Bridging technology and markets
to move business forward.

We work with companies in telecommunications, IoT and semiconductors to expand across borders — helping Japanese companies succeed in global markets and international companies enter and grow in Japan. We support them from customer development through commercialization.

Connect. Align. Advance.

Japan continues to produce technologies with the potential to compete on the global stage, while companies around the world offer technologies that can create new value and growth opportunities in Japan.

But great technology does not reach the market on its own. Success requires understanding real customer needs, connecting the right people, technologies and companies, and turning those elements into a business that customers will adopt.

Axialport helps Japanese companies expand into global markets and international companies build and grow their businesses in Japan.

By bringing together companies, technologies and talent across borders, we create new business opportunities and contribute to the growth and competitiveness of the industries we serve.

With a focus on telecommunications, IoT and semiconductors, we work alongside our clients and partners from market and application assessment through customer and partner development, business design, PoC, adoption, deployment and market expansion.

What We Do

CONNECT Connect the right players

Starting with the business opportunity and customer needs, we connect the people, technologies and companies needed to bring the opportunity to market.

ALIGN Align the business model

We align customer needs, roles, routes to market, commercial structures and economics so that all stakeholders can move in the same direction.

ADVANCE Move the market forward

We lead execution from proposals and validation through adoption, deployment and market expansion, turning individual opportunities into sustainable business.

Let’s talk if any of these sound familiar

  • You’re confident in your technology, but haven’t defined who to sell to — or how.
  • Your PoC went well, but it hasn’t led to adoption, deployment or scale-out.
  • You want ongoing customer and partner development without a local subsidiary.
  • You want to enter the Japanese market, but need someone on the ground who knows the customers and how decisions get made.

Business Development Areas

  1. Market & Application Assessment

    Market research, customer and field interviews, use-case development and target identification

  2. Customer & Partner Development

    Building relationships with customers and identifying sales, technology and local market partners

  3. Product & Proposal Localization

    Adapting value propositions, pricing, specifications and sales materials to local customer and market requirements

  4. Business Model & Go-to-Market Design

    Defining roles, routes to market, commercial structures, revenue models and support frameworks

  5. PoC & Opportunity Development

    Driving opportunities from proposal and evaluation through PoC, validation, adoption and deployment

  6. Reference Development & Market Expansion

    Turning successful projects into repeatable models through reference development, sales enablement, partner training and broader market rollout

Message from the Founder

I founded Axialport with a simple conviction: great technology should reach the markets where it can create the greatest value.

About ten years ago, while I was based in China, I saw Japanese manufacturers losing much of the presence they once had in consumer electronics stores. Yet in conversations with customers and partners, I also saw that trust in Japanese technology and quality remained strong.

That experience taught me an important lesson: even outstanding technology will not succeed simply because it is technically superior. It needs the right connection to customers, partners and markets — and people who can turn that connection into a sustainable business.

This principle applies in both directions.

Japanese companies with strong technologies often need local customers, partners and market knowledge to expand globally. At the same time, innovative companies from around the world face similar challenges when entering Japan — understanding customer expectations, finding the right partners, adapting their offering and building a path to commercialization.

Axialport exists to bridge these gaps.

We connect technologies with markets, companies with customers, and global opportunities with local execution. Our role is not simply to make introductions, but to work alongside our clients and partners until an opportunity becomes real business.

This idea of creating a strong axis between technology and the market is at the heart of our name, Axialport.

Nobuaki Miyake Founder & CEO Axialport, Inc. Signature of Nobuaki Miyake

Founder Profile / Nobuaki Miyake

Nobuaki Miyake has extensive experience in sales, business development and market development across the semiconductor, telecommunications and IoT industries.

He began his career at a publicly listed semiconductor company, where he worked in sales and business development and later led the company’s operations in China, developing customers and business partners in the local market.

He subsequently served as an executive officer at a networking technology startup and worked on new business and solution development at a major telecommunications and IT company. He has also been involved in industry associations and external communications.

Throughout his career, he has focused on connecting technology with real market opportunities and driving businesses from customer development through commercialization.

Company Name
Axialport, Inc.
Head Office
Shibuya Dogenzaka Tokyu Bldg. 2F-C, 1-10-8 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0043, Japan
Established
September 1, 2026
Representative Director
Nobuaki Miyake
Capital
JPY 3,000,000
Business
Market & Application Assessment / Customer & Partner Development / Product & Proposal Localization Business Model & Go-to-Market Design / PoC & Opportunity Development / Reference Development & Market Expansion