Investment in GA technologies Co., Ltd.

NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Inc. (headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan; President & CEO, Toshiki Nakayama), has invested in GA technologies Co., Ltd. (headquartered in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan; President and Representative Director, Ryu Higuchi), a company that provides existing properties resale services utilizing technologies, via a fund under its management.

Background
In the Japanese housing market, due to economic growth and demographic factors, etc., existing homes are expected to be utilized more effectively. In order to stimulate the resale of existing properties, GA technologies has made efforts to change business practices in the traditional real estate industry including the improvement of productivity per worker through streamlining the processes of buying to selling existing properties necessary for real estate transactions by utilizing technologies.

NTT DOCOMO Ventures will use GA technologies’ know-how for providing existing properties resale services utilizing technologies for improvement of operational efficiency to which IT is expected to be applied and new types of real estate transactions for further business growth.