{"id":14350,"date":"2011-06-10T13:24:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T04:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=14350"},"modified":"2011-06-10T13:24:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T04:24:46","slug":"japanese-social-marketplace-flutterscape-raises-usd750k-in-second-seed-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/japanese-social-marketplace-flutterscape-raises-usd750k-in-second-seed-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Social Marketplace FlutterScape Raises USD750K In Second Seed Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9937\" title=\"flutterscape_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/flutterscape_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"90\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flutterscape.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FlutterScape<\/a>,  a social marketplace specializing in introducing &#8220;Japan-only&#8221; or  &#8220;Japan-made&#8221; products for online shoppers outside the country, recently  fundraised JPY60M (approx. USD750K) in their second seed-round from  three VC firms, which are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvcc.co.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Japan Venture Capital (NVCC)[J]<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngigroup.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ngi group<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innovation-engine.co.jp\/e\/top.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Innovation Engine<\/a>. In their first seed round, the company fundraised JPY25M (approx. USD310K) from <a href=\"http:\/\/garage.co.jp\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Garage<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netprice.com\/english\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NetPrice.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/aucfan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aucfan[J]<\/a> last August.<br \/>\nThe service has engaged more than 1,500 buyers and 7,000 sellers since its launch in January 2010, and has more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/flutterscape\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">230,000 fans on Facebook<\/a> as of this writing.\u00a0 Takehiro Kakiyama, the CEO of FlutterScape,  expects to enhance the service and allow users to share a list of their  favorite products with navigation links to a shopping cart, which will  be available very soon.<br \/>\n<strong>See Also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"..\/2010\/08\/27\/japanese-social-marketplace-flutterscape-gets-300000-seed-money\/\">Japanese Social Marketplace Flutterscape Gets $300,000 Seed Money<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/2011\/01\/15\/social-commerce-platform-flutterscape-cooperates-with-human-translation-startup-mygengo\/\">Social Commerce Platform Flutterscape Cooperates With Human Translation Startup myGengo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FlutterScape, a social marketplace specializing in introducing &#8220;Japan-only&#8221; or &#8220;Japan-made&#8221; products for online shoppers outside the country, recently fundraised JPY60M (approx. USD750K) in their second seed-round from three VC firms, which are Japan Venture Capital (NVCC)[J], ngi group and Innovation Engine. In their first seed round, the company fundraised JPY25M (approx. USD310K) from Digital Garage,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/japanese-social-marketplace-flutterscape-raises-usd750k-in-second-seed-funding\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japanese Social Marketplace FlutterScape Raises USD750K In Second Seed Funding<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,17,24],"tags":[1213],"class_list":["post-14350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company","category-japan","category-news","tag-flutterscape","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}