TOKYO, Japan — ALGO ARTIS Inc., a provider of AI-powered Planning DX solutions for complex planning and decision-making in critical infrastructure industries, today announced the successful completion of its Series B financing round, raising a total of ¥1.538 billion.
The round was led by Salesforce Ventures LLC, the corporate venture capital arm of Salesforce, which actively invests in exceptional AI companies around the world. New investor Japan Co-Invest IV Limited Partnership, managed by Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Investment Co., Ltd., also joined the round. Existing investors—including The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners (UTEC), DeNA Co., Ltd., and K4 Ventures Godo Kaisha (the corporate venture capital arm of the Kansai Electric Power Group)—participated in the financing as well.
ALGO ARTIS provides the OPTIUM Series, a Planning DX solution that uses AI and algorithm technologies to support complex planning and decision-making across social infrastructure domains.
Across fields that sustain society—including electricity, logistics, manufacturing, transportation, and public-sector domains—ALGO ARTIS aims to become a decision-making infrastructure by combining its common technology platform with industry-specific solutions and expanding across multiple industries through its Multi-Vertical Strategy.
Through this funding round, ALGO ARTIS will accelerate hiring of both engineering talent and industry-focused business development professionals, strengthen its common technology platform and vertical solutions, and invest in new business creation and international expansion. These initiatives will further advance the real-world implementation of Planning DX and support the company’s long-term growth.
Series B Financing Overview
- Funding Raised
- ¥1.538 billion
- Total Funding Raised to Date
- ¥2.514 billion in cumulative equity financing
- ¥3.244 billion in cumulative financing, including debt financing
- Lead Investor
- Salesforce Ventures LLC
- Investors
- New Investors
・Salesforce Ventures LLC
・Japan Co-Invest IV Limited Partnership
(managed by Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Investment Co., Ltd.) - Existing Investors
・The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners (UTEC)
・DeNA Co., Ltd.
・K4 Ventures Godo Kaisha (the Kansai Electric Power Group’s CVC)
- New Investors
The Challenge We Address — The Power of Planning
Every day, countless decisions keep society running.
Across critical infrastructure sectors, the complexity of planning and decision-making continues to increase. Energy supply volatility, increasingly complex supply chains, labor shortages, knowledge transfer challenges, and the acceleration of sustainability initiatives are creating unprecedented operational pressures.
At the same time, many organizations still rely heavily on the experience and judgment of a limited number of experts. This creates challenges related to workforce burden, knowledge retention, and inconsistent planning quality.
In critical infrastructure industries, even a 1% improvement in decision-making can have a significant impact. Because planning and operational decisions are repeated every day, small improvements accumulate into meaningful outcomes for businesses, industries, and society as a whole.
For example:
- Stabilizing energy supply through optimized energy planning
- Reducing fuel consumption through more efficient maritime logistics planning
- Maximizing profitability through advanced production planning
- Mitigating operational burden through optimized transportation planning
The quality of planning directly influences the sustainability and resilience of the systems that support modern society.
Through Planning DX, ALGO ARTIS helps organizations improve complex operational decision-making and create lasting value through continuous, incremental improvements.
Source: ALGO ARTIS Impact Report 2025
What is Planning DX?
Planning DX is ALGO ARTIS’s approach to enhancing complex planning operations and decision-making through AI and advanced algorithms.
By complementing and supporting decisions that have traditionally relied on human expertise and intuition, Planning DX enables organizations to improve profitability, optimize supply and demand, respond more quickly to changing conditions, and preserve critical operational knowledge.
At its core, Planning DX transforms real-world constraints and frontline expertise into executable plans and scalable decision-making frameworks.
ALGO ARTIS is committed to advancing the real-world implementation of Planning DX as a new decision-making infrastructure for the industries that sustain society.
Multi-Vertical Strategy
ALGO ARTIS is advancing a Multi-Vertical Strategy that expands Planning DX across multiple industries, leveraging the AI and algorithm technologies it has developed through real-world deployments in critical infrastructure sectors.
Since its founding, the company has built a common technology platform and industry-specific solutions by addressing highly complex planning challenges in energy and maritime logistics operations.
Today, ALGO ARTIS supports organizations across manufacturing, logistics, and public transportation, with new projects underway in aviation and construction.
Rather than developing isolated solutions for individual use cases, ALGO ARTIS applies a common decision-making platform across industries. This ability to translate complex operational knowledge and constraints into scalable, repeatable solutions is a defining characteristic of the company’s technology and business model.
Use of Proceeds
The funds raised in this round will be used to further advance ALGO ARTIS’s Multi-Vertical Strategy and strengthen the technologies and solutions that support decision-making across critical infrastructure industries.
Key areas of investment include:
- Hiring engineers to further enhance the company’s common technology platform and industry-specific solutions
- Expanding industry-focused business development teams to accelerate adoption across existing and new sectors
- Strengthening the company’s business foundation to support long-term growth, including new business creation and international expansion
Comment from Kentaro Nagata, CEO
We are deeply grateful to have the support of such outstanding investors in this Series B round. This milestone would not have been possible without the trust of our customers, who continue to find value in our solutions, and the many partners who support our business.
Since our founding, we have worked alongside organizations in manufacturing, energy, logistics, and transportation to improve complex planning and decision-making. While we are proud of our progress, we are just scratching the surface of our ultimate vision to Optimize Social Infrastructure.
With the support and resources provided through this funding round, we will continue to expand our impact, deliver greater value to more organizations, and take the next step toward becoming the decision-making infrastructure that supports the industries sustaining society.
Investor Comments
Ken Asada, Partner
Sho Yamanaka, Principal
Salesforce Ventures
While AI adoption is accelerating across industries, ALGO ARTIS has been pioneering the industrial application of advanced AI and optimization algorithms since its founding. Their platform transforms the deep expertise of skilled engineers into AI-driven solutions, enabling real-world deployment even in the most complex and traditionally hard-to-digitize industries. Their solutions have established a strong competitive advantage and earned high recognition from many of Japan's leading enterprises. We believe that ALGO ARTIS's world-class AI and algorithmic technology, paired with a proven ability to deliver practical, on-the-ground impact, addresses one of the most critical needs in global industry today. We are excited to leverage Salesforce's global knowledge and resources to support ALGO ARTIS's continued growth and accelerate their worldwide expansion.
David Seu, Director
Takaaki Hirano, Vice President
SUMITOMO MITSUI TRUST INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
(Japan Co-Invest IV Limited Partnership)
We are delighted to invest in ALGO ARTIS through the Japan Co-Invest IV L.P. By deploying advanced AI and algorithmic technologies based on heuristic optimization along with thorough understanding of the client’s needs, ALGO ARTIS provides a wide range of highly effective planning optimization solutions in areas where it is difficult to derive truly optimal solutions through human judgment alone, such as those in social infrastructure, supply chains and business operations. We highly value the company’s technical expertise and business development capabilities, as well as its commitment to partnering with clients for continuous value creation. We are honored to support these efforts through this investment. We believe that ALGO ARTIS addresses society's impending needs, and we look forward to its contributions to advancing decision-making and improving productivity across diverse industries.
Noriaki Sakamoto
Managing Director, COO, Representative Director
The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners Co., Ltd.
Since leading their seed round, UTEC has shared a close history with ALGO ARTIS. Their mission—"to deliver unprecedented impact in areas of significant social challenge through the highest-quality algorithms"—has remained remarkably consistent from those early days to the present. The strong endorsement from their customers stands as proof that they walk the talk. Today, the company has evolved into a true talent magnet – a powerhouse organization that attracts world-class algorithm engineers as if drawn by gravity. Sharing the vision of this exceptional team, overcoming the walls they face together, and experiencing their rapid growth firsthand from the passenger seat—this is what I always feel is the true thrill of being a venture capitalist. With this remarkable new round of funding from outstanding investors, I am confident that ALGO ARTIS will grow into a startup that delivers even greater impact.
Tomoko Namba
Founder & Executive Chairman
DeNA Co., Ltd.
We are truly delighted to participate once again in ALGO ARTIS's Series B round.
ALGO ARTIS represents one of the startups that embodies DeNA's vision: challenges born within DeNA expanding beyond the company and growing into impactful independent ventures.
As AI continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, we are entering an era where increasingly complex challenges — once impossible for humans alone to fully manage — can now be addressed in ways that dramatically enhance decision-making and operational performance. ALGO ARTIS's work in optimization planning, tackling mission-critical operations across essential industries such as energy, manufacturing, logistics, and transportation, is a prime example of bringing that potential into real-world industrial environments.
We look forward to seeing ALGO ARTIS combine Japan's operational excellence and strong on-the-ground capabilities with world-class optimization technology and AI, and grow into a company that sets the global standard for industrial operations.
Seiichiro Hamada
Representative Managing Partner
K4 Ventures Godo Kaisha
(the Kansai Electric Power Group’s CVC)
In social infrastructure sectors such as electric power and energy, increasingly sophisticated and flexible operations are required amid the growing complexity of supply-demand structures. Against this backdrop, we see significant potential in ALGO ARTIS. The company supports advanced decision-making by implementing operational expertise accumulated on-site and diverse real-world constraints into optimization technologies to address complex operational challenges that cannot be easily solved by AI alone. Through our collaboration at Maizuru Power Station, we have experienced firsthand the company’s strong execution capabilities and deep understanding of operational environments. We are therefore very encouraged to further strengthen our partnership through this additional investment. We look forward to supporting ALGO ARTIS as it accelerates the social implementation of its technologies not only in the energy sector, but also across a wide range of social infrastructure fields.
About ALGO ARTIS
Company Name: ALGO ARTIS Inc.
CEO: Kentaro Nagata
Founded: July 2021
Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Website: https://www.algo-artis.com/
ALGO ARTIS is dedicated to its vision of Optimizing Social Infrastructure and provides the OPTIUM Series, AI-powered Planning DX solutions that enhance complex planning and decision-making.
The company supports critical infrastructure industries including energy, logistics, manufacturing, and transportation by helping organizations address highly complex planning challenges such as maritime logistics planning, production scheduling, and transportation operations planning.
By combining advanced algorithms with deep operational expertise, ALGO ARTIS transforms real-world constraints into executable plans and decision-making frameworks that improve operational performance, resilience, and long-term sustainability.