Standby

What Standby does

Standby (スタンバイ) is a Japan-based job search aggregation platform headquartered in Tokyo, founded in 2019 and operating as a private company with 101-250 employees. The platform consolidates job listings from multiple sources across Japan into a single searchable interface, allowing job seekers to filter positions by prefecture, station, employment type, salary band, and working conditions. Distribution is nationwide across all 47 Japanese prefectures, delivered via a web product plus native iOS and Android applications, and supported by SEO-heavy prefecture- and station-level landing pages.

The product surface includes the core Standby search platform plus Stanby Plus (スタンバイplus), a companion career content magazine offering job search advice, industry guides, and career development content. The business operates a two-sided model: individual job seekers use the platform free of charge, while employers and recruiting agencies pay to post listings, making the company a transactional B2B/B2C hybrid rather than a subscription SaaS.

Go-to-market appears to lean heavily on organic SEO across Japanese prefecture- and station-level queries, with mobile apps broadening acquisition surfaces. There is no disclosed parent company, funding history, institutional investor, or revenue figure in the available data, which limits visibility into unit economics, capitalization, and corporate control.

Name

Standby

Legal name

Stanby Inc.

Website

https://jp.stanby.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Standby is a Japan-based job search aggregation platform consolidating listings from multiple sources across all 47 prefectures into a single searchable interface, serving job seekers free of charge and monetizing via employer-paid job postings.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Job Search & Recruitment Platform

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Employment Services (5613)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Job Placement, Matching & Career Navigation Services (EDAAAOAL)

Keywords

• Job search engine
• Job listing aggregation
• Recruitment platform
• Online job board
• Employment search

Headquarters

HQ city

Tokyo

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Job Listing Fees from Employers: Monetization from companies and employers who post job listings on the platform to reach job seekers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Standby operates a job search aggregation platform that consolidates listings from multiple sources across Japan, allowing job seekers to search by area, station, job type, employment status, salary, and work preferences. The service is free for job seekers and accessible via web and dedicated iOS/Android apps; employers and recruiting companies pay to post job listings and reach the platform's candidate pool.

Product overview

スタンバイ (Stanby) operates as a unified job search aggregation platform that consolidates job listings from multiple sources across Japan. The core platform offers comprehensive search functionality by area, station, job type, employment status, salary, and preferred work conditions. Within the platform, Stanby Plus serves as an integrated content module providing career advice articles and industry insights. Users can access the service via desktop, mobile web, and dedicated iOS/Android applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Stanby (スタンバイ) A unified job search aggregation platform that consolidates job listings from multiple sources across Japan, allowing individual job seekers to search by location, station, job type, employment status, salary, and preferred work conditions. Accessible via desktop, mobile web, and dedicated iOS and Android applications.
• Stanby Plus (スタンバイplus) An online media and content magazine integrated within Stanby that publishes career advice, industry guides, and job-searching tips targeted at Japanese job seekers.

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

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Wantedly: Wantedly is a Japanese job-matching platform focused on tech, startup, and creative roles, combining job listings with company culture content. Comparable in operating in Japan with a content-driven job-board model, though it is more vertical-focused than Standby's horizontal coverage.
• Baitoru (バイトル): Baitoru is a major Japanese part-time and temporary job board targeting similar job-seeker demographics and employer customers. Comparable in horizontal coverage of part-time and 派遣 roles with nationwide Japanese distribution.
• Townwork (タウンワーク): Townwork, also under Recruit, is Japan's dominant part-time and hourly job board with nationwide distribution. Direct competitor for the part-time/派遣 job-seeker segment and employer listing fees that Standby also targets.
• Rikunabi (リクナビ): Rikunabi, operated by Recruit, is Japan's leading new-graduate job-board platform with nationwide employer coverage. Direct competitor for job-seeker traffic and employer paid listings in Japan, particularly in the graduate recruitment segment.
• En Japan (エンジャパン): En Japan operates multiple job-board brands (エン転職, エン派遣) across mid-career, temporary, and new-graduate recruitment in Japan. Direct competitor for employer recruitment spend and job-seeker traffic across overlapping employment types.
• Mynavi (マイナビ): Mynavi is one of Japan's largest job-board and recruitment-media operators, serving new graduates and mid-career job seekers across the same prefectures and job categories as Standby. Direct competitor for employer listing fees and job-seeker traffic in the Japanese market.

Broad incumbents

• Indeed Japan (Recruit): Indeed is the global leader in job search aggregation, owned by Recruit Holdings, and operates the largest job-listing aggregator in Japan. Highly comparable in aggregation model, employer monetization, and consumer traffic acquisition, though it operates at vastly larger scale and as part of a broader HR/SaaS portfolio.
• LinkedIn Japan: LinkedIn operates in Japan as a professional network and job-listing platform, particularly strong in mid-career and professional roles. Comparable in serving both job seekers and paying employers with a content-and-connection layer, though focused on white-collar segments.
• Google for Jobs: Google for Jobs aggregates listings from employer career pages and third-party boards directly in Google search results, competing with Standby for job-seeker query traffic. Broad incumbent that threatens aggregator models by inserting job listings into general web search.

Regional players

• Yahoo! Japan (リクルート連携): Yahoo! Japan powers job search through partnerships with Recruit's job-board network, providing another major distribution channel for job listings in Japan. Comparable as a Japan-only aggregator/distribution channel that competes for job-seeker query traffic.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/stanby_com

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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