{"id":9161,"date":"2010-07-09T22:11:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T13:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=9161"},"modified":"2010-07-09T22:11:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T13:11:19","slug":"japans-first-daily-deal-service-piku-raises-usd7-3m-vc-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/japans-first-daily-deal-service-piku-raises-usd7-3m-vc-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s First Daily Deal Service Piku Raises USD7.3M VC Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Piku_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9162\" title=\"Piku's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Piku_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJapan&#8217;s first start-up operating deal-of-the-day website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piku.jp\">Piku Media[J]<\/a> announced today that they completed the allocation of new shares worth USD7.3M to Germany-based VC fund Rebate Networks GmbH (co-founded by the owners of Germany&#8217;s largest social network service <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studivz.net\/\">studi.vz[G]<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gvc.jp\/en_gvc\/home_en.html\">Global Venture Capital<\/a>, DIT Partners and an undisclosed investor.   This fundraising was arranged by Tokyo-based tech start-up incubator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-seed.com\/\">J-Seed Ventures<\/a>.   Piku Media funraised USD1.7M last month as well, and is now capitalized at USD10.2M in total.<br \/>\nThe company is now providing coupon-based daily deal service for limited regions, that allows you to be served at discount prices at restaurants, ice cream shops and spas etc.   With the fundraised money, they&#8217;re planning to expand the service for the markets in all 47 prefectures of Japan.<br \/>\nPiku Media was founded in 2004 for running an English language school and providing membership discount services for hotel and restaurant visitors.   They launched the deal-of-the-day service in Tokyo last April.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Piku_screenshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9163\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Piku's Screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Piku_screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"479\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s first start-up operating deal-of-the-day website Piku Media[J] announced today that they completed the allocation of new shares worth USD7.3M to Germany-based VC fund Rebate Networks GmbH (co-founded by the owners of Germany&#8217;s largest social network service studi.vz[G]), Global Venture Capital, DIT Partners and an undisclosed investor. This fundraising was arranged by Tokyo-based tech start-up&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/japans-first-daily-deal-service-piku-raises-usd7-3m-vc-round\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan&#8217;s First Daily Deal Service Piku Raises USD7.3M VC Round<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"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":[1780,2881,2882],"class_list":["post-9161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company","category-japan","category-news","tag-j-seed","tag-piku","tag-piku-media","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161","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=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}