Company Information


Company Name

NAVITIME JAPAN Co., Ltd.

Founded

March 2000

Funding

178 million JPY

Headquarters

Tokyo, Japan

Employees

220+

Founders

Keisuke Onishi, Ph.D., CEO
Shin Kikuchi, CTO

Service Areas and Languages

Japan (4 million + paid subscribers) / Japanese
Taiwan (licensed to GPSStar) / Chinese
U.S. / English
Mainland, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico
19 European Countries /English
* Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, U.K., and the Vatican
Australia / English
Singapore & Malaysia / English
Japan / English

Mobile Service via Operator Network

EMOBILE, KDDI, NTT Docomo, Softbank, Willcom (JAPAN)
CHT (Taiwan)

URL

http://www.navitime.com/ (English service site)
http://www.navitime.co.jp/ (Japanese service site)
http://www.navitime.co.jp/en/ (English service site for Japanese mobile phone users)

Business
  1. Development and licensing of route search and map drawing engines
  2. Development and licensing of route search and drawing site chart data formats
  3. Development of position information processing system
  4. Providing route search and location based consumer services

Awards

2009 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge, APAC Edition (2009), 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series (2008), Design Excellent Company Award (2008), Good Design Award (2007), BREW Developers Awards (2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007), Mobile Project Award (2003, 2004, 2007), Web Creation Award (2006), Tokyo Metropolitan Government Venture Technology Award (2005)