Mission

Accelerating the shift to a sustainable world through technology

Do the most with the least

Sustainable ways of working tailored to the lifestyle; ways of building sustainable competitive advantages in rapidly changing markets; means for sustainable human civilization to oppose the risks of climate change and ecosystem collapse. Individuals, companies, and society. Challenges to sustainability are emerging at every layer, and solutions are being sought the world over. We believe that enhancing the productivity of people and resources through technology is the key to overcoming the crisis. Just as the proliferation of mobile communications, the cloud, and AI has changed our lives as consumers over the last two decades, we must implement standard technologies for the 21st century in the industries and the work sites that support society. Through the power of technology, we will change work sites, change companies, and change society and our future. That is our mission.

Service

AI Based Industry Cloud

Our strength lies in the ability to develop intuitive and scalable product platforms in the domain where data, technology, and design fuse into one. We also have abundant development experience related to deep learning and machine learning on big data platforms, as well as patented technology related to edge AI. Deeply digging into industry-specific issues together with change leaders who are boldly tackling the digital shift in old industries, we will develop and offer strategies for establishing sustainable competitive advantage and industry-specific cloud services to realize these.

Product

AI Based Vertical SaaS

LINNÉ LENS

A mobile AI/AR guide that accelerates understanding of rapidly disappearing ecosystems.
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Rentals

A B2B rental cloud service that accelerates the circular economy.
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Award

With outstanding technology and design, our products have earned praise worldwide.

We received the 22nd Entertainment Category Grand Prize Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival (2019). Our award that year was received alongside awardees "Chico Will Scold You!!" and "TikTok."
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We were nominated in the 2020 ML&Bot Category. We received the nomination alongside names including DeepL, which is famous for its amazingly natural machine translation. The Webby Awards are the most prestigious awards in the world of the Internet, and have been awarded in the past to Google, Amazon, Facebook, AirBnB, and Wikipedia.
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We received the 2019 iF Product Design Award. Based in Hanau, Germany and famous as the "Oscar Awards for Design," this is one of the three major design awards in the world.
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We were adopted into Nvidia's Inception Program. This acceleration program supports leading-edge startups in transforming the industry through artificial intelligence (AI).

News

March 31, 2021 Rentals Nikken Corporation to officially launch Rentals, an online rental system provided by Linne, on April 1.
March 31, 2021 Rentals Linne launches Rentals, an online rental SaaS for construction equipment rental companies.
July 28, 2020 LINNÉ LENS Began offering a plan for facilities that can use the real-time AI/AR exhibition system "LINNÉ LENS Screen".
July 17, 2020 LINNÉ LENS Release of the next-generation AI exhibition system LINNÉ LENS Screen at Kawasaki Aquarium
June 5, 2020 LINNÉ LENS Free service with unlimited usage launched in partnership with the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium
June 27, 2019 LINNÉ LENS Released on the App Store and Google Play worldwide, with support for six languages of five countries - English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Thai and Japanese
April 1, 2019 LINNÉ LENS Free service with unlimited usage launched in partnership with Maxell Aqua Park Shinagawa and Aqua World Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium
April 1, 2019 LINNÉ LENS LINNÉ LENS Android version launched
March 1, 2019 LINNÉ LENS Free service with unlimited usage launched in partnership with the Shimonoseki Marine Science Museum and Neo Park Okinawa
February 6, 2019 Linne Corporation Certified as an NVIDIA Inception Program partner company
December 21, 2018 LINNÉ LENS LINNÉ LENS can identify all 633 species of wild birds in Japan
September 28, 2018 LINNÉ LENS LINNÉ LENS can identify animals in Japanese zoos
September 18, 2018 LINNÉ LENS LINNÉ LENS can identify 90 cat breeds from around the world
August 29, 2018 LINNÉ LENS LINNÉ LENS can identify 325 dog breeds
August 20, 2018 LINNÉ LENS Free trial campaign launched in partnership with Sunshine Aquarium, Toba Aquarium and Kaiyukan
August 13, 2018 LINNÉ LENS LINNÉ LENS released

Media

May 19, 2020 LINNÉ LENS Selected for the top five in the Machine Learning and Bots category of the Webby Awards 2020
September 22, 2019 LINNÉ LENS Featured on Nippon Television's "School Revolution!"
September 18, 2019 LINNÉ LENS Featured on TBS's "I Am Adventure Boy"
September 14, 2019 LINNÉ LENS Featured on Nippon Television's "Next Stop, Discovery"
June 22, 2019 LINNÉ LENS Featured on TBS's "King's Brunch"
March 21, 2019 LINNÉ LENS Featured on "Good Morning, Japan! Street Corner Information Center" (NHK News)
March 1, 2019 LINNÉ LENS Received "the Exellence Award at the 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival"
March 1, 2019 LINNÉ LENS Featured on YTV's "Osaka Honwaka TV"
February 23, 2019 LINNÉ LENS Featured on Nippon Television's "The Most Useful School in The World"
January 29, 2019 LINNÉ LENS Received "iF DESIGN AWARD 2019"
December 5, 2018 LINNÉ LENS Featured on "Good Morning, Japan! Street Corner Information Center" (NHK News)
December 4, 2018 LINNÉ LENS Featured on ORICON NEWS
December 1, 2018 LINNÉ LENS Double prize won "Digital Teaching Material Award Grand Prix" and "Jury Special Award" at the 6th Digital Eco Award
November 18, 2018 LINNÉ LENS Featured on TBS's "Sunday Japon"
November 4, 2018 LINNÉ LENS Received "Startup Grand Prize to Change the World" at the Nikkei Trendy December 2018
September 19, 2018 LINNÉ LENS Introduced at The Japan Times
September 19, 2018 LINNÉ LENS Featured on Mainichi Broadcasting System's "Chichin Puipui"
September 19, 2018 LINNÉ LENS Featured in The Japan Times
September 10, 2018 LINNÉ LENS Featured on Nippon Television News's "the Social"
September 2, 2018 LINNÉ LENS Featured on NHK Tokai
August 24, 2018 LINNÉ LENS Featured on bouncy
August 23, 2018 LINNÉ LENS Featured on Oceana
August 14, 2018 LINNÉ LENS Featured on livedoor NEWS

About

Company

Name Linne Corporation
Foundation date Feb, 2018
Directors Co-founder & CEO Kenichi Sugimoto
Co-founder & CTO Heechan Yang
Address 5-13-18, Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Business AI Based Industry Cloud, AI Based Vertical SaaS

Contact

contact@linne.ai