Hairdresser matching service raises seed capital from Samurai Fund /Venture Now

Axelworks announced to conduct allocation of new shares to Samurai Incubate Fund II in the middle of July. A total amount of capital is to be 7.8 million yen after the investment.

Along with the fundraising, it will change a name of company to FlyBridGe. The company aims for global expansion with the world's first hairdresser specialized Online-to-Offline service connecting hairdressers and consumers, Hiarcuttin, which is now in development.
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Venture Now 6/30/2011

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• O2O (Online-to-Offline) is one of the keywords in this year. It is expected that a trend in web and mobile such as real-time and location are to be monetized with O2O. Also a rapid growth of smartphone accelerates the move.