Zeals

Machine Learning · Contact Center Software
1open role
$38Mlatest round · Venture round · May 2022 · 4 yr ago
3backers · ABBALab, JIC Venture Growth Investments
50+team · employees, estimated range

Overview

Zeals is a Japanese technology company building conversational AI agents for customer service and sales. Its products include the multimodal shopping agent Omakase.ai and AI agents for the LINE messaging app that help brands personalise conversations and improve marketing results, and it hires engineers such as site reliability engineers. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with an office in San Francisco.

Key facts

As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 1 open role at Zeals. Zeals is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The latest round is Venture - Series Unknown of $38M, announced in 2022.

Open roles
1Its careers board, read on Nov 13, 2026
Headquarters
Tokyo, JapanAlion company profile, updated Nov 12, 2026
Employees
50+Alion company profile, an estimated range
Total raised
$38MSum of 1 equity round Alion knows
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown · $38M · May 12, 2022Press report · thebridge.jp

Funding and backers

Total raised
$38M
1 round on record
Latest round
$38M
Venture round · May 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
open roles
Backers
3
ABBALab, JIC Venture Growth Investments
The money's age
Long since its last round
54 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 2023 Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine May 12, 2022 Raised a round Venture round $38M · BRIDGE
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round May 2022 $38M — BRIDGE
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Jobs

In office · 3+ years exp · Tokyo
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AI Agents
DevOps
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CI/CD
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Kubernetes
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
3/100
Hiring freeze
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
60 days
faster than 21% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics -100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
DevOps
100% ▼

Financials

Total raised
$38M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 $38M Details

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Zeals over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
4
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
85/100
Languages
Python
Cloud & platforms
GitHub
Kubernetes
Practices & domains
AI Agents
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Connections

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Shared investors3
ABBALabVia a fund
28 portfolio companies: Symax, Getfove, Exiii and 25 more
127 portfolio companies: AvenCell, Quemix, iCARE# Cloud/SaaS# JapanM&A and 124 more
231 portfolio companies: Raksul, PaletteCloud, ︎2022 ONE and 228 more

News

接客AIの最前線を体感いただける「ZEALS AI SUMMIT 2025」を開催新時代を切り拓く、接客AIエージェントによる未来の顧客体験とは
株式会社ZEALSのプレスリリース2025年11月27日 14時00分接客AIの最前線を体感いただける「ZEALS AI SUMMIT 2025」を開催新時代を切り拓く、接客AIエージェントによる未来の顧客体験とは
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保険クリニックが「ZEALS AI Agent」を導入 「保険クリニックAIエージェント」としてサービス開始
株式会社アイリックコーポレーションのプレスリリース2025年4月21日 10時00分保険クリニックが「ZEALS AI Agent」を導入 「保険クリニックAIエージェント」としてサービス開始
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News BRIDGE 4 years ago
5 months after postponed IPO, AI-powered marketing bot developer Zeals secures $38M+
Image credit: Zeals Zeals is an equity-method affiliate of Freakout Holdings (TSE: 6094) and has developed AI-powered marketing bots for e-commerce companies and others. The company announced on Th…
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News Omakase.ai
Omakase Voice AI
Chatbots Suck. Let
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
Tokyo
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Tokyo Japan
HQ
Tokyo, JP
1 open roles 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for DevOps
seen since Jan 2025 job postings
San Francisco United States
Regional office
San Francisco, US
careers board
Meguro Japan
Regional office
Tokyo, JP
careers board

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