Masaya Kubota

Quartz is a business-focused English-language international news organization, it launched from New York City in 2012, and is owned by Japanese business media company Uzabase (Japanese: ユーザベース). It operates editions globally, outside of the United States and Japan, including in the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Africa, and India. The Quartz website and newsletters began as free digital news publications with no paywalls nor registration requirements. In 2018, it launched a paid membership product; in 2019, a paywall limited users to read 5 articles per month after its sale to the Japanese company Uzabase, which also has paywalls on many of its Japanese websites. Quartz targets high-earning readers, calling itself a "digitally native news outlet for business people in the new global economy". Sixty percent of its readers access the site via mobile devices, and nearly half of its readers are outside the United States.In August 2017, Quartz's website saw more than 22 million unique visitors. More than 700,000 people subscribe to its roster of email newsletters, which includes its flagship Daily Brief.According to Ad Age, Quartz made around $30 million in revenue in 2016, and employed 175 people. The same year, Harvard's Nieman Lab described Quartz as "among the fastest-growing and most closely watched digital news sites".In 2017, revenue decreased to $27.6 million as advertising shrank. Uzabase purchased the organization for $86 million.

World Innovation Lab is a venture capital firm California, the United States that invests in businesses in the mobile, enterprise and SaaS, cloud, fin-tech, data, marketplace and e-commerce, artificial intelligence and machine learning, industry 4.0, entertainment and media, digital services, next-generation transportation, and software-defined hardware sectors. Founded on Aug 1, 2013, in Palo Alto, California by Isayama and Masataka Matsumoto, this company invests in early-stage ventures and late-stage ventures. The company usually invests in series A, series B, series C, and Series D rounds. Its portfolio companies include Automation Anywhere, PeerStreet, AI Medical ServiceAI Medical Service, DataRobot, SmartHR.