New business development through collaboration with internet companies and startups

「From July 2023, in collaboration with Broad-Minded Co.,Ltd., we launched Saison no Manenavi, an online financial-planner shop that allows users to select a financial planner and book an appointment online.」

「From February 2023, we entered into a capital and business alliance agreement with Japan Culture and Technology Co., Ltd. to strengthen collaboration and initiatives aimed at developing new services for affluent customers and delivering the appeal of Japan through moving experiences.」

「From July 2022, we invested in MEDIA DO Co.,Ltd., which provides digital content, and launched the Manga Saison electronic-comics service, offering cardmembers points equivalent to 50% of their purchase amount. From August 2022, we entered into a capital and business alliance agreement with Broad-Minded Co.,Ltd. to strengthen collaboration and initiatives aimed at developing new services.」

「From April 2022, through our Singapore subsidiary, we made an investment and loan of US$80 million to Julo Holdings Pte. Ltd., which operates a digital-lending business in Indonesia serving underserved people with limited access to financial services.」

「Through Saison Capital Pte. Ltd., which provides investments and loans primarily to early-stage overseas startups, we are preparing to launch a new impact-investing business as a pilot operation.」

「We established Saison Capital Pte. Ltd., which provides investments and loans primarily to early-stage overseas startups, and commenced our investment business. By rapidly strengthening and promoting investments and loans to promising startups worldwide, including in Africa and South America as well as Asia, we aim to achieve collaboration with businesses in countries where we already operate and the early adoption of innovative business models.」

「We strengthened our health platform by investing in 脳活性総合研究所, which operates a brain-health testing business for seniors. Under the slogan “Discover something you wish existed,” we also added a shopping-cart function to hintos, a web media service that addresses customers’ lifestyle needs and supports more convenient and enjoyable daily lives beyond card services, and relaunched it in June 2019 as a media-based e-commerce site.」

「As a new initiative, we entered into a basic agreement with Liquid, which has biometric identity-authentication technology, to eliminate the burden on customers of identity-verification procedures, and began considering a new online-only means of identity verification.」

「To respond to the growing internet market, we worked to further expand our internet and smartphone-app memberships and pursued agile collaboration with leading companies that have high-quality content and platforms and venture companies with new technologies.」

「To respond to the growing internet market, we are working to further expand our internet and smartphone-app memberships. We are also developing agile collaborations with leading internet companies that have high-quality content and platforms and venture companies with new technologies, creating new internet businesses including the comprehensive points site Saison Point Mall, and establishing a new business model that generates revenue from a range of online services.」

「In the rapidly changing IT sector, we promote alliances with leading internet companies and open innovation with venture companies in order to actively incorporate advanced technologies and business models. In April 2017, we acquired 100% of the issued shares of Omnibus, a next-generation digital marketing company employing the latest advertising technology, with the aim of further strengthening our value-added business using data held by the big-data platform Saison DMP.」

「In April 2017, we acquired 100% of the issued shares of Omnibus, a next-generation digital marketing company employing the latest advertising technology, with the aim of further strengthening our value-added business using data held by the big-data platform Saison DMP.」

「In April 2017, we acquired 100% of the issued shares of Omnibus, a next-generation digital marketing company employing the latest advertising technology, with the aim of further strengthening our value-added business using data held by the big-data platform Saison DMP.」

「In April 2017, we acquired 100% of the issued shares of ㈱オムニバス, a next-generation digital marketing company that uses the latest advertising technology, to further strengthen value-added businesses using data held by the big data platform “Saison DMP.”」

「In the rapidly changing internet business sector, we are promoting new business development with leading internet companies that possess new technologies and attractive customer bases, as well as open innovation with venture companies. In July 2016, our company, Digital Garage,Inc. and ㈱カカクコム established “DG Lab,” an open-innovation research and development organisation intended to enable companies from a range of industries to participate and jointly create businesses. Going forward, we will continue to work flexibly with leading internet companies that have high-quality content and platforms and venture companies with new technologies to build new business models that generate revenue from a range of online services.」

「In the rapidly changing internet business sector, we are promoting new business development with leading internet companies that possess new technologies and attractive customer bases, as well as open innovation with venture companies. In July 2016, our company, Digital Garage,Inc. and ㈱カカクコム established “DG Lab,” an open-innovation research and development organisation intended to enable companies from a range of industries to participate and jointly create businesses.」

「In June 2016, we launched “hintos,” a media platform introducing innovative services from venture companies that are not yet widely known among general consumers, drawing on our ability to identify promising businesses developed through collaboration with venture companies. In July 2016, Digital Garage,Inc., ㈱カカクコム and our company established “DG Lab,” an open-innovation research and development organisation intended to enable companies from a range of industries to participate and jointly create businesses.」

「In the rapidly changing internet business sector, we are promoting new business development with leading internet companies that possess new technologies and attractive customer bases, as well as open innovation with startups. In June 2015, we established ㈱セゾン・ベンチャーズ to further strengthen collaboration with startups, including by investing in and working with seed- and early-stage companies. Since its establishment, we have invested in 9 companies, including ㈱Ｌｉｑｕｉｄ, which commercialised a payment system using biometric authentication based on fingerprints.」