{"id":4618,"date":"2023-08-01T15:30:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T06:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/?p=4618"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:36:43","slug":"%e3%82%a8%e3%82%a2%e3%83%88%e3%83%aa%e3%81%a8%e3%82%b9%e3%82%bf%e3%83%b3%e3%83%87%e3%83%bc%e3%82%b8%e3%81%8c%e8%b3%87%e6%9c%ac%e6%a5%ad%e5%8b%99%e6%8f%90%e6%90%ba%e3%80%80%e6%b5%b7%e5%a4%96%e8%b2%a9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/2023\/08\/01\/%e3%82%a8%e3%82%a2%e3%83%88%e3%83%aa%e3%81%a8%e3%82%b9%e3%82%bf%e3%83%b3%e3%83%87%e3%83%bc%e3%82%b8%e3%81%8c%e8%b3%87%e6%9c%ac%e6%a5%ad%e5%8b%99%e6%8f%90%e6%90%ba%e3%80%80%e6%b5%b7%e5%a4%96%e8%b2%a9\/","title":{"rendered":"AirTrip and Standage Form Capital and Business Alliance to Accelerate Support for Small and Medium-Sized Exporters by Strengthening Their Overseas Sales Channel Development Capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Collaboration in market development and system development in the post-COVID era<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>STANDAGE Co., Ltd. (Minato-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Akinori Adachi; hereinafter &quot;Standage&quot;), which develops and provides digital trade platforms, has entered into a capital and business alliance with AirTrip Co., Ltd. (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; CEO and CFO: Hiroaki Shibata; Stock code: 6191; hereinafter &quot;AirTrip&quot;), which uses the power of IT to provide AirTrip travel services, IT offshore development services, inbound travel services, Wi-Fi rental services, media services, investment services (AirTrip CVC), regional revitalization services and cloud services, with funding from the investment business (AirTrip CVC) of AirTrip Co., Ltd. Standage provides a trade-focused package service called &quot;DigiTrad&quot; for small and medium-sized enterprises, and by collaborating with AirTrip, it will strengthen its ability to develop sales channels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u25a0 Background and details of the partnership<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Standage was founded in 2017 and has been developing various products related to digital transformation in the trading industry, including an international trade settlement system that utilizes blockchain and digital currency. In addition, from 2022, we will provide a trade package service called &quot;DigiTrad&quot; for small and medium-sized enterprises aiming to enter the export business, and we are working to contribute to the overseas expansion of domestic companies, regional revitalization, and the expansion of Japan&#039;s exports.<\/p>\n<p>When a company that DigiTrad supports in exporting sells its products overseas, it must send samples to the local area and conduct market and competitive research in advance. The information obtained at this time must be accurate and up-to-date, and in cases where the company does not have a base in that area, employees must travel to the local area or outsource the work to a local partner company.<\/p>\n<p>AirTrip, the travel site operated by AirTrip, is one of the largest in the travel industry in Japan. As we enter the post-COVID era, demand for overseas travel and business trips is steadily recovering. Through this partnership, we will continue to discuss measures to strengthen Standage&#039;s overseas sales channel development capabilities and enable real-time and multifaceted access to local market information.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, AirTrip, which has been an industry leader in the travel and IT industry, and Standage, a startup that employs its own engineers and has accumulated know-how in blockchain and system development, will bring together their respective knowledge and expertise to advance discussions to create new initiatives and businesses.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4627\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/aa3c60ac8ebc48ee9117faed98647d93-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/aa3c60ac8ebc48ee9117faed98647d93-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/aa3c60ac8ebc48ee9117faed98647d93-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/aa3c60ac8ebc48ee9117faed98647d93-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/aa3c60ac8ebc48ee9117faed98647d93-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/aa3c60ac8ebc48ee9117faed98647d93.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u25a0About AirTrip<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Founded in May 2007. Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers in March 2016, and changed to the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange the following March 2017. In May 2018, DeNA Travel Co., Ltd. (now AirTrip International) became a wholly owned subsidiary.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the company operates seven pillars: AirTrip travel business, IT offshore development business, inbound travel business\/Wi-Fi rental business, media business, investment business (AirTrip CVC), regional revitalization business, and cloud business. AirTrip travel business, which has been the company&#039;s core business since its founding, sells travel materials, mainly through the operation of the comprehensive travel platform &quot;AirTrip.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\u25c7 &quot;AirTrip&quot; official service website:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.airtrip.jp\/\">https:\/\/www.airtrip.jp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Established: May 2007<\/li>\n<li>Representative: President and CFO: Yusuke Shibata<\/li>\n<li>Capital: 1,579,500,000 yen (paid-in capital: 3,486,150,000 yen) &lt;As of the end of May 2023&gt;<\/li>\n<li>URL<a href=\"https:\/\/www.airtrip.co.jp\/\">https:\/\/www.airtrip.co.jp\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u25a0About Standage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Established in March 2017. Opened an office in Nigeria in December of the same year, and established local subsidiaries in Kenya, South Africa, and Egypt in 2021. Provides &quot;Digitrad,&quot; a comprehensive digital trade service that can complete all trade operations, from matching trade sellers and buyers to payment, financing, and cargo delivery. For payments with emerging countries, it has developed a safe, inexpensive, and fast payment system using blockchain and crypto assets. By combining trading company functions with tech, it aims to create a society in which domestic small and medium-sized enterprises are seamlessly connected to the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u25c7&quot;DigiTrad&quot; service official website:<a href=\"https:\/\/standage.co.jp\/digitrad\">https:\/\/standage.co.jp\/digitrad<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Established: March 2017<\/p>\n<p>Representative: President and CEO Akinori Adachi<\/p>\n<p>Capital: 608,568,500 yen (including capital reserve of 302,782,500 yen)<\/p>\n<p>URL<a href=\"https:\/\/standage.co.jp\/\">https:\/\/standage.co.jp\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STANDAGE Co., Ltd. (Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Akinori Adachi; hereinafter referred to as STANDAGE), a developer and provider of digital trade platforms, is collaborating with another company to develop new sales channels and systems in the post-COVID-19 era\u2026 <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/2023\/08\/01\/%e3%82%a8%e3%82%a2%e3%83%88%e3%83%aa%e3%81%a8%e3%82%b9%e3%82%bf%e3%83%b3%e3%83%87%e3%83%bc%e3%82%b8%e3%81%8c%e8%b3%87%e6%9c%ac%e6%a5%ad%e5%8b%99%e6%8f%90%e6%90%ba%e3%80%80%e6%b5%b7%e5%a4%96%e8%b2%a9\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AirTrip and Standage Form Capital and Business Alliance to Accelerate Support for Small and Medium-Sized Exporters by Strengthening Their Overseas Sales Channel Development Capabilities<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[136],"tags":[],"acf":{"en_news":{"custom_css":"","en_title":"AirTrip Corp. and Standage.Inc have formed a capital and business alliance, to accelerate support for SMEs export business by strengthening their ability to develop overseas sales channels.","content":"<strong>Forming Alliances for Sales Channel and System Development in the Post-Pandemic Era<\/strong><br><br>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nStandage.Inc (Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Akinori Adachi; hereinafter referred to as \"Standage\"), a developer and provider of digital trade platforms, is pleased to announce its alliance with AirTrip Corp. (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CFO: Yusuke Shibata; Securities code: 6191; hereinafter referred to as \"AirTrip\"). We have formed a capital and business alliance with funding from AirTrip CVC. AirTrip is a company that engages in overseas travel business, IT offshore development business, inbound travel and Wi-Fi rental business, media business, investment business (CVC), local development business and cloud business with the power of IT. Standage provides \"Digitrad\", an international trade agency service for small and medium-sized companies, and will strengthen its ability to develop sales channels by cooperating with AirTrip.<br><br>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n\u25a0Background and alliance details<br>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nFounded in 2017, Standage has developed various products related to DX in the trade industry, including the development of an international trade settlement system utilizing blockchain and digital currency. Additionally, from 2022, we are offering \"Digitrad,\" a trade agency service for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) seeking to enter the export business, in an effort to contribute to the overseas expansion of domestic companies, regional development, and the expansion of Japan's export volume.<br><br>\r\n\r\nPrior to selling a client company's product overseas, Digitrad sends samples to the local market and conducts market research and competitive research. In order to ensure that the information obtained at this time is accurate and up-to-date, it is necessary for us to go on a business trip or outsource to local partner companies in regions in which we do not have our own offices.<br><br>\r\n\r\nThe travel service \"AirTrip\" operated by AirTrip Corp. has 1.43 million members and 30 million PV per month, making it one of the largest in the travel industry in Japan. Demand for overseas travel and overseas business trips has been steadily recovering as we enter the post-Corona era. Through this alliance, we will continue to pursue discussions on measures that will strengthen Standage's ability to develop overseas sales channels and obtain local market information in real time and from multiple perspectives.<br><br>\r\n\r\nMoreover, AirTrip, a leader in the travel x IT industry, and Standage, a start-up with its own engineers and accumulated know-how in blockchain and system development, will discuss the creation of new initiatives and businesses by bringing together their respective knowledge and expertise.<br><br>\r\n\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4621\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/c39f8fe0a0c27a792807327dd930e5b7-1024x461.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"338\" \/>\r\n\r\n<br><br>\r\n\r\n\u25a0Introduction of AirTrip Corp.<br>\r\n\r\nEstablished in May 2007, Airtri was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers in March 2016 and changed its market listing to the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the following March 2017; in May 2018, it made DeNA Travel Inc. (now AirTrip International) its wholly owned subsidiary.<br>\r\n\r\nCurrently, the company is developing its business with seven core businesses: AirTrip Travel, IT offshore development, inbound travel and Wi-Fi rental, media, investment (AirTrip CVC), regional development, and cloud business. In the \"AirTrip Travel Business,\" the core business since its establishment, the company sells travel products mainly through the operation of the total travel platform \"AirTrip\".<br>\r\n\r\n\u25c7Official website of \"AirTrip\" : https:\/\/www.airtrip.jp\/<br>\r\n\r\nEstablishment: May 2007<br>\r\nRepresentative President &amp; CFO: Yusuke Shibata<br>\r\nCapital: 1,579.5 million yen (paid-in capital: 3,486.15 million yen) &lt;as of May 31, 2023&gt;<br>\r\nURL: https:\/\/www.airtrip.co.jp\/\r\n<br><br>\r\n\r\n\u25a0Introduction of Standage.Inc<br>\r\n\r\nEstablished in March 2017. Established a Nigeria office in December of the same year, and established local subsidiaries in Kenya, South Africa, and Egypt in 2021. Provides \"Digitrad,\" a total digital trade service that can complete all trade operations, from matching trade sellers and buyers to settlement, finance, and cargo delivery. Developed a secure, inexpensive, and speedy settlement system for payments with emerging countries, by utilizing blockchain and digital currency. By combining the functions of a trading company with tech, we aim to contribute to the development of a society in which SMEs in Japan and the rest of the world are seamlessly connected.<br>\r\n\r\n\u25c7Official website of \"Digitrad\" service: https:\/\/standage.co.jp\/digitrad<br>\r\n\r\nEstablishment: March 2017<br>\r\nRepresentative President CEO: Akinori Adachi<br>\r\nCapital: 685.6 million yen (including 327.8 million yen capital reserve)<br>\r\nURL: https:\/\/standage.co.jp\/"},"author":{"author_image":"","author_name":"","author_image_link":"","introduction":""},"production_published":true},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4807,"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions\/4807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.standage.co.jp\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}