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Japan’s factories are world class in engineering. But step inside many shop floors and you still see paper logs, Excel sheets, whiteboards. That gap is exactly where Smart Craft is playing.
Smart Craft Inc. has raised a total of 400 million yen in pre Series A funding which includes 180 million yen from third party allotments that received support from Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Capital Co. Ltd. and Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co. Ltd. The round follows a management reshuffle in June 2025 because the company appointed new executives to the positions of chief operating officer and chief technology officer to improve its operational and product development processes.
The company offers a cloud based manufacturing execution system that digitizes process management, quality control, and inventory management. What started with process visibility is now expanding into a broader SaaS MES platform that centralizes shop floor data into one system.
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The timing is not random. Manufacturers are under pressure from labor shortages, retiring skilled workers, and volatile demand. Improving QCD and real time decision making is no longer optional.
This funding will push Smart Craft toward becoming a unified decision making platform for factories. Not just tracking operations, but structuring them around data. The bigger story here is simple. Manufacturing is finally being forced to modernize at the operating system level.
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