What Gosh does

株式会社Gosh (Gosh Inc.) is a Japan-based, founder-controlled startup incorporated on June 17, 2024 in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, and led by representative 金侑輝 (Kim Yuiki). The company develops and operates C-VERSE, a single-product iOS mobile application that aggregates hip-hop events in Japan through two curation perspectives — by date and by artist — with artist-follow and event-notification features aimed at hip-hop music listeners. The underlying technology is a consumer iOS client integrated with YouTube API Services, with user data governed by YouTube's terms and Google's privacy policy.

The business model combines a free consumer download on the Apple App Store (Japan only) with a paid tier that is not publicly priced or described. Go-to-market is product-led and community-led: discovery and acquisition occur through App Store organic search and direct consumer download, while brand awareness and community engagement are driven through the official @cverse_hiphop accounts on TikTok and Instagram and a website contact form. Registered capital is ¥2,010,000 (approximately $13,500 USD), and no institutional funding rounds, acquisitions, subsidiaries, headcount, or disclosed revenue figures are present in the source material.

Customer segments are narrow and consumer-oriented: individual hip-hop music enthusiasts in Japan seeking to discover events, follow artists, and receive notifications. Distribution is exclusively domestic iOS through the Apple App Store, with no Android, web, or international presence disclosed. The privacy policy was most recently updated on August 22, 2025, indicating ongoing but small-scale operations roughly a year after incorporation.

Name

Gosh

Legal name

株式会社Gosh

Website

https://gosh-hiphop.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Short description

株式会社Gosh is a Japan-based startup that develops and operates C-VERSE, an iOS app aggregating hip-hop events by date and by artist. It serves Japanese hip-hop music listeners through a free App Store download with an undisclosed paid tier, using TikTok and Instagram for community-driven acquisition.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Tsukuba

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. App-based services (unspecified): The company offers both free and paid services. The privacy policy references paid services with usage fees for billing purposes, but the specific revenue model and pricing tiers are not publicly disclosed on the available sources.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

株式会社Gosh (Gosh Inc.) develops and operates C-VERSE, an iOS mobile application specialized in aggregating hip-hop events in Japan. Users can browse events chronologically (by date) or by artist, follow favorite artists, and receive push notifications about upcoming events. The app is distributed via the Apple App Store as a freemium consumer service.

Product overview

株式会社Gosh operates as a single-product company offering CVERSE, a HIPHOP-specialized event summary mobile application for iOS. The app provides two curation perspectives for discovering hip-hop events: a calendar-based view showing events by date, and an artist-based view allowing users to follow favorite artists and receive notifications. The company was founded in June 2024 and is headquartered in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• C-VERSE: HIP HOP specialized event aggregation app that curates HIP HOP events by date and by artist, allowing users to follow favorite artists and receive notifications about upcoming events.

Products and services

• C-VERSE C-VERSE is an iOS mobile application that aggregates hip-hop events in Japan. It allows individual hip-hop listeners to discover events in two ways — by browsing a chronological date view or by browsing an artist view — to view event details such as ticket pricing and participating artists, and to follow favorite artists to receive notifications about upcoming events.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature3 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Songkick: Live music event aggregator that tracks artists and alerts users to concerts and ticket on-sales. Directly comparable to C-VERSE's artist-follow + event-alert model, with a broader genre footprint but the same product surface.
• Dice: Mobile-first music event discovery and ticketing app with strong genre curation and a focus on live music fans. Directly comparable to C-VERSE's mobile, music-first event discovery approach with growing APAC presence.
• Bandsintown: Concert discovery app that lets users track favorite artists and receive notifications about upcoming shows. The closest direct comparable to C-VERSE in mobile, music-focused event aggregation, with an artist-follow-and-notify model that mirrors C-VERSE's core mechanic.
• Resident Advisor: Genre-specialized (electronic music) event discovery and ticketing platform with deep editorial curation. Comparable to C-VERSE as a vertical music-event product, demonstrating the playbook of owning one genre's discovery surface globally.

Emerging players

• Shotgun: Mobile-first event discovery and ticketing app specialized in electronic music. Comparable vertical event-aggregation model to C-VERSE, with growing global footprint and similar product DNA.
• Fever: Mobile-first local experiences and events discovery platform operating across major global cities. Comparable in mobile event discovery UX, though broader in category scope than C-VERSE's HIPHOP focus.

Broad incumbents

• Meetup: Community-driven event discovery platform for in-person gatherings across many interest categories. Adjacent comparable in event-discovery mechanics, with HIPHOP and music meetups among its active groups.
• Eventbrite: Global self-service event management and ticketing platform. Broad incumbent with overlapping event-listing functionality that could easily add HIPHOP-specific filters or genre landings to compete with C-VERSE.

Regional players

• Peatix: Japan-headquartered event discovery and ticketing platform covering a wide range of event types. Directly relevant regional competitor that could add HIPHOP-specific features and crowd out C-VERSE in the Japanese market.
• ZAIKO: Japan-based ticketing and live-streaming platform focused on music and entertainment events. Directly relevant regional peer in the Japanese live-music stack, particularly for HIPHOP-adjacent electronic and club events.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/cverse_hiphop?igsh=MWJzd25uNXJxZGYw
• TikToktiktok.com/@cverse_hiphop?_t=8qdiRMN4T9W&_r=1

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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