LIZ

What LIZ does

LIZ Corporation (株式会社LIZ) is a privately held Japanese Kabushiki Kaisha founded on February 12, 2021 and headquartered in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture. The company operates three distinct business lines targeted primarily at small-to-medium dental clinics and SMBs in Japan. Its flagship offering is the 'DH Matching Service' (DHマッチングサービス), a paid employment placement business that matches dental hygienists with dental clinics, addressing persistent labor shortages in Japan's dental sector through part-time and side-job (副業) arrangements. The service operates under a Japanese paid employment placement license (認可番号: 23-ユ-302554) and is being productized into a two-sided platform called 'DH Share' (DHシェア), which as of the latest disclosed source was still in pre-launch status.

Name

LIZ

Legal name

株式会社LIZ

Website

https://lizcorp.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Short description

LIZ is a Nagoya-based Japanese firm operating a dental hygienist matching service for clinics, a web marketing agency, and recruitment consulting, targeting SMBs and dental healthcare operators in Japan.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Dental Healthcare Staffing / Employment Placement Services

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Temporary Help Services (56132)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361), Services-Help Supply Services (7363)

akta.pro primary industry

Office & Administrative Temp Staffing (BPACACAA)

Keywords

• Dental staffing services
• Employment placement services
• Web marketing agency
• Recruitment consulting
• Dental hygienist matching

Headquarters

HQ city

Nagoya

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Dental Hygienist Matching Service (有料職業紹介事業): LIZ operates a paid employment placement service (License No. 23-ユ-302554) that matches dental hygienists with dental clinics, addressing staffing shortages in the medical industry through part-time and side-job arrangements.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

LIZ operates a paid employment placement service that matches dental hygienists with dental clinics in Japan, primarily through part-time and side-job arrangements to address dental staffing shortages. The company also provides web marketing services (web advertising agency and web consulting) and recruitment consulting (job advertisement posting agency and hiring support) as complementary service lines.

Product overview

LIZ is a Japanese human resources and marketing services company operating three core business lines: a dental clinic human resources matching platform (DHマッチングサービス), web marketing services (Webマーケティング事業), and recruitment consulting (採用コンサルティング). The DHマッチングサービス operates the 'DHシェア' platform to match dental hygienists with dental clinics using part-time/work arrangements to address medical industry staffing shortages. The Web marketing division provides web advertising agency and consulting services for customer acquisition. The recruitment consulting division offers job posting agency services and solutions for hiring challenges. These three services operate independently, serving different client segments (medical industry, general businesses) with talent matching and marketing support functions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• DH Matching Service (DHマッチングサービス) Paid employment placement service that matches dental hygienists with dental clinics, addressing staffing shortages in Japan's dental industry through part-time and side-job arrangements. Operated under the 'DHシェア' platform concept. Aimed at small-to-medium dental clinics facing hygienist recruitment difficulties.
• Web Marketing Business (Webマーケティング事業) Web marketing services including web advertising agency work and web consulting for customer acquisition, designed to support clients' sales stabilization through digital channels. Targeted at small-to-medium Japanese businesses seeking improved web-driven lead generation.
• Recruitment Consulting (採用コンサルティング) Recruitment consulting offering job advertisement posting agency services and hiring support to address common Japanese employer pain points such as inability to attract candidates, low application-to-hire conversion rates, and lack of matched talent applications. Targeted at Japanese companies with general hiring challenges.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Medical Corporation Seishokai (医療法人 清翔会)unclearStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 February 2021LIZ collaborates with Medical Corporation Seishokai as a partner, providing dental hygienist matching services. This partnership is listed as a key affiliation alongside LIZ's licensed employment placement operations, supporting the company's service delivery in the dental healthcare sector.

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Indeed Japan: The largest generalist job-search platform in Japan, often the default destination for both dental clinic hiring managers and hygienist job seekers. Comparable to LIZ as the broad incumbent that competes for the same eyeballs on both sides of the dental staffing market.
• M3 Career: M3 Inc.'s medical professional job platform, including dental hygienist listings. Comparable because it operates at the intersection of healthcare staffing and marketplace platforms, with the scale advantage of the broader M3 medical-content network.
• Recruit Holdings (Indeed Japan / Rikunabi): Japan's dominant HR and staffing conglomerate whose Indeed and Rikunabi platforms absorb a meaningful share of online dental hiring demand. Comparable as the broad incumbent in employment placement where LIZ competes for the same clinic-side advertising and placement spend.
• Wantedly: Japan's leading recruitment and employer-branding platform used by SMBs across industries including dental clinics. Comparable to LIZ's recruitment consulting line because both monetize employer-side hiring demand through online tools rather than traditional agencies.

Emerging players

• Timee (タイミー): Japanese gig and part-time matching platform that has expanded into healthcare verticals. Comparable to LIZ's DHシェア service because both match part-time / side-job workers with demand-side businesses, including emerging penetration into healthcare staffing.
• Sharefull (シェアフル): Subsidiary of Recruit that focuses on side-job (副業) matching for white-collar workers, similar to the side-job orientation of LIZ's dental hygienist service. Comparable because the underlying labor-supply model (side-job professionals seeking flexible hours) overlaps.

Direct peers

• Quark Career (クオキャリア): Japan-focused dental and medical staffing platform that places dental hygienists and other clinicians with clinics nationwide. Operates a verticalized matching model directly comparable to LIZ's DHシェア service, but at significantly larger geographic and transaction scale.
• Medical Work (メディカルワーク): Operated by Medical Interface, this is one of the largest dedicated dental hygienist and dental staff job portals in Japan. Comparable to LIZ because it targets the exact same buyer (dental clinics) and supply (dental hygienists) through a matching platform model, with stronger brand recognition.
• First Navi Dental (ファーストナビ デンタル): A dental-hygienist-focused job matching service in Japan targeting small and mid-sized dental clinics. Comparable to LIZ in narrow vertical focus on dental hygienist placement and in serving similar SMB dental-clinic customers via a transaction-based model.

Others

• Digital Dental Record / Dental Holdings (Japan DSO operators): Japanese DSO and dental-clinic-support platform operators that aggregate demand from affiliated dental clinics. Comparable to LIZ as adjacent players in the dental support ecosystem who could either partner with LIZ for staffing or compete by centralizing hiring in-house.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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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