What CoDMON does

CoDMON (株式会社コドモン) is a Japanese private SaaS company founded in November 2018 and headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo, that operates the country's largest childcare-focused ICT platform. The core product, also called CoDMON, is a cloud-based subscription service deployed across licensed nurseries (認可保育園), certified childcare/education centers (認定こども園), after-school child clubs (放課後児童クラブ), child development support centers, after-school daycare services, and — most recently — elementary and junior high schools. The platform digitizes child information management, attendance tracking, parent communications, contact notebooks, growth records, lesson planning, billing, and bus location tracking. CoDMON is wrapped by an ecosystem of sub-brand modules: ToriNku (AI photo service), Teacher Talk (staff communication, 30,000+ users), Codmon College (online training and certifications), Teacher Prime (employee welfare benefits, 28 partners), Codmon Store (facility e-commerce), and Hoicil (enrollment and recruitment marketing). The company additionally maintains ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, and 27018 certifications and a published AI ethics policy governing its AI deployments.

CoDMON monetizes primarily through recurring SaaS subscriptions to facilities and municipalities, with pricing not publicly disclosed. Go-to-market combines direct enterprise sales to municipal governments (now 736 across Japan) with wide-area DX partnership agreements at the prefecture level (e.g., Gunma, Toyama Nanto, Niigata, Miyazaki), which function as quasi-regulatory distribution channels. As of June 2026, the platform was deployed at 25,000+ facilities — the fastest adoption pace in company history — serving roughly 4.07 million parent users (approximately 1 in 3.45 Japanese parents). The company is led by founder-CEO Yoshinori Koike (小池義則) and CTO Nobuhiro Naruse (成瀬允宣, appointed April 2025); paid-in capital is ¥68,250,000 and ownership details are not publicly disclosed. CoDMON has been ranked #1 in Tokyo Shoko Research's SaaS-type childcare support system survey for seven consecutive years, and has been recognized as a Leader in the ITreview Grid Award for two consecutive periods.

Name

CoDMON

Legal name

株式会社コドモン

Website

https://codmon.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

CoDMON is Japan's leading childcare ICT SaaS platform, serving 25,000+ facilities across 736 municipalities with subscription-based software for attendance, parent communication, billing, and AI-powered photo and writing tools.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Childcare and Education ICT Software

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Device Lifecycle Services (Imaging, Deployment, MDM/UEM Ops, Asset Tagging) (EDAEAHAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

Assistive Technology & AAC for Young Children (EDACAFAL)

Keywords

• Childcare ICT platform
• Nursery management software
• Parent communication app
• Education facility SaaS
• AI photo service

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. CoDMON ICT Service Subscription: SaaS subscription for childcare, educational, and developmental support facilities covering nursery/child information management, attendance tracking, parent-staff communication, growth records, lesson planning, and more.

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

CoDMON provides a cloud-based SaaS ICT platform for childcare, education, and developmental support facilities (children aged 0-15), covering nursery/child information management, attendance tracking, parent-staff communication, growth records, lesson plan creation, billing, bus location, and an AI photo service. The platform is sold primarily via subscriptions to municipal governments and individual facilities, deployed at 25,000+ facilities across 736+ municipalities in Japan.

Product overview

CoDMON operates as a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core product is the CoDMON (コドモン) ICT platform for nursery/education/rehabilitation facilities, which serves as the central hub connecting child/student information, parent communication, and operational management. Supporting this core are multiple integrated and standalone modules: ToriNku (AI photo service by group company株式会社とりんく) handles photo capture, selection, and sales; Teacher Talk (せんせいトーク) enables staff communication; Codmon College (コドモンカレッジ) provides online training and certifications; Teacher Prime (せんせいプライム) offers employee benefits; Codmon Store (コドモンストア) provides a specialized e-commerce marketplace; and Hoicil (ホイシル) supports recruitment and enrollment. Additional AI features are embedded within the CoDMON platform itself, including the Writing Assistance AI (文章お助けAI) for proofreading/translation and the Contact Notebook Photo Album for automated photo sales.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• とりんく: AI写真サービス。保育士の写真業務をAIで自動整理・分類するサービス。
• せんせいプライム
• せんせいトーク
• ホイシル
• コドモンストア
• コドモンカレッジ
• コドモンレコ
• せんせいプライム
• 連絡帳写真アルバム
• 文章お助けAI

Products and services

• CoDMON (コドモン) Cloud-based SaaS ICT platform for childcare, education, and developmental support facilities serving children aged 0-15. Provides child/student information management, growth records, lesson plan creation, attendance/entry-exit management, parent communication, digital contact notebooks, billing, and bus location services. Industry No. 1 (Tokyo Shoko Research 2025) deployed across 25,000+ facilities and 736+ municipalities in Japan.
• ToriNku (とりんく) AI photo service that automatically selects quality photos, applies face-hiding, and performs brightness/color auto-correction for shared and sold photos. Reached 4,000 facilities as of June 2026. Developed and provided by group company 株式会社とりんく.
• Teacher Talk (せんせいトーク) Communication tool for childcare/education workers enabling staff to coordinate within and across facilities. Exceeded 30,000 staff users as of April 2026. A new "Community Function" enables cross-facility collaboration.
• Codmon College (コドモンカレッジ) Online training platform for childcare/education/rehabilitation facility workers. Offers childcare ICT certification (Codmon Certification 初級), partner training courses, and free access to government-provided training videos (e.g., Child Sexual Violence Prevention Law training videos from the Cabinet Office).
• Teacher Prime (せんせいプライム) Employee welfare/benefit program for all childcare facility workers. Provides exclusive deals and discounts on daily necessities, meals (e.g., Chef's Natural Cooking meal kits), and services to support teachers' daily lives and work-life balance. 28 partner services as of April 2026.
• Codmon Store (コドモンストア) E-commerce site specialized for childcare/rehabilitation facilities, offering products and supplies needed for facility operations.
• Hoicil (ホイシル) Recruitment and enrollment support service connecting parents searching for childcare/education facilities with facilities. Facilities can promote their appeal; parents and job seekers can find the right facility. Ranked No. 1 in both listing facility count and online reception facility count for two consecutive years.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 13 hours/month of administrative workload reduction per after-school club facility (Nanto City case study)
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability6 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Gunma Prefecture (群馬県)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 June 2026Gunma Prefecture and CoDMON signed an agreement to promote DX in childcare and childcare support, advancing ICT adoption at childcare and educational facilities across the prefecture. A childcare DX council was established.
• Chef's Natural Cooking (シェフの無添つくりおき)minorOthers · 22 April 2026The 28th partner of せんせい-prime (Teacher Prime) welfare program, providing home-delivered meal kits to childcare workers, supporting their work-life balance and post-work meal preparation.
• Miyazaki City (宮崎市)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 April 2026Miyazaki City partnered with CoDMON to introduce online training across all 229 childcare facilities in the city under a partnership agreement to promote childcare quality improvement.
• Tokyo Metropolitan University / Tokyo Kasei University (東京家政大学)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 April 2026Tokyo Kasei University and CoDMON signed an industry-academia partnership to introduce ICT experience into university coursework, preparing future childcare workers for digital environment adoption. The partnership marks the shift from ICT 'introduction' to 'effective utilization' era.
• Gunma Prefecture (群馬県)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 March 2026Gunma Prefecture and CoDMON signed a 'DX Partnership Agreement for Childcare and Child-Rearing Support' to strengthen childcare DX across the prefecture. This is a wide-area model that aims to enhance childcare support throughout Gunma by promoting ICT adoption across all facilities.
• DayRobo (デイロボ)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 February 2026CoDMON and DayRobo jointly exhibited at CareTEX Tokyo '26 to showcase 'developmental therapy AI' that enables staff to focus on therapeutic care by reducing administrative tasks.
• Minna no Mirai Holdings (みんなのみらいホールディングス)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 December 2025Minna no Mirai Holdings and CoDMON signed a partnership for improving childcare quality, building a dedicated website and training curriculum to support approximately 80 childcare facilities nationwide.
• Toyama Prefecture Nanto City (富山県南砺市)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 December 2025Nanto City and CoDMON signed Toyama Prefecture's first childcare support DX partnership. The first initiative provides a Nanto City-version online training plan for childcare practical affairs, aiming to reduce administrative burden and improve childcare quality.
• Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture (新潟県新潟市)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 August 2025Niigata City and CoDMON signed a partnership for childcare quality improvement. The agreement covers approximately 300 childcare and educational facilities across public and private sectors in Niigata City, aiming to upskill childcare workers and promote high-quality childcare.
• Gunma Prefecture Private Kindergarten and Certified Childcare Education Association (群馬県私立幼稚園・認定こども園協会)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 August 2025The association, representing 113 private childcare facilities, partnered with CoDMON to improve childcare quality and staff competence across member facilities through online training and ICT tools.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Unifa: Japan-based direct competitor offering Lookmee (ルクミー), a cloud SaaS platform for nursery and certified childcare facility operations including attendance, parent communication, and growth records. Closest head-to-head rival to CoDMON in the Japanese childcare ICT market.
• Brightwheel: US-based childcare management SaaS serving approximately one-third of US childcare programs with attendance, billing, parent communication, and learning observation tools. Closest US analogue in terms of vertical SaaS model for early childhood facilities.
• HiMama: Canadian childcare app and SaaS platform for parent-teacher communication, daily reports, photo/video sharing, and learning stories. Direct functional analogue to CoDMON's parent communication and digital contact notebook modules.
• Famly: Denmark-built childcare management platform serving European and US daycare markets with parent engagement, billing, attendance, and pedagogy modules. Comparable vertical SaaS model with similar buyer persona (childcare facility operators).
• Procare Solutions: US-based childcare management software serving thousands of childcare centers with family engagement, billing, and operations functionality. Established vertical SaaS incumbent in the US early childhood market with similar core offering.
• Kangarootime: US-based childcare management SaaS offering billing, parent engagement, and daily reporting modules to childcare centers. Direct functional competitor in the same vertical SaaS category as CoDMON.

Broad incumbents

• PowerSchool: Global leader in K-12 student information systems and unified classroom solutions. While not focused on the early childhood/childcare niche, PowerSchool is the dominant EdTech incumbent in adjacent education segments and represents the type of scaled player that could enter or expand into CoDMON's vertical.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/codmon_official

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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