What NAGARA does

NAGARA Co., Ltd. is a Japanese AI-SaaS startup that develops voice-based AI solutions to automate documentation and record-keeping in caregiving environments. Founded in 2025 and headquartered in Nagoya, the company operates with a small team of 1-10 employees and a private, founder-led ownership structure. Its single core product, "ながらかいご (Nagara Kaigo)," is an AI-powered nursing care record application that uses voice input to allow care workers to create care records through spoken language, with the stated aim of eliminating manual administrative paperwork in nursing care settings.

The underlying technology combines speech-to-text capability with a vertical-specific application layer tailored to Japanese nursing care workflows, including the terminology, structure, and compliance requirements of care documentation. The product is sold as a subscription-based SaaS to nursing care facilities, and distribution is currently driven through event-led, top-of-funnel engagement — most notably the Gogin Fest 2026 pitch contest win in Japan's San'in region, organized by San'in Godo Bank with Skyland Ventures as a partner.

Commercially, NAGARA is at an early stage: total disclosed funding is approximately $201,367 from a May 2026 round involving Aichi Bank, Aichi Shinkin Bank, and Japan Finance Corporation. No revenue, paying customer logos, pricing, or traction metrics are publicly disclosed. Strategic activities to date have focused on ecosystem positioning through regional bank partnerships and a startup pitch competition, with the product itself being the primary asset.

Name

NAGARA

Legal name

NAGARA Co., Ltd.

Website

https://nagarainc.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

NAGARA Co., Ltd. is a Japanese AI-SaaS startup that offers "Nagara Kaigo," a voice-input nursing care record application enabling care workers to document records hands-free, targeting nursing care facilities in Japan.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Documentation Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Patient Intake, Digital Registration & eForms (HLACAEAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Virtual Nursing, Telemonitoring & Command Center Platforms (HLACAFAH)

Keywords

• AI voice documentation
• Nursing care software
• Healthcare SaaS
• Voice input AI
• Care record management

Headquarters

HQ city

Nagoya

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. AI-SaaS Subscription: SaaS subscription model for nursing care record management application with AI voice input capabilities

Go-to-market motion1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

NAGARA develops and sells an AI-powered SaaS application called ながらかいご (Nagara Kaigo) that enables nursing care workers to create care records through spoken language via voice input. The product targets Japanese nursing care facilities and aims to eliminate manual administrative paperwork by converting caregiver speech into structured documentation.

Product overview

NAGARA offers a single unified AI-SaaS product called ながらかいご (Nagara Kaigo), which is a nursing care record application featuring AI-equipped voice input capabilities. This core product enables nursing care workers to create care records through speech, aiming to eliminate administrative paperwork and reduce administrative work to zero.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ながらかいご (Nagara Kaigo): AI-powered nursing care recording application with voice input functionality designed to eliminate administrative work in nursing care settings.

Products and services

• ながらかいご (Nagara Kaigo)

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered notable.

• San'in Godo BanknotableStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2026San'in Godo Bank organized Gogin Fest 2026, a startup conference in Japan's San'in region to promote open innovation. NAGARA won the pitch contest at this event, demonstrating their AI-SaaS solution for nursing care. The bank indicated plans to continue supporting startups in the region.
• Skyland VenturesnotableStrategic or Co-development PartnerSkyland Ventures participated as a special partner in Gogin Fest 2026, involved in planning and producing event content. They indicated plans to continue collaborating with San'in Godo Bank to support startups in the region where NAGARA operates.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Abridge: Abridge is an AI medical scribe that converts patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes. Like NAGARA, it uses ambient voice AI to automate documentation, though it targets US healthcare systems. Closest direct competitor in approach and product category.
• Augmedix: Augmedix provides AI-powered medical documentation services that convert clinician-patient conversations into structured medical notes. While Augmedix operates in the US, both it and NAGARA focus on voice-driven documentation as a service to healthcare providers.
• Suki AI: Suki AI provides an AI voice assistant that automates clinical documentation for healthcare providers. Like NAGARA, it uses voice AI to eliminate administrative burden, though it focuses on US physicians rather than Japanese nursing care. Direct overlap in product approach and value proposition.
• Nabla: Nabla's Copilot uses ambient AI to produce clinical notes from patient encounters. Comparable to NAGARA in its voice-first documentation approach, though Nabla serves US and European clinicians rather than Japanese nursing care facilities.
• DeepScribe: DeepScribe offers AI-powered medical scribing that automatically generates clinical notes from patient encounters. NAGARA's voice-driven care record application targets the same automation use case with the same ambient AI listening approach, just in the Japanese kaigo vertical.
• Kanamic Network: Kanamic Network provides SaaS software for Japanese nursing care facilities (kaigo software), including care record management. It is the most commercially analogous peer in the Japanese market, directly competing with NAGARA's Nagara Kaigo for the same kaigo facility customers.
• Tali AI: Tali AI is a voice-enabled AI assistant for clinicians that automates medical documentation and EHR entries. It shares NAGARA's voice-input-first approach to eliminating administrative work in healthcare settings.
• Notable: Notable provides intelligent automation for healthcare workflows including patient intake and documentation. While its scope is broader than NAGARA's, the documentation automation use case directly overlaps with NAGARA's kaigo voice-record product.

Emerging players

• Corti: Corti provides AI voice analysis for healthcare consultations, focusing on triage and clinical decision support. While it overlaps with NAGARA on voice AI for healthcare, it has a different primary use case (clinical decision support vs. documentation).

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/NAGARA_inc
• Facebookfacebook.com/nagarainc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/nagara-inc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors3 records

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M&A

Investments

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