Category: Case Studies

Meet the CEO in Osaka, October 8th and 9th.

Ciriot Inc. is pleased to support the introduction of Spinnistart ( “Spinn” for short), a leading Nordic smart parking and access management technology company, to the Japanese market. Spinnistart’s innovative platform, Partner Portal, combines cloud-based parking management, license plate recognition (ANPR), digital permit administration, online payments, and real-time analytics into a single flexible solution designed for real estate management and parking operators, especially these dealing with high-capacity parking locations as well as versatile tenants and users – short and long term.

As Japan faces increasing growing operating costs, labour shortages, harsher climate conditions, and demand for smarter property management, Spinn offers a new generation of parking solutions that help operators and property owners improve efficiency, enhance customer experience, and gather additional revenues from existing parking assets.

Key Benefits for Japanese Parking Operators and Property Owners

1. Reduce Administrative Workload
    Automate permit management, vehicle registration, visitor parking, and tenant administration through a cloud-based platform.
2. Address Labour Shortages
    Minimise manual operations through self-service parking registration, digital permits, and automated access control.
3. Increase Parking Revenue
    Improve utilisation of existing parking assets through dynamic parking allocation and flexible pricing options.
4. Enable Ticketless and Barrier-Free Parking
    Leverage ANPR technology for seamless vehicle recognition and frictionless customer experiences.
5. Support Multi-Tenant Property Management
    Manage office buildings, residential properties, commercial facilities, and mixed-use developments through a single platform.
6. Gain Actionable Business Insights
    Access real-time utilisation data, revenue reporting, occupancy analytics, and operational intelligence to optimise parking operations.
7. Future-Proof Parking Operations
    Transition from traditional hardware-intensive parking systems toward a flexible and scalable software-driven operating model.

Through its role as Spinn’s go-to-market partner in Japan, Ciriot is currently seeking forward-looking organisations interested in exploring the Nordic parking solutions, giving it a try in pilot project and in a result – grow a strategic partnership.

We look forward to meet and talk with parking operators and real estate owners, who consider car parking operations important and sensitive part of the business. Are you satisfied how you manage your carpark – is it easy to set it up and manage on a daily basis, can you apply changes on the fly without hiring full IT team, are your operations cost -efficient, are your customers well informed and happy, you can’t keep your parking locations full or you struggle with overflow? If any of this sound familiar – please meet us to evaluate next-generation parking solutions for the Japanese market.

Interested in becoming a Spinn pilot partner?
Contact Ciriot Inc. to discuss confidentially how Spinn can help improve operational efficiency, increase parking-related revenues, and support the digital transformation of parking and property access management in your company or organization.

In Osaka, we offer the opportunity to discuss directly with Spinnistart CEO on October 8^th and 9^th !

Contact Ciriot for further information.
Connecting global innovation with Japan.

Sleep Cycle is a leading sleep tracking app with millions of daily users and over two billion nights of sleep analyzed across more than 150 countries.

Founded in 2009, its mission is to improve global health by helping people understand and improve their sleep through features like sleep analysis, smart alarms, and personalized insights. Headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, Sleep Cycle is also a major contributor to sleep research and is publicly listed on Nasdaq Stockholm under the ticker SLEEP.

Our team at Ciriot is matching potential Japanese B2B wellness & healthcare sector and medical industry companies to partner with Sleep Cycle for business development and sales. We are also connecting with healthcare equipment producers and software companies for Sleep Cycle technology licensing (SDK integration).

DeskMe is an IoT‑enabled desk and meeting‑room reservation system that lets employees view real‑time availability on a 3D office map and book the workspace they need with one click.
It helps organizations implement flexible, people‑friendly hot‑desking by ensuring users can always find and reserve suitable desks, locate colleagues, and avoid wasted office space.

Ciriot has supported DeskMe with its Japan market-entry activities and with customer acquisition throughout 2025 with continuation during 2026.

A pilot project with an Osaka-based customer has been agreed and it will start during Q2 2026.

• EU Interreg co-funded business expansion program for Finnish and Estonian SMEs (2025-26).
• Partner organizations
  • Finland: Green Net Finland
  • Estonia: Tehnopol Tallinn
• Ciriot is the Japan market expert with the role to make partnerships with Japanese companies for participating SMEs, including organizing business meetings in Japan during FINESTJAPAN trade mission visits.
• Last trade mission visit to Japan took place in October
• ACTIVATION ELEMENT:
  • Interested in FINESTJAPAN : contact
  • In Japan, together with FINESTJAPAN team, meet us next in Sushitech Tokyo, April 27-29, 2026.

centralbaltic.eu

• Best Trading is a growing circular economy company based in Kanagawa. It offers sorting and recycling services e.g. for plastics and textiles.
• Together with Ciriot, Best Trading management visited Finland and Latvia in August 2025 to benchmark latest Nordic sorting and recycling solutions in various local companies.
• Besides finding suitable technologies to be utilized in Japan, purpose of the trip was also to touch base for partnerships for business and circular economy solutions development.

best-trading.co.jp

• Digiotouch product is an AI meeting tool (online & app), which records and summarizes meeting discussions and makes action point lists. It can be used also for translating of meeting discussions in multiple languages.
• Japan is a priority market for Digiotouch for business expansion, product development and growth partnerships
• Ciriot as their Japan market consultant supports Digiotouch in their Japan market-entry journey. End of 2025 we contributed signing of the first B2B deal in Japan.

digiotouch.com

• Daicel Corporation is engaged in the manufacture and sale of cellulose products, organic synthetic products, synthetic resin products, pyrotechnic products and others. It operates globally having HQ in Japan.
• Ciriot role in ongoing Daicel green transformation project is to find and prioritize applicable technologies, which could fill in Daicel technology transformation requirements.
• Moreover, we are short-listing and analyzing potential new technology development partners, whose expertise may be needed for the technology deployment at Daicel.

daicel.com

NGK Corporation is a leading company in the world for the design and production of ceramics products for several industries and equipment.

Ciriot researched and analyzed existing and future market and sales opportunities in Europe for their current ceramics filter applications for a new industrial use case.

Additionally, Ciriot proposed R&D partnerships in Finland for NGK.

NGK Corporation

• Kuraray is a Japan HQ global corporation producing specialty chemicals and materials for various industries.
• In our market research the focus was on mapping market opportunities in the Nordics for their new functional material for cosmetic products.
• Market Research was extended with a task to acquire a pilot customer for the new material.

kuraray.com

Welmo Inc. Japan

• Welmo develops decision-assisted artificial intelligence services for nursing care and welfare sector.
• We supported end-to-end establishment of their Welmo Finland company, which was Welmo’s first even foreign subsidiary.
• Ciriot CEO also supported Welmo subsidiary operations in Finland in board member role.

welmo.co.jp