SmartMat Cloud Operator Smat Raises ¥3.6B in Series C

Smat Corporation is pleased to announce that it has raised funds in a Series C round to further the business growth of its IoT inventory management system “SmartMat Cloud,” bringing its total funding to 3.6 billion yen.

For this third close, the company raised funds through a third-party allotment of new shares, with NTT Finance Corporation, which serves as the CVC function for the NTT Group, as the underwriter.

With the vision of “making the flow of goods super smart,” Esmat provides the IoT inventory management system “SmartMat Cloud.”

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Real-time inventory visualization using IoT weighing scales streamlines inventory management tasks that were previously done manually. More than 1,200 companies have adopted the system, with the focus on manufacturing, but it is also spreading to major companies in the automotive and chemical industries. In response to the urgent issues currently facing many manufacturing industries, such as labor shortages and technology transfer, Esmat will continue to accelerate the evolution of its products in order to optimize operations across the entire workplace.

As part of this, in June 2025, we began offering an inventory optimization AI agent function (beta version). This new function uses AI to learn the usage trends and time series patterns of inventory measured by IoT weighing scales, and automatically detects the risk of stockouts and the possibility of inventory compression. It supports inventory optimization by continuously providing timely “proactive proposals” to the field. The official release is scheduled for fall 2025, and will present a new form of on-site judgment supported by data and AI rather than “intuition and experience” to address the issues of labor shortages, personalization, and inventory loss in the manufacturing industry.

Smart Mat Cloud will continue to evolve as a solution that uses AI and IoT to capture even “changes invisible to humans” and expand people’s judgment and response capabilities.

SOURCE: PRTimes