CCJ

What CCJ does

CCJ株式会社 (CCJ Inc.), rebranded from 株式会社Creative Capitalism Japan in August 2023, is a privately held Japanese SaaS company founded in April 2017 by representative director Rikako Hara and headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo. The company develops and operates two cloud-based products: I-EVA, a social impact evaluation management tool launched in December 2020 with a beta rollout in October 2021, and Sustaina Cloud, a sustainability management and non-financial disclosure platform launched in August 2023. Sustaina Cloud centralizes ESG data collection with role-based reviewer/approver workflows, manages questionnaires across multiple ESG rating agencies, supports GRI/SASB/ISSB compliance mapping, provides KPI tracking and peer benchmarking against an integrated report database covering 800+ companies across 33 industry sectors, and embeds a learning-type AI chatbot that retrieves answers from publicly available Japanese sustainability reports while offering machine translation to English and Chinese. I-EVA enables organizations to conduct social impact assessments end-to-end through logic model builders, impact maps, web surveys, beneficiary databases, and impact reporting, designed to eliminate the historically cited 381-hour expert dependency. Both products are operationalized under a cloud security policy, with Sustaina Cloud certified to ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27017 in May 2024.

CCJ operates a sales-led, direct B2B go-to-market with no public pricing; engagement is initiated through inquiry forms on corporate and product-specific landing pages (creative-capitalism.co.jp, lp.sustaina.cloud, i-eva.org), and the company states no third-party reseller or marketplace distribution. Revenue is generated primarily through SaaS subscriptions to Sustaina Cloud and I-EVA, supplemented by legacy web advertising marketing services from the company's founding business, and supplemented by possibly tiered add-ons such as competitor analysis modules. The product mix reflects a horizontal segmentation strategy spanning two primary customer segments: corporate sustainability departments facing complex ESG disclosure and questionnaire burden, and social enterprises / NPOs needing structured impact evaluation methodologies without expert dependence. Marketing combines corporate and product websites, Social Impact Day participation with SIMI, and PRTimes press releases for product launches.

Operationally, CCJ is an early-stage, founder-led company with no disclosed external funding rounds, no headcount disclosure, and no published customer logos; the company relocated to larger Shibuya premises in November 2024 and maintains an information security policy stack including ISO 27001/27017 certifications, a cloud security basic policy, and a personal information protection framework. Its current geographic reach is Japan-only, with the AI translation feature suggesting latent intent to expand into English- and Chinese-speaking sustainability markets.

Name

CCJ

Legal name

CCJ株式会社

Website

https://creative-capitalism.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

CCJ株式会社 is a Tokyo-based private SaaS company operating Sustaina Cloud and I-EVA — cloud tools for corporate ESG disclosure management and social impact evaluation — targeting Japanese sustainability officers and social enterprises through direct, sales-led subscription engagement.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Sustainability Management Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Sustainability & ESG Reporting (GRI/SASB/ISSB/CSRD) (EUAHAJAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

ESG Data, Ratings & Research (Providers, Methodologies, Analytics) (FSAAALAJ), ESG Reporting, Disclosure & Regulatory Compliance (SFDR, EU Taxonomy, TCFD/ISSB) (FSAAALAK), Sustainable Finance & ESG Ratings/Benchmarking Support (EUAHAJAH), Sustainability, ESG & Climate Risk Advisory (BPAHAJAH)

Keywords

• Sustainability management software
• ESG disclosure tools
• Social impact evaluation
• Non-financial reporting
• Impact assessment platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Tokyo

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Sustaina Cloud Subscription: SaaS subscription model for sustainability management tools. Companies pay for cloud-based sustainability disclosure support including data management, questionnaire handling, and ESG reporting features. The service offers tiered options including competitor analysis add-ons.
2. I-EVA Subscription: Cloud-based social impact evaluation tool subscription. Organizations use the platform to conduct impact assessments, with different plans potentially limiting project numbers. Professional services may also be offered for guided evaluation support.
3. Web Advertising Marketing: Web advertising and marketing services as part of original business operations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

CCJ develops and operates two cloud-based SaaS platforms for sustainability/ESG disclosure and social impact evaluation. Sustaina Cloud helps corporate sustainability departments centralize ESG data collection, manage questionnaires across multiple rating agencies, perform AI-powered research, benchmark against an integrated database of 800+ companies, and map disclosures to GRI/SASB/ISSB standards. I-EVA enables social enterprises and NPOs to independently conduct social impact assessments through collaborative logic models, impact maps, web surveys, beneficiary databases, and automated impact reporting without requiring expert accompaniment.

Product overview

CCJ株式会社 operates two cloud-based SaaS products: Sustaina Cloud (サステナクラウド) and I-EVA. Sustaina Cloud is a sustainability management and non-financial disclosure platform launched in August 2023, helping companies with ESG data collection, questionnaire management, peer benchmarking, and KPI tracking. I-EVA is a social impact evaluation management tool launched initially in December 2020 (beta in October 2021) that enables organizations to perform impact assessments through logic models, surveys, and automated reporting without expert support. Both products share a cloud-first architecture and are operated under CCJ株式会社 (formerly株式会社Creative Capitalism Japan).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Sustaina Cloud: A cloud-based sustainability management tool that assists corporate sustainability disclosure by centralizing data collection, questionnaire management, AI-powered research, KPI tracking, and peer benchmarking.
• I-EVA

Products and services

• Sustaina Cloud (サステナクラウド) A cloud-based sustainability management and non-financial information disclosure tool that helps corporate sustainability departments efficiently collect, organize, and report ESG and sustainability data. Features include centralized ESG data collection with role-based access, multi-agency questionnaire management, an AI-powered research chatbot, peer benchmarking against 800+ companies, GRI/SASB/ISSB standards mapping, KPI tracking, and sustainability news monitoring. Certified to ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27017.
• I-EVA (インパクト評価ツール) A web-based cloud tool enabling social enterprises, NPOs, and purpose-driven organizations to independently conduct social impact assessments without requiring expert accompaniment. Provides logic model and impact map builders, web survey creation and aggregation, a beneficiary cloud database, and automated impact report generation within a single platform.
• Web Advertising Marketing Services Web advertising and marketing services offered as part of CCJ's original business operations alongside its SaaS products.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduced social impact evaluation time from 381+ hours to minimal effort through guided platform workflows
• +1 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• 一般財団法人社会的インパクト・マネジメント・イニシアチブ (SIMI)minorOthers · 11 January 2022CCJ participated as engaged members in Social Impact Day 2021 (held January 21-25, 2022), an event organized by SIMI on the theme of 'The Turning Point for the Impact Economy - Arrival of the Social Impact Era'. The event covered SDG Impact, impact investment, purpose management, and social impact evaluation trends.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• EcoVadis: ESG ratings and questionnaire platform serving corporate buyers and their supply chains; overlapping with Sustaina Cloud's ESG questionnaire management across rating agencies and business partners.
• IntegrityNext: Sustainability and compliance platform focused on supplier ESG data collection and questionnaire response; closely comparable to Sustaina Cloud's questionnaire-management module for ESG rating agencies and business partners.
• Sopact: Impact management platform that helps organizations collect beneficiary data, run surveys, and produce impact reports — closely overlapping I-EVA's beneficiary database, web-survey, and impact-report capabilities.
• Persefoni: Climate and sustainability accounting SaaS; comparable to Sustaina Cloud for ESG data management, disclosure-ready reporting, and benchmarking against frameworks like ISSB in B2B corporate settings.
• Watershed: Enterprise sustainability data platform for measuring, reporting, and acting on ESG metrics; comparable to Sustaina Cloud's data collection, KPI tracking, and disclosure workflows serving corporate sustainability teams.
• Workiva: Public US platform for ESG, sustainability, and regulatory reporting with deep GRI/SASB/ISSB questionnaire workflows — directly comparable to Sustaina Cloud as an enterprise ESG disclosure SaaS, albeit with much broader global reach.
• ImpactMapper: Social impact research, evaluation, and reporting platform used by social enterprises and NPOs; directly comparable to I-EVA's logic-model/impact-map evaluation and reporting workflows.

Emerging players

• Sweep: Sustainability data and carbon-management SaaS for mid-market and enterprise; similar positioning to Sustaina Cloud's data-collection, KPI tracking, and disclosure workflows for corporate sustainability teams.

Broad incumbents

• Sphera: Long-standing EHS/ESG software incumbent; broader portfolio than CCJ but targets overlapping corporate sustainability reporting and disclosure use cases at large enterprises.
• Salesforce Net Zero Cloud: Enterprise sustainability module within Salesforce's broader CRM/ESG suite; addresses the same corporate ESG data-collection and disclosure workflows as Sustaina Cloud but as part of a much larger enterprise platform.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/ricacohara
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/creative-capitalism-japan

Compliance2 records

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 →

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