Astamuse

Name

Astamuse

Legal name

アスタミューゼ株式会社

Website

https://astamuse.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Innovation Intelligence Platform

NAICS

Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (519290)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Competitive Intelligence & Benchmarking (BPAHALAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Competitive & Market Intelligence (Competitive Tracking, TAM/SAM/SOM) (MPAAALAL), Talent Acquisition (Recruiting) & Applicant Tracking (ATS) (BPACAPAD)

Keywords

• Innovation consulting
• Patent analytics
• Data-driven R&D
• ESG data services
• Technology scouting

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, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. 新規事業開発/技術活用コンサルティング (New Business Development/Technology Utilization Consulting): Consulting services helping companies with technology asset visualization, R&D strategy, market/technology analysis, and new business creation using their proprietary database and analyst expertise
2. SaaS/データ・スコア提供 (SaaS/Data Score Provision): Data and scores for corporate intangible asset visualization and future market estimation, provided as a platform service
3. 人材サービス/転職ナビ (Talent Services/Career Navigation): Specialized job sites for technical professionals including Scala, Java, and other niche technology areas. Registration-based service with partnerships with major recruitment companies
4. 金融机构向けた非財務情報活用支援 (Financial Institution Non-Financial Information Support): ESG investment support and non-financial data services for financial institutions

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Astamuse sells data-driven innovation intelligence through a proprietary global database of 700M+ records spanning 193 countries covering patents, research papers, corporate information, and investment activity. Its commercial offerings include new business development and technology utilization consulting, SaaS data/score subscriptions for intangible asset visualization and future prediction, ESG and non-financial data services for financial institutions, and a network of approximately 400 specialized technology career sites under the Shūkatsu Navi brand.

Product overview

Astamuse operates a data-driven innovation ecosystem comprising multiple interconnected platforms and consulting services. The core consists of astamuse.com (global innovation platform with 700M+ databases), astaID (innovation activity support), and astavision (growth market media). The company offers specialized job sites including Shūkatsu Navi with ~400 niche career sites, alongside consulting services for new business development and ESG/sustainability initiatives. Services also include data reports, seminars, and technology utilization support, all powered by AI/ML capabilities for natural language processing, predictive analytics, and knowledge retrieval.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• astamuse Lab: Engineering and design blog run by Astamuse's developers and designers, sharing technical knowledge and behind-the-scenes insights.
• 転職ナビ (Tensakunavi)
• astamuse.com
• astaID
• astavision

Products and services

• astamuse.com A global innovation platform that visualizes creative activities and supports future discovery through analysis of patent, research, technology, corporate, and investment data spanning 193 countries. Serves enterprise research, R&D, and new business development teams.
• astaID A platform supporting innovation activities through data and human expertise, providing features for collaborative research, business promotion, and utilization of proprietary technology for new business development. Targets corporate R&D and innovation teams.
• astavision A media platform introducing growing markets and companies creating the future, providing information discovered through big data analysis of corporate and patent information.
• Shūkatsu Navi (転職ナビ) A specialized job change network of approximately 400 niche technology career sites covering areas such as Scala, Java, and organic EL, serving 30,000+ annual registrations. Targets technology professionals seeking specialized roles and recruiting companies seeking niche talent.
• New Business Development / Technology Utilization Consulting Consulting services leveraging intangible asset visualization databases and future forecasting capabilities to support sustainable business management, including R&D/IP strategy organization, innovator discovery, and technology matrix analysis. Sold to large Japanese enterprises.
• Financial Institution Non-Financial Information Support Data and scoring services supporting financial institutions' non-financial information initiatives including ESG investment, measuring economic impact of sustainability activities. Targeted at banks, investment firms, and asset managers.
• Seminars and Study Meetings Free public seminars and webinars on consulting and data services, plus custom corporate study meetings tailored to specific business challenges. Functions as a lead-generation and customer education channel.
• Data Store / Catalog Data provision services including reports on concentration measurement using brain waves and AI, femtech analysis, and other technology trend reports.

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability9 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Persol Career (パーソルキャリア)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorMajor recruitment company partnering with Astamuse's career navigation sites, receiving candidate referrals from specialized technology job portals
• JAC Recruitment (ジェイエイシーリクルートメント)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorLeading recruitment firm partnered with Astamuse's specialized job sites for technology professional matching

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Questel (Orbit Intelligence): Questel's Orbit Intelligence suite offers patent search, IP analytics and competitive intelligence for global enterprises. It is a broader incumbent with deeper global coverage but overlapping core functionality and buyer personas with Astamuse.
• Crunchbase: Crunchbase aggregates corporate, funding and investment data to support market and competitive intelligence. It overlaps with Astamuse's investment-data and corporate-data layers that power its innovation analytics platform.
• CB Insights: CB Insights is a market intelligence platform combining private-company data, patents, investments and technology trends for enterprise strategy teams. Its tech-market intelligence proposition closely mirrors Astamuse's 'innovation and future prediction' consulting offering.
• Clarivate: Clarivate owns Derwent, CPA Global and PatentSight — globally dominant IP analytics and intelligence platforms. As a far larger incumbent serving the same enterprise IP/R&D buyers as Astamuse, it is the primary competitive benchmark in the category.

Direct peers

• Relecura: Relecura provides patent analytics, technology landscaping and competitive intelligence tools for corporates and IP professionals. It is highly comparable to Astamuse in product functionality, target customer (enterprise R&D/IP teams) and technology-stack reliance on patent data.
• PatSnap: PatSnap is a global innovation intelligence platform that aggregates patent, scientific and corporate data to power R&D and competitive intelligence workflows. It is the closest direct competitor to Astamuse's astamuse.com platform, with similar use cases for enterprise R&D strategy.
• Crayon: Crayon is a competitive intelligence platform that helps enterprises track competitors, market moves and technology trends. It is directly comparable to Astamuse's competitive analysis and 'future prediction' consulting services for sales and strategy teams.
• Klue: Klue is a competitive enablement and intelligence platform serving enterprise sales and product teams. It addresses the same 'data + analyst + workflow' combination Astamuse provides, with a similar SaaS-plus-services revenue model.

Regional players

• Wizdom Systems: Wizdom Systems (a CBRE subsidiary) provides research analytics and decision-support platforms for universities and innovation ecosystems. It overlaps with Astamuse's research-and-innovation analytics layer and is comparable in building data products on top of research/investment data.

Emerging players

• Patentics: Patentics offers AI-driven patent search and analytics with semantic search capabilities. It overlaps with Astamuse's NLP/BERT-powered patent search features and addresses a similar R&D/IP buyer, but with narrower scope.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/astamusecom
• Facebookfacebook.com/astamuse-Lab-1270601986283365

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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