Tricycle
Tricycle Co., Ltd. builds digital infrastructure for Japan's circular economy, operating ReSACO, a B2B marketplace for matching corporate surplus assets with buyers and recyclers, and EcoDraft with CloudSign, an electronic contract service specialized for the industrial waste and demolition industries.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2018
- HeadquartersTokyo, Japan
- Headcount—
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What Tricycle does
Tricycle Co., Ltd. (トライシクル株式会社), founded in May 2018 and headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo, is a Japanese technology company building digital infrastructure for the circular economy, with a focus on the waste, recycling, and demolition industries. The company operates two core products: ReSACO, a B2B circular economy marketplace that matches enterprises disposing of surplus assets with buyers, recyclers, or waste processors and applies AI-based pricing and sales-channel recommendations; and EcoDraft with CloudSign, an electronic contract service specialized for industrial waste and construction demolition workflows, delivered via API integration with Lawyer.com's CloudSign (Japan's leading e-signature platform). Supporting product lines include jointly developed electronic metal recycling receipts (with the Japan Iron Recycling Industry Association), demolition work contracts, and disposal completion certificates.
Tricycle monetizes through subscription-based contracts for EcoDraft (with over 300 client companies and 40,000+ annual transactions as of end-2025), marketplace commissions on ReSACO transactions, and direct purchasing and resale of surplus assets. Distribution combines self-serve web platforms (resaco.id, ecodraft.id) with institutional channels via partnerships with Toyota Tsusho, FGL Circular Network, Asuene, JEMS, the Japan Iron Recycling Industry Association, EfRabo, Yamori, and Koala Sleep Japan. The company holds a Tokyo second-hand dealer permit and ISMS/ISMS Cloud Security certifications, and operates as the technology solutions arm of the Cyclers Group.
Tricycle firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Tricycle
- Legal name
- トライシクル株式会社 (Tricycle Co., Ltd.)
- Website
- https://tricycle-ce.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2018
- Operating status
- Operating
- Short description
- Tricycle Co., Ltd. builds digital infrastructure for Japan's circular economy, operating ReSACO, a B2B marketplace for matching corporate surplus assets with buyers and recyclers, and EcoDraft with CloudSign, an electronic contract service specialized for the industrial waste and demolition industries.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Where Tricycle is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Tokyo
- HQ country
- Japan
- HQ region
- Asia
Offices1 record
Markets served
Tricycle business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- ReSACO Platform Transaction Fees: B2B marketplace commission from matching companies that want to sell surplus assets with buyers. The platform takes a transaction fee for facilitating the reuse matching between enterprises.
- EcoDraft Electronic Contract Service Subscription: Subscription-based electronic contract service for waste and demolition industry. Contract value surpassed 300 companies with over 40,000 annual usage transactions by end of 2025. Revenue generated from contract creation and management fees.
- Purchasing and Resale Business: Direct purchasing of surplus assets and secondhand goods, then reselling through online sales and B2B transaction platforms including used goods auctions.
- B2B Flea Market App (ReSACO): Operating a B2B flea market application for inter-company reuse transactions, generating revenue from listing fees and premium services.
Go-to-market motion4 records
Distribution channels5 records
Marketing channels6 records
Tricycle product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Tricycle develops and operates B2B digital platforms that enable circular economy transactions between enterprises. Its primary offerings are ReSACO, a B2B marketplace platform with AI-based matching and pricing for corporate surplus assets, and EcoDraft with CloudSign, an electronic contract service specialized for the industrial waste and construction demolition industries. The company also runs a direct purchasing and resale business for secondhand goods.
Product overview
Tricycle operates a dual-core product strategy centered on circular economy technology solutions: ReSACO (world's first B2B circular economy platform) handles asset matching and waste optimization, while EcoDraft with CloudSign provides electronic contract services for the waste/debris industry. Both products are interconnected as part of the company's cascade reuse approach, with ReSACO facilitating the actual reuse/disposal transactions and EcoDraft managing the contractual documentation. Additional offerings include specialized document types like disposal completion certificates, demolition work contracts, and jointly developed metal recycling receipts.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- ReSACO（リサコ）: 世界初B2B不用品回収・リユース品販売プラットフォーム。企業の使わなくなったモノを最適な方法と価格で売り、必要な企業に提供するマッチング機能と、資源リサイクル＆廃棄物処理を効率化する機能を持つサーキュラー・エコノミー対応プラットフォームアプリ。
- EcoDraft with クラウドサイン
Products and services
- ReSACO (リサコ) B2B circular economy platform that matches companies disposing of unused corporate assets with buyers, recyclers, or waste processors needing those assets. Uses AI to recommend optimal pricing and sales channels and to optimize resource recycling and waste processing. Targets enterprises with surplus assets across industries.
- EcoDraft with CloudSign (エコドラフトwithクラウドサイン) Electronic contract service specialized for industrial waste and construction demolition industries. Uses CloudSign by Lawyer.com as the signing platform with API integration, providing industry-specific templates (industrial waste consignment contracts, construction waste contracts, demolition work contracts, disposal completion certificates) for seamless contract creation and execution.
- Metal Recycling Receipt Electronic Version (金属リサイクル伝票電子版) Electronic version of metal recycling receipts jointly developed with the Japan Iron Recycling Industry Association, enabling digital management and documentation of metal scrap transactions for industry member companies.
- Purchasing and Resale of Secondhand Goods Direct purchasing of surplus corporate assets and secondhand goods, then reselling through online sales and B2B transaction platforms including used goods auctions. Operated as part of Tricycle's circular economy business.
Quantifiable outcome
- Over 300 companies adopted EcoDraft by end of 2025
- +3 more outcomes
Companies that use Tricycle
Customer profileNamed customers4 records
Segments3 records
Ideal customer profiles3 records
Tricycle technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- Yes
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration2 records
AI capability2 records
Feature4 records
Tricycle partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.
- Yamori Co., Ltd. (株式会社ヤモリ)coreBusiness partnership for promoting resource-circulating vacant house utilization through vacant house regeneration combined with circular economy. Tricycle will utilize ReSACO to provide recycled goods to landlords involved in Yamori's vacancy regeneration projects. Tricycle will also handle leftover item removal, used goods collection, remodeling, metal purchasing/disposal, and reuseable item sorting and collection to streamline initial vacant house regeneration processes.
- Toyota Tsusho Corporation (豊田通商株式会社)coreBusiness partnership for realizing circular economy through expansion of reuse business. Using ReSACO platform to expand B2B reuse business and jointly develop new circular business models. Toyota Tsusho aims to be a leading circular economy provider, and the partnership will help expand the inter-company reuse market, circulating diverse values including products, parts, and recycled materials back to domestic and international companies and markets.
- FGL Circular Network (株式会社FGLサーキュラー・ネットワーク)corePilot program using ReSACO platform for promoting inter-company reuse and implementing circular economy. Demonstrated effectiveness of the platform for connecting companies with surplus assets to those needing them. Full-scale operation started November 2025. Partnership aims to solve challenges in inter-company reuse and maximize residual value of unused items while reducing industrial waste.
- Japan Iron Recycling Association (、一般社団法人日本鉄リサイクル工業会)majorCo-development of electronic version of metal recycling slips. Service launched July 1, 2025 for association member companies. Aims to promote DX in the metal recycling industry through digital documentation.
- Koala Sleep Japan Co., Ltd. (コアラスリープジャパン株式会社)majorUpcycling partnership creating Koala Pet Bed KUDDLE from returned mattresses. Tricycle collects and disassembles returned mattresses, which are processed by Karbow into recycled urethane mats. Products sold through Koala's official website and ReSACO marketplace. Also includes certified reuse pillow sales through ReSACO.
- Nikkan Business Press (日報ビジネス株式会社)minorOrganizer of New Environment Expo where Tricycle exhibits to showcase EcoDraft and ReSACO to industry professionals. Trade show provides marketing and customer acquisition channel.
- EfRabo Co., Ltd. (株式会社エフラボ)majorPartnership MOU signed to explore service collaboration. EfRabo provides remake furniture brand enloop. Joint initiatives include furniture remake events combining EfRabo's design expertise with Tricycle's resource circulation capabilities.
- Asuene Co., Ltd. (アスエネ株式会社)coreStrategic partnership MOU for promoting corporate decarbonization management and circular economy. Leveraging each company's strengths to support corporate decarbonization and circular economy initiatives, and raise awareness of sustainability efforts. Featured in GX League (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) news as a collaboration example.
- JEMS Co., Ltd. (株式会社ＪＥＭＳ)majorSystem integration partnership between EcoDraft with CloudSign and JEMS's Kemono将军R environmental management system. Enables seamless data flow between contract management and environmental reporting systems for waste industry customers.
- CloudSign by Lawyer.com (弁護士ドットコム)coreEcoDraft uses CloudSign (Japan's No.1 electronic contract service by Lawyer.com) as the signing platform. API integration enables seamless contract creation in EcoDraft and electronic signing through CloudSign. Leverages CloudSign's market leadership, legal compliance, and established user base.
Scale indicators4 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights6 records
Tricycle competitors and assessment
Company assessmentEmerging players
- freee: freee is a major Japanese cloud accounting and HR SaaS provider that has expanded into electronic contracts (freeeサイン). While freee does not focus specifically on the waste industry, its bundled SaaS contracts offering is an emerging alternative for small and mid-market customers Tricycle targets with EcoDraft.
- Asuene (アズエネ株式会社): Asuene is a Japanese decarbonization and CO2 visualization SaaS provider that has an MOU with Tricycle on corporate decarbonization and circular economy. It is an emerging sustainability-software peer addressing the same enterprise sustainability buyer and often referenced alongside ReSACO in joint corporate ESG initiatives.
Broad incumbents
- DocuSign: DocuSign is the global leader in electronic signature and contract management. It is a broad-incumbent reference comparable to CloudSign and represents the strategic ceiling for the e-contracting layer that EcoDraft specializes on top of, including for multinational waste-industry enterprises.
- Sansan: Sansan is an established Japanese business-to-business SaaS incumbent covering contact management, contracts (Sansan Contracts), and broader digital business workflows. Its contracts and broader digitalization suite overlaps with EcoDraft's domain at the enterprise layer, while its scale and brand make it a broader-incumbent competitor.
- Mercari: Mercari is Japan's largest C2C resale marketplace. While Tricycle operates B2B reuse rather than C2C, Mercari is the obvious broad-incumbent reference point for resale/recommerce platform mechanics, network effects, and transaction-fee monetization that apply to ReSACO's B2B marketplace model.
Others
- Toyota Tsusho: Toyota Tsusho is a major Japanese trading house and Tricycle's December 2025 strategic partner for circular economy expansion. While not a direct software competitor, Toyota Tsusho's broader reuse and recycling trading business is a comparable ecosystem participant and a key GTM channel for ReSACO.
Direct peers
- CloudSign (Lawyer.com / 弁護士ドットコム): Japan's #1 electronic contract platform operated by 弁護士ドットコム. Tricycle's EcoDraft is built directly on CloudSign via API and is essentially a vertical specialization layer on top of CloudSign's signing infrastructure, making CloudSign both a critical partner and the most direct upstream comparable.
- GMO GlobalSign (GMOサイン): GMO GlobalSign's GMOサイン is one of Japan's leading electronic contract SaaS platforms competing head-to-head with CloudSign. It represents a direct comparable in horizontal e-contracting that EcoDraft must position against for enterprise waste-industry deals.
- JEMS (株式会社JEMS): JEMS provides 環境将軍R (Kankyo Shogun R), an environmental management system for the waste industry, and is a direct EcoDraft integration partner. As a competing vendor of waste-industry software infrastructure, JEMS represents a direct vertical peer where Tricycle competes for the same contractor and hauler wallet.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
Tricycle social profiles
Digital presenceTricycle compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance1 record
Tricycle financial estimates
Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
Tricycle leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles3 records
Tricycle funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
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Tricycle M&A and investment
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Investments
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Frequently asked questions about Tricycle
What does Tricycle do?
Tricycle develops and operates B2B digital platforms that enable circular economy transactions between enterprises. Its primary offerings are ReSACO, a B2B marketplace platform with AI-based matching and pricing for corporate surplus assets, and EcoDraft with CloudSign, an electronic contract service specialized for the industrial waste and construction demolition industries. The company also runs a direct purchasing and resale business for secondhand goods.
Is Tricycle a public or private company?
Tricycle is a private company. It is classified as corporate owned and is currently operating.
When was Tricycle founded?
Tricycle was founded in 2018.
Where is Tricycle based?
Tricycle is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, in the Asia region.
How does Tricycle make money?
Four revenue lines are on record. ReSACO Platform Transaction Fees are the primary driver. The others are ecoDraft Electronic Contract Service Subscription, purchasing and Resale Business and B2B Flea Market App (ReSACO).
Who are Tricycle's main competitors?
Emerging players on record are freee and Asuene (アズエネ株式会社). Broad incumbents are DocuSign, Sansan and Mercari. Toyota Tsusho is listed as an others. Direct peers are CloudSign (Lawyer.com / 弁護士ドットコム), GMO GlobalSign (GMOサイン) and JEMS (株式会社JEMS).
Does Tricycle have an API?
Yes. EcoDraft with CloudSign features API integration that allows created electronic contracts to be seamlessly processed through to agreement and signing. The API enables electronic contract creation for the waste/debris industry, specifically for industrial waste and construction waste consignment contracts. Developer documentation is at No Information.