Jorte Announces Investment from KDDI Corp.

The calendar services provider Jorte Inc. (located in Minato-ku, Tokyo, and the CEO: Mr. SHIMOHANA Kouichi) has accepted investment from KDDI Corp. (Located in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, and the President and CEO: Mr. TANAKA Takashi). The main stockholders following this investment are Jorte Inc., JAFCO Co., Ltd., and KDDI Corp. The JAFCO’s share is held by its fund investors.

Jorte is a company that provides calendar services through an application named [Jorte Calendar & Organizer] that surpassed 23 million downloads around the world (10 million downloads in Japan). The application supports 28 languages, thanks to our international team from 11 different countries that provides user support in 15 different languages.

What is Jorte?

Jorte is an application that offers a personal organizer and calendar with an easy to use, friendly appearance which resembles a traditional paper organizer. A practical service with a handy, simple design and a broad range of customization features which can be used for work or for personal life. We also provide Jorte Cloud (https://jorte.net) that allows you to manage your events thru multiple smartphones or personal computers, that you can share diaries and events with a group based on the calendar.

Jorte has partnerships with over 100 companies and created the platform based around events, we call this feature the [Event Calendar] that allows you to follow event calendars you are interested in. In addition, we are accepting this investment to enhance user support, and to improve service for Jorte users around the world.

On Oct. 16th we have announced the participation in an alliance with KDDI and other parties. Jorte is aiming to provide essential services for daily life, by creating new value through the calendar you use on daily basis for services in a range of genres working together with other participating partners. We shall provide calendar service that is rooted in every culture, each area, collaborating with local partners around the world, and building out service models established with Japanese partners.

You can download Jorte from the following markets.

Jorte Calendar & Organizer
●Google Play Store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.johospace.jorte

●Apple App Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id570556349

●Amazon App Store:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008KYOCA2/

●Samsung Apps:
http://apps.samsung.com/mars/topApps/topAppsDetail.as?COUNTRY_CODE=USA&&productId=000000462406

●SK Telecom T-Store:
http://www.tstore.co.kr/userpoc/game/view?pid=0000319271