Seeds

What Seeds does

Seeds Co., Ltd. (株式会社シーズ) is a privately-held regional human-resources services company headquartered in Okayama, Japan, serving small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the Okayama, Hiroshima, and Fukuyama regions of the Chugoku area. The company operates a portfolio of geographically-branded job-portal platforms — OkaJob (オカジョブ) for the Okayama market, HiroJob (ヒロジョブ) for the Hiroshima market, and parallel sites for mid-career, career-change, and part-time job seekers in each region — together with a pre-employment career salon (シーズ就活サロン) and recurring physical job-fair events. Beyond portal operations, Seeds runs recruitment consulting, full-success-fee mid-career placement, IT digitization of back-office functions (sales, accounting, HR evaluation, document creation), aptitude testing, employee training programs, and corporate design production.

Its revenue model blends success-fee placement fees (notably for mid-career hiring), professional-services fees for consulting/IT/training engagements, and implicit listing and event fees from the portal and job-fair businesses. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. Seeds employs between 11 and 50 staff, is led by Representative Director Hirakawa Kiyotaka (平川清高), holds a Privacy Mark (プライバシーマーク) certification from JIPDEC and the Kurumin Mark (くるみんマーク, 2019) from Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and operates without disclosed external investors, parent entities, or M&A activity.

Name

Seeds

Legal name

Seeds Co., Ltd.

Website

https://seedsjp.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Seeds Co., Ltd. is a privately-held Okayama-based regional HR services firm operating OkaJob and HiroJob job-portal platforms alongside recruitment consulting, IT digitization, aptitude testing, and training services for small and medium-sized enterprises in the Okayama, Hiroshima, and Fukuyama regions of Japan.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Recruitment and HR Services

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services (56131), Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Employment Services (5613)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Recruiting Administration Outsourcing (Recruitment Support, Scheduling, Onboarding Ops) (BPACAKAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Marketing, Branding & Sales Skills (EDAMAHAG)

Keywords

• Recruitment support services
• Regional job portals
• Recruitment consulting
• IT digitization services
• Employee training programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Okayama

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Recruitment Services: Full success-fee recruitment support services covering new graduate, mid-career, and part-time job placement. Revenue is earned upon successful placement of candidates.
2. Recruitment Consulting: Comprehensive recruitment consulting including recruitment strategy design, candidate pool formation, selection process improvement, and employer branding.
3. IT Support Services: IT digitization services for business operations including sales management, accounting management, and document management.
4. Education and Training Services: Training services including new employee training, management-level training, and customized programs for corporate clients.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Seeds provides regionally-focused recruitment support services to small and medium enterprises in Okayama, Hiroshima, and Fukuyama, Japan. Its offerings combine locally-targeted job portals (OkaJob and HiroJob) for new graduates, mid-career professionals, and part-time workers with recruitment consulting, IT digitization support, employee training/education, aptitude assessments, and recruitment design services. The company operates on a full success-fee model for mid-career recruitment while bundling complementary HR services for corporate clients.

Product overview

Seeds operates a multi-channel recruitment services portfolio centered on regional job posting platforms. The core offering consists of two regional job portals for new graduates (オカジョブ for Okayama and ヒロジョブ for Hiroshima), complemented by corresponding career change portals (オカジョブ転職/ヒロジョブ転職) and career advisor services (オカジョブキャリア/ヒロジョブキャリア). The ecosystem is augmented by a part-time job platform (アルバイトドットコム), a pre-employment preparation salon (シーズ就活 Salon), and enterprise HR services including recruitment consulting, IT system modernization, psychological assessment tools, training programs, and design production services. The company serves the Okayama, Hiroshima, and Fukuyama regions with a focus on local employment matching.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• オカジョブ (Okajob): Okayama area job site for new graduates
• ヒロジョブ (Hirojob)
• シーズ就活サイクル (Seeds Shukatsu Salon)
• オカジョブ転職
• ヒロジョブ転職
• アルバイトドットコム
• オカジョブキャリア
• ヒロジョブキャリア

Products and services

• OkaJob (オカジョブ)

Quantifiable outcome

• 66-100% employee retention rate achieved by clients using recruitment services
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered unclear and minor.

• Star seeds Co., Ltd. (Star seeds)unclearOthers · 14 October 2025Separate company Star seeds Co., Ltd. reported financial results. Not clearly identified as a partnership - appears to be a different entity with similar name, possibly listed company unrelated to Seeds (株式会社シーズ).
• 株式会社ザグザグminorOthersClient company using recruitment services for new graduate hiring through job fairs.
• 株式会社トミヤコーポレーションminorOthersClient company using recruitment system establishment services.
• 株式会社ハヤシminorOthersClient company using local recruitment targeting Okayama students.
• 平林金属株式会社minorOthersClient company using OkaJob for Okayama-focused recruitment.
• 株式会社リシュラminorOthersClient company using job fair services with increased visibility.
• 浅野産業株式会社minorOthersClient company using OkaJob job fair for ongoing new graduate recruitment.
• ダイハツ広島販売株式会社minorOthersClient company using HiroJob job fair with doubled visitor attendance.
• 株式会社ポストごはんの里minorOthersClient company using recruitment services leading to employee development.
• 株式会社シティライトminorOthersClient company attracted by staff quality and venue atmosphere.
• 株式会社ププレひまわりminorOthersClient company using HiroJob job fair for Hiroshima-area recruitment.
• 株式会社サンラヴィアンminorOthersClient company achieving 100% retention rate through recruitment services.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Regional players

• Yumex Corporation: Japanese HR/recruitment consultancy serving SMEs with bundled recruitment, training, and HR consulting services. Comparable in scale and SME focus, though operating from a different geography.
• Akari (HR Solutions): Japanese firm focused on SME-oriented HR and recruitment process outsourcing. Comparable in target customer (regional SMEs) and bundling of recruitment, IT, and assessment services.

Broad incumbents

• Indeed: Global job aggregator owned by Recruit. Competes for the same candidate and employer attention that Seeds' owned OkaJob and HiroJob portals rely on, especially as Indeed expands regional coverage in Japan.
• Mynavi Corporation: Major Japanese new-graduate and mid-career recruitment firm with national portal Mynavi. Competes for the same student population and SME employer budgets that Seeds targets in Chugoku.
• Persol Holdings: One of Japan's largest staffing and HR services groups, operating doda (mid-career), anatex, and temp staffing. Overlaps with Seeds' mid-career placement and HR outsourcing services at national scale.
• Recruit Holdings: Japan's dominant recruitment and HR services conglomerate operating Indeed, Rikunabi, and Townwork. Directly overlaps with Seeds' job-portal and placement business at a vastly larger national scale, setting the competitive ceiling for regional players.

Direct peers

• en Japan: Japanese operator of en-japan (mid-career), en-tee (new grad), and other specialized job boards with success-fee recruitment services. Closest direct peer in business model (success-fee placement plus owned portals) at national scale.
• Dip Corporation: Operates Baitoru, a leading part-time/ARbaito job portal, and Hatarako Net. Directly competes with Seeds' Arbeit Dot Com part-time platform and offers similar recruitment outsourcing for SMEs.
• Ateam Corporation: Operates JobMaker and other regional Japanese job portals alongside HR consulting services. Similar mid-sized regional recruitment services peer with comparable portal-plus-consulting model.

Emerging players

• HRPro Corporation: Listed Japanese firm providing HR outsourcing, recruitment support, and HR tech for SMEs. Closest publicly traded comparator to Seeds' bundled SME HR services offering.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/seedsjp

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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