[IoZ Inc.] Trusted by 2,000 Users Daily: Expanding from Face-Recognition Personnel Management to Vehicle Telematics

A Decades-Long IT Career: Yamaha Router Development, DeNA Roots, and a New Launch in Oita

Hello, everyone. My name is Ryutaro Yoshida, Representative Director of IoZ Inc. It is a pleasure to be here. Today, I am presenting our business to seek strategic corporate alliances, CVC partners, and sales channels.

To briefly share my background, I spent many years building my IT career at Sumisho Computer Systems (now SCSK). Before that, I worked under Joi Ito, the current President of Chiba Institute of Technology (and former Director of the MIT Media Lab). I also had the unique opportunity to work as a direct subordinate to Mr. Konno (late husband of DeNA Founder Tomoko Namba) at Sumitomo Corporation, where I learned the fundamentals of IT and global business.

Furthermore, I was a core development member of Yamaha's network routers, participating in the launch of their first firewall product, the \"SRT100,\" where I developed deep expertise in network security infrastructure.

Today, we are based in Usa City, Oita Prefecture—famous for \"Iichiko\" shochu. From Oita, we continue to build global-class IT solutions, including deploying our IoT sensors to local Usa wineries.

Proven on the Field: Face-Recognition and Location Personnel Tracking via Native App

Our core offerings are integrated \"personnel management\" solutions that connect smartphone applications, cloud face recognition, and GPS location tracking. We currently offer three main products.

We hold absolute confidence in our security and system robustness. Because our platform uploads and syncs all face-recognition and location logs directly to the cloud, there is zero risk of data leakage or loss even if a smartphone is damaged, lost, or stolen on-site—no personal data is ever stored on the local device.

Furthermore, our applications are built entirely using native languages. Compared to cross-platform hybrid development, native coding allows seamless adaptation to major iOS and Android OS updates, drastically reducing ongoing maintenance and development costs.

Our technology is proven by Daiichikosho Co., Ltd., Japan's largest karaoke operator.

Over 2,000 maintenance service workers who drive service cars to karaoke outlets across Japan use our native app daily for mandatory alcohol breath tests and attendance logging. We operate a highly resilient cloud infrastructure that easily handles high-density concurrent access from thousands of field workers.

Additionally, we hold patents for an \"anti-abandonment school bus safety system\" developed to prevent hot-car deaths, linking in-bus face sensors with our management console and parents' smartphones to ensure double-layer child safety.

Raising 50M JPY to Expand Our Dedicated Vietnam Team and Enter Telematics

We are entering a major growth phase by expanding into vehicle telematics, directly responding to client requests (such as Daiichikosho) to integrate vehicle tracking with personnel management.

Our telematics system requires only a compact OBD dongle plugged into a vehicle's dashboard. It tracks real-time GPS locations and uses edge algorithms to detect hazardous driving behaviors such as sudden acceleration, harsh braking, or sharp turns.

Telematics has global demand. For instance, we received an inquiry from a geothermally powered agricultural firm in Oita to track their logistics vehicles in Indonesia, highlighting the potential for Southeast Asian expansion.

Our primary advantage is our low-cost, high-performance development model.
We were certified early on by \"DoIT\" (a Singapore-based firm backed by Google, Amazon, and Microsoft), allowing us to leverage cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure) at highly discounted bulk rates.

Furthermore, we employ a highly dedicated development team in Vietnam, consisting of top graduates from national information science universities and former Intel software engineers. While high turnover is a common issue for Vietnamese tech teams, our core team members have worked with us for over seven years with zero turnover.

We are currently raising 50 million JPY. The majority of the proceeds will fund the recruitment of five additional developers in Vietnam and build a satellite office in Vung Tau, a coastal city where our team members' families reside.

Instead of pouring millions of dollars into R&D, we leverage our bulk infrastructure discounts and our loyal Vietnamese engineering team to deliver robust, cost-effective enterprise solutions. We look forward to connecting with insurance providers, CVCs, and sales partners. Thank you.

Q&A and Feedback

Mr. Ogawa (Commentator): Thank you, Yoshida-san. Your extensive background in SCSK and Yamaha router development, coupled with your proven enterprise scaling at Daiichikosho, makes this a highly credible venture.

Vehicle telematics is a crowded space with listed players like SmartDrive. What is IoZ's unique edge in this market?

Mr. Yoshida: Competing purely on vehicle telematics is tough. However, our unique advantage is the integration of personnel management and vehicle tracking. While competitors focus primarily on the vehicle's movement, we provide a unified governance system that tracks *who* (face recognition) got into *which* car (breath test) and *how* they drove. Since we have inbound requests from existing enterprise clients wanting to manage both, our customer acquisition cost is extremely low.

Mr. Ogawa: I see. A native app that unifies personnel compliance and fleet tracking creates a powerful lock-in effect for operations managers, making it highly sticky.

How will the 50 million JPY funding and the Vietnamese team expansion accelerate your R&D?

Mr. Yoshida: While leveraging generative AI is popular, our dedicated Vietnamese team offers high-agility, high-quality development at a fraction of Japanese labor costs. Setting up a satellite office in Vung Tau, Vietnam allows us to retain top talent by letting them work close to their families. A 50 million JPY investment allows us to secure five to six times the engineering capacity we would get in Japan, enabling us to complete the telematics system rapidly.

Mr. Ogawa: Securing five to six engineers for telematics R&D with 50 million JPY is incredibly capital efficient. If you secure a strategic partnership with an insurance provider or CVC, this could scale very quickly. I have high expectations.

Mr. Yoshida: Thank you. We will build a global-class infrastructure from Oita and Vung Tau.