Industry Network

What Industry Network does

Industry Network Co., Ltd. (インダストリーネットワーク株式会社) is a privately held Japanese IT firm headquartered in Okaya, Nagano Prefecture, tracing its origins to a 1994 electric vehicle enthusiasts' club and officially incorporated in April 2000. It operates from two Okaya sites — a head office at Minami-miyan 1-1-15 and an ISO/IEC 27001:2022-certified IT Center at Kohan 3-2-55 — and runs a horizontal portfolio of IT services and robotics R&D. The IT services line covers website planning and design, iPhone/iPad application development, low-cost rental servers with virus and spam filtering, domain registration and SSL reselling, cloud migration consulting, web-based systems for municipal governments, and the iNOM manufacturing order management system compliant with Japan's qualified invoice regulations. The R&D line, conducted in collaboration with Kyushu University, Kyoto University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Suwa Tokyo University of Science, Shinshu University, and regional SMEs, has produced a wall-climbing inspection robot, a dual-rotor tailsitter VTOL drone, agricultural and forestry special-purpose robots, and AI robots using reinforcement learning algorithms demonstrated at Expo 2005. The company also sells Goop, a packaged project management system.

The business operates a hybrid revenue model: subscription recurring revenue from rental servers and related hosting, professional services revenue from custom web, mobile, and government systems development, and one-time license revenue from software and hardware product sales including iNOM and robot parts. Go-to-market is primarily direct sales into the Nagano / Koshinetsu region through the corporate website (industry.co.jp) and a dedicated recruitment site (recruit.industry.co.jp), with self-serve online ordering for smaller hosting and domain customers. Primary customer segments are regional manufacturing SMEs and Nagano-area municipal governments, with secondary exposure to agriculture and forestry businesses seeking robotics and IoT solutions. The company is founder-led by Representative Director Toshio Ohashi (大橋俊夫) and has no disclosed external investors, funding rounds, or M&A activity, consistent with its 1-10 employee scale and bootstrapped operating posture.

Strategically, Industry Network presents as a stable, niche regional systems integrator and robotics prototyper rather than a venture-backed growth company. Recent activity is more about productization (iNOM, Goop), compliance posture (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, invoice-system compliance, health-data privacy disclosure), and infrastructure cost recovery (the 2024 "service maintenance adjustment fee") than about expansion or scale. Forward-looking differentiation depends on whether iNOM and the robotics prototypes can be converted into recurring commercial revenue beyond the immediate Nagano manufacturing and government customer base.

Name

Industry Network

Legal name

インダストリーネットワーク株式会社

Website

https://industry.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Industry Network is a small, privately held Japanese IT firm in Okaya, Nagano Prefecture, offering web and mobile development, rental servers, government and manufacturing order-management systems, and robotics R&D — including reinforcement-learning robots, VTOL drones, and climbing robots — primarily to regional manufacturing SMEs and municipalities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

IT Services and Robotics Prototyping

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518210)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Network Architecture & Design Services (BPAEAEAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Robot Software, Autonomy Stacks & Simulation (ROS, digital twins) (HDAAAIAK), Network Analytics, AIOps & Root-Cause Correlation (HDAFAGAM)

Keywords

• Web development services
• Robotics prototyping
• Mobile app development
• Managed server hosting
• Government IT systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Okaya

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Rental Server Services: Rental server services with monthly/annual subscription billing, including mail virus checking, spam filtering, and support
2. IT Services and Development: Custom web design and development, application development for iOS/Android platforms, and government system construction
3. Software and Hardware Products: Sale of order management system (iNOM) and robot parts manufacturing services
4. Robotics R&D Services: R&D and prototyping services for robotics including drones, climbing robots, and agricultural robots

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Industry Network is a Japanese IT services and robotics R&D company that designs, prototypes, and develops computer systems and software for regional customers. Its core commercial offerings span web/HP production, iOS application development, rental server hosting with built-in mail virus and spam filtering, government/municipal web system construction, cloud migration, and the iNOM manufacturing order management system. In parallel, the company operates a prototyping and R&D division that has produced wall-climbing robots for infrastructure inspection, a dual-engine VTOL tailsitter drone, agricultural/forestry robots using IoT/IoE, and AI robots with reinforcement learning developed in collaboration with multiple universities.

Product overview

Industry Network is an IT company offering a diversified portfolio of products and services. The core offerings include robot development (climbing robots, drones, agricultural/forestry robots, and AI robots with reinforcement learning), web/internet services (website production, application development, rental servers), and enterprise systems (government municipal systems, order management systems, cloud promotion). The company operates from Nagano Prefecture, Japan, and collaborates with universities on robotics R&D. The portfolio also includes domain registration, SSL certificates, and the Goop project management system.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Web / HP Production (ホームページ・WEB制作)
• iPhone / iPad Application Development (アプリケーション開発)

Named customers2 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

AI capability1 record

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Kyushu University (九州大学)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership for robotics R&D, including development of AI robots with reinforcement learning algorithms for the 2005 Expo demonstration
• Kyoto University (京都大学)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership for robotics R&D and AI development
• Tokyo Institute of Technology (東京工業大学)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership for robotics development and AI research
• Suwa Tokyo University of Science (諏訪東京理科大学)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal university partnership for robotics R&D, part of regional innovation ecosystem
• Shinshu University (信州大学)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership for robotics development and AI research
• Small and Medium Enterprises in Suwa Region (信州諏訪の中小企业)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional manufacturing ecosystem collaboration for robot development combining industry and academic expertise

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• NTT Data Corporation: Japan's largest systems integrator with extensive regional-government IT contracts — represents the dominant competitive force for Industry Network's municipal web-system business.
• Fujitsu Limited: Major Japanese IT services and systems integration provider whose regional-government digital transformation offerings directly compete with Industry Network's municipal systems business.
• SCSK Corporation: One of Japan's largest IT services and systems integrators, offering managed services, cloud, and systems integration similar to Industry Network's municipal and enterprise systems work — but at vastly larger scale, representing the national-level competitive threat.
• TIS Inc. Mid-to-large Japanese IT services and systems integrator serving financial, public-sector, and manufacturing clients — comparable business model to Industry Network's municipal systems and manufacturing OMS offerings.

Emerging players

• Ridge-i Inc. Tokyo-based AI consultancy applying machine learning and computer vision to industrial and infrastructure-inspection use cases — comparable to Industry Network's AI/reinforcement-learning robotics approach.
• Preferred Networks Inc. Tokyo-based AI/deep-learning company with significant robotics and autonomous-systems research — comparable to Industry Network's reinforcement-learning robotics R&D collaboration model with Japanese universities.
• Cyberdyne Inc. Japan-based robotics company developing autonomous and AI-driven robotic systems — comparable in robotics R&D heritage and university-research-driven approach to Industry Network's AI/reinforcement-learning robotics program.

Regional players

• Pixela Corporation: Japan-based smaller-scale IT services and product company offering web, mobile, and embedded systems — comparable in scale, service breadth, and Japan-domestic customer focus to Industry Network.
• Sakura Information Systems Co., Ltd. Japanese IT services firm with strong presence in government and public-sector systems — directly comparable customer vertical to Industry Network's municipal IT business.

Direct peers

• ACSL Ltd. Japanese commercial drone manufacturer focused on industrial and inspection applications — directly comparable to Industry Network's dual-rotor tail-sitter VTOL drone product line in both technology category and target use cases.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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