Toyokumo

What Toyokumo does

Toyokumo, Inc. is a Tokyo-based SaaS company that provides cloud-based enterprise solutions primarily to the Japanese market. The product portfolio is anchored by two lines: the Safety Confirmation Service II, an enterprise business continuity planning (BCP) and emergency communication system used by 4,000+ companies with 3 million+ registered users, and the Toyokumo kintoneApp suite, comprising nine integration products (FormBridge, kViewer, kMailer, PrintCreator, DataCollect, kBackup, Toyokumo Scheduler, NotePM, and the broader kintoneApp platform) that extend the Cybozu kintone platform with web form creation, external data publishing, email delivery, PDF output, data aggregation, backup, and group scheduling capabilities. The Safety Confirmation Service II is differentiated by direct integration with Japan Meteorological Agency disaster data, supporting automatic triggering of safety confirmation emails for earthquakes, tsunamis, heavy rain, storms, high tides, waves, heavy snow, and blizzards, and by SLA-backed uptime guarantees with capacity for 500,000+ messages per hour.

Founded in 2010 as Cybozu Startups Co., Ltd., a 100% subsidiary of Cybozu Co., Ltd., the company was renamed Toyokumo, Inc. in June 2019 and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Market in September 2020 under ticker 405A. It operates a product-led growth (PLG) model offering 30-day free trials, self-serve onboarding, and per-user/per-product subscription pricing (typically ¥3,500-¥50,000/month per service), distributing through direct online channels, the Cybozu kintone marketplace, and a KDDI BusinessPort reseller partnership. The company is led by Representative Director and President Yamamoto Yuji (山本 裕次) and holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and JIS Q 27001:2023 certification for cloud and SaaS supply chain development.

Technology infrastructure runs on AWS, leveraging Next.js, React, PHP, Clojure, and TypeScript. Recent strategic initiatives include a capital and business partnership with Mocular for AI camera solutions (October 2025), generative AI feature rollouts across kMailer, FormBridge, and DataCollect in 2026, launch of the kBackup Enterprise tier with direct AWS environment storage (June 2026), and passkey authentication deployment (June 2026). With 51-100 employees and reported fiscal 2025 revenue growth of approximately 55% year-over-year, Toyokumo operates as a high-growth, category-leading Japanese SaaS company focused on BCP/safety communication and kintone integration.

Name

Toyokumo

Legal name

トヨクモ株式会社 (Toyokumo, Inc.)

Website

https://toyokumo.co.jp

Company type

Public

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Toyokumo provides cloud-based SaaS solutions including the Safety Confirmation Service II for enterprise BCP and a suite of nine Cybozu kintone integration products, serving 4,000+ companies and 3 million+ users primarily in Japan.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Enterprise Cloud SaaS — Safety Confirmation & Cybozu kintone Integration

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Webhooks, Eventing & Message Streaming (BPAMAOAE)

Keywords

• Safety confirmation systems
• Kintone integration SaaS
• Enterprise BCP software
• Disaster preparedness cloud
• Knowledge management platforms

Headquarters

HQ city

Nishi

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription Revenue: Toyokumo generates revenue primarily through monthly/annual subscription fees for its cloud-based SaaS products. Services are priced per user tier or course level, with recurring revenue from the Safety Confirmation Service II and kintone integration tools (FormBridge, kViewer, kMailer, PrintCreator, DataCollect, kBackup).
2. Multi-User License Bundles: The 'User License Pack' option offers discounted multi-user license packs ranging from 5 to 30 users with discounts up to 33.3% for enterprise customers purchasing across all six kintone integration products.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Toyokumo develops, sells, and supports cloud-based SaaS products for Japanese enterprises. Its core offering is the Safety Confirmation Service II, an enterprise BCP and employee safety confirmation system that integrates with Japan Meteorological Agency disaster data to automatically trigger multi-channel alerts (email, app push, LINE) and aggregate responses in real time during earthquakes, tsunamis, and other disasters. In parallel, Toyokumo sells a suite of nine Cybozu kintone integration products (Toyokumo kintoneApp: FormBridge, kViewer, kMailer, PrintCreator, DataCollect, kBackup, plus Toyokumo Scheduler and NotePM) that extend the kintone platform with web forms, data publishing, email automation, PDF document output, data aggregation, backup, group scheduling, and centralized knowledge/know-how management.

Product overview

Toyokumo is a Tokyo-based SaaS company offering a portfolio of cloud services centered on safety confirmation and Cybozu kintone integration. Its core product is Safety Confirmation Service II, a BCP-oriented emergency safety confirmation system used by 4,000+ companies with 3 million+ registered users. The company also provides Toyokumo kintoneApp, a suite of six kintone integration add-on modules (FormBridge, kViewer, kMailer, PrintCreator, DataCollect, kBackup) that extend the Cybozu kintone platform with form creation, external data publishing, email delivery, document output, data aggregation, and backup capabilities. Additional offerings include NotePM (knowledge management), Toyokumo Scheduler (group scheduling with kintone sync), and the Thanks OSS Award (open-source developer support program). The company employs a PLG (Product-Led Growth) business model and holds ISO 27001 certification.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Toyokumo kintoneApp: Cybozu kintone-linked service offering various integration products
• Safety Confirmation Service II (安否確認サービス2)
• Toyokumo Scheduler
• kBackup
• kViewer
• kMailer
• FormBridge
• PrintCreator
• DataCollect
• NotePM
• Thanks OSS Award

Products and services

• Safety Confirmation Service II Enterprise safety confirmation (BCP) system that enables rapid safety checks during disasters and emergencies for Japanese enterprises. Integrates with Japan Meteorological Agency data for automatic alerts (earthquakes, tsunamis, special warnings, Level 5 landslide alerts). Supports multi-channel notification via email, dedicated mobile app, and LINE; provides real-time response aggregation, admin proxy reporting, automatic re-send to non-respondents, family-member safety confirmation, image-attached damage reports, and SLA-backed uptime. Used by 4,000+ companies and 3 million+ registered users.
• NotePM Cloud-based knowledge and know-how management service for Japanese enterprises. Enables teams to centrally capture, organize, search, and share institutional expertise, complementing Toyokumo's workflow SaaS portfolio.
• Toyokumo Scheduler Cloud-based group scheduler that coordinates schedules with external partners (including non-internal users). Features a group-comfort-focused UI and kintone synchronization for integrated schedule management and analysis.
• FormBridge Web form creation tool for Cybozu kintone. Enables creation of unlimited responsive forms (PC/smartphone/tablet) that automatically register submitted data into kintone apps via API. Includes AI-assisted answer completion screen generation, draft-editing mode, automatic reply emails, address-input assistance, and an 'Editor' permission for expanded user access control. Targeted at kintone users needing external data capture.
• kViewer External publishing tool for Cybozu kintone data. Renders kintone records as public or restricted-access web pages without requiring kintone user accounts. Supports list views, detail views, graph views, dashboard views, advanced graph views with dual-axis composite charts, and conditional display filtering. Includes audit log functionality and 'Editor' permission for user access management.
• kMailer Bulk and scenario email delivery service for addresses registered in Cybozu kintone. Supports scheduled/reservation email sending, AI-powered scenario mail creation through natural-language chat interaction, open-rate analysis, a Professional course with enhanced scenario capabilities, and audit log functionality.
• PrintCreator Cloud report service that outputs Cybozu kintone data as PDF documents. Supports unlimited per-user output volume, multiple layout templates (quotations, invoices, delivery notes), bulk output (up to 500 sheets per operation, 10,000 sheets/month), table and related record formatting, image import, QR code generation, label printing, and audit log functionality.
• DataCollect Data aggregation and simple BI tool for Cybozu kintone that collects and calculates kintone data in spreadsheet-like formats. Includes AI functions for AI-assisted data operations on structured records and audit log functionality.
• kBackup Automated backup service for Cybozu kintone data. Backs up kintone records and attachments on data update events, storing data on AWS separate from cybozu.com. Supports restore from up to 30 days prior, individual record restoration, external storage output to Google Drive and OneDrive, and an Enterprise course enabling direct storage in customer's own AWS environment.
• Toyokumo kintoneApp Collective product brand packaging Toyokumo's suite of six Cybozu kintone integration services — FormBridge, kViewer, kMailer, PrintCreator, DataCollect, and kBackup — sold together to enterprise kintone customers via the kintoneapp.com marketplace and Toyokumo's website.

Quantifiable outcome

• Service adoption reached 4,000+ companies (September 2024)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability7 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Suntomi City, Shizuoka PrefectureminorOthers · 9 June 2026Government partnership using FormBridge and kViewer with generative AI for rapid bear sighting information visualization system ('Kumapp') to protect resident safety.
• MocularcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 October 2025Capital and business partnership for joint development of AI cameras. Collaboration aims to accelerate on-site DX by combining Toyokumo's kintone integration capabilities with Mocular's AI camera technology. Planned to launch 'Hito no Me Cloud' (People's Eye Cloud) integration with kintone by 2026.
• KDDI BusinessPortminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 October 2012Distribution partnership through KDDI's SaaS solution platform. Toyokumo's Safety Confirmation Service and Sales Report Service made available through KDDI BusinessPort for enterprise customers.
• Cybozu (kintone ecosystem)coreTechnology or IntegrationDeep integration partnership with Cybozu's kintone platform. Toyokumo offers 9 integration products (FormBridge, kViewer, kMailer, PrintCreator, DataCollect, kBackup, Toyokumo Scheduler, NotePM, Safety Confirmation Service II) that extend kintone functionality.
• Clojurists TogetherminorOthersOSS development support recipient. Toyokumo's Thanks OSS Award program includes financial support to Clojurists Together organization as part of its annual OSS developer support activities.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Regional players

• Money Forward: Leading Japanese SaaS company serving SMB and enterprise with cloud accounting, HR, and back-office software. Comparable as a fellow Japanese publicly-traded SaaS operator with PLG-style acquisition and a multi-product expansion strategy, though focused on finance rather than BCP/kintone.

Direct peers

• SendGrid (Twilio): Transactional and marketing email delivery platform, comparable to Toyokumo's kMailer for sending bulk emails from business application data. Both offer volume-based subscription pricing with deliverability and analytics features.
• Airtable: Spreadsheet-database hybrid for data aggregation and workflow management, comparable to Toyokumo's DataCollect product for simple BI/aggregation use cases. Both target non-technical business users building lightweight data workflows.
• Jotform: Web form builder with database and workflow capabilities, directly comparable to Toyokumo's FormBridge product. Both enable form creation that pipes data into backend systems, with similar pricing tiers and PLG-style self-serve onboarding models.
• Atlassian Confluence: Enterprise wiki and knowledge management platform competing with NotePM. Both serve the centralized documentation, know-how, and internal knowledge sharing use case for mid-market and enterprise customers with team-based subscription pricing.
• Notion: Knowledge management and collaborative documentation tool directly competing with Toyokumo's NotePM product. Both target centralized organizational knowledge capture and sharing with subscription-based SaaS models.
• Typeform: Form creation and data collection SaaS competing with FormBridge in the same product category. Both emphasize user experience, conversational interfaces, and integration with downstream business applications - though Typeform operates globally rather than being tied to a specific platform ecosystem.

Broad incumbents

• Everbridge: Global leader in critical event management and mass notification for enterprise BCP. Direct overlap with Toyokumo's Safety Confirmation Service II in the emergency notification and employee safety confirmation use case, though Everbridge serves global Fortune 1000 accounts rather than Japan SMB/mid-market.
• Cybozu: Parent background and platform provider of kintone, the platform Toyokumo's entire 9-product integration suite extends. Cybozu is a broad incumbent in Japanese collaboration/low-code SaaS; if Cybozu shifts strategy or builds competing native features, Toyokumo's economics are directly affected.

Others

• KDDI: Distribution partner via KDDI BusinessPort SaaS solution platform, providing enterprise reach for Toyokumo's Safety Confirmation Service and Sales Report Service. Acts as channel partner/ecosystem participant rather than direct competitor, but represents a critical go-to-market enabler for Toyokumo's enterprise motion.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments1 record

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