OptFit Completes Series B Funding
Taking the First Step Toward AI Camera-Powered Infrastructure for Facility Operations Independent of Human Labor
Opt Fit has completed its Series B funding, raising a cumulative total of 780 million yen. OptFit’s total funding since founding has reached approximately 1.3 billion yen.
New shareholders: First Light Capital, SMBC Venture Capital, Fidea Capital
Existing shareholders: Money Forward Venture Partners (HIRAC FUND), Accord Ventures, STATION Ai Fund, NOBUNAGA Capital Village
Debt financing: Aichi Bank, Nagoya Bank, Japan Finance Corporation
The funds raised this time will be used to expand existing businesses, form alliances with facility operators aiming for automation and labor-saving, and recruit employees to promote these efforts, thereby achieving rapid business growth.
OptFit is promoting collaboration with a wide range of industries where the need for unmanned and labor-saving systems is increasing. The company is widely seeking alliance partners to develop new markets. For example:
Property management (apartment management, commercial/office building management)
Retail industry (unmanned stores, one-person operation management, cash register fraud)
Railway industry (unmanned stations)
Maintenance business (inspection work, circulation work)
Manufacturing industry (safety management, labor management, automatic inspection)
Business Overview
Since its founding in 2020, OptFit has been operating its business with a focus on security camera image analysis, with the mission of “creating a society where AI and humans coexist and maximizing the business impact of an aging society with a declining birthrate.” Its gym-specific security camera, “GYM DX,” has been widely adopted, primarily by major fitness clubs, and achieves both safety management and operational efficiency through features such as utilization rate analysis, congestion status distribution, and unauthorized entry detection. The number of facilities that have adopted the camera has increased to over 2,000, roughly double the number at the time of Series A, and the continued utilization rate exceeds 99.9%, earning the support of facility owners.
The next growth driver will be the nursing care sector. The nursing care industry faces a variety of challenges, including a serious labor shortage and the resulting workload, worsening treatment and working conditions. In response, OptFit began trial implementation of the privacy-conscious AI monitoring camera “KaigoDX” in January 2025, and has already begun or plan to fully implement it at several group facilities, with the full-scale software release of AI functionality scheduled for this month. By applying the camera image analysis technology OptFit has cultivated in the fitness field and providing a system designed with privacy protection as the top priority, OptFit will contribute to resolving labor shortages in nursing care facilities and creating a safe and secure environment for facility users and their families.
Opt Fit’s Strengths
Unique know-how in indoor person detection
OptFit’s technological capabilities, built from scratch, enable it to quickly launch AI services in different industries and spaces.
Abundant training data and generalization performance
Utilizing actual operational data from fitness gyms and nursing care facilities to achieve both versatility and domain specificity
Fast commercialization track record
“KaigoDX” was planned and launched in less than six months. Speeding up product development, including AI development, is a strength.
Cost-effective AI development/operation
Combining in-house built AI with LLM enables cost-effective AI development and operation.
Technical Advantages
OptFit’s unique AI development pipeline handles data collection, annotation, learning, and evaluation in a seamless manner, providing high-quality AI models in a short period of time.
Future Outlook
In the fitness field, OptFit will continue to accelerate the spread of its gym-specific security camera “GYM DX,” which has been installed in many facilities, and establish a stable revenue base. Next, in the nursing care field, OptFit will provide “KaigoDX,” a privacy-conscious monitoring AI camera, and expand functions to reflect on-site needs.
Furthermore, in the medium to long term, OptFit will actively promote alliances with facility operators aiming for automation and labor-saving, with a view to expanding applications into a wide range of markets. In this way, OptFit will realize its goal of “rebuilding a business model that is not dependent on people with AI cameras and building a sustainable social infrastructure,” and work to achieve sustainable growth and improve its corporate value.