Apr 28, 2025

Image credit: SORABITO SORABITO announced on the 23rd that it has raised a total of approximately 1 billion yen. This was through a third-party allotment of shares to ENEOS Innovation Partners, Zenrin Future Partners, and Inspire, as well as a loan from the Japan Finance Corporation, bringing the total amount raised to approximately 4.7 billion yen. The company also conducted a fundraising through a loan of 550 million yen in September 2023. SORABITO develops and provides services that optimize the procurement and operation management of equipment and materials necessary for construction sites. With the vision of “co-creating an ecosystem for working machines,” they aim to build a system (ecosystem) that allows necessary machines to be borrowed from the optimal location at the appropriate time, in collaboration with stakeholders in various industries and regions, including the construction industry and construction machinery rental industry. The company’s representative service is the SaaS “ i-Rental Series ,” which supports sales DX in the construction machinery rental industry. i-Rental Order digitalizes rental orders from construction companies. i-Rental Inspection paperless the inspection operations of construction machinery. Also, GENBAx Inspection is provided to construction companies and is a service that paperless all inspection forms, including pre-operation inspections of construction machinery, equipment and scaffolding inspections, and safety inspections. At Komatsu Rental Miyazaki, which uses SORABITO’s i-Rental Inspection, the workload of photo management, which used to take 30 minutes a day, became zero . Being able to shoot and upload in real-time with a smartphone eliminated the hassle of taking pictures with a digital camera and then importing them into a computer, significantly improving operational efficiency. Furthermore, it is said that inventory operations and document preparation necessary for sales decisions can now be carried out smoothly. With the ENEOS Group, which became a new shareholder with this funding, they will advance collaboration utilizing service station (SS) networks. Also, Zenrin Future Partners aims to create new value by optimizing and utilizing the amount and quality of location information held by the group and generally distributed information.