Fant

What Fant does

Fant is a Japanese online marketplace operator that connects licensed hunters with restaurants, food service businesses, and property owners requesting wildlife pest removal services, focused on the gibier (wild game meat) market primarily in Hokkaido. The platform comprises three distinct portals: a hunter portal that is free to use, a restaurant/buyer portal that orders gibier and processes payments, and a pest removal requester portal that posts wildlife control needs. Functionality includes order matching, payment processing, hunting activity logging through GPS, photo, and species data, rating/review systems, and coordination with meat processing facilities. The company also runs direct event activations, such as the Sapporo Snow Festival collaboration with Michelin-starred Piazza Suzuki.

The business model is a marketplace commission structure: hunters access the platform for free while restaurants (buyers) pay a transaction fee on each gibier order completed through Fant. The company was founded on July 22, 2019 as a Kabushiki Kaisha (株式会社), and underwent a strategic pivot in October 2022 from a hunter-focused social platform to the current B2B marketplace model. Fant relocated its corporate base to Kamishihoro Town, Hokkaido in January 2023, and is headquartered there. The only disclosed capital event was participation in the D2 Garage Japan accelerator in 2021; no monetary funding round, headcount, or revenue figures have been disclosed. Fant has positioned itself as a community leader in the regional gibier industry through co-organization of the Hokkaido Gibier & Hunting Forum and membership in the Impact Startup Association (December 2025), and has received earned media coverage from NHK, Nikkei, TV Tokyo, and other national outlets.

Name

Fant

Legal name

株式会社Fant

Website

https://fant.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Fant is a Japanese online marketplace connecting licensed hunters with restaurants and pest removal requesters, primarily in Hokkaido, generating revenue through transaction commissions on gibier (wild game meat) sales.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Wild Game / Gibier Online Marketplace

NAICS

Hunting and Trapping (114210), Animal Slaughtering and Processing (3116)

SIC

Fishing, Hunting And Trapping (900), Services-Membership Sports & Recreation Clubs (7997)

akta.pro primary industry

Game & Specialty Meats Wholesale (Venison, Bison, etc.) (AFAIADAG)

Keywords

• Wild game marketplace
• Gibier procurement platform
• Specialty meat sourcing
• Wildlife pest removal services
• Hunter-restaurant matching

Headquarters

HQ city

Otofuke

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Platform Commission / Transaction Fee: Fant charges buyers (primarily restaurants) a system usage fee on each gibier transaction processed through the platform. The fee is calculated as a percentage or fixed amount added to the hunter's compensation and meat processing costs. Hunters use the platform for free. Payment from buyers is collected via credit card and Fant remits hunter compensation (minus platform fees and processing costs) to hunters' bank accounts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Fant operates a two-sided online marketplace platform that connects licensed hunters (sellers of wild game / gibier) with restaurants and food service businesses (buyers), enabling direct ordering of wild game meat with payment collection, meat processing facility coordination, and hunter compensation remittance. The platform also provides a separate portal for property owners to post wildlife pest removal requests that are matched with nearby licensed hunters. Hunters use the platform free of charge; buyers pay a per-transaction system usage fee via credit card.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fant Online Gibier Marketplace Platform A two-sided online marketplace that connects licensed hunters (suppliers of wild game / gibier) with restaurants and food service buyers; enables order placement, hunter matching, payment processing via credit card, partnered meat processing facility coordination, and a review and rating system. A separate portal supports wildlife pest removal requests from property owners.

Quantifiable outcome

• Fresh, traceable wild game delivered to restaurants with documented harvest records
• +1 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

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor, core and moderate.

• Impact Startup Association (インパクトスタートアップ協会)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 December 2025Fant became a regular (full) member of the General Incorporated Association Impact Startup Association in December 2025. The association supports startups that solve social issues through business and aims to build an ecosystem for creating positive societal impact. Fant joined as part of its commitment to addressing wildlife overpopulation and gibier utilization as social challenges.
• Sapporo Snow Festival / Piazza Suzuki (ピアット・スズキ)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 September 2025Fant partnered with Michelin-starred restaurant Piazza Suzuki to develop a Hokkaido deer meat curry sold at the Sapporo Snow Festival 2025. The curry was served at the festival's Zone 3 venue for 2 weeks and was a featured product introducing Fant's gibier to direct consumers. This partnership generated significant media coverage and brand awareness.
• Sapporo Snow Festival OrganizerscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 September 2025Fant was an official vendor at the Sapporo Snow Festival 2025, where it sold gibier curry products. The Sapporo Snow Festival is one of Japan's largest winter events, attracting millions of visitors annually.
• Hokkaido Gibier & Hunting Forum Co-organizerscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 September 2025Fant co-hosted and organized the 2nd Hokkaido Gibier & Hunting Forum in September 2025 at EZOHUB SAPPORO in Sapporo, bringing together diverse stakeholders to discuss the sustainable future of Hokkaido's gibier and hunting culture. The event was supported by Sapporo TV Broadcasting Holdings (サツドラホールディングス株式会社) which provided the venue.
• UHB Hokkaido Cultural Broadcasting 'Actually' ProjectminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 22 December 2024Fant partnered with UHB Hokkaido Cultural Broadcasting's new project 'Actually', which aims to raise awareness about the hunting industry's challenges through terrestrial TV and YouTube content. Fant's involvement includes supplying gibier to restaurant operators at event venues.
• 星野リゾート (Hoshino Resorts)moderateStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 May 2023Fant's founder Takano engaged in a public dialogue with Hoshino Resorts President Hoshino at the Hoshino Resorts Tomamu facility in January 2023. The conversation was published on Hoshino Resorts' 'Tabi no Kouka' (旅の功效) platform, reaching a high-profile audience of hospitality industry leaders and travelers.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• WeHunt: European hunting app combining maps, weather, hunting logs, and community features for licensed hunters. Directly comparable to Fant's hunter-side functionality and community-building orientation.
• HuntStand: US hunting and land management platform offering mapping, property management, logging, and a hunter community. Closest direct peer on the technology and community layer of Fant's offering.

Emerging players

• Crowd Cow: US craft meat marketplace connecting independent ranchers directly with consumers, emphasizing traceability and producer profiles. Comparable to Fant's marketplace structure and traceability narrative, but focused on cattle/poultry rather than wild game.
• Local Line: Farm-to-restaurant B2B platform that streamlines ordering, invoicing, and delivery between farms and chefs. Comparable to Fant in the B2B food procurement workflow and producer-to-restaurant transaction layer.
• HuntersConnect: US hunting community platform offering social networking, business tools for guides and outfitters, and content. Comparable to Fant's community and hunter-engagement layer, with partial overlap on the marketplace side.
• Pocket Marche: Japanese farm-to-restaurant and farm-to-consumer marketplace that connects producers directly with chefs and households. Shares Fant's B2B marketplace model and direct-to-buyer distribution philosophy, but operates in broader agricultural categories rather than wild game.

Broad incumbents

• D'Artagnan: Established US specialty and game meat distributor serving restaurants and consumers with a broad portfolio including venison and other wild game. Comparable on the underlying commodity (game meat) but operates as a traditional wholesale/distribution incumbent rather than a digital marketplace.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/fant_inc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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