MUFG Innovation Partners Co., Ltd. (MUIP), a corporate venture capital fund and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG), investment In SUPER STUDIO, Inc. (SUPER STUDIO).
SUPER STUDIO develops and provides “ecforce”, E-Commerce platform for opening online stores. ecforce enable customers to build their online sites, and also provides a full range of services including consulting, support for advertising operations and so on. SUPER STUDIO has a wide range of experiences to support its client from startups to enterprises, from its own knowledge and experience of launching its own D2C brands.
Through this investment, MUIP will support strategic partnerships with MUFG and its clients to support digital transformation and create new business.
About MUFG :
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) is one of the world’s leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with over 360 years of history, MUFG has a global network with around 3,000 locations in more than 50 countries. The Group has over 180,000 employees and offers services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing. The Group aims to “Committed to empowering a brighter future.” through close collaboration among our operating companies and flexibly respond to all of the financial needs of our customers, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. MUFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York stock exchanges. For more information, visit https://www.mufg.jp/english
About SUPER STUDIO :
As a D2C support company, SUPER STUDIO, Inc. provide one-stop support for all processes, from big data analysis to identifying the world’s needs, product development, providing the core system “enforce,” advertising management, and direct delivery of products to consumers, to support EC for all types of businesses. Even in Japan, where EC has not progressed particularly well among developed countries, demands and expectations for EC/D2C are growing, and the number of stores using ecforce has increased by approximately 174% over the past year. We will continue to update the functions of the system on an ongoing basis.
For more information, visit https://super-studio.jp/
