What OPSION does

OPSION, legally 株式会社OPSION, is a privately held Japanese corporation founded in December 2018 and headquartered in Osaka, Japan, operating with a 1-10 employee team. The company develops Cloud Office RISA (クラウドオフィスRISA), an avatar-based virtual office platform that enables remote and hybrid workers to 'attend' a shared virtual office space using avatars, allowing teams to maintain a sense of co-presence regardless of physical location. The product targets companies transitioning to hybrid work arrangements as well as individual remote workers seeking to mitigate isolation from traditional office culture.

OPSION's technology centers on a virtual office environment accessed via avatars, with distribution handled through a direct self-serve site at risa.ne.jp for individuals and SMBs, and a corporate contact form for enterprise inquiries. The company's revenue model is subscription-based recurring access to the RISA platform, though pricing is not publicly disclosed and no revenue figures are available. In October 2020, OPSION entered into a capital and business alliance with CrowdWorks Co., Ltd. (TSE Mothers: 3900), Japan's largest cloud staffing marketplace with approximately 4 million registered client and worker accounts, providing OPSION with embedded distribution reach and management support.

OPSION's go-to-market combines direct digital channels (corporate website, blog, Instagram) with concentrated earned media exposure in 2020, including the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei), DIAMOND SIGNAL, TBS Television's 'Gutto Luck!' program, and Deloitte/Nomura's Morning Pitch pitch competition. The company is led by Representative Director and CEO Fukano Takashi (深野 崇), and operates exclusively within the Japanese domestic market. The company's history includes a prior episode of business withdrawal and team dissolution prior to its 2020 revival, and no institutional venture capital investors beyond the CrowdWorks strategic relationship are disclosed.

Name

OPSION

Legal name

株式会社OPSION

Website

https://opsion.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

OPSION (株式会社OPSION), founded 2018 in Osaka, Japan, develops Cloud Office RISA, an avatar-based virtual office platform that lets remote and hybrid workers share presence in a shared virtual workspace, serving hybrid-work enterprises and individual remote workers via subscription.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Virtual Office / Hybrid Work Software

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Collaboration & Productivity Platforms (M365/Google Workspace, Email, Chat/Meetings) (BPAEAIAD)

Keywords

• Virtual office platform
• Avatar-based collaboration
• Hybrid work software
• Cloud office services
• Remote work technology

Headquarters

HQ city

Osaka

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Cloud Office RISA Subscription: The company generates revenue through subscription-based access to their cloud office platform RISA, providing virtual office spaces for remote and hybrid workers.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

OPSION develops and operates Cloud Office RISA, a cloud-based virtual office platform where users attend work using avatars within a shared virtual office space. The platform supports remote work, telecommuting, and hybrid workstyles by enabling employees to share presence and collaborate regardless of physical location, addressing the workplace challenges arising in the post-COVID era.

Product overview

OPSION offers a single unified product called クラウドオフィスRISA (Cloud Office RISA), a virtual office platform that allows employees to 'attend' a virtual office using avatars. This platform addresses the challenge of hybrid work arrangements post-COVID-19 by enabling companies to establish virtual business locations where employees can share a common space regardless of their physical whereabouts.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• クラウドオフィスRISA (Cloud Office RISA): A cloud-based virtual office platform enabling employees to attend work in a virtual office space using avatars, supporting remote work, telecommuting, and hybrid workstyles.
• RISA

Products and services

• Cloud Office RISA (クラウドオフィスRISA) A cloud-based virtual office platform where employees log in using avatars and work together in a shared virtual office space, enabling location-independent work and shared office presence. It targets companies adopting hybrid work and remote workers seeking a virtual office environment.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• CloudWorks (株式会社クラウドワークス)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 26 October 2020Capital and business partnership formed in October 2020 to jointly innovate workplace and work-style solutions. CloudWorks brings approximately 4 million registered client and worker accounts, startup-to-IPO business development expertise, organizational management know-how, and marketing capabilities. The partnership aims to enhance the value of OPSION's cloud office RISA service and expand its market reach.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Teamflow: Teamflow is a spatial, video-first virtual office with avatar presence and proximity-based audio, occupying the same product category as RISA for distributed-team collaboration.
• Gather: Gather offers a persistent avatar-based virtual office and event space, the closest global direct competitor to OPSION's Cloud Office RISA. Both target distributed teams seeking shared presence beyond video calls, with similar subscription-based monetisation.
• Sococo: Sococo provides a virtual office that simulates a physical workplace with rooms, presence indicators and chat, mirroring OPSION's avatar-based virtual headquarters concept for remote and hybrid teams.
• Moot (moot.us): Moot.us delivers a persistent virtual HQ with avatars, rooms and async collaboration tooling, making it a directly comparable avatar-based workplace product to OPSION's RISA.

Others

• CrowdWorks: CrowdWorks is Japan's largest cloud-staffing platform and OPSION's capital and business partner. While not a competing product, CrowdWorks is the channel partner providing access to ~4M client and worker accounts that materially shapes OPSION's go-to-market.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft (Mesh for Teams / Microsoft Teams): Microsoft Teams with Mesh integrates immersive 3D/avatar spaces into the dominant enterprise collaboration suite. It is a broad incumbent that overlaps with OPSION's avatar-office concept but bundles it with an enterprise platform rather than selling it standalone.
• Zoom (Zoom Immersive / Workspace): Zoom's broader collaboration suite and emerging immersive offerings put it in adjacent competition with avatar-based virtual offices. As an incumbent communications platform, it is a structural threat to single-product peers like OPSION.
• Meta (Horizon Workrooms): Meta's Horizon Workrooms brings VR avatar meetings into the Meta ecosystem. As a hyperscaler with deep VR investment, it represents the most credible broad-incumbent threat to avatar-virtual-office players like OPSION.

Regional players

• MetaLife (formerly SpotAngels / various avatar-office Japanese entrants): MetaLife and similar Japanese avatar-office startups compete in the same domestic niche as OPSION's RISA, targeting hybrid-work enterprises and remote workers in Japan.
• oVice: oVice is a Japanese-founded avatar-based virtual office service competing for the same Japanese hybrid-work segment as OPSION, making it the most relevant domestic regional peer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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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