SIPT

Name

SIPT

Legal name

SIPT Global LLC

Website

https://siptglobal.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Japanese Craft Alcohol Import & Distribution

NAICS

Beer, Wine, and Liquor Retailers (44532)

SIC

Wholesale-Beer, Wine & Distilled Alcoholic Beverages (5180)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYAFAIAGAL

Beverage Import/Export & Cross-Border Wholesale

Agriculture & Food Production/Food Distribution & Wholesale/Beverage Wholesale (Alcoholic & Non-Alcoholic)

SECONDARYEDAAAGAH

Beverage & Mixology (Coffee, Tea, Wine, Cocktails)

Education/Adult & Continuing Education/Personal Enrichment & Hobby Learning (Arts, Crafts, Music, Cooking)

Keywords

• Japanese sake import
• Japanese shochu distribution
• Japanese whisky import
• Craft alcohol wholesale
• Traditional Japanese beverages

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Alcohol Import and Wholesale: SIPT Global generates revenue through importing, wholesaling, marketing, and educating about Japanese craft alcohol products. They serve as the exclusive or selective US importer for multiple Japanese breweries and distilleries.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

SIPT Global is an alcohol beverage importer, wholesaler, marketer, and educator that brings traditional Japanese craft alcohol products — sake, shochu, and whisky — from a curated portfolio of 23+ Japanese makers to the US market. The company sells through its own e-commerce storefront to consumers and via wholesale channels to restaurants, bars, and retailers, while educating buyers on the heritage and craftsmanship of each maker.

Product overview

SIPT Global is an alcohol beverage importer, wholesaler, marketer, and educator specializing in traditional Japanese craft alcohol products. They operate an e-commerce platform offering a curated portfolio of sake, shochu, and whisky from over 20 Japanese makers/breweries. The platform aggregates products across three main categories: Sake (rice wine from makers like Kozaemon, Sharaku, Yamagata Masamune, and others), Shochu (including Tenpai barley shochu, Nakamura and Asahi TIDA sweet potato/brown sugar shochu, and Fujii/Taimei barley shochu), and Whisky (including Ikawa Single Malt Dessin Series and Asahi Awakening of Spirit cask-aged expressions). The product lineup ranges from everyday drinking sakes to ultra-premium limited releases, with offerings from established prefectures across Japan.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sake Japanese rice wine offerings from multiple makers including Abekan, Aizu Otokoyama, Azumatsuru, Fukuda, Hiroki, Ishizuchi, Kamikawa Taisetsu, Kitajima, Kuncho, Matsuzaki, Mitobe, Miyaizumi, Nakashima, Seto, Shirasugi, Tomono, and Yamawa. Sold via the SIPT Global e-commerce storefront to US consumers and wholesale buyers.
• Shochu
• Whisky
• Yamawa Sake Line
• Tomono Sake Line
• Tenpai Shochu Line
• Ikawa Single Malt Dessin Series Flora 2024 Single Malt Japanese Whisky from Ikawa Distillery, the first expression in the Dessin series, featuring non-peated bourbon barrel-aged whisky with label artwork inspired by the flora of the Southern Alps. ABV 53%, 700 ML.
• Ikawa Single Malt Dessin Series Fauna 2025 Second release in the Fauna series — a medium-peated Single Malt Japanese Whisky from Ikawa Distillery blending two peated malts (50ppm and 30ppm) with the distillery's signature non-peated bourbon barrel malt. Features animal-inspired label artwork.
• Asahi Awakening of Spirit Cask Series

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Tippsy: Tippsy is a DTC-focused online sake retailer offering curated Japanese sake to US consumers with educational content. It is the closest direct peer to SIPT, competing for the same craft-sake DTC customer with a similar curation-and-education model.
• True Sake: True Sake is a San Francisco-based sake-only retailer and wholesaler founded by a sake specialist. It shares SIPT's specialist importer-retailer model and competes for the same Japanese beverage enthusiasts and on-premise accounts in the US.
• Caskers: Caskers is a US online retailer specializing in premium and craft spirits sold directly to consumers. It competes for the same premium-spirits DTC customer as SIPT's whisky and aged shochu offerings.
• Wine of Japan: Wine of Japan (and affiliated brands like Japan Premium Beverage) is a US importer and online seller of Japanese sake, shochu, and whisky. It directly competes with SIPT across the same product categories and on the same DTC channel.
• Flaviar: Flaviar is a spirits subscription and e-commerce platform that sells curated tasting sets and bottles with strong educational content. It is a direct peer to SIPT in the education-led craft spirits DTC model, though broader than Japanese-only.
• Dekanta: Dekanta is a US-based online retailer of Japanese whisky and spirits, shipping curated Japanese bottles directly to consumers and collectors. It overlaps with SIPT's whisky and shochu assortment and targets the same premium Japanese-spirits enthusiast segment.

Broad incumbents

• JFC International: JFC International is a major US importer and distributor of Japanese and Asian food and beverages, including sake and shochu. It competes with SIPT at the wholesale level but with significantly broader scale and established retail relationships.
• Mutual Trading Company: Mutual Trading is one of the largest US distributors of Japanese food and beverages, including sake, shochu, and Japanese beer. As a broad incumbent, it competes with SIPT for wholesale and on-premise accounts but with a much larger portfolio and nationwide logistics footprint.

Regional players

• Sake Social: Sake Social is an Asia-based (primarily Singapore/Hong Kong) online sake retailer serving Asian markets. It is comparable to SIPT in curated sake DTC but operates regionally rather than in the US market.

Emerging players

• ReserveBar: ReserveBar is a US online premium-spirits marketplace that connects consumers with curated bottles from retailers and brands. It is comparable to SIPT as a premium-spirits DTC channel but operates as a marketplace rather than a single importer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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