Tancee Inc., a Platform Specializing in Foreign Human Resources, Completes 45 Million Yen Seed Round Funding
Tancee Inc., a company operating a platform specializing in foreign human resources, has successfully raised 45 million yen in a seed round from Incubate Fund. This funding aims to accelerate business development and strengthen recruitment systems to address structural issues in the specified skilled worker market and support workplaces facing severe labor shortages in Japan.
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Tancee Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Masaya Nishi), which operates a platform specializing in foreign human resources, has completed a 45 million yen seed round of funding with Incubate Fund Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Partners: Toru Akaura, Masahiko Honma, Keisuke Wada, Yusuke Murata, Paul McInerney) as the underwriter.
This funding will accelerate business development and strengthen recruitment systems aimed at solving structural issues in the specified skilled worker market, and promote support for workplaces facing severe labor shortages.
**■ Background and Purpose of Fundraising**
The decline in Japan's working population is becoming severe, with a projected shortage of 11 million workers by 2040. The shortage is particularly pronounced in essential worker/blue-collar sectors such as nursing care, food and beverage manufacturing, and agriculture. The utilization of the "Specified Skilled Worker" system, which accepts foreign human resources with certain expertise and skills, is highly anticipated as a key solution.
However, the current specified skilled worker market is inefficient and fragmented, with a proliferation of recruitment agencies and registered support organizations, leading to a lack of accumulated human resources and data. Furthermore, for accepting companies, the complex mandatory support must be outsourced to external organizations, and the high cost burden acts as a barrier to recruitment.
Tancee aims to solve these two challenges—"lack of transparency in matching" and "operational costs after acceptance"—and become an infrastructure for both hiring companies and foreign human resources.
**■ About Tancee's Solutions**
Our company goes beyond the conventional framework of recruitment agencies and registered support organizations, deploying a unique two-layered product that digitalizes both matching and mandatory support. The accumulation of data will lead to further improvements in matching accuracy, realizing discontinuous growth as a platform.
- **Visualization of the human resources market:** We involve domestic and international human resources agents to build a mechanism that allows companies to directly and efficiently approach diverse candidates. This makes the previously opaque recruitment process transparent.
- **Digitalization of mandatory support:** We digitalize the mandatory support operations, which previously relied heavily on external organizations, and support in-house implementation. This significantly reduces costs for companies.
**■ Comment from Investors**
Incubate Fund
This funding will accelerate business development and strengthen recruitment systems aimed at solving structural issues in the specified skilled worker market, and promote support for workplaces facing severe labor shortages.
**■ Background and Purpose of Fundraising**
The decline in Japan's working population is becoming severe, with a projected shortage of 11 million workers by 2040. The shortage is particularly pronounced in essential worker/blue-collar sectors such as nursing care, food and beverage manufacturing, and agriculture. The utilization of the "Specified Skilled Worker" system, which accepts foreign human resources with certain expertise and skills, is highly anticipated as a key solution.
However, the current specified skilled worker market is inefficient and fragmented, with a proliferation of recruitment agencies and registered support organizations, leading to a lack of accumulated human resources and data. Furthermore, for accepting companies, the complex mandatory support must be outsourced to external organizations, and the high cost burden acts as a barrier to recruitment.
Tancee aims to solve these two challenges—"lack of transparency in matching" and "operational costs after acceptance"—and become an infrastructure for both hiring companies and foreign human resources.
**■ About Tancee's Solutions**
Our company goes beyond the conventional framework of recruitment agencies and registered support organizations, deploying a unique two-layered product that digitalizes both matching and mandatory support. The accumulation of data will lead to further improvements in matching accuracy, realizing discontinuous growth as a platform.
- **Visualization of the human resources market:** We involve domestic and international human resources agents to build a mechanism that allows companies to directly and efficiently approach diverse candidates. This makes the previously opaque recruitment process transparent.
- **Digitalization of mandatory support:** We digitalize the mandatory support operations, which previously relied heavily on external organizations, and support in-house implementation. This significantly reduces costs for companies.
**■ Comment from Investors**
Incubate Fund