introducing NAVITIME

Company Name NAVITIME JAPAN Co., Ltd.
Founded March 2000
Funding 178 million JPY
Headquarters Tokyo, Japan
Employees 300
Founders Keisuke Onishi, Ph.D., CEO
Shin Kikuchi, CTO
Service Areas and Language Japan (4 million + paid subscribers) / Japanese
Taiwan (licensed to GPSStar) / Chinese
U.S. / English
Mainland, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico
19 European Countries /English
* Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, U.K., and the Vatican Australia / English
Singapore & Malaysia / English
Japan / English
Mobile Service via Operator Network EMOBILE, KDDI, NTT Docomo, Softbank, Willcom (JAPAN)
CHT (Taiwan)
URL http://www.navitime.com/ (English service site)
http://www.navitime.co.jp/ (Japanese service site)
http://www.navitime.co.jp/en/ (English service site for Japanese mobile phone users)
Business 1. Development and licensing of route search and map drawing engines
2. Development and licensing of route search and drawing site chart data formats
3. Development of position information processing system
4. Providing route search and location based consumer services
Awards 2009 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge, APAC Edition (2009), 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series (2008), Design Excellent Company Award (2008), Good Design Award (2007), BREW Developers Awards (2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007), Mobile Project Award (2003, 2004, 2007), Web Creation Award (2006), Tokyo Metropolitan Government Venture Technology Award (2005)