rakumo
- Company typePublic
- Founded2004
- HeadquartersTokyo, Japan
- Headcount51–100
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
rakumo firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- rakumo
- Legal name
- rakumo株式会社
- Website
- https://rakumo.com
- Company type
- Public
- Founded year
- 2004
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 51–100 employees
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
rakumo industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Enterprise Collaboration Software
- NAICS
- Software Publishers (513210)
- SIC
- Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Document Creation & Office Suites (BPAMAMAD)
- akta.pro secondary industry
- Managed Workplace Services (DaaS/Workplace-as-a-Service) (BPAEAIAA)
Keywords
Where rakumo is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Tokyo
- HQ country
- Japan
- HQ region
- Asia
Offices2 records
Markets served
rakumo business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- Subscription Licenses (rakumo Suite): Annual subscription fees for cloud groupware extension tools. Products include rakumo workflow, calendar, board, contact, kintai (attendance), and keihi (expense) for Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. Priced per user with annual billing cycles. Includes Basic pack bundling of calendar, contact, board, and workflow.
- Salesforce Extension Products: Subscription licenses for Salesforce integration products: rakumo social scheduler (900 yen/user/month or 10,800 yen/year) and rakumo sync (400 yen/user/month or 4,800 yen/year). Sold via Salesforce AppExchange marketplace.
- Professional Services: Implementation support services, deployment services, and API development partner services for enterprise customers requiring custom integration or migration assistance.
- aloop Talent Pool Management: Joint offering with Pasona for talent pool management solution combining BPO services with talent relationship management platform.
- SmartVision IR: IR video streaming service for listed companies, enabling direct display of earnings call videos on corporate IR pages with chaptering and materials download capabilities.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription | Annual | rakumo Basic Pack (Google Workspace) - Calendar, Contact, Board, Workflow bundled |
| Per seat | Annual | Individual product pricing available (workflow, calendar, kintai, keihi, contact, board) |
| Subscription | Annual | rakumo ソーシャルスケジューラー (Salesforce) - 900 yen/user/month or 10,800 yen/year |
| Subscription | Annual | rakumo Sync (Salesforce) - 400 yen/user/month or 4,800 yen/year |
| Subscription | Annual | aloop (Talent Pool Management) - Joint offering with Pasona |
Go-to-market motion3 records
Distribution channels7 records
Marketing channels8 records
rakumo product offering
Product offeringCore offering
rakumo develops and sells cloud-based groupware extension tools (rakumo workflow, calendar, board, kintai attendance, keihi expense, and contact directory) that add Japan-localized functionality to Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Salesforce platforms. The portfolio also includes Salesforce calendar extensions (rakumo Sync, rakumo Social Scheduler), the aloop talent pool management solution jointly offered with Pasona, the gamba! daily reporting app, and the SmartVision IR video streaming service for listed companies.
Product overview
rakumo is a cloud-based groupware extension tool suite that enhances Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 with Japanese-specific functionality. The product portfolio consists of six core add-on modules for Google Workspace: rakumo ワークフロー (electronic approval/workflow system), rakumo カレンダー (organizational calendar with hierarchy display), rakumo ボード (internal bulletin board/intranet), rakumo キンタイ (attendance/time management), rakumo ケイヒ (expense management with AI OCR), and rakumo _contact (shared address book). For Microsoft 365, rakumo offers calendar, contact, board, and workflow modules. The products share common user management, authentication, and security infrastructure with the underlying platform, providing seamless integration and unified administration.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- rakumo ワークフロー: Electronic approval and workflow system for approval workflows and digital document processing
- rakumo カレンダー
- rakumo ボード
- rakumo キンタイ
- rakumo .Contact
- rakumo ケイヒ
- aloop (アループ)
- SmartVision IR
Products and services
- rakumo ワークフロー (rakumo Workflow) Cloud-based electronic approval and workflow system that digitizes internal approval processes for organizations using Google Workspace. Supports complex Japanese approval flows with conditional branching, delegated approval, consensus-based approvals, and multi-stage routing. Features AI-powered template creation from documents and natural language search for application templates.
- rakumo カレンダー (rakumo Calendar) Group calendar optimized for Japanese organizational structures with hierarchical department views, multi-user schedule display, equipment/facility reservation, and external party scheduling coordination. Available for Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.
- rakumo ボード (rakumo Board) Internal bulletin board system for smooth information distribution and intranet functionality. Features announcement management, department/role-based access control, and content organization for corporate communication and knowledge management.
- rakumo キンタイ (rakumo Kintai / Attendance Management) Cloud-based attendance and time management system supporting diverse workstyles. Features clock-in/out via IC card or mobile app, work hour tracking, leave management, and dashboard analytics for workforce visibility.
- rakumo ケイヒ (rakumo Keihi / Expense Management) Expense management and reimbursement system with AI OCR capability that automatically extracts data from receipt images. Integrates with Google Workspace for streamlined expense reporting and approval workflows.
- rakumo コンタクト (rakumo Contact) Web-based shared address book and employee directory that integrates with Google Workspace. Provides hierarchical organizational display, smartphone-accessible contact information, and search functionality for easy employee lookup.
- rakumo for Microsoft 365 rakumo product suite adapted for Microsoft 365 platform, including calendar, board, contact, and workflow modules. Browser and Microsoft Teams app access available. Developed in partnership with AvePoint Japan.
- rakumo Sync Real-time bidirectional synchronization tool between Salesforce Calendar and Google Calendar. Enables unified schedule management across both platforms, supporting subject, time, description, all-day events, location, and attendee synchronization.
- rakumo ソーシャルスケジューラー (rakumo Social Scheduler) Redesigned Salesforce calendar interface with enhanced UI/UX for sales and CRM scheduling. Features custom group display, availability search, facility booking, and integration with Salesforce records, activities, and Chatter.
- aloop (アループ) Talent pool management solution developed jointly with Pasona. Manages referral hiring, alumni relationships, and candidate engagement with BPO support for recruitment operations.
- gamba! (ガンバ) Daily reporting application for employee task tracking and team visibility.
- SmartVision IR IR video streaming and distribution service for listed companies. Features direct display on corporate IR pages, chapter division, material downloads, English translation/dubbing for international investors.
Quantifiable outcome
- 50% reduction in IT management workload for organizations migrating from package groupware to cloud platforms
- +5 more outcomes
Companies that use rakumo
Customer profileNamed customers8 records
Ideal customer profiles3 records
rakumo technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- Yes
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration6 records
AI capability7 records
Feature6 records
rakumo partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor, core and moderate.
- 株式会社Revival CoreminorSales partnership for SmartVision IR video streaming service. Revival Core sells SmartVision IR to listed company clients as part of M&A advisory and IR strategy services. rakumo provides the video streaming technology platform.
- 株式会社パソナcoreJoint offering of aloop talent pool management solution. Combines Pasona's HR staffing expertise and agent network with rakumo's software platform. Pasona provides BPO services and implementation support; rakumo provides the software platform for managing referral candidates, alumni, and talent pool relationships.
- AvePoint Japan株式会社coreStrategic co-development partnership for Microsoft 365 extensions. Joint development projects: (1) rakumo calendar, board, kintai, and keihi for Microsoft 365, with (3) rakumo workflow for Microsoft 365 planned for Q4 FY2026. Leverages AvePoint's Microsoft 365 technical expertise and rakumo's Japanese UI/UX design capabilities.
- 株式会社ラクスmoderateStrategic sales partnership for workflow-expense integration. rakumo workflow combined with Raks' 楽楽精算 (expense management). Joint go-to-market to support digitalization from internal approval through expense settlement.
- SB C&S (SoftBank Commerce)coreExclusive sales agent partnership for rakumo for Microsoft 365 products. SoftBank leverages enterprise sales force to distribute rakumo Microsoft 365 extensions to Japanese corporate customers.
- LumApps株式会社moderateTechnology integration between rakumo workflow and LumApps employee experience platform. rakumo provides gadget functionality allowing personalized workflow approval/申請 access within LumApps portal screens. Enables smooth approval workflows directly from LumApps interface.
Scale indicators8 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights6 records
rakumo competitors and assessment
Company assessmentBroad incumbents
- AvePoint: Global Microsoft 365 data management and governance platform; both a strategic co-development partner with rakumo for M365 extensions and a broader incumbent offering overlapping M365 backup, compliance, and operational tooling to enterprise customers.
- Sansan: Japanese cloud SaaS incumbent (Eight, Bill One) serving similar enterprise customers with adjacent business productivity use cases; representative of the broader Japanese public SaaS peer set for valuation and growth comparison.
- Microsoft Power Platform: Microsoft's native low-code workflow and automation stack (Power Automate, Power Apps) embedded in Microsoft 365; represents the most direct platform-native substitute threat to rakumo workflow on M365.
Emerging players
- monday.com: Global work management/workflow platform expanding in Japan; competes with rakumo workflow for departmental approval and project-tracking use cases among multinational and Japan mid-market customers.
- LumApps: Global employee experience/intranet platform integrated with rakumo workflow via gadget functionality; complementary rather than purely competitive, but increasingly overlapping as LumApps expands workflow capabilities.
- freee: Japanese cloud accounting/HR SaaS that overlaps with rakumo keihi (expense) and kintai (attendance) modules; serves the same SMB/mid-market buyer making platform-extension decisions.
Direct peers
- Works Applications: Japanese enterprise HR and workflow SaaS vendor (HUE, GLOVIA) serving large Japanese corporations with approval workflow and business process management. Overlaps with rakumo workflow for enterprise-grade deployments.
- Neo Japan: Provider of Desknet's NEO, a long-standing Japanese groupware platform covering workflow, schedule, bulletin board, and email. Directly overlaps rakumo's core module set for on-prem and cloud Japanese enterprise customers.
- Cybozu: Japan's leading cloud groupware vendor (kintone, Garoon, Cybozu Office) offering workflow, calendar, and collaboration tools that directly compete with rakumo's suite, particularly in Japanese SMB/mid-market. Both target Japanese approval-workflow customization and hybrid-work use cases.
- KnowledgeSuite: Japanese cloud groupware offering workflow, attendance, expense, and customer management in a bundled SaaS product aimed at SMB and mid-market, competing head-to-head with rakumo's Basic Pack pricing.
Market position
Strengths4 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat6 records
Key risks5 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
rakumo social profiles
Digital presencerakumo compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance1 record
rakumo financial estimates
Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
rakumo leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles10 records
rakumo subsidiaries and ownership
Company hierarchySubsidiaries1 record
rakumo funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds2 records
Investors7 records
Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
rakumo M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
Frequently asked questions about rakumo
What does rakumo do?
rakumo develops and sells cloud-based groupware extension tools (rakumo workflow, calendar, board, kintai attendance, keihi expense, and contact directory) that add Japan-localized functionality to Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Salesforce platforms. The portfolio also includes Salesforce calendar extensions (rakumo Sync, rakumo Social Scheduler), the aloop talent pool management solution jointly offered with Pasona, the gamba! daily reporting app, and the SmartVision IR video streaming service for listed companies.
Is rakumo a public or private company?
rakumo is a public company. It is classified as public and is currently operating.
When was rakumo founded?
rakumo was founded in 2004. It employs 51 to 100 people.
Where is rakumo based?
rakumo is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, in the Asia region.
How does rakumo make money?
Five revenue lines are on record. Subscription Licenses (rakumo Suite) is the primary driver. The others are salesforce Extension Products, professional Services, aloop Talent Pool Management and smartVision IR.
Who are rakumo's main competitors?
Broad incumbents on record are AvePoint, Sansan and Microsoft Power Platform. Emerging players are monday.com, LumApps and freee. Direct peers are Works Applications, Neo Japan, Cybozu and KnowledgeSuite.
Does rakumo have an API?
Yes. rakumo offers API integration capabilities for external system connectivity. The API allows developers to integrate rakumo products with other enterprise systems. rakumo API is mentioned in the context of enabling data integration and automation between rakumo services and third-party applications. API inquiry contact is available at https://help.rakumo.com/r/inquiry-form. Developer documentation is at rakumo.com/product/gsuite/api.
What industry is rakumo in?
rakumo's product category is Enterprise Collaboration Software. Its primary akta.pro industry code is BPAMAMAD, Document Creation & Office Suites, with a secondary code of BPAEAIAA, Managed Workplace Services (DaaS/Workplace-as-a-Service). Its NAICS code is 513210 and its SIC code is 7370.