What Fvital does

Fvital Inc. (エフバイタル株式会社) is a Tokyo-based private company founded on October 1, 2021, by Masumi Ajima. The company builds a non-contact vital data acquisition and AI-based analysis platform designed specifically for infants and young children, whose conditions cannot be easily verbalized. Its core technical scheme acquires vital data without physical contact, uses AI to automatically evaluate and classify each child's internal state, and recommends optimized responses — applied across medical, childcare, and education settings. The product portfolio includes Baby Track Navi (evidence-based infant health checkup support linking families, medical institutions, and municipalities), Baby Track Nursery (AI video monitoring for daycare centers), Baby Track Develop (developmental-disorder support via behavior analysis), and an in-development BabyTrack sleep app. For developing countries, Fvital provides the Handheld-Adaptive-Triage (HAT) smartphone application and a Neonatal Resuscitation Education AI System jointly developed with Japan's National Center for Child Health and Development.

Fvital commercializes primarily as a SaaS subscription to municipal governments, daycare chains, and medical/educational institutions under multi-year contracts. The company pursues enterprise field sales through comprehensive cooperation agreements and joint research contracts with city governments — named partners include Komatsu, Tsukuba, Hamamatsu, Toyohashi, Iwata, Honjo, and Hisayama — and supplements revenue with non-dilutive funding from Japanese government programs including AMED, NEDO, JICA, METI, MIC, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and JETRO/StartX. Internationally, distribution runs through JICA business matching, METI Global South programs, and JETRO/StartX GSAP into Vietnam, Uganda, Bangladesh, Kenya, Indonesia, and Egypt. The company has no disclosed equity funding rounds, no parent company, and no subsidiaries, and is led by a founder-CEO with cross-disciplinary R&D support from MD/PhD researchers at the University of Tokyo, University of Tsukuba, and RIKEN. In 2026, Fvital launched the Global HealthTech Alliance as an NPO initiative to extend its technology platform into African healthcare.

Name

Fvital

Legal name

Fvital Inc.

Website

https://fvital.tech

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Fvital Inc. is a Tokyo-based AI company that builds non-contact vital data acquisition and analysis technology for infants and young children, serving Japanese municipal governments, daycare centers, medical institutions, and developing-country healthcare systems through its Baby Track product suite and Handheld-Adaptive-Triage application.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Pediatric Digital Health AI

NAICS

Child Care Services (62441), Child and Youth Services (62411), Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing (3345), Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090), Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Child Day Care Services (8351)

akta.pro primary industry

Maternal, Neonatal & Pediatric Remote Monitoring (HLACAPAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Maternal & Neonatal Remote Monitoring Platforms (HLACAFAC), Pregnancy & Prenatal Care Telehealth (OB tele-visits, prenatal monitoring) (HLALAHAC), Data Aggregation, Interoperability & APIs for RPM (FHIR/IoMT Gateways) (HLACAFAO), Pediatric 24/7 In-Home Care (Medically Fragile Children) (HSABAHAK)

Keywords

• Pediatric AI monitoring
• Infant health checkup
• Daycare video analytics
• Developmental disorder screening
• Non-contact vital sensing

Headquarters

HQ city

Tokyo

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS/Platform subscriptions to municipalities and institutions: Fvital provides its Baby Track monitoring and health checkup systems as subscription-based SaaS services to municipal governments, daycare centers, and medical/educational institutions. Revenue is generated through recurring platform fees under multi-year contracts with government and institutional customers.
2. Government research grants and public funding: The company receives significant non-dilutive funding through Japanese government programs including AMED, NEDO, JICA, MIC, and METI grants. While not direct revenue, these grants support R&D and international expansion activities.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Fvital provides AI-powered non-contact vital data acquisition and analysis platforms that automatically evaluate infants' and young children's internal states and recommend optimized responses, applied across medical, childcare, and education sectors. The company's core products include the Baby Track suite (Navi for infant health checkups, Nursery for daycare monitoring, Develop for developmental disorder support) and global health solutions (Handheld-Adaptive-Triage and Neonatal Resuscitation Education AI) for developing countries. The technology uses video-based analysis to capture biometric signals, classify children's conditions, and provide actionable insights to caregivers, educators, and medical professionals.

Product overview

Fvital offers a suite of child development monitoring and healthcare solutions under the Baby Track brand. The core portfolio includes Baby Track Navi (infant health checkup support), Baby Track Nursery (daycare monitoring and personalized childcare), Baby Track Develop (developmental disorder support through video analysis), and the BabyTrack app (sleep tracking and recommendations). Global Health initiatives include the Handheld-Adaptive-Triage (HAT) system for developing countries and a Neonatal Resuscitation Education AI System. All products leverage Fvital's proprietary non-contact vital data acquisition and AI-powered video analysis technology to evaluate children's conditions and recommend optimized responses in healthcare, childcare, and educational settings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Baby Track Navi: Service for sustainable infant health checkup system supporting developmental screening and data coordination among families, medical institutions, and local governments.
• Baby Track Nursery
• Baby Track Develop
• BabyTrack
• Global HealthTech Alliance

Products and services

• Baby Track Navi

Quantifiable outcome

• Toyohashi City pilot program covered 387 children aged 0-6 across 6 nursery schools.
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability8 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Global HealthTech Alliance (NPO establishment in progress)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 June 2026Fvital launched the Global HealthTech Alliance, a nonprofit initiative to develop and implement AI and health technology solutions for children's health in Africa and other regions with limited healthcare access. Fvital is the founding organization, with founding members including Yoichiro Iwama and incoming advisors. Aims to create a cross-sector ecosystem involving medicine, AI, finance, and public policy.
• Gakken GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 June 2026Joint press release with Gakken Group and NEC regarding developmental support seminar held in Vietnam on May 16, 2026. Combines Gakken's educational content expertise with Fvital's AI video analysis technology and NEC's technology capabilities.
• NEC CorporationcoreTechnology or Integration · 15 June 2026Three-way partnership with Gakken Group and Fvital for developmental support in Vietnam. NEC contributes technology capabilities to the joint initiative combining AI video analysis with educational content.
• Hisayama Town, Fukuoka PrefectureminorOthers · 13 March 2026Comprehensive partnership agreement for developing a model for child-rearing support in the municipality.
• Honjo City, Saitama PrefectureminorOthers · 12 February 2025Agreement for joint research on ICT-based infant health checkups, continuing Fvital's municipal government outreach for digital health solutions.
• Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka PrefecturecoreOthers · 10 January 2025Comprehensive collaboration agreement covering childcare and educational support and other wide-ranging fields. Partnership aims to promote initiatives toward realizing a vibrant city of Hamamatsu, building on previous Hamamatsu City Pilot Experiment Support Program project.
• Nextbeat (株式会社ネクストビート)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 September 2024Joint press release on 'AI technology utilization joint research' with Nextbeat, operator of 'Hoikushibank!' (保育バンク) services. Collaboration focuses on AI technology applications in the childcare sector.
• Tsukuba City, Ibaraki PrefecturecoreOthers · 2 October 2023Comprehensive partnership agreement for parenting support using advanced technology. Aims to build a childcare support model analyzing children's data based on medical insights to provide care tailored to each child's mental and physical needs. Aligned with SDG 'Leave no one behind' principle.
• Hamamatsu City (Pilot Experiment Support Program)coreOthers · 29 September 2023Project 'Development of SaaS Service for Creating Individual Development Reports Using Videos' selected in Hamamatsu City Pilot Experiment Support Program. Uses non-contact vital data acquisition to visualize developmental characteristics and support personalized environment creation for each child.
• Toyohashi City, Aichi PrefecturecoreOthers · 21 September 2023Collaborative research agreement to analyze nursery school videos, build caregiver training models, and provide services tailored to each child's needs. Pilot study covered 387 children aged 0-6 across 6 nursery schools in the city.
• Iwata City, Shizuoka PrefectureminorOthers · 1 June 2023Partnership to improve childcare quality by realizing personalized, individual-targeted childcare using AI-based technology that analyzes video of children's activities to visualize individuality and enable tailored responses.
• National Center for Child Health and Development (国立成育医療研究センター)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 January 2023Long-standing joint research partnership for multiple AI-powered healthcare solutions: (1) AI-based video assessment of neonatal states published in JAMA Network Open; (2) automated screening of developmental disabilities using video; (3) AI system for neonatal resuscitation education support. Multiple joint papers published in international journals. This is Fvital's most significant research partnership for medical AI validation.
• Komatsu City, Ishikawa PrefecturecoreOthers · 24 November 2022Comprehensive cooperation agreement and joint research agreement to establish a new childcare support model using AI video analysis. Komatsu City serves as a demonstration field, collaborating with universities and medical institutions. Fvital provides its technology to visualize children's internal conditions for childcare and nursing support.
• Sakura Saku Mirai Inc. (株式会社さくらさくみらい)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 April 2022Joint research partnership with early childhood education company Sakura Saku Mirai. Multiple joint press releases issued covering analysis of child development data and collaborative research outcomes.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Binah.ai: Israel-based company offering video-based vital signs measurement (heart rate, respiration, stress) using smartphone cameras. Closest technology peer to Fvital's non-contact vital data acquisition platform, though Binah focuses on adult workforce wellness and clinical trials rather than pediatric monitoring.
• Nanit: US-based smart baby monitor company using computer vision to track infant sleep, movement, and breathing. Comparable video-AI approach for early childhood monitoring, but oriented to consumer/D2C parents rather than Fvital's institutional/municipal SaaS model.
• Owlet: US-based company providing FDA-cleared smart sock and video monitor for infant vital signs tracking. Shares Fvital's focus on objective infant health monitoring, though Owlet uses wearable sensors rather than Fvital's non-contact video approach.
• Cognoa: US-based AI health company that developed FDA-authorized AI for autism spectrum disorder screening in young children. Most directly comparable to Fvital's Baby Track Develop in applying AI to early childhood developmental assessment, though Fvital uses video-based behavior analysis versus Cognoa's questionnaire + video hybrid approach.
• PyrAmes Health: US-based company developing continuous non-invasive blood pressure and vital sign monitoring for neonatal and pediatric ICUs. Highly comparable in neonatal/pediatric vital signs monitoring focus and pursuit of clinical-grade SaMD positioning, though PyrAmes uses wearable sensors rather than Fvital's video-based approach.

Peers

• Kids Public Inc.

Market position

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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