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The KIRIN HEALTH INNOVATION FUND Invests In tacoms, An IT Company to Deliver a Richer Food Experience
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November 13, 2024
Kirin Holdings Company, Limited
TOKYO, November 13, 2024 – Kirin Holdings Company, Limited (Kirin Holdings) announced that it has invested in tacoms inc.(tacoms) through the KIRIN HEALTH INNOVATION FUND (KHIF), a corporate venture capital (CVC) fund established jointly with Global Brain Corporation, a leading independent venture capital firm. The investment took place in August.
Tacoms is a start-up company that uses IT to streamline the cumbersome operations of food and beverage companies that offer delivery, takeout, and other mid-meal services, helping them to expand their sales channels and increase sales. In recent years, the need for “naka-shoku,” or easily-accessible pre-made meals has been increasing due to changes in Japan’s living environment and the diversification of food, and it plays an important role in supporting people's daily dining. Together with tacoms, Kirin Holdings will explore initiatives to promote healthy and abundant dietary life through “naka-shoku.”.
The Kirin Group has formulated a long-term management concept, Kirin Group Vision 2027, which calls upon the Group to become a global leader in CSV*1 by 2027 by creating value in domains ranging from food & beverages to pharmaceuticals. To achieve this goal, in addition to its existing Food & Beverages and Pharmaceuticals business domains, Kirin Holdings has launched and is fostering a new Health Science domain that will contribute to people's health based on the advanced fermentation and biotechnology that the Kirin Group has cultivated over many years.
1 Creating Shared Value: combined added value for consumers as well as for society at large.
About tacoms
“Camel,” a centralized delivery order management service provided by tacoms, enables a single tablet to accept orders from different linked delivery and takeout services, thereby simplifying the series of operations required for delivery operations at the store side. It also integrates with store POS (point-of-sale) and mission-critical systems. Since its official release in May 2021, the cumulative number of stores that have adopted the service has surpassed 9,000*2 nationwide, supporting the entry into the delivery business and improvement of store operations for many restaurant companies.
In the future, tacoms aims to promote a multi-product strategy that provides total support for online ordering operations and CRM for food and beverage companies, including the release of “Camel Order”, which allows food and beverage companies to set up their own takeout and delivery web ordering sites (mobile ordering) with no coding required.
2 As of November 2024
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“Camel” order management system
About the KIRIN HEALTH INNOVATION FUND
Through the KIRIN HEALTH INNOVATION FUND, Kirin Holdings intends to invest in startups around the globe that have innovative technologies and business models for resolving health issues, and to leverage their advanced health science technologies and solutions for improving customer experience. By combining the Kirin Group’s wealth of assets and competence in health science with innovations and technologies that startups will bring to partnerships, Kirin Holdings will be better able to bolster its existing Food & Beverages domain as well as step up efforts to launch new businesses in its Health Science domain.
Company Overviews
(1)About the KIRIN HEALTH INNOVATION FUND
| Fund name | KIRIN HEALTH INNOVATION FUND (registered as KIRIN and GB Investment Limited Partnership) |
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| Primary sector for investment | Startups around the globe operating in the health science domain |
| Established | March 2020 |
| AUM | 5 billion yen |
| Investment period | 10 years |
| General partner | Global Brain Corporation |
(2) About Global Brain
| Company name | Global Brain Corporation |
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| Head office | 2-17-1 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan |
| President | Yasuhiko Yurimoto |
| Established | January 1998 |
| Primary business | Venture capital business |
| URL | https://globalbrains.com/en/ |
(3) Outline of tacoms inc.
| Company name | tacoms inc. |
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| Head office | Nihonbashi Ningyocho Square 9F, 1-8-11 Nihonbashi Horidome-cho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo |
| President | CEO Seita Miyamoto |
| Established | May 2019 |
| Primary business | Development and provision of Vertical SaaS "Camel Series" for the food and beverage industry |
| URL | https://tacoms-inc.com/ https://www.camel-series.com/ |
About Kirin Holdings
Kirin Holdings Company, Limited is an international company that operates in the Food & Beverages domain (Food & Beverages businesses), Pharmaceuticals domain (Pharmaceuticals businesses), and Health Science domain (Health Science business), both in Japan and across the globe.
Kirin Holdings can trace its roots to Japan Brewery which was established in 1885. Japan Brewery became Kirin Brewery in 1907. Since then, the company expanded its business with fermentation and biotechnology as its core technologies, and entered the pharmaceutical business in the 1980s, all of which continue to be global growth centers. In 2007, Kirin Holdings was established as a pure holding company and is currently focusing on boosting its Health Science domain.
Under the Kirin Group Vision 2027 (KV 2027), a long-term management plan launched in 2019, the Kirin Group aims to become “A global leader in CSV, creating value across our world of Food & Beverages to Pharmaceuticals.” Going forward, the Kirin Group will continue to leverage its strengths to create both social and economic value through its businesses, with the aim of achieving sustainable growth in corporate value.
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