Vertical SaaS and marketplace platform for Japanese manufacturing supply chains
Aperza operates three interconnected businesses targeting Japan's manufacturing sector: a sales-enablement SaaS (Aperza Cloud), a catalog portal (Aperza Catalog), and a B2B marketplace (Aperza eCommerce). The company's hiring mix—14 sales roles against 9 engineering—reflects a sales-led growth phase, while active projects around KPI design, churn analysis, and onboarding efficiency signal maturation challenges typical of B2B SaaS platforms scaling beyond product-market fit. Pain points cluster around management structure, customer success capability, and win-rate expansion, suggesting a company preparing for institutional scale.
Notable leadership hires: Tech Lead, Chief Revenue Officer
Aperza is a Yokohama-based SaaS and marketplace operator serving Japan's manufacturing industry, founded in 2016 and operating with 51–200 employees. The company addresses fragmented communication and transaction workflows in a sector where manufacturers design products and trading companies (shosha) manage distribution. Aperza Cloud enables sales and marketing collaboration between these players through a two-way content-sharing model; Aperza Catalog operates as a cross-manufacturer product-information search engine for equipment industries; and Aperza eCommerce functions as a dedicated B2B marketplace allowing manufacturers and regional distributors to reach customers outside traditional sales channels. All three products are built on a modern stack (Java, Python, TypeScript, React, Next.js on AWS and GCP) and operate in a hiring-growth phase focused on sales expansion and operational stability.
Java, Python, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Spring Boot, Node.js, GraphQL, AWS (ECS, Lambda, Aurora), GCP (BigQuery), and DevOps tools including Jenkins, GoCD, Jira, and Bitbucket.
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. The company exclusively hires within Japan and was founded in 2016.
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