Spectee

About

Spectee is a start-up company that specializes in analyzing various data especially on social media.

Tokyo,Tokyo,Japan
11 - 50

Highlights

Details

Last Funding Type: Series A
Last Funding Money Raised: ¥29.95M
Industries: Apps,News,Publishing,Social Media,Social News
Founded date: Feb 1, 2014
Number Of Employee: 11 - 50
Operating Status: Active
Legal Name: Spectee Inc.

Spectee is a online news agency that specializes in curating and publishing real-time social media UGC video. By using artificial intelligence patented by Spectee, It is able to reduce the time taken to analyze and sort social media news content, giving you faster access to the very latest UGC video. Expect video covering both Japanese and worldwide news from accidents and disasters to lifestyle and entertainment. it newsroom is verifying and acquiring licenses of those contents for broadcasters and publishers.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds

Total Funding Amount

4

¥559.90M

Spectee has raised a total of ¥559.90M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Dec 23, 2019 from a Corporate Round round.

Announced Date	Round	Money Raised	Number of Investors	Lead Investors	Post Valuation
Dec 23, 2019	Corporate Round	¥269.94M	1	Sony Business Solutions Corp	—	Detail
Oct 4, 2017	Series B	¥260M	6	YJ Capital	—	Detail
Jul 26, 2016	Series A	¥29.95M	3	Fuji Startup Ventures	—	Detail
Oct 3, 2015	Seed	—	1	Open Network Lab	—	Detail

Investors

Number of Lead Investors

Number of Investors

4

10

Spectee is funded by 10 investors. Sony Business Solutions Corp and YJ Capital are the most recent investors.

Investor Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round
Sony Business Solutions Corp	Yes	Corporate Round
YJ Capital	Yes	Series B
Fuji Startup Ventures	Yes	Series A
Open Network Lab	Yes	Seed
Arco Partners	—	Series B
Kyodo News	—	Series B
Makoto Naruke	—	Series B
Mizuho Capital	—	Series B
Quaras	—	Series B
CBC Group	—	Series A