CBA
CBA is a Japanese venture-backed SaaS company founded in 2020 that provides CBA wellfest, a cloud-based waste management DX platform serving Japanese industrial and commercial waste-generating enterprises with manifest tracking, compliance tools, contractor management, and circular economy analytics.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2020
- HeadquartersMinami, Japan
- Headcount1–10
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What CBA does
CBA Inc. (株式会社CBA) is a Japanese venture-backed software company founded in January 2020 that builds CBA wellfest, a cloud-based waste management digital transformation (DX) platform serving Japanese industrial, general-waste, and valuable-materials-generating enterprises. The platform centralizes end-to-end waste operations — manifest issuance and tracking, contractor and permit management, compliance verification, multi-site organizational coordination, and dashboards for waste discharge analytics — and connects to the government-run JWNET electronic manifest system. Adjacent products include Eco Data Compass, launched October 2024 as a waste assessment and resource circulation diagnostic service, and the Transport-Driven (運びドリブン) module launched June 2025, which extends manifest handling to collection/transport operators. The technology stack runs on AWS infrastructure using Java, Kotlin, PHP, Python, and AWS RDS for SQL, with GitHub for CI/CD and Microsoft Teams for collaboration; a planned integration with NTT DATA's C-Turtle platform (full launch April 2026) will add Scope 3 Category 5 emissions calculation capability.
CBA generates revenue primarily through tiered SaaS subscriptions starting from ¥2,500 per month for SMB customers and enterprise-level annual contracts by consultation for multi-site deployments. Secondary revenue streams include Eco Data Compass professional assessment services and a planned Environmental Credit (環境与信) data product developed with Risk Monster for ESG evaluation, contractor screening, and environmental due diligence. The go-to-market motion combines PLG-style free demos and self-service trial entry points with enterprise field sales via industry exhibitions (エコプロ, NEW環境展), co-hosted seminars with strategic partners, and accelerator-facilitated introductions (Plug and Play Japan). By April 2025, CBA wellfest had surpassed 100 paying enterprise customers spanning chemicals, electronics, automotive, railway, real estate investment trusts, and construction.
The company is led by Representative Director Yoshito Usami (宇佐見良人), a serial enterprise systems professional (Atraxx, Sojitz, JEMS), alongside a Director/COO&CFO. Funding to date totals ¥230M in Series A from JAFCO Group (August 2022), supplemented by undisclosed strategic capital from Terilogy (network security, September 2021), Risk Monster (credit data, November 2021), and Keio Electric Railway (corporate investor, August 2024). CBA is recognized as EY Innovative Startup 2023 (Circular Economy category) and was selected for Plug and Play Japan's Winter/Spring 2024 Batch and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government DX Social Implementation Project. The company remains privately held with 1–10 employees and is actively recruiting across technical and commercial functions.
CBA firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- CBA
- Legal name
- 株式会社CBA
- Website
- https://cba-japan.co.jp
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2020
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 1–10 employees
- Short description
- CBA is a Japanese venture-backed SaaS company founded in 2020 that provides CBA wellfest, a cloud-based waste management DX platform serving Japanese industrial and commercial waste-generating enterprises with manifest tracking, compliance tools, contractor management, and circular economy analytics.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
CBA industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Waste Management Software
- NAICS
- Waste Management and Remediation Services (562), Waste Collection (5621), Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services (56)
- SIC
- Refuse Systems (4953), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Waste Management & Hazardous Waste Compliance (RCRA, Universal Waste, Waste Characterization/Manifests) (EUAHABAC)
- akta.pro secondary industry
- C&D Waste Collection & Hauling (BPALAJAA)
Keywords
Where CBA is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Minami
- HQ country
- Japan
- HQ region
- Asia
Offices3 records
Markets served
CBA business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- CBA wellfest SaaS Subscription: Cloud-based waste management platform subscription service with tiered pricing starting from ¥2,500 per month. Revenue generated through monthly/annual subscription fees based on organizational scale and feature requirements. Supports enterprise-wide deployment with multi-site management capabilities.
- Eco Data Compass Assessment Services: One-time assessment and consulting services for waste management problem visualization and resource circulation roadmap development. Provides detailed investigations, compliance verification, and actionable recommendations.
- Environmental Credit (環境与信) Data Services: Environmental evaluation indicators developed through partnership with Risk Monster, combining CBA's environmental load data with enterprise credit information. Intended for contractor screening, recommendation systems, ESG evaluation, and environmental credit investigation services.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription | Monthly | Core platform subscription starting price |
| Subscription | Annual | Enterprise deployment pricing |
Go-to-market motion2 records
Distribution channels4 records
Marketing channels6 records
CBA product offering
Product offeringCore offering
CBA operates a cloud-based waste management DX (Digital Transformation) platform called CBA wellfest that centralizes industrial, general, and valuable material waste management for waste-generating enterprises. The platform supports end-to-end manifest operations, contractor and license management, multi-site organizational control, compliance monitoring, waste flow visualization dashboards, and automated reporting for large-quantity waste generators. Adjacent services include Eco Data Compass waste assessment and Environmental Credit (環境与信) data analytics combining waste load data with corporate credit information for ESG evaluation.
Product overview
CBA offers a cloud-based waste management platform centered on CBA wellfest, which manages the complete lifecycle of waste from collection through disposal. The core platform, CBA wellfest, provides centralized manifest operations, permit and contract management, and waste visualization dashboards. Adjacent to it, Eco Data Compass provides waste assessment services for situation surveys and challenge identification. The CBA wellfest platform also includes add-on modules such as the transport-driven manifest functionality (運びドリブン) for the collection and transport stage, and the dashboard function for waste discharge visualization and site-by-site analytics.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Products and services
- CBA wellfest A cloud-based waste management DX platform that manages the entire process of industrial and general waste from collection through disposal, providing centralized manifest operations, permit and contract management, waste discharge visualization dashboards, search functionality, and automatic report generation for large-quantity waste generators.
- Eco Data Compass A waste assessment service that conducts waste situation surveys and identifies challenges for waste-generating companies, providing diagnosis, problem visualization, compliance verification, cost optimization analysis, and improvement recommendations for waste reduction and resource recovery.
- CBA wellfest Transport-Driven Service (運びドリブン) A service within CBA wellfest enabling collection/transportation operators to handle manifest operations on behalf of waste-generating companies, providing proxy manifest creation, web calendar scheduling, and contract management capabilities.
Companies that use CBA
Customer profileNamed customers10 records
Ideal customer profiles3 records
CBA technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration2 records
Feature4 records
CBA partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core, minor and strategic.
- 株式会社NTTデータcorePlatform integration partnership connecting CBA wellfest with NTT Data's C-Turtle GHG emission visualization platform. Enables efficient Scope 3 Category 5 (waste processing) emissions calculation. Joint customer 京王電鉄 validated data linkage for streamlined sustainability reporting. Full service launch planned April 2026.
- Plug and Play Japan株式会社 (through customer introduction)minorPlug and Play Japan introduced CBA to customer 清水建設 through their accelerator network, resulting in CBA wellfest adoption for construction industry waste management.
- 京王電鉄株式会社coreStrategic investment and partnership for waste-related business DX support. Keio will use CBA wellfest for waste-related operations and environmental data reporting. Joint initiatives planned for resource circulation promotion along Keio lines, including area-specific circular economy development. Investment aligned with Keio's 'environmentally friendly' materiality focus.
- 株式会社EPGminorBusiness partnership for restaurant waste management and manifest operations. EPG operates restaurant reservation services and advertising; partnership aims to advance DX for food waste issues in restaurant industry.
- 西日本電信電話株式会社strategicSelected as co-creation partner in NTT West's Future-Build 2023 program for social issue resolution and future society creation. Advanced to business verification phase (March 2024) in Future-Build For Well-being society program at QUINTBRIDGE facility. Project focus on circular economy business.
- Plug and Play JapanstrategicGlobal accelerator and VC selected CBA for Winter/Spring 2024 Batch in Energy category. Platform facilitates connections with large enterprises for innovation and partnership development. Facilitated introduction between CBA and customer 清水建設.
- リスクモンスター株式会社coreCapital and business partnership for environmental credit evaluation model development. Combines CBA's waste load data with Risk Monster's enterprise credit information to create environmental credit indicators for contractor screening, recommendation systems, ESG evaluation, and environmental credit investigation services.
- 株式会社テリロジーcoreCapital and business partnership for DX and network security. Terilogy (TSE JASDAQ) provides cloud security expertise and network infrastructure support for CBA wellfest platform. DX-certified operator supporting CBA's digital transformation initiatives.
Scale indicators5 records
Recent moves7 records
Expansion highlights7 records
CBA competitors and assessment
Company assessmentEmerging players
- Rubicon Technologies: Rubicon Technologies is a US-based waste and recycling technology company offering a SaaS platform for haulers and waste generators, including compliance, dispatching, and sustainability reporting. It is comparable to CBA in product scope and business model, though operating in a different (US) regulatory environment.
Direct peers
- Koujisha: Koujisha (公事社) provides electronic manifest (e-manifest) and waste management compliance solutions to Japanese waste generators and contractors. It is one of the closest direct competitors to CBA wellfest, addressing the same Japanese industrial waste regulatory workflow with overlapping JWNET connectivity.
- JEMS: JEMS is a Japanese environment and energy management systems provider that introduced compliance systems to ~400 leading Japanese companies. It is the founder Yoshito Usami's previous company and a direct comparable in the environmental management software space where CBA competes.
- Zero Corporation: Zero Corporation provides environmental management systems, including e-manifest and waste compliance SaaS, to Japanese enterprises. It is a direct domestic peer competing for the same waste generator compliance budget with overlapping JWNET-based functionality.
Others
- Terilogy: Terilogy is a TSE JASDAQ-listed network security and cloud infrastructure provider and CBA capital/business alliance partner. They provide cloud security and network support for the CBA wellfest platform and co-market to ESG-focused customers — an infrastructure and channel partner rather than a direct competitor.
- Riskmonster (Risk Monster): Riskmonster is a TSE-listed corporate credit and ESG data company that is also a CBA capital and business alliance partner. They co-develop the 'Environmental Credit' evaluation indicators combining waste load data with corporate credit information, making them an ecosystem partner and adjacent data provider rather than a direct competitor.
Broad incumbents
- TOMRA: TOMRA is a Norway-listed global leader in collection and sorting solutions for recycling, with growing investment in digital/AI-enabled waste data and analytics. It serves as a broad international comparable in the resource circulation technology space where CBA positions its Environmental Credit and resource recovery analytics offerings.
- NTT Data: NTT Data is a major Japanese IT services firm and the operator of the C-Turtle GHG accounting platform that CBA wellfest integrates with. While currently a partner, NTT Data's enterprise reach, ESG software portfolio, and distribution capabilities position it as a broad incumbent that could compete with or acquire CBA's compliance software capability.
- JFE Engineering: JFE Engineering is a major Japanese engineering and waste processing conglomerate offering waste-to-energy plants and recycling services. It overlaps with CBA as a large incumbent in the Japanese waste management ecosystem and could expand into SaaS-enabled waste data services leveraging its operational footprint.
- Dowa Holdings: Dowa Holdings is a Japanese environmental management and metals conglomerate with significant waste recycling, soil remediation, and resource circulation operations. It represents a potential broad incumbent competitor or partner for CBA in digitalizing industrial waste compliance.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
CBA social profiles
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CBA leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles4 records
CBA funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
CBA M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
Frequently asked questions about CBA
What does CBA do?
CBA operates a cloud-based waste management DX (Digital Transformation) platform called CBA wellfest that centralizes industrial, general, and valuable material waste management for waste-generating enterprises. The platform supports end-to-end manifest operations, contractor and license management, multi-site organizational control, compliance monitoring, waste flow visualization dashboards, and automated reporting for large-quantity waste generators. Adjacent services include Eco Data Compass waste assessment and Environmental Credit (環境与信) data analytics combining waste load data with corporate credit information for ESG evaluation.
Is CBA a public or private company?
CBA is a private company. It is classified as venture growth investor backed and is currently operating.
When was CBA founded?
CBA was founded in 2020. It employs 1 to 10 people.
Where is CBA based?
CBA is headquartered in Minami, Japan, in the Asia region.
How does CBA make money?
Three revenue lines are on record. CBA wellfest SaaS Subscription is the primary driver. The others are eco Data Compass Assessment Services and environmental Credit (環境与信) Data Services.
Who are CBA's main competitors?
Rubicon Technologies is listed as an emerging player. Direct peers are Koujisha, JEMS and Zero Corporation. Others are Terilogy and Riskmonster (Risk Monster). Broad incumbents are TOMRA, NTT Data, JFE Engineering and Dowa Holdings.
Does CBA have an API?
No public API is recorded for CBA.
What industry is CBA in?
CBA's product category is Waste Management Software. Its primary akta.pro industry code is EUAHABAC, Waste Management & Hazardous Waste Compliance (RCRA, Universal Waste, Waste Characterization/Manifests), with a secondary code of BPALAJAA, C&D Waste Collection & Hauling. Its NAICS code is 562 and its SIC code is 4953.