TriIs

What TriIs does

TriIs (株式会社トライアイズ) is a Tokyo-headquartered, Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed holding company founded on March 16, 1995, that positions itself as a '100-year succession company' (100年企業継承カンパニー). The company acquires and provides long-term holding support for established Japanese companies (老舗企業) facing succession gaps or growth stagnation, preserving intangible assets such as brand heritage, customer trust, employee expertise, and technical know-how while implementing modern management science and information science to drive enterprise value growth. Its current operating portfolio includes construction consulting subsidiary CREARIA (株式会社クレアリア), a fashion brand business, and real estate investment activities, with consolidated revenue of JPY 1,424 million reported for FY2025 (December year-end), up from JPY 636 million in FY2023.

TriIs's technology platform centers on two proprietary AI-enabled modules: Smart Investment, which integrates fund-manager and strategy-consultant-level expertise into AI-driven M&A deal sourcing, due diligence, and investment decision-making; and Smart Company, which uses AI to automate business planning, daily operations, and personnel/resource redeployment across portfolio companies. The company released FinBrain, an AI×Finance service, in beta in February 2026, and announced a major strategic restructuring (TRIiS 2.0) in March 2026 aimed at building a 'Japan Awakening Platform' for longevity-company revitalization. The stated objective is to use longevity-company roll-up M&A combined with these proprietary AI systems to achieve a Price-to-Book Ratio (PBR) target of 3.6x to 6.1x for acquired companies.

The company targets Japanese business owners facing succession challenges, M&A intermediaries, and financial institutions. Go-to-market is sales-led via direct consultation, supplemented by an Investor Relations function, public news disclosures, and the corporate website; pricing for M&A and investment advisory services is not publicly disclosed. The company operates with 13 consolidated employees plus an average of 5 temporary workers and is led by CEO Shumpei Iwao, who holds the first PhD in Business Administration ever awarded by the University of Tokyo and serves as Associate Professor at Keio University; recent news also identifies Keiji Yamamoto as Representative CEO associated with the TRIiS 2.0 restructuring. In January 2026 the company established a Singapore office — its first international location — and signed a partnership with a major Japanese financial institution in December 2025.

Name

TriIs

Legal name

株式会社トライアイズ

Website

https://triis.co.jp

Company type

Public

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

TriIs is a Tokyo-listed holding company that acquires and provides long-term management support for established Japanese companies facing succession challenges, using AI-enabled modules (Smart Investment, Smart Company, FinBrain) to modernize operations while preserving brand and operational heritage. It targets business owners, M&A intermediaries, and financial institutions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Tokyo

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Holding Company - Group Management: Operates as a holding company overseeing subsidiary businesses through long-term ownership of established companies.
2. Real Estate Investment: Investment and management of real estate assets as part of the holding company structure.
3. Fashion Brand Business: Fashion brand operations as part of the diversified business portfolio.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

TriIs (TRIiS) is a publicly listed Japanese holding company that acquires long-established Japanese companies facing succession challenges or growth stagnation on a long-hold basis, preserves their heritage assets (brand, talent, technology, customer trust), and implements modern management science and AI to drive enterprise value creation over a 100-year horizon. Its core offerings are the TRIiS succession platform (M&A advisory and roll-up of 老舗企業) supported by proprietary AI systems for investment decisions and portfolio-company operations, plus the FinBrain AI×Finance service (released February 2026 in beta) for financial analysis and investment support.

Product overview

TRIiS is a unified company succession platform focused on acquiring and growing long-established Japanese companies (老了企業) through a roll-up M&A strategy. The core TRIiS platform provides the foundational framework for long-term asset inheritance and management implementation. Built on this platform are two key AI-powered modules: Smart Investment (for M&A decision automation) and Smart Company (for group company management automation). The company also launched FinBrain as a separate AI×Finance service in beta. All offerings are integrated through AI technologies to preserve traditional company values while implementing modern management science and information science for the next 100 years.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• TRIiS Succession Platform Long-term acquisition and AI-enabled succession platform for long-established Japanese companies (老舗企業), preserving heritage assets while implementing modern management functions; targets owners of multi-generational Japanese firms, M&A intermediaries, and financial institutions.
• FinBrain (β版) AI×Finance service combining artificial intelligence with financial services for financial analysis and investment support; released as a beta offering on 2026-02-10 for investment and management support use cases.

Quantifiable outcome

• Revenue increased from JPY 636M (2023) to JPY 1,424M (2025) on consolidated basis
• +1 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Major Financial Institution (大手金融機関)significantStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 December 2025Business partnership agreement signed December 18, 2025 for strategic collaboration in succession and M&A services for longevity companies.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Nihon M&A Center Holdings: Japan's largest listed SME M&A intermediary. Directly comparable to TriIs because both operate in Japanese succession M&A, source deal flow from owners without successors, and monetize the structural need for SME transition — though TriIs holds targets long-term while Nihon M&A Center matches buyers and sellers.
• M&A Capital Partners: Listed Japanese M&A advisory focused on SMEs and succession. Comparable to TriIs as a Tokyo-listed platform serving the same succession-M&A segment, though TriIs sits on the buy-side / holding side while M&A Capital Partners is principally an advisor.
• Relia, Inc. Japanese small-cap M&A platform pursuing a roll-up strategy of SMEs. Highly comparable to TriIs: small listed holding structure, roll-up M&A as core growth driver, AI/digital positioning, and similar focus on under-managed succession candidates.
• Strike Co., Ltd. Tokyo-listed M&A company targeting SME succession in Japan. Comparable business model and target segment to TriIs, both serving owners without successors through acquisition or M&A advisory services.
• Aoyama Zaisan Holdings: Tokyo-listed holding company for tax accounting and consulting subsidiaries serving Japanese SMEs and family-owned businesses. Comparable customer base (Japanese SMEs / long-established firms) and holding-company structure, though Aoyama's subsidiaries are services firms rather than acquired operating businesses.

Others

• JMDC Inc. Tokyo-listed Japanese health-tech / data analytics company that uses proprietary data and analytics to commercialize decision-support products. Comparable to TriIs in the AI/decision-support angle for FinBrain and Smart Investment, though in healthcare rather than M&A.

Emerging players

• Japan Investment Adviser Co., Ltd. Japan-focused listed investment advisory / holding-style platform that advises on and participates in M&A for SMEs. Comparable to TriIs in deploying capital into succession and growth-stage Japanese companies, though its product mix is more advisory-led than operating-led.

Broad incumbents

• SBI Holdings, Inc. Large Japanese financial holdings group with private equity, asset management, and online brokerage businesses. Comparable as a Japanese listed holding company deploying capital across financial and operating businesses; far larger scale and broader scope than TriIs.
• Yamada Holdings Co., Ltd. Large Tokyo-listed pure holding company over a Japanese multi-business group. Comparable as a Japanese listed holding structure, though at significantly larger scale and across consumer businesses rather than the SME succession niche TriIs targets.
• NX Holdings (Nippon Express Holdings): Tokyo-listed holding company over a large Japanese multi-segment group. Useful as a peer for the listed-holding-company structure in Japan, though the underlying industries (logistics) are unrelated to TriIs's succession-M&A thesis.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A1 record

Investments

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