What SkillDish does

SkillDish (株式会社スキルディッシュ) is a Tokyo-headquartered, privately held Japanese recruitment company founded in June 2024 by CEO Igata Momoyori, a former Nichiro (ニッスイ) food-industry executive. The company operates a web-based bilingual platform that connects Japanese food-industry employers with Specified Skilled Worker (特定技能) foreign nationals sourced from Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Nepal. Service coverage spans four SSW sub-sectors—food manufacturing, restaurants, agriculture, and fisheries—delivered nationwide across all 47 Japanese prefectures including remote islands. The company holds Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare paid employment placement license 13-ユ-317066 (obtained September 2024).

The core technology is a domain-specific job-board and managed introduction platform that supports structured disclosure of food-industry-specific employment conditions (seasonal overtime variation, monthly overtime hours, workplace environment) plus language-proficiency filtering by JLPT level. SkillDish differentiates through direct audit visits to overseas training partners to verify food hygiene, HACCP, and Japanese-language instruction, combined with consultant-conducted pre-screening interviews that confirm candidate alignment with food-industry working conditions before introduction to employers. Reported operational outcomes include an average time-to-offer of approximately 2 weeks, a 91% one-year retention rate versus an industry average of 70-80%, and an interview pass rate of 78%.

SkillDish monetizes exclusively via success-fee placements of ¥250,000-¥380,000 per hire, with no upfront charge to employers and a full refund guarantee if a placed candidate resigns within 30 days for personal reasons. Go-to-market is enterprise and mid-market field sales driven by website consultation and corporate registration forms, supplemented by SEO, content marketing, food-industry trade media PR, contest and government program participation, and a November 2025 strategic partnership with Kaminashi Inc. that bundles recruitment with Kaminashi's workforce communication and training tools. The customer base is long-tail SMB and mid-market food companies, with the candidate pool exceeding 2,580 individuals across five origin countries as of July 2026.

Name

SkillDish

Legal name

株式会社スキルディッシュ

Website

https://skilldish.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Tokyo-based recruitment company operating a web platform that matches Japanese food industry employers (food manufacturing, restaurants, agriculture, fisheries) with Specified Skilled Worker foreign nationals from five Asian countries, charging per-placement success fees across all 47 prefectures.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Foreign Worker Recruitment Services

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Farm Labor Contractors and Crew Leaders (115115)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Remote & Global/Multilingual Direct Hire (BPACAFAO)

akta.pro secondary industry

Seasonal & Migrant Farm Labor Staffing (AFACAHAA)

Keywords

• Foreign worker recruitment
• Specified skilled worker hiring
• Food industry staffing
• Talent introduction services
• Food manufacturing recruitment

Headquarters

HQ city

Tokyo

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Placement/Recruitment fees: SkillDish operates on a success-fee model where no initial costs are charged to hiring companies. A placement fee of ¥250,000 to ¥380,000 is charged only upon successful hiring. A full refund guarantee is provided if a hired candidate resigns within 30 days due to the candidate's personal reasons.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

SkillDish operates a web-based recruitment platform and managed introduction service that connects Japanese food industry employers (food manufacturing, restaurants, agriculture, fisheries) with pre-screened Specified Skilled Worker (特定技能) foreign nationals sourced from Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Nepal. Dedicated consultants handle the end-to-end hiring process — including job posting creation, candidate recruitment, screening interviews, interview scheduling, visa application support, and post-hire retention — under a paid-employment placement business license (13-ユ-317066) issued by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

Product overview

SkillDish operates a single integrated recruitment platform for the Japanese food industry, combining a public-facing job board with an employer-facing introduction service. The core SkillDish platform (スキルディッシュ) is a bilingual (Japanese/English) web portal where food companies post jobs and foreign Specified Skilled Workers search and apply. This platform is complemented by the 'Food-Specialized Foreign Human Resources Introduction Service' (食品特化型の外国人材紹介サービス), a managed recruitment service where SkillDish's consultants proactively screen candidates from a 2,500+ candidate network, conduct pre-qualification interviews, and present pre-matched candidates to employers — enabling hiring from recruitment to offer in an average of 2 weeks. Both offerings share the same candidate pool and are targeted at the same 4 sectors: food manufacturing, restaurant, agriculture, and fisheries. The service is supported by affiliated registered support organizations (登録支援機関) for visa sponsorship and post-hire retention assistance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• SkillDish (スキルディッシュ) Bilingual (Japanese/English) web-based recruitment platform connecting Japanese food industry companies (food manufacturing, restaurants, agriculture, fisheries) with Specified Skilled Worker (特定技能) foreign nationals. The platform features job listing management, candidate search with industry and JLPT filters, application tracking, and multilingual support for foreign job seekers.
• Food-Specialized Foreign Human Resources Introduction Service (食品特化型の外国人材紹介サービス) Managed recruitment/introduction service that selects and matches Japanese food companies with pre-screened Specified Skilled Workers. SkillDish consultants draw candidates from a 2,500+ pool across 5 countries, conduct pre-qualification interviews covering food-industry employment conditions, and present matched candidates to employers. Supports registration as a registered support organization (登録支援機関) for visa sponsorship and post-hire retention.

Quantifiable outcome

• Average hiring time from posting to offer: 2 weeks
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• 株式会社カミナシ (Kaminashi Inc.)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 November 2025SkillDish and Kaminashi entered a partnership to jointly support food manufacturing and restaurant companies in hiring, training, and retaining Specified Skilled Workers. SkillDish provides recruitment and placement services while Kaminashi provides workforce communication tools (Kaminashi Employee) and video-based training/education content (Kaminashi Education) with multilingual support. Both companies co-hosted a seminar in September 2025 targeting food companies on hiring and retention strategies. Kaminashi serves 17,000+ manufacturing sites, including 10% of food listed companies in Japan.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Leverages: Tokyo-based HR/recruitment company operating across multiple sectors including foreign worker placement. Leverages is a direct competitor in the broader Japanese SSW recruitment market but lacks SkillDish's exclusive food industry specialization.
• Yume Technology (夢テクノロジー): Japanese staffing firm specializing in foreign engineer and technical worker recruitment. Comparable to SkillDish's foreign worker screening and SSW placement model but focused on engineering rather than food industry roles.
• ALink (エーリンク): Foreign worker recruitment and SSW placement firm in Japan. Operates with similar international sourcing and Japanese employer placement model to SkillDish, though without food industry specialization.
• Miraist (ミライズ): Japan-based foreign worker recruitment agency focused on technical intern and SSW placement. Comparable to SkillDish in cross-border foreign worker sourcing and pre-departure training systems.
• Refermo (リファルモ): Foreign worker placement agency focused on international and multilingual hires in Japan. Operates in a similar SSW recruitment space but as a generalist across multiple sectors, making SkillDish's food focus a key point of differentiation.

Emerging players

• CareerCross: Bilingual job platform serving foreign professionals in Japan. Adjacent to SkillDish's foreign job seeker marketplace functionality but focused on professional roles rather than food industry SSW placement.
• Reeracoen Japan: Asian recruitment firm with Japan presence focused on bilingual and foreign talent placement. Targets similar cross-border hiring use cases but lacks sector-specific food industry positioning.

Broad incumbents

• Adecco Japan: Global staffing leader with Japan operations covering temporary, permanent, and foreign worker placement. A broad incumbent with resources SkillDish lacks, but without food industry vertical specialization.
• Persol Holdings (パーソル): Major Japanese staffing conglomerate with nationwide placement capabilities. Comparable in scale and employer relationships but operates across all sectors rather than specializing in food industry SSW recruitment.
• Pasona (パソナ): One of Japan's largest staffing and HR services firms with established foreign worker placement operations. Provides broad staffing across many sectors including international talent, making it a broader incumbent rather than direct vertical competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

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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