HISTORY

November 2001 Established Drecom Ltd. in Minami-ku, Kyoto. Main business is the free self-introduction tool "My Profile" and contract development
August 2002 Head Office moved to Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
March 2003 Reorganization into a stock company
July 2003 Renewed "My Profile" and started providing free blog service for individuals
December 2003 Launched "My Blog List," a service that allows users to receive updates on their registered blogs
March 2004 Launched "MyClip," a service for bookmarking blogs and news
July 2004 Launched "Drecom Blog System"
August 2004 Opened Tokyo Branch in Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo
September 2004 Commenced sales of "Drecom Blog Office," an in-house blog system
September 2004 Renewal of "My Profile" to "Drecom Blog"
January 2005 Established Drecomtec Corporation in Kusatsu City, Shiga Prefecture, a subsidiary whose main business was the research and development of search engines
April 2005 Launched "Drecom Career," a job information search service
July 2005 Tokyo Branch moved to Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo
September 2005 Launched "Drecom CMS," a system for building and managing corporate websites
December 2005 Launched "Drecom RSS," a service that supported the collection and dissemination of news information using RSS readers
February 2006 Listed on the Mothers section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
April 2006 Tokyo Branch moved to Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
June 2006 The Drecom blog business and category-specific search service business divisions were split off and transferred to a newly established subsidiary, Drecom Generated Media Co.
August 2006 Head Office integrated into Tokyo Branch
September 2006 Formed a business alliance with The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. on cards for sole proprietors and small and medium-sized businesses
October 2006 NEC Corporation and NEC Nexsolutions, Ltd. to collaborate on Internal Blog System Business
December 2006 Acquired Drecom Marketing Inc. from Hikari Tsushin Group
March 2007 Launched "Space Hunter", an ad marketplace service, and entered the Internet advertising business
April 2007 Acquired shares of J-Ken Corporation and made it a subsidiary
August 2007 Announced a capital and business alliance with NEC Nexsolutions, Ltd.
April 2008 Announced a capital and business alliance with Rakuten, Inc.
June 2008 Launched Rakuten ad4U, a behavioral targeting advertising service, in collaboration with Rakuten, Inc.
August 2008 Head Office moved to Takadanobaba, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
October 2008 Launched Kisekae Builder, a cell phone Kisekae content creation service
May 2009 Merged with subsidiary J-Ken Co.
May 2009 Opened "Collect and Banner", a banner submission site for mobile advertising
July 2009 Launched "poncan," a point advertising service for mixi applications
August 2009 Commenced offering the mixi app "Correspondence Brain Power University - Kanji Test"
October 2009 Announced the transfer of the blog package business for corporations and the free blog service "Drecom Blog" business for individuals to Livedoor Inc.
October 2009 Launched "Uma Racing" and four other applications for the mobile version of mixi app
December 2009 Began collaboration with Crowdstar International Ltd. of the U.S., a provider of social games on Facebook, and began offering "Happy Aquarium" provided by Crowdstar in Japan
January 2010 Launched three social game titles for Mobage Town
June 2010 Launched two social game titles for GREE
September 2010 Started collaboration with Five Minutes, China
September 2010 Announced the transfer of subsidiary ZIGExN Co., Ltd. to ZIGExN Holdings
October 2010 Announced the transfer of subsidiary Drecom Marketing Inc. to Alibaba Marketing Inc.
December 2010 Launched the social game "Onmyoji: Heian Yokitan" for GREE
April 2011 Launched "poncan" as a service for smartphones
January 2011 Started providing the social game "Chokotto Farm" for GREE
April 2011 Started providing the social game "Sword x Sword" for GREE
April 2011 Started providing the social game "Bikkuri Man" for GREE
April 2011 Launched the social game "Yankee Legend" for GREE
April 2011 Launched "poncan for Smartphone," a rewarded advertising service for smartphones
July 2011 Launched "PASHA," a photo communication application for iPhone
August 2011 Announced a business alliance with mixi Inc. Rewarded advertising service "poncan" was provided as mixi's official rewarded advertising
November 2011 Launched mixi's official reward advertising service "mixi Point Plus," which used the reward advertising service "poncan"
March 2012 Entered the social learning business by launching the social learning platform "smacolo" and the English listening learning application "Listen and Grow English Eitama"
March 2012 Transferred the mobile content business to CA Mobile Inc.
March 2012 Acquisition of Snout Sdn. Bhd from Snout Co. Became a subsidiary
April 2012 Moved the head office to Shimomeguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo
April 2012 Launched "Spirit Force," the first native-app social game
April 2012 Launched "Monster Arms", a real-time strategy social card game
May 2012 Launched "Maple Story Brave Monsters" in collaboration with Nexon Corporation
May 2012 Launched social card game "Sengoku Frontier"
June 2012 Launched the social card game "Secret Yokai Taisen"
July 2012 Transferred ASP business to Stock Social Groupware via company split
July 2012 Launched the social card game "Dragon x Dreizen"
July 2012 Launched social learning app "Gurutan: Around the World with English Vocabulary"
July 2012 Launched the social game "Together with You 2"
July 2012 Launched the social card game "Jeanne d'Arc of the Holy Hour"
August 2012 Launched social card game "Reclaim! Mappa Mundi"
August 2012 Launched the social card game "Sangoku Frontier"
September 2012 Launched the social game "Chokotto Farm" for smartphones
September 2012 Launched two social game titles, "Cinderella Nine" and "Himegami Blade", in collaboration with Akatsuki Co.
October 2012 Launched social game "Chronos Future Warfare" in collaboration with f4samurai Inc.
November 2012 Launched the social game "Purgatory Crusade" in collaboration with Entersphere Inc.
November 2012 Launched the social card game "Reign of Dragons" in the U.S.
January 2013 Launched the social game "Gildian Brave" in collaboration with Bar Styles Inc.
January 2013 Transferred Snout Sdn. Bhd, a subsidiary in Malaysia
March 2013 Launched the social game "SENGOKU BUSOU HIME -MURAMASA-" in collaboration with Silicon Studio Inc.
April 2013 Launched the iOS version of social learning app "Eipontan!"
September 2013 Started providing the iOS version of the social game application "Fantasista Doll Girls Royale"
October 2013 Started providing the Android version of the social game application "Fantasista Doll Girls Royale"
December 2013 Launched the Android version of social learning app "Eipontan!"
January 2014 Launched the iOS version of the social game application "Full Bokko Heroes" in collaboration with CyberConnect2 Inc.
February 2014 Launched the Android version of the social game application "Full Bokko Heroes" in collaboration with CyberConnect2 Inc.
February 2014 Launched "HeatAppReward," a performance-based advertising service for smartphones
February 2014 Launched "Flying Gacha," a pre-registration media site for smartphone applications
March 2014 Social game app "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Stardust Shooters" (Drecom: development cooperation) iOS/Android version was released by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.
April 2014 Conducted a 1:100 stock split
April 2014 Launched social game "Reign of Dragons" in Chinese market in collaboration with Access Bright Inc.
May 2014 Social game app "ONE PIECE Treasure Cruise" (Drecom: development cooperation) iOS/Android version started from BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.
August 2014 Implemented "Startup Boarding Gate" incubation program for students
September 2014 Social learning business was spun off and ReDucate, Inc. was established as a joint subsidiary with Rakuten, Inc.
October 2014 Launched the iOS version of the DropComics manga app
November 2014 Drecom and Mobimon Inc. launched social game "Full Bokko Heroes" for iOS and Android in the Chinese market
December 2014 Launched "poncan Video Ads," a video delivery advertising network, on "Tmall Video for SoftBank" provided by SoftBank Mobile Corp.
February 2015 BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc. launched social game app "ONE PIECE Treasure Cruise" (Drecom: development cooperation) for iOS/Android version in North America, Europe and Australia
February 2015 Launched "poncan Video Ads", a video delivery advertising network, on "Oki Doki Land", a point benefit site operated by JCB Co.
April 2015 Subsidiary Grimoire Inc. launched social game application "Brave Sword x Blaze Soul" for iOS and Android
April 2015 Social game app "Cliffhanger Busters" for iOS and Android launched
August 2015 Video ad network "poncan Video Ads" renewed as "DreeVee"
October 2015 Subsidiary ReDucate, Inc. launched social learning app "Kikoeigo" for iOS and Android
December 2015 Launched social game "Chokotto Farm" on "Ameba" for smartphones
March 2016 Subsidiary ReDucate Inc. started offering "Eipontan for students", a subscription service for students
March 2016 Launched PlanB, a dining concierge service
April 2016 Launched iOS version of "Clip" bartering application
May 2016 Subsidiary ReDucate Inc. increased its capital through a third-party allotment to Rakuten, Inc. and Drecom. ReDucate Inc. changed from a consolidated subsidiary to an equity method affiliate
June 2016 Launched "AsobiFest," a free marketing platform
July 2016 Established a subsidiary, Drecom Okinawa Inc. in Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture, to provide customer support and debugging services
October 2016 Launched the iOS version of the live communication app "Pass!" Transferred subsidiary Grimoire Inc. to Happy Elements Inc.
November 2016 Launched social game app "Derby Stallion Masters" for iOS and Android
March 2017 Raised funds through public offering of new shares
March 2017 Capital increase through third-party allotment to Rakuten, Inc.
April 2017 Conducted stock split at a ratio of 2-for-1
July 2017 "Mingol" (distributed by ForwardWorks Co., Ltd.) launched
July 2017 BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc. launched the social game app "Weekly Shonen Jump Ore Collection! "(Drecom: development cooperation) for iOS and Android
August 2017 Jointly established BXD Inc. with BANDAI NAMCO Entertainement Inc. to develop "enza"
November 2017 Kindle Fire version of "Mingol" (distributed by ForwardWorks Co., Ltd.) launched
December 2017 "Kirara Fantasia" (distributed by Aniplex Corp.) launched
December 2017 "WOFF Merimero" (distributed by Square Enix Co., Ltd.) launched
April 2018 "enza," a new browser game platform for smartphones developed and operated by BXD Co., launched
April 2018 "THE iDOLM@STER SHINY COLORS" (distributed by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainement Inc.) launched
July 2018 "Dragon Ball Z Butchigiri Match" (distributed by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainement Inc.) launched
July 2018 Launched LoveChain, a blockchain service
August 2018 Announced AROW, a platform for building AR smartphone applications using location information and 3D maps
September 2018 ERC721 extended smart contract "|||||| (6 pillars)" launched
September 2018 Dissolved the capital and business alliance with Rakuten, Inc.
December 2018 "Animal Run Land," a trial location based game developed using AROW, launched
February 2019 "PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL Famista Master Owners" (distributed by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.) launched
March 2019 iOS and Android version of "THE iDOL M@STER SHINY COLORS" (distributed by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.) launched
August 2019 "Super Robot Wars DD" (distributed by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.) launched
November 2019 "Ore Collection 2" (distributed by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.) launched
November 2019 "Disgaea RPG" (distributed by ForwardWorks Co.) relaunched
February 2020 Selected as a loan trading issue
February 2020 Transfer of a subsidiary, Drecom Okinawa, to Wit One Inc.
March 2020 Acquired Studio King Inc. from Ignis Inc. and rebranded to Studio Rex inc.
March 2020 "NARUTO X BORUTO Ninja TRIBES" (distributed by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.) launched
March 2020 Sold all shares of BXD Inc. to BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.
December 2020 Launched stress test service utilizing the management experience of large-scale service developments and operations
January 2021 Launched Twitter based fan community promotion service "Rooot"
June 2021 Relocate the head office to the ThinkPark Tower in Osaki, Shinagawa, Tokyo
July 2021 Expanded stress test service and began offering new vulnerability testing service and design advisory service
September 2021 Launched smart phone game app "D_CIDE TRAUMEREI" (co-development by Drecom) for iOS/Android from Sumzap, Inc.
February 2022 Transfer of game division's quality control section to Digital Hearts Co., Ltd. based on company split
February 2022 Launched smart phone game app "Miko Note" for iOS/Android
February 2022 Launched smart phone game app "New Japan Pro-Wrestling: Strong Spirits" (co-development by Drecom) for iOS/Android from Bushiroad Inc.
April 2022 Due to the update with Tokyo Stock Exchange's market categorization, company's listing transferred from TSE Mothers to Growth Market
October 2022 Light Novel lable "DRE NOVELS" published by the Publishing/Film Business brand "Drecom Media"
March 2023 Launched co-op competitive action game app "GGGGG" for iOS/Android
July 2023 Launched YouTube-based fan community & UGC promotion service "Fanflu"
October 2023 Comic label "DRE COMICS" published by the Publishing/Film Business brand "Drecom Media"
November 2023 Webtoon label "DRE STUDIOS" published by the Publishing/Film Business brand "Drecom Media"
December 2023 Launched cloud-based stress test tool "Mx.Load"
January 2024 Opened Drecom's official online store "DRECOM SHOP"
February 2024 Launched game and web development/operation support service "Mx.MSP"
March 2024 Launched blockchain game "Eternal Crypt - Wizardry BC -" for PC (browser)/iOS/Android in collaboration with Turingum K.K. (distributed by ZEAL NOVA DMCC)
March 2024 Launched TikTok based fan community & UGC promotion service "TikPuls"
June 2024 Launched smart phone game app "Devil Prince and the Puppet" for iOS/Android
October 2024 Launched smart phone game app "Wizardry Variants Daphne" for iOS/Android