AndL raises pre-Series A, hits ¥1B total funding
What's the deal? AndL, a Tokyo-based healthtech startup, has closed a pre-series A round, bringing its total funding to ¥1B (roughly $7M). The company, founded in October 2023 by Satoshi Furuhashi, operates two business lines: AndL Work, a corporate health support platform offering online medical consultations, counselling, and stress checks; and AndL Healthy Succession, which acquires and preserves healthcare, nursing, childcare, and welfare businesses facing ownership transitions.
Why now? AndL says it has reached monthly profitability — a rare milestone for an early-stage Japanese startup still in growth mode. The company plans to use the new capital to scale both business lines from that stable revenue base.
AndL Work launched in July 2024 and has since expanded to cover more than 10,000 users across companies ranging from small teams to thousands of employees. Clients include LayerX, the fintech behind the back-office AI tool Bakuraku, which reported saving hundreds of hours of commute and wait time within six months of adoption.
On the succession side, AndL acquired two facilities in March 2026 — a rehabilitation centre in Kanagawa and a nursery school in Tokyo — signalling steady deal flow in a market shaped by Japan's ageing population and a wave of small-business retirements.
What could go wrong? Running a healthtech SaaS platform alongside a capital-intensive succession business creates competing demands on resources. Acquiring care facilities means taking on operational complexity, regulatory risk, and staffing challenges in sectors already stretched thin by labour shortages.
The undisclosed size of this round also makes it hard to gauge how much runway the new capital actually provides.
The signal: Founded in October 2023 and already at monthly profitability, AndL has compressed a timeline that most Japanese startups stretch over several years. Its dual model — pairing a lightweight SaaS offering with hands-on facility acquisitions — is an unconventional bet that the same mission can sustain both a scalable software business and an inherently local, operationally heavy succession strategy in a country where an estimated 1.27 million SMEs could lack successors by 2025.
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