What Corpy & Co. does

Corpy & Co. (株式会社コーピー / Corpy Inc.) is a Tokyo-based, privately held AI startup founded in 2017 that develops the CONFIDE platform for explainable AI and quality assurance in mission-critical sectors, including healthcare, autonomous systems, financial services, and industrial automation. The company's technical focus is on enabling organizations to deploy AI systems with transparent decision-making and auditable quality controls, addressing regulatory and trust requirements in high-stakes environments where AI failures carry severe consequences.

Corpy monetizes through what appears to be subscription or licensing arrangements for the CONFIDE platform, operating a sales-led go-to-market targeting enterprises that require explainable AI capabilities. The company is affiliated with two academic institutions — the University of Tokyo and Inria (the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology) — providing research backing and access to AI talent, and is led by CEO and Founder Kohei Yamamoto alongside Chief Scientist Iordan Iordanov.

The company has raised approximately USD 947,122 in disclosed equity funding (2020 round led by Deep30 and Deepcore) and an undisclosed venture debt facility from Funds Venture Debt Fund No. 1 (managed by Funds Startups Inc.) closed in December 2025, with proceeds earmarked for scaling the CONFIDE platform and expanding business development. Corpy operates solely in the Japan market according to available sources, serves a vertical-segmented customer base in mission-critical industries, and has not publicly disclosed pricing, customer logos, revenue, or ARR.

Name

Corpy & Co.

Legal name

株式会社コーピー

Website

https://corpy.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Corpy & Co. is a Tokyo-based AI startup founded in 2017 that develops the CONFIDE platform for explainable AI and quality assurance, serving mission-critical sectors such as healthcare, autonomous systems, financial services, and industrial automation.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Explainable AI Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (51321), Software Publishers (513210), Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise AI Governance, Risk & Compliance Platforms (Model Risk, Audit, Policies) (HDAEANAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII) (HDAEANAG), AI Observability, Monitoring & Evaluation Platforms (Drift, Quality, Safety) (HDAEANAF), Audit, Explainability & Accountability Tooling (traceability, reporting) (HDAAAKAL), AI Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Platforms (HDAAAMAA)

Keywords

• Explainable AI platform
• Mission-critical AI
• AI quality assurance
• AI decision transparency
• Enterprise AI software

Headquarters

HQ city

Tokyo

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. AI Platform Licensing: Revenue generated through scaling the CONFIDE platform for enterprise customers in mission-critical sectors. The platform provides explainable AI and quality assurance capabilities, likely through subscription or licensing arrangements.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Core offering

Corpy & Co. develops and sells the CONFIDE platform, an explainable AI and quality assurance software system designed for mission-critical sectors. The platform delivers AI decision transparency, error detection, and continuous monitoring to help enterprises deploy trustworthy AI in high-stakes environments.

Product overview

Corpy & Co. offers a unified AI platform centered around CONFIDE, which provides explainable AI and quality assurance capabilities for mission-critical sectors. The platform enables organizations to deploy trustworthy AI systems with emphasis on interpretability and quality control.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CONFIDE: Platform for explainable AI and quality assurance for mission-critical sectors.

Products and services

• CONFIDE Platform

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability1 record

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• University of TokyocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCorpy Inc. is affiliated with the University of Tokyo as an AI startup, leveraging academic research partnerships for mission-critical AI development.
• InriacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCorpy Inc. is affiliated with Inria (French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology) as an AI startup, supporting international research collaboration in explainable AI and quality assurance.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Fiddler AI: Fiddler AI provides an AI observability and explainability platform for enterprise ML models. It is one of the closest direct competitors to Corpy's CONFIDE, targeting the same explainability/quality-assurance use case in regulated industries.
• Arthur AI: Arthur AI offers model observability, monitoring, and explainability for production AI systems. It directly competes with Corpy on the AI quality-assurance mission-critical narrative and enterprise SaaS GTM.
• TruEra: TruEra delivers AI quality and explainability tooling for model governance and fairness. Its positioning on trust, transparency, and quality assurance in regulated ML deployments closely matches Corpy's CONFIDE value proposition.
• Arize AI: Arize AI provides an AI observability and evaluation platform covering LLM and ML monitoring, drift, and quality. It overlaps with Corpy's mission-critical AI quality-assurance focus, particularly as enterprises scale AI in production.
• WhyLabs: WhyLabs offers an AI observability platform for data and model monitoring, including drift and quality metrics. It is comparable to Corpy as a quality-assurance / monitoring layer for mission-critical AI deployments.

Emerging players

• Robust Intelligence: Robust Intelligence focuses on AI security and model validation for enterprise deployments. It overlaps with Corpy's trustworthy-AI mission and mission-critical sector focus, though its primary lens is model security rather than explainability.
• Holistic AI: Holistic AI provides an AI governance, risk, and compliance platform for enterprises. It overlaps with Corpy's mission-critical AI GRC focus, particularly for regulated buyers needing audit-ready AI assurance.
• Mona Labs: Mona Labs provides AI observability and monitoring for enterprise ML systems. It is comparable to Corpy as a quality-assurance / monitoring peer targeting regulated, mission-critical AI deployments.

Broad incumbents

• IBM (watsonx.governance): IBM's watsonx.governance offers enterprise AI governance, risk, and compliance capabilities as part of its broader AI platform. It competes as a broad incumbent in the same AI GRC category Corpy targets with CONFIDE.
• Microsoft (Azure AI / Responsible AI): Microsoft bundles responsible AI, governance, and monitoring features into its Azure AI stack. As a hyperscaler incumbent, it can absorb explainability and GRC capabilities that Corpy sells standalone.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/corpyandco

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors3 records

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M&A

Investments

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