株式会社トリビュー), founded in July 2017 by Mao Di (毛迪) and headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, operates Japan's largest beauty medical review and booking platform under the consumer brand TRIBEAU. The mobile (iOS/Android) and web app lets individual users — primarily women in their 20s and 30s — discover, compare, and book aesthetic medical procedures across cosmetic surgery, dermatology, cosmetic dentistry, and (as of October 2025) gynecology including egg-freezing. Core product features include receipt-verified photo reviews with before/after progressions, doctor- and clinic-level reviews, market-price benchmarking, anonymous Doctor Q&A, online consultation (TRIBEAU Home Counseling), and an emerging TRIBEAU Online service for prescription of beauty oral medications. Underlying the consumer experience is a real-time reservation-slot integration with five major Japanese electronic medical record and clinic management systems (ACUSIS Cloud, B4A, medicalforce, KireiPass Connect, Rakuraku Yoyaku Manager), which reduces clinic operational burden and increases switching costs.

The business model is a two-sided marketplace monetized primarily through a performance-based transaction fee paid by clinics only when reservations made through Tribeau result in completed procedures; clinics face no upfront listing fee or monthly subscription during promotional periods. The consumer side is freemium. Tribeau supplements this core revenue model with event-based brand building (the annual Beauty & Medical Collection co-hosted with Union Tec and Jishiken) and an emerging subscription product (TRIBEAU Online at ¥3,600–¥6,500/month). Go-to-market combines product-led consumer adoption (2M+ cumulative downloads, 300,000 MAUs as of January 2025) with a direct B2B sales team that recruits mid-market aesthetic clinics and supports them with menu setup, pricing strategy, and promotional campaigns.

As of mid-2026, Tribeau had processed 900,000+ cumulative reservations, accumulated 140,000+ verified reviews, generated ¥250B (~$1.7B USD) of cumulative GMV, and reported 175% YoY revenue growth as of January 2025. The company has raised approximately ¥4B (~$40M USD) across four disclosed rounds, with a Series C totaling ¥2.3B closed in two tranches (October 2024 and January 2025) led by Minerva Growth Partners. The CEO has stated Tribeau holds approximately 1% of a ¥6,000–9,000B beauty medical TAM, signaling substantial runway in its core Japanese market while expanding vertically (egg freezing, oral medications) and investing in AI-powered recommendation features.

Name

Tribeau

Legal name

株式会社トリビュー

Website

https://corp.tribeau.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Tribeau operates Japan's largest beauty medical review and booking platform, serving primarily women in their 20s–30s with verified photo reviews, doctor/clinic comparison, and reservation across cosmetic surgery, dermatology, cosmetic dentistry, and gynecology, while monetizing mid-market aesthetic clinics via performance-based transaction fees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Tokyo

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Operations

Revenue model

1. Transaction Fee (成果報酬型): Tribeau charges clinics a performance-based fee when reservations result in completed procedures. No upfront listing fee or monthly subscription for clinics during promotional periods. This is the primary revenue stream supporting the platform's B2B side.
2. App Download / Consumer Usage: Free app download for consumers; revenue generated through clinic transaction fees indirectly from bookings made via the platform.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Tribeau develops and operates the TRIBEAU mobile and web platform, a beauty medical review and booking application that allows Japanese consumers to discover, compare, and reserve cosmetic surgery, dermatology, aesthetic dentistry, and gynecology procedures from partner clinics. The platform monetizes via performance-based transaction fees charged to listed clinics when reservations result in completed procedures, and extends into online prescription services (TRIBEAU Online) and remote consultations (TRIBEAU Home Counseling).

Product overview

Tribeau operates as a unified mobile and web platform centered on its core product, the TRIBEAU beauty medical review and reservation app (iOS/Android/Web), which serves as the primary interface for all user interactions. The product portfolio extends the core platform through several integrated sub-features: TRIBEAU Home Counseling provides remote online consultations; Doctor Q&A Box enables anonymous multi-doctor Q&A; Doctor Spotlight surfaces doctor expertise and specializations; and clinic choo Assist is a Safari extension bringing reviews into the browser environment. A newer service, TRIBEAU Online (launched April 2026), adds online prescription and delivery of beauty oral medications, integrating with the points ecosystem used across the platform. The unified data layer — covering reviews, doctor profiles, procedure data, and booking history — powers both the app experience and the electronic medical record integrations with external clinic management systems.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Tribeau Online (トリビューオンライン): An online prescription service for beauty oral medications through partnered medical institutions, launched in April 2026.
• TRIBEAU Doctor & Clinic Awards

Products and services

• TRIBEAU (Tribeau Beauty Medical Review & Booking App) A comprehensive beauty medical review and reservation mobile and web platform for the Japanese market, covering cosmetic surgery, dermatology, aesthetic dentistry, and gynecology. Users can search reviews, search procedures, search clinics, conduct online consultations, and book appointments in a single app. Features receipt-verified photo reviews, market price comparisons, and doctor/clinic specialization data.
• TRIBEAU Online (Tribeau Online) Online prescription support service for beauty oral medications (内服薬). Partner clinic doctors provide online consultations and prescribe personalized beauty medications (vitamin supplements, skin-lightening agents, sebum-control formulations) delivered to homes. Pricing ranges from ¥3,600 to ¥6,500 per month. Integrated with TRIBEAU's points ecosystem for cross-use between online prescriptions and in-clinic procedure bookings.
• TRIBEAU Home Counseling Remote online consultation service enabling users to receive professional beauty medical advice from partner clinic doctors without visiting a clinic in person.

Quantifiable outcome

• 98% user satisfaction (based on survey of 51 users)
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability3 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• 板野友美 (Itano Tomomi)flagshipGTM or Marketing Partner · 22 September 2025Special guest speaker at Beauty & Medical Collection 2025 (November 2, 2025). Former AKB48 member and current artist/talent/producer. Featured in the talk show program 'Beauty Session ~Kirei no Sakusen Kaigi~' discussing beauty tips, self-care habits, and lifestyle balance.
• らくらく予約マネージャー (株式会社シアン)coreTechnology or Integration · 6 August 2025Fifth electronic record integration partnership. Rakuraku Yoyaku Manager is a site controller connecting reservation apps with clinic systems, promising to reduce clinic reservation management workload by 90%. CEO 籔本崇 sees the partnership as making beauty medical services more accessible and trustworthy.
• ユニオンテック株式会社flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 July 2025Co-host of Beauty & Medical Collection 2025 (November 2, 2025, Shibuya Hikarie). Union Tec specializes in space design for medical clinics and commercial facilities. Joint organizer of the annual beauty medical event featuring celebrity talks, doctor consultations, and the TRIBEAU Awards.
• 自費研株式会社coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 July 2025Co-host of Beauty & Medical Collection 2025. Operates '自費研 online,' a management information media specializing in self-pay medical and beauty medical markets. Contributes industry expertise and network to the joint event.
• キレイパスコネクト byGMO (GMOビューティー株式会社)coreTechnology or Integration · 16 April 2025Fourth electronic medical record integration partnership (targeted launch June 2025). KireiPass Connect provides comprehensive clinic management (reservations, medical records, business analytics, CRM) to Tribeau's marketplace. CEO 高橋良輔 positioned the partnership as advancing DX across the beauty medical industry.
• ACUSIS Cloud (株式会社プロ・フィールド)coreTechnology or Integration · 5 February 2025Electronic medical record data integration partnership. ACUSIS Cloud shares real-time reservation slot data with Tribeau, enabling instant booking availability display for patients and eliminating dual booking management for clinics. CEO 車陸昭 expressed strong endorsement for the partnership.
• B4A (株式会社B4A)coreTechnology or Integration · 5 February 2025Free medical practice management system with real-time reservation capabilities. Partnership enables B4A's real-time reservation features to be leveraged through Tribeau's large user base. CEO 植松正太郎 highlighted the mutual benefit of connecting their platform with Japan's largest beauty medical marketplace.
• medicalforce (株式会社メディカルフォース)coreTechnology or Integration · 5 February 2025Clinic management system with resource-based instant booking. Partnership enables patients to book instantly through Tribeau while reducing clinic administrative burden. CEO 畠中翔一 positioned the partnership as supporting clinic staff to focus more on customer service.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• RealSelf: US-based consumer review and booking platform for aesthetic medical procedures (cosmetic surgery, dermatology, dentistry). Most directly comparable to Tribeau in product concept — verified reviews, before/after photos, doctor discovery — though operating in a different geography and at a different scale.
• Gangnam Unni (강남언니): Korea's leading cosmetic surgery review and booking platform, serving a similar consumer base of women seeking aesthetic procedures with verified reviews and clinic booking. Highly relevant given the Korean VC's investment in Tribeau signaling potential cross-border expansion interest.
• Beauty Park (ビューティーパーク): Japanese beauty clinic review and coupon platform operated by M2Plus. Direct competitor to Tribeau in the same Japanese beauty medical discovery and booking category, particularly for cosmetic surgery and dermatology.
• Caloo (カロ): Japanese clinic review platform covering multiple medical specialties including cosmetic surgery and dermatology. Competes with Tribeau for both clinic partnerships and consumer mindshare in Japan's beauty medical category.

Broad incumbents

• Recruit Holdings (Hot Pepper Beauty / ホットペッパービューティー): Japan's largest beauty salon and clinic marketplace platform through Hot Pepper Beauty. While not exclusively focused on medical aesthetics, it overlaps significantly in dermatology, cosmetic dentistry, and clinic bookings and represents the dominant incumbent in Japanese beauty discovery.
• M3 Inc. Japanese medical platform operating m3.com (physician network) and consumer-facing medical content/services. Broader healthcare incumbent with adjacent capabilities in clinic-side data, physician engagement, and patient funneling.
• @cosme (istyle): Japan's largest beauty product review platform, increasingly expanding into beauty clinic discovery. Represents a consumer-beauty review incumbent that could extend into Tribeau's medical aesthetics territory.

Emerging players

• SoYoung (新氧): China's leading online aesthetic medicine platform with reviews, bookings, and content for cosmetic procedures. Comparable marketplace model in a different geography; useful reference for cross-border Asian expansion benchmarks.
• Docplanner: Global healthcare booking and review marketplace (operating in Europe, LatAm, MEA) including private medical specialists. Similar two-sided marketplace DNA but broader in scope than Tribeau's aesthetic-only focus.

Others

• medicalforce: Japanese clinic management SaaS for self-pay/aesthetic clinics, and one of Tribeau's key EHR integration partners. Comparable as an ecosystem enabler rather than direct competitor — illustrates the partner/competitive boundary in the clinic-side stack.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/tribeauJP
• Facebookfacebook.com/tribeau.inc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds5 records

Investors10 records

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M&A

Investments

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