TOMOSHIBI

Name

TOMOSHIBI

Legal name

株式会社CAMPFIRE

Website

https://tomo-shibi.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Team Collaboration Platform

NAICS

Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (519290), Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (51929)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Messaging-Led Community Platforms (Chat/Group Communities) (MPACAJAE)

Keywords

• Project collaboration platform
• Team recruitment platform
• Crowdsourced talent matching
• Social good projects
• Community engagement platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Tokyo

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Free Platform (No Direct Revenue): TOMOSHIBI operates as a completely free platform for both project creators and members. The service is offered at no charge, with all core features — project creation, recruitment slot configuration, messaging with applicants, and free consultation support — provided under a FREE plan. No revenue streams are directly generated from the platform itself.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

TOMOSHIBI is a free, self-serve web platform that lets individuals and small teams create project pages and recruit collaborators based on shared purpose and empathy rather than compensation. Project owners configure recruitment slots with flexible engagement levels (full-time, part-time, remote, weekends only, gap-time), and prospective participants browse projects by category (startup, social good, international cooperation, regional activation, education, food, technology, creative, hobby, other) and by Japanese region. The platform facilitates direct messaging between project owners and applicants and provides free consultation support for project creators.

Product overview

TOMOSHIBI is a single-platform service for project-based team recruitment, described as a 'platform for gathering partners through empathy.' The platform enables project creators to post opportunities with varying commitment levels (from full-time to spare-time), browse projects by category (startup, social good, international cooperation, regional activation, education, food, technology, creative, hobby) and area, and connect with potential team members who share their vision.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• TOMOSHIBI Platform A free, self-serve web platform that connects Japanese project creators with prospective collaborators through project pages, configurable recruitment roles, and direct messaging. Users can browse projects by category (startup, social good, international cooperation, regional activation, education, food, technology, creative, hobby, other), by Japanese region, and by engagement style (full-time, part-time, remote, weekends only, gap-time), then apply to projects that match their interests.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Creww株式会社coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2020TOMOSHIBI partnered with Creww株式会社's 'STARTUP STUDIO' program, an incubation program allowing individuals to build businesses while maintaining their primary job, targeting exit within approximately 6 months. TOMOSHIBI served as a recruitment channel for startup projects within the program. The campaign ran from 2020-05-01 to 2020-12-25.
• SUNDRED株式会社coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 February 2020SUNDRED株式会社 co-operates the '新産業共創スタジオ' (New Industry Co-Creation Studio) with 一般社団法人Japan Innovation Network. Through TOMOSHIBI, users can join projects underway in the New Industry Co-Creation Studio. The campaign ran from 2020-02-12 to 2020-06-30.
• 株式会社リバ邸coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 May 2019TOMOSHIBI partnered with 株式会社リバ邸 on the '#リバ邸全国100軒計画' (National 100 Houses Plan) campaign, enabling users to join or support newly launched Liverty House share-house projects through TOMOSHIBI. The campaign ran from 2019-05-29 to 2020-12-25.
• CAMPFIREcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTOMOSHIBI is operated by 株式会社CAMPFIRE (CAMPFIRE, Inc.), Japan's leading crowdfunding platform. TOMOSHIBI integrates with the CAMPFIRE ecosystem of tools including polca (friend-funding), gironmeshi (discussion partner), and lookme (press coverage). The terms of service state that TOMOSHIBI is a service provided by CAMPFIRE.

Direct peers

• Creww: Japanese startup ecosystem platform that partnered directly with TOMOSHIBI via the STARTUP STUDIO program, overlapping in the side-job incubation and founder-recruitment use case.
• CrowdWorks (クラウドワークス): Japan's largest crowdsourcing platform matching individuals with project-based work, directly comparable to TOMOSHIBI's side-project and gap-time engagement models at greater scale.
• YOUTRUST: Japanese referral-based talent platform leveraging personal networks for recruitment, comparable to TOMOSHIBI in targeting passion-driven candidates seeking meaningful work in Japan.
• Wantedly: Japanese mission-driven recruitment platform connecting individuals to companies and projects based on shared vision and values, operating in the same empathy-led recruitment space as TOMOSHIBI but serving full-time roles.
• Lancers (ランサーズ): Japanese freelance and project-based work marketplace, comparable to TOMOSHIBI's flexible engagement tiers but with explicit monetization and a broader professional freelancer base.

Emerging players

• LAPRAS: Japanese engineer-focused career platform emphasizing portfolio and project-based matching, overlapping with TOMOSHIBI's project-initiator use case but concentrated on the tech talent segment.
• VisasQ (ビザスク): Japanese platform for short-term expert advisory and side-project interviews, partially comparable to TOMOSHIBI's spot-collaborator engagement model for passion-driven participants.
• Forkwell: Japanese developer community and recruitment platform with project showcase functionality, comparable to TOMOSHIBI in enabling project-based identity for individual contributors.

Broad incumbents

• LinkedIn: Global professional network with broad recruitment functionality, comparable to TOMOSHIBI's recruitment utility but lacking the empathy-led, side-project framing.
• AngelList Talent: Global startup-focused talent platform (formerly AngelList), comparable to TOMOSHIBI in connecting startup project initiators with mission-aligned team members but at much larger scale.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/tomoshibi_ct
• Facebookfacebook.com/tomoshibi.jp

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 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 →

Frequently asked questions about TOMOSHIBI