History

2012

• Dec.

  • LeapMind Inc. (formerly known as AddQuality) established at Meguro-ku, Tokyo

2014

• Aug.

  • Rights Offering to Mr. Kiyoshi Nishikawa, the founder of the formerly known netage,inc. performed

2016

• Jun.

  • Formed a business alliance with Dentsu Isobar Inc.

• Aug.

  • Fund-raising of JPY 340 million in total at Series A

• Dec.

  • Collaborated with NTT DATA Corporation

2017

• Feb.

  • Business partnership made with GfK Japan

• Oct.

  • Fund-raising of JPY 1.15 billion in total at Series B

2018

• Feb.

  • The head office relocated to Shibuya Dogenzaka Sky Bldg, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

• Jun.

  • Hiroyuki Tokunaga was appointed as CTO

• Jul.

  • Launched ”DeLTA-Kit”, an evaluation kit for embedded deep learning models
  • Launched ”DeLTA-Mark”, a solution for building training data for deep learning

• Dec.

  • Started to release Blueoil as an open source

2019

• Oct.

  • Fund-raising of JPY 3.5 billion at Series C

2020

• Apr.

  • Delivered a keynote speech at ”COOL Chip 23”
  • Developed Efficiera, an ultra-low power AI accelerator IP

• Oct.

  • Launched the Efficiera FPGA partner program
  • Officially launched the commercial version of Efficiera, an ultra-low power AI accelerator IP

2021

• Aug.

  • NEC Platforms Compact Box Controller with Ultra-Low Power AI Accelerator IP ”Efficiera”

• Nov.

  • Announced Ultra Low Power AI Accelerator IP ”Efficiera” v2

2022

• Jan.

  • Announced AI Image processing model

• Feb.

  • Signed a license agreement with Maxell Frontier Inc. for ultra-low power consumption AI accelerator IP ”Efficiera”

• May.

  • Announced Efficiera Anomaly Detection model

2023

• Jan.

  • LeapMind's deep learning technology is adopted for AI automatic recognition of autonomous mobile robots of Okamura Co., Ltd. 

• Jun.

  • Announced “Findra” - Flat-rate edge AI visual inspection software