What 株式会社GEEKLY（ギークリー） does

Geekly, Inc. (株式会社ギークリー) is a Japan-based, IT-specialized recruitment agency founded in August 2011 and headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo. The company operates a contingency placement model under which job seekers register for free and corporate clients pay a placement fee upon successful hire. Its operational core is a sales-led, advisor-driven matching service: 100+ career advisors (CA) serve job seekers through one-on-one consultation, while 50+ recruiting advisors (RA) organized by industry vertical serve corporate clients. The platform lists 37,083+ active IT/Web/Game jobs at time of data collection, spanning engineering, data, web, game, sales, and marketing roles across all 47 Japanese prefectures, with concentration in Kanto (29,976 listings) and Kansai (6,838 listings).

The company maintains a proprietary technology stack consisting of an online job-search platform, an AI-assisted resume/CV auto-generation tool, free diagnostic content (job-type, income, career-path, and IT-job-quest quizzes), a candidate progress-management portal, and two owned-media properties — Geekly Media (2,000+ articles on IT careers and industry trends) and Geekly Review (IT company reviews and selection-process information). Together these assets form an integrated content-to-conversion funnel. Geekly is not an AI-native firm: its claimed 3x industry-average performance is attributed to a 'systematic matching framework' built on 14 years of placement data rather than to disclosed proprietary AI models.

Geekly earns revenue almost entirely from contingency placement fees paid by corporate clients on successful hires; the service is free for job seekers. Named enterprise clients include CyberAgent, DMM.com, Cygames, MIXI, DeNA, ZOZO, CAPCOM, GMO Internet Group, SBI Holdings, SEGA, Japan Post, Seven Bank, Tokyu, Kyocera, Nitori, Konica Minolta, and Nisshin Foods Holdings — spanning native IT/Web/Game firms and non-IT enterprises pursuing DX hires. As of February 27, 2026 the company is publicly listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard Market (securities code 505A) and operates four Shibuya offices plus an Osaka office opened in November 2023, with total headcount exceeding 400.

Name

株式会社GEEKLY（ギークリー）

Legal name

株式会社ギークリー

Website

https://geekly.co.jp

Company type

Public

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Geekly, Inc. is a Japan-based, IT/Web/Game-specialized recruitment agency that places engineers and digital talent with enterprise clients on a contingency fee basis, serving both native tech firms and traditional companies pursuing DX hires via 100+ specialized career advisors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Shibuya, Tokyo

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Fee-based Placement Service (人材紹介サービス): The company charges placement fees to corporate clients (求人企業) when a candidate successfully secures employment. The service is provided free of charge to job seekers (求職者). This is a standard contingency recruitment model where the fee is contingent on successful placement.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

GEEKLY operates an IT/Web/Game industry-specialized recruitment agency that matches IT professionals, engineers, and creatives with hiring companies. The company places candidates in roles such as engineers, designers, directors, marketers, and consultants, with placement fees paid by corporate clients and services offered free of charge to job seekers. It also operates supporting media properties (Geekly Media and Geekly Review) that provide industry information and company reviews to attract both candidates and clients.

Product overview

Geekly is an IT recruitment agency specializing in IT, Web, and Game industries. The core offering is Geekly (ギークリー), a job placement service that matches IT professionals with client companies. The portfolio includes two supporting digital properties: Geekly Media (ギークリーメディア), an owned media site publishing career advice and industry trend articles, and Geekly Review (ギークリーレビュー), a company review and rating platform for IT employers. These three services together create a job-seeker journey from informational content consumption through to placement.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Geekly Media (ギークリーメディア): Owned media platform providing IT/Web/Game industry news, career advice, and recruitment-related content.
• Geekly Review (ギークリーレビュー)

Products and services

• GEEKLY Recruitment Service (ギークリー 転職エージェント)

Quantifiable outcome

• 90% post-placement success rate (入社後活躍率)
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers17 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Geekly Media (Internal Content Platform)coreOthers · 1 November 2023Proprietary owned-media content platform publishing IT industry news, career advice, and job hunting tips. Over 2,000 articles as of 2025. Drives organic candidate acquisition and SEO performance.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• LinkedIn: Global professional network and recruitment platform owned by Microsoft. Competes broadly for the same IT professional audience and enterprise recruitment budgets, though as part of a much larger professional networking and SaaS portfolio.
• Recruit Holdings: Japan's largest HR services group, operating Indeed, Rikunabi, and multiple staffing brands. Overlaps with Geekly in IT and mid-career placement but operates a vastly broader portfolio across general recruitment, education, and HR tech.
• Indeed: Global job search engine and recruitment marketplace operated by Recruit. Provides self-serve candidate sourcing for the same IT/Web/Game roles Geekly places, often competing on enterprise recruitment budgets at a much larger scale.
• Persol Holdings: Major Japanese staffing and HR services group with significant IT engineer staffing (Persol Tech) operations. Overlaps with Geekly in IT talent placement but covers broad clerical, technical, and temporary staffing as well.
• Mynavi: One of Japan's largest HR/advertising groups with deep placement operations for new graduates and mid-career professionals across IT and other industries. A broad incumbent whose IT recruitment offerings overlap with Geekly's market.

Emerging players

• CareerCross: Bilingual and high-end professional recruitment platform in Japan with overlap in serving experienced IT and digital talent. Smaller and more niche than Geekly, focused on bilingual and cross-border professional placements.

Direct peers

• Lever: Tech-focused ATS and recruitment platform serving similar enterprise technology hiring managers. Comparable in its emphasis on tech-talent workflows, though primarily a SaaS platform rather than contingency agency.
• Wantedly: Japanese tech/startup-focused recruitment platform with a similar dual-sided candidate/employer model and owned-media content approach. Targets overlapping IT/Web professionals and venture-backed employers with a freemium SaaS-plus-recruitment offering.
• BizReach: Japanese high-end and IT recruitment platform operator, also recognized at the BIZREACH JAPAN HEADHUNTER AWARDS. Directly competes with Geekly in serving experienced IT talent and enterprise hiring managers via a direct recruitment marketplace model.
• Green: Japanese IT/Web recruitment specialist with a comparable candidate-job marketplace and event-based candidate acquisition. Direct competitor in the same IT/Web/Game niche with similar specialization-led value proposition.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/-geekly-

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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