Company Overview/History
Company Overview
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Company Name | Aeronext Inc. |
Address | 【Head Office】 6th Floor Ishi Bldg. 2-3-5 Ebisu-Nishi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-0021 Japan |
【Funato Drone Laboratory】 2299-1 Funato, Koshigaya-shi, Saitama 343-0003, Japan | |
CEO | Keisuke Toji |
Foundation | April 11, 2017 |
Capital | 1,506,024,735 yen (including capital reserve) *As of July, 2024 |
Business Summary | Licensing of industrial drone-related technologies Joint development of industrial drones |
Subsidiary | NEXT DELIVERY Inc. |
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Company Name | NEXT DELIVERY Inc. |
Address | 4838 Kosuge, Kitatsuru District, Yamanashi 409-0211 Japan |
Representative Director | Keisuke Toji |
Foundation | January 20, 2021 |
Capital | 9,900,000 yen |
Business Summary | New Smart Logistics SkyHub® Business Drone Operation Demonstration |
Parent Company | Aeronext Inc. |
History
April 2017 | Aeronext Inc. Established |
June 2017 | DRONE FUND Pre-Seed Round Funding |
June 2018 | Registration of Foundation Patent for 4D GRAVITY® (filed May 2015) |
August 2020 | 4D GRAVITY® License Agreement with ACSL Ltd. |
January 2021 | NEXT DELIVERY Inc. Established as a Subsidiary Specializing in Drone Logistics |
January 2021 | Business Alliance with Seino Holdings Co., Ltd. |
May 2021 | Series A Round Financing from Spiral Capital and others |
August 2022 | Funato Drone Research Center opened in Koshigaya City, Saitama Prefecture, as a research and development base |
September 2022 | Capital and Business Alliance with KDDI Corporation and KDDI SmartDrone Inc. |
February 2024 | 4D GRAVITY® License Agreement with Prodrone Co., Ltd. |
Aeronext Award History
![]() | Best of Japan Drone Award 2018 “Best Venture” “Best Drone related technology” |
![]() | “Nanshan “Entrepreneurship Star” Contest 2018 Shibuya” Championship(Japan final) |
![]() | ICC Summit KYOTO 2018 “Real Tech Catapult”Championship |
![]() | TECH PLANTER “Deep Tech Grand Prix” Mitsui Chemicals Award |
![]() | B Dash Camp Fall 2018 in Fukuoka “Pitch Arena”Championship, PERSOL Award |
![]() | CEATEC Award 2018 “Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award” |
![]() | “Nanshan “Entrepreneurship Star” Contest 2018” 3rd Place, IP Award |
![]() | TechCrunch Tokyo 2018 Startup Battle, 3rd Place |
![]() | Infinity Ventures Summit 2018 Winter Kanazawa “Launch Pad” Championship |
![]() | 2018 4Q “Mizuho Innovation Award” |
![]() | ICC Summit FUKUOKA 2019 “CATAPULT GRAND PRIX”, 2nd Place |
![]() | SLUSH TOKYO 2019 “Pitch Contest” FINALIST |
![]() | EY Innovative Startup 2019 |
![]() | “Business Potential” in the Business Potential Evaluation Project (for the fiscal year ending January 31, 2008) by the Tokyo Metropolitan Small and Medium Enterprise Promotion Agency |
![]() | Excellence Award in the Manufacturing and Technology (Venture Technology) Category at the World Dissemination Competition hosted by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government |
![]() | “100 startups with a proven track record of cooperation with government” produced by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
![]() | Aeronext China, Tianzhi Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. wins first prize in the Japan-China-Korea Business Contest, Qingdao, China |
![]() | “100 startups with a proven track record of cooperation with government” produced by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
![]() | HABATAKU Small and Medium Enterprises 300, DX category, 2023 |