Idare key facts
- Developer of a prepaid card and online payment service platform intended to allow contactless payment.
- It has raised $24.6M; the latest was Later Stage VC ($13.1M) in Nov 2025.
- Notable investors include SMBC Venture Capital, SBI Investment, East Ventures, Nissay Capital, Spiral Capital (Tokyo) — 20 tracked in total.
- Status: Privately Held (backing).
Who backs Idare
20+- ·The complete investor list: 20 names
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Idare funding rounds
No funding rounds for Idare are on record yet — either the company hasn't raised institutional capital, or the raise hasn't surfaced in our sources.
Idare investors
20 investors are on record for Idare, including SMBC Venture Capital, SBI Investment, East Ventures and Nissay Capital. By type, the record holds 7 venture capital firms and 1 angel investor.
About Idare
Developer of a prepaid card and online payment service platform intended to allow contactless payment. The company's payment platform provides a public application programming interface with a savings feature that automatically rounds up daily payments so that one can keep the change, allowing customers to control their spending.
- Sector
- Financial Services
- HQ
- Tokyo, Japan
- Founded
- 2019
- Employees
- 12
- Website
- idare.jp/
- Ownership
- Privately Held (backing)
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Idare doesn't have a valuation on record yet — one is published once a priced round, a reported valuation, fund marks, or secondary prints surface in our sources. The rest of the record below builds toward it.