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Orwood Inc. has received an investment from CyberAgent Capital. The timing matters. This is the point where the company shifts from building to scaling. A Japanese HR and marketing venture focused on cross-border work is now entering its business expansion phase.
At the core of Orwood is a clear idea. Talent and passion should not be locked inside borders. Birthplace, nationality, language, or visa status should not decide how far someone can go. Orwood wants to unlock people, products, and events across countries and turn that into real economic value.
The company is aiming for a society where people can work anywhere and show what they are capable of, without being blocked by language, culture, or systems that were never designed for global movement. To do that, Orwood is building a new kind of co-creation infrastructure. One that allows Asia to continuously produce companies and individuals that can operate and compete globally.
On the business side, Orwood already works with Japanese companies, local governments, and products that want to expand overseas. It supports cross-border growth directly, not just through advice. Looking ahead, Orwood plans to launch a global talent business matching service. This will allow companies to connect directly with overseas professionals and place orders or request consultations on an hourly basis or by project.
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The company has built traction early.
It has unique partnerships with global talent networks from top universities, including Tsinghua University. It supports cross-border recruitment by matching Japanese companies with global talent. It helps small and medium-sized enterprises expand overseas while running multiple multilingual marketing businesses at the same time. In June 2025, Orwood is scheduled to host Japan’s first new graduate recruitment event focused entirely on multilingual talent, held in Tokyo.
This approach breaks away from the traditional country-by-country structure of the HR industry. Instead of treating borders as fixed lines, Orwood creates collaboration opportunities that cut across them. That directly expands the talent pool for companies that struggle to hire under conventional recruitment models.
Looking forward, Orwood is not positioning itself as just another HR or marketing service. It sees itself as a platform. A global standard. A new default for how people work in the next era.
Orwood describes itself as a cross-border HR tech and marketing company born in Japan, with the ambition to become a global company from Japan that represents the 21st century. Its broader social agenda is clear. Make cross-border work normal. Build infrastructure that supports it. And change how society thinks about employment without borders.
For companies, Orwood is targeting very specific pain points.
Orwood offers strategic matchmaking with world-class global talent from top universities, both in and out of Japan, for the teams that desire to tackle global challenges.
For organizations that are thinking about employing global talent in the fields of IT, AI, marketing, and international business development, Orwood assists in every aspect from project-based outsourcing to complete recruitment. This includes recruitment strategy design and creating real contact points through events.
For companies focused on marketing or attracting tourists to Japan, Orwood offers end-to-end support. Social media operations, promotion design, and local market measures aimed mainly at audiences from China and Southeast Asia.
For businesses looking at overseas expansion or cross-border e-commerce, Orwood supports strategy design and execution. This includes localizing products and services and building sales channels in foreign markets.
For local governments and regional businesses, Orwood helps promote regional appeal overseas. Tourism, local products, and culture are used as assets, along with inbound tourism planning for Japan.
With CyberAgent Capital now on board, Orwood is clearly positioning itself for the next phase. Less proof of concept. More scale. And a bigger push toward making borderless work not an exception, but the standard.
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