What TERAZ does

TERAZ is a privately held Japanese IT × HR solutions company founded in December 2020 and headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo. It operates three interconnected business lines under a single corporate entity (株式会社TERAZ): a Freelance Agent that matches registered engineers with remote development projects and contract engagements (commercialized under the brand Remoters Freelance), a Recruitment Agent (commercialized as カイタクエージェント / Kaitaku Agent) that supports career transitions through preference-led advisory rather than job-listing matching, and a System Engineering Service (SES) that dispatches engineers to client companies. The company holds the two Japanese regulatory permits required to legally operate these businesses: a Paid Employment Placement Business License (13-ユ-314125) and a Worker Dispatching Business License (派 13-317425).

The company's revenue model is transaction-fee-based across all three lines, with no publicly disclosed pricing. GTM is sales-led, combining a domestic website contact form with inside-sales career advisors who engage directly with both job seekers and client companies. Customer segments are split across three personas: freelance IT professionals seeking remote work (distributed nationally from Okinawa to Hokkaido but participating in Kanto-area projects), job seekers pursuing career transitions, and Japanese client companies requiring IT talent. Geographic scope is single-country domestic (Japan), and distribution is concentrated on a website contact channel and a note.com blog used for top-of-funnel content marketing.

TERAZ is founder-led by representative 今中 更 (Imatanaka Koh) with ¥10 million of registered capital, no disclosed institutional investors or external funding rounds, and no M&A activity to date. The company's stated competitive thesis is the synergy between its three businesses — networks and knowledge cultivated in one line reinforce the other two. Operational evidence of this thesis is limited: key growth metrics (revenue, employee count, client count, registered freelancer count) are rendered as zero placeholders on the company's own website, and no named customer logos, partnerships, awards, patents, or AI/ML capabilities have been disclosed in available sources.

Name

TERAZ

Legal name

株式会社TERAZ

Website

https://teraz.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Short description

TERAZ is a privately held Japanese IT × HR company operating three integrated businesses — a freelance engineer matching platform (Remoters Freelance), a preference-led career change service (Kaitaku Agent), and engineer dispatch (SES) — serving freelance IT professionals, job seekers, and client companies across Japan.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

IT Staffing and HR Services

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Temporary Help Services (561320)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Temp-to-Hire Staffing (BPACACAG)

Keywords

• IT staffing services
• Freelance agent matching
• Career change support
• System engineering services
• IT contract development

Headquarters

HQ city

Tokyo

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Freelance Agent (フリーランスエージェント): Matching freelance IT professionals with remote projects and contract development opportunities across Japan
2. Recruitment Agent (転職エージェント): Career advisory and job placement services for professionals seeking career transitions, focusing on minimizing mismatch between candidates and companies
3. SES (System Engineering Service): System engineering service providing IT talent to client companies

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

TERAZ is an IT × HR solutions company that operates three interconnected services: a freelance agent (Remoters Freelance) that matches registered freelance IT professionals with remote contract development projects across Japan; a recruitment agent (カイタクエージェント / Kaitaku Agent) that supports career transitions by verbalizing candidates' preferences and designing roles through direct dialogue with hiring companies; and an SES (System Engineering Service) that dispatches engineers to client companies under a worker-dispatch license.

Product overview

TERAZ operates as an IT × HR Solutions Engine offering three core business segments: Freelance Agent, Recruitment Agent, and System Engineering Service (SES). The company provides two main named service products: Remoters Freelance, a platform connecting freelance developers with remote development projects across Japan (from Okinawa to Hokkaido participating in Kanto-area projects), and カイタクエージェント (Kaitaku Agent), a career change support service that starts from job seeker preferences rather than existing listings. The synergy between these three business segments constitutes TERAZ's primary competitive strength, enabling the company to provide higher value to both clients and talent through the networks and knowledge cultivated across all three businesses.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Remoters Freelance: Freelance agent service connecting registered freelancers with remote development projects and client assignments, serving regions from Okinawa to Hokkaido.
• カイタクエージェント (Kaitaku Agent)

Products and services

• Remoters Freelance A freelance agent service that connects registered freelance IT professionals with remote development projects and client engagements, including TERAZ's own contract development work and partner-held remote-OK projects. Freelancers from Okinawa to Hokkaido participate remotely in predominantly Kanto-area projects.
• Kaitaku Agent (カイタクエージェント) A career-change support service that starts from the job seeker's preferences rather than existing job listings. A career advisor verbalizes the candidate's desired conditions and engages in direct dialogue with companies to design the role and expectations, with the goal of minimizing candidate–company mismatch.
• SES (System Engineering Service) System engineering service that dispatches skilled engineers to client companies under TERAZ's Worker Dispatch Business License (派 13-317425).
• System Contract Development / IT Consulting System contract development and IT consulting services delivered to client companies, executed in part through the Remoters Freelance talent pool.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• PE-BANK: Specialized IT SES and freelance engineer dispatch firm. Overlaps directly with TERAZ's SES and freelance agent offerings, providing IT engineers to client companies on a contract/dispatch basis.
• WillGroup (WIL, INTLOOP): Operates IT engineer dispatch/SES and staffing subsidiaries (WIL, INTLOOP) alongside broader HR services. Directly comparable to TERAZ's SES line and the staffing side of its recruitment agent offering.
• Career Design Center: Specialized recruitment (type-2 placement) agency focused on IT, engineering, and professional roles. Overlaps with TERAZ's recruitment agent in target candidates and end-employer served.
• Geekly (GEEKLY): IT engineer-focused freelance and permanent placement agency in Japan. Comparable to both TERAZ's Freelance Agent and Recruitment Agent businesses, with a similar focus on mid-career IT talent matching.
• TechReach: Freelance IT engineer matching platform connecting independent engineers with short- and long-term projects. Closely comparable to TERAZ's Remoters Freelance in target users and contractor-to-project matching model.
• Workport: IT and engineer-focused permanent placement agency. Comparable to TERAZ's Kaitaku Agent recruitment agent business, with a similar focus on specialist IT and engineering career transitions.
• Leverages (Midworks / ITPRO PARTNERS): Operates Midworks and ITPRO PARTNERS, the leading freelance IT engineer agent platforms in Japan. Directly competes with TERAZ's Remoters Freelance on matching IT freelancers with remote, contract, and dispatch projects.

Broad incumbents

• HiPro (Persol): Persol's freelance and mid-career professional matching service for IT, management, and specialist talent. A much larger incumbent version of TERAZ's freelance and recruitment agent concept, with broader industry coverage.
• Recruit Holdings (RGF Staffing / Indeed): Japan's largest HR services conglomerate spanning staffing, placement, and HR tech. Sets the competitive benchmark for scale and network effects that TERAZ aspires to build across its three synergetic businesses.

Emerging players

• Lancers: Operates a major Japanese freelance matching platform (Lancers) including tech and IT engineering verticals. Comparable to the marketplace/intake side of TERAZ's freelance agent, with lighter human-advisor involvement.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

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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