Mogura

What Mogura does

Mogura Inc. (株式会社もぐら) is a Japanese private cloud SaaS company founded in March 2007 and headquartered in Higashimikuni, Yodogawa-ku, Osaka. The company operates two distinct subscription products targeting Japanese small and mid-sized businesses. Maysee (メイシー), launched in 2008, is a business card management cloud service that digitizes physical business cards through contracted human staff rather than OCR, enabling organizations to store, share, and act on contact data via smartphone and PC applications. Getsugaku Panda (月額パンダ), launched in 2015, is an automated recurring payment collection system that handles monthly or annual billing via both credit card and bank transfer (口座振替) with zero initial cost and free months of inactivity, targeting organizations collecting membership fees, subscriptions, and periodic dues.

The underlying technology stack is a cloud-based SaaS platform with payment processing delegated entirely to third-party gateways (Zeus, Stripe Japan, GMO Epsilon); Mogura does not store cardholder data in-house. The company is founder-controlled, with Kobayashi Nobuyasu serving as Representative Director and CEO and Arai Shunichi as Board Director and CTO (recognized as a "genius programmer" by Japan's IPA in 2002). The company has held Privacy Mark certification (JIS Q 15001) since August 2013, with the current validity period running August 2025 to August 2027, and is registered as a telecommunications operator.

Mogura's business model is product-led growth and self-service: customers sign up directly through the maysee.jp and getsugaku-panda.jp websites with no field sales or reseller layer. Both products monetize via recurring subscription fees, and the operating geography is exclusively Japan. The company publishes annual financial statements (決算公告) for fiscal years ending in February, but no revenue, headcount, funding, or external investor information is disclosed.

Name

Mogura

Legal name

株式会社もぐら

Website

https://mogura.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Mogura Inc. is a Japanese Osaka-based cloud SaaS company operating Maysee, a human-powered business card management service, and Getsugaku Panda, an automated recurring payment collection system, serving Japanese SMBs via self-service subscription plans.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Osaka

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. Maysee Subscription: Subscription-based business card management service. Users pay to use the cloud-based business card management platform for digitizing, managing, and sharing business cards within their organization.
2. Monthly Panda Subscription: Subscription-based automatic payment collection service. Monthly or annual subscription for automated payment collection via credit card or bank transfer, with 0 initial cost and free months when not used.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Mogura operates two cloud-based SaaS subscriptions for Japanese businesses. Maysee is a business card management service in which contracted staff manually digitize physical cards so that contacts can be managed, shared internally, and accessed from smartphone or PC. Getsugaku Panda is an automated recurring payment collection system that handles both credit card and bank transfer debits through a single management interface for membership fees, subscriptions, and periodic purchases.

Product overview

Mogura operates two distinct cloud-based SaaS products targeting different business needs: メイシー (Maysee) is a business card management service launched in 2008 that uses human-powered data entry to digitize physical business cards, enabling easy management and team sharing; 月額パンダ (Gessougaku Panda) is an automatic payment collection system launched in 2015 that handles recurring billing via credit card and bank transfer for membership fees and subscription services. Both products are offered as separate cloud services under the Mogura parent company.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• メイシー (Maysee): Business card management cloud service - manually converts business cards to digital data with smartphone/PC access and team sharing capabilities
• 月額パンダ (Getsugaku Panda)

Products and services

• Maysee (メイシー) Cloud-based business card management service for Japanese businesses; contracted Mogura staff manually digitize cards sent in by customers, and users manage, search, and share the resulting contacts via smartphone or PC, including use while traveling abroad. Includes in-app calling, email, and map integration for contact locations.
• Getsugaku Panda (月額パンダ) Cloud-based automated recurring payment collection service for Japanese organizations collecting membership fees, subscription fees, and periodic purchases; supports both credit card and bank transfer (口座振替) debits in a single management screen and uses third-party payment processors (Zeus, Stripe Japan, GMO Epsilon) for card handling.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered supporting.

• 株式会社ゼウス (Zeus Co., Ltd.)supportingTechnology or IntegrationPayment processing partner for credit card transactions. Provides payment gateway services for Maysee subscription fees and Monthly Panda merchant/user payments. Handles credit card information processing on behalf of Mogura.
• 株式会社Stripe (Stripe Japan)supportingTechnology or IntegrationPayment processing partner for credit card transactions. Enables online payment collection for both Maysee and Monthly Panda services.
• 株式会社ＧＭＯイプシロン (GMO Epsilon)supportingTechnology or IntegrationPayment processing partner providing credit card payment gateway services for Mogura's subscription services.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Zuora: Zuora is a global subscription billing and revenue management platform serving enterprise recurring-revenue businesses. It is an adjacent incumbent that competes for the same subscription-billing wallet share as Getsugaku Panda, but at the enterprise tier rather than Japanese SMB.

Others

• Stripe Billing: Stripe is both a payment-infrastructure partner to Mogura (via Stripe Japan) and a competitor through Stripe Billing, which offers recurring billing and subscription management for global SMB merchants. This dual relationship makes Stripe an ecosystem participant with overlapping capability.

Emerging players

• Chargebee: Chargebee is a subscription billing and revenue management platform serving SaaS and subscription merchants globally. It targets a similar recurring-billing workload as Getsugaku Panda, including Japanese customers, but with a more feature-rich, SaaS-first positioning.

Direct peers

• Veritrans (DG Financial Technology): Veritrans, now part of DG Financial Technology, provides Japanese online and recurring payment processing across card and account-debit rails. It overlaps with Getsugaku Panda's recurring-billing and reconciliation positioning for Japanese merchants.
• Eight (Sansan): Eight is Sansan's consumer/small-business business-card scanning app, also offering contact sharing and team features. It overlaps with Maysee's value proposition for individual professionals and very small teams in Japan.
• Sansan: Sansan is the dominant Japanese business-card digitization platform using AI/OCR at scale, directly competing with Mogura's Maysee for Japanese SMB and enterprise customers. It is the clearest head-to-head competitor for Mogura's flagship product.
• CAMCARD (ABBYY): CAMCARD by ABBYY is a global business-card scanning and contact management app with OCR-based digitization. While globally distributed rather than Japan-only, it targets the same business-card management use case as Maysee.
• GMO Payment Gateway: GMO Payment Gateway is a leading Japanese online payment processor offering credit card and recurring billing services. It competes with Getsugaku Panda while also serving as one of Mogura's payment partners, making it both a competitor and ecosystem participant.
• ROBOT PAYMENT: ROBOT PAYMENT provides Japanese recurring billing, subscription collection, and payment-processing infrastructure targeting SMBs. It is a direct competitor to Mogura's Getsugaku Panda for Japanese subscription and membership-fee merchants.
• Pay.JP: Pay.JP is a Japanese online payment service offering card and recurring billing APIs targeting developers and SMBs. It competes directly with Getsugaku Panda's credit-card recurring collection use cases for Japanese subscription merchants.

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

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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