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Digital Garage, Inc.

Listed Tokyo internet group: payment platforms, fintech businesses, and startup investment and incubation.

🇯🇵 Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan · Founded 1995 · 1,000+ people

EstablishedPaymentsFintechDigital marketingVenture capitalStartup incubation

Digital Garage, Inc. is a Tokyo internet company established in August 1995 and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market (code 4819). It works in three segments: Platform Solution, built around its payment platform; Long-term Incubation, which develops fintech and other strategic businesses; and Global Investment Incubation, which invests in and supports startups. It runs the Open Network Lab accelerator, launched in 2010, and describes itself as a company that creates context for the age of the internet.

Open to

  • Hiring

The company links a recruiting site (recruit.garage.co.jp) from its corporate website.

Services

Service

Platform Solution

Data and technology solutions centred on a payment platform, used in both online and physical commerce.

Who it's for: Businesses that accept electronic payments

  • Covers credit card, QR code and convenience store payments
  • Includes payment-related services and digital marketing for financial institutions
  • The company calls its payment infrastructure one of the largest in Japan
Service

Long-term Incubation

Strategic business development, including fintech services, meant to become future revenue pillars.

  • Builds on the payment platform and the group's media assets
  • Related group work includes a 2018 crypto asset finance joint venture for corporate clients
  • DG Lab is the group's open innovation R&D organisation, including blockchain research
Service

Global Investment Incubation

Invests in and supports startups, and brings new technologies and businesses into the group.

Who it's for: Startups

  • Open Network Lab (ONLAB): accelerator programme launched in 2010
  • DG717: incubation centre set up in San Francisco in 2013
  • DG Daiwa Ventures: venture capital partnership for startup funding

Customers

Businesses that take electronic payments in online and physical commerce, financial institutions that use its digital marketing, and corporate clients of its crypto asset finance joint venture.

Traction

Updated Oct 2026
1995Year established (17 August 1995)
4819Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market code
7,888M yenShare capital as of 31 March 2025
1,383Employees (Stockopedia profile, undated)
2010Open Network Lab accelerator launched
2013DG717 incubation centre opened in San Francisco

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