Company Overview/History
Company Overview
The Aeronext Group consists of two companies, Aeronext and NEXT DELIVERY.
Aeronext is engaged in the licensing business through intellectual property and technology development, and NEXT DELIVERY is developing a logistics business utilizing drones.
The entire group will build a new social infrastructure and create a world where enrichment is spread to every corner of the world.
| 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. |
| 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 Business |
| 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 |