SIGQ, Developer of Agentic AI 'Incident Lake' for Incident Management, Raises Additional Funds from Mitsubishi UFJ Capital - Total Funding Reaches 153 Million JPY

SIGQ Inc. (Headquarters: Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture; CEO: Takaaki Kanechiku), the developer of 'Incident Lake', an Agentic AI specialized in incident management, announced that it has received additional investment from Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co., Ltd. as an extension to its Pre-Series A round. With this, the total amount raised in this round has reached 153 million JPY. Funding Background and Future Outlook: Urgent Need to Address Increasing Incidents with the Evolution of Cloud Services/AI As SaaS and cloud services become entrenched as social infrastructure, system outages (incidents) have become a critical risk significantly impacting corporate activities. Particularly in recent years, the increasing complexity of systems has heightened the difficulty of incident response, increasing the burden on frontline workers. Furthermore, while the evolution of generative AI improves productivity, it also complicates root cause identification and decision-making due to systems becoming black boxes. Moreover, the risks associated with the autonomous decisions of Agentic AI have been pointed out, making incident response even more challenging. In reality, many frontline teams must make response decisions based on fragmented information, leading to heavy reliance on individual expertise. To solve these challenges, our company is developing 'Incident Lake', an AI specialized in incident management. 'Incident Lake' is an autonomous AI that cross-analyzes information such as logs, past response histories, and chats to automate root cause identification and the suggestion of response strategies. This enables faster and more advanced incident response. Currently, against the backdrop of the need for advanced incident response in various companies, inquiries for 'Incident Lake' are increasing, and consultations regarding implementation are expanding. In light of this situation, we have raised funds to further accelerate our growth. With this funding, we will accelerate implementation expansion in the enterprise domain and product development, and by promoting our Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy, we aim to establish a next-generation incident management system centered on 'Incident Lake'. Funding Breakdown 153 Million JPY - Equity (123 million JPY): Issuance of J-KISS type stock acquisition rights - Debt (30 million JPY): Long-term borrowing without representative guarantee or collateral (with association guarantee) Investors (Titles omitted, in no particular order) - Mizuho Capital Co., Ltd. - SMBC Venture Capital Co., Ltd. - Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co., Ltd. (Additional participation in the extension round) - Kenta Kurahashi (Representative Director and CEO, PLAID, Inc.) - Naoki Shibayama (Director, PLAID, Inc.) - Yuichiro Kuwano (Executive Officer and CGO, PLAID, Inc.) - Naoki Kuroda (Former Executive Officer, Money Forward, Inc.) - Yusuke Shimomura (Former Executive Officer, PKSHA Technology Inc.) - Ryosuke Igari (Former Director, TENTIAL, Inc.) - Hirotaka Okada (Co-Representative / CPA, AX Tax Corporation) - Yuki Irie (Co-Representative / CPA, AX Tax Corporation) - Shinobu Miyahara (...