Apto Payments

Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan Artificial Intelligence Acquired

APTO (株式会社APTO) is a Tokyo-based AI development support company specializing in data collection, annotation, and dataset creation for machine learning. Its harBest platform delivers high-quality multimodal training data (image, video, 3D/LiDAR, audio, NLP) and supports LLM, RLHF, RAG, and AI agent development for enterprises and research institutions. It has worked on large projects with RIKEN, Ricoh, Panasonic, and Fujitsu.

Acquired

Apto Payments has been acquired

Acquired by Qenta Inc. June 2023

This company is no longer available on our private secondary market.

Overview

Company data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Founded

2020

Employees

30

Total Funding

$21.6M

3 rounds

Funding

Total raised $21.6M across 3 rounds

Funding data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Last updated 06-25-2026

Latest Round

Type

Series A

Date

April 12, 2022

Amount

$21.6M

Valuation

Lead Investors

Not disclosed
DateRoundAmount RaisedValuationLead Investors
April 12, 2022 Series A $21.6M Not disclosed
2017 Venture round Not disclosed Not disclosed
2014 Seed Not disclosed Not disclosed

Leadership

  • Ryo Takashina

    Representative Director / CEO (代表取締役 高品 良)

Competitors

Competitor list is illustrative and may be incomplete, stale, or erroneous.

  • Marqeta

    Card-issuing API platform for embedded finance and debit card programs

  • Stripe

    Payment processing and API platform with card issuing capabilities

  • Galileo

    Card-issuing platform and BaaS provider

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