AI-powered US college admissions SaaS, 100k+ users, Tokyo

Asking price	¥1.8M (1,800,000 yen)
Annual revenue	¥1 to ¥5,000,000 (shown as a range)
Operating profit	¥0 to ¥5,000,000 (shown as a range)
Price vs profit	Profit is shown as a band starting at ¥0, so the price is at least 0.4 times profit and could be any multiple. Ask for the real number before you get excited.
Location	Tokyo (23 wards), Japan
Industry	EdTech / SaaS, education and exam-prep services, IT and AI services
Employees	No employees (社員なし)
Transfer type	asset (譲渡対象事業 / 譲渡資産　営業権・FC,ノウハウ,ソフトウェア,ウェブサイト・アプリ)

What is for sale

This is an AI-powered SaaS platform helping high school students, mainly in the US, apply to overseas universities, offering school matching, essay assistance, admissions probability analysis and mock interviews. It has over 100,000 registered users and a combined social media following of about 180,000 (TikTok and Instagram), built almost entirely through organic content marketing rather than paid ads. The owner runs several other projects and is selling to reallocate time and resources, not because of business trouble; they say the platform is under-monetised relative to its user and audience base.

Because this is an asset (business) transfer rather than a share sale, the buyer acquires the software, user base and related assets directly, but will need to set up their own contracts, accounts and any third-party platform registrations rather than inheriting an existing company entity.

What is included

Developed web software/SaaS platform
Registered user base of 100,000+
TikTok account (~117,000 followers) and Instagram account (~70,000 followers)
University-related content and data
Brand-related assets
Operating and marketing know-how

Strengths (as the seller states them)

Over 100,000 cumulative registered users, past the cold-start stage
Combined SNS following of about 180,000 with 91.8 million TikTok views and 10 million likes, built with almost no ad spend
Proven monetisation with a paid subscription (US$29/month) and over US$12,000 in cumulative revenue
Multiple features (essay help, university matching, mock interviews) combined in one platform

Wrinkles a careful buyer would ask about

Financials shown only as wide ranges (revenue and profit each between ¥1 and ¥5,000,000), so real figures are unclear until NDA
Net assets and detailed financials only visible after member registration or NDA
Detailed service name, URL, user data and sales records are withheld until an NDA is signed
Transfer of some third-party accounts (e.g. social media) may be restricted by those platforms' own terms, so buyers should confirm what can legally be transferred
Owner has not achieved significant revenue growth or monetisation optimisation yet, so upside is largely unrealised and unproven at scale

Paying for it

If you stay overseas. No Japanese bank will lend to a new company whose director lives abroad. The realistic stack is your own cash plus asking the owner to take part of the price over 2 to 3 years. That one question is in every Deal Pack.

If you move to Japan. On a visa that lets you run a business, Japan Finance Corporation lends up to ¥72M at about 1 to 2 percent for exactly this. Once you have a Japanese company, the government pays two-thirds of due diligence and registered-broker costs, up to about ¥8M (round 16 closes 6 Nov 2026). You start a bank relationship from zero.

Full rundown, with the catches: japandealflow.com/money

Summary of a public listing as at 2026-09-30. Seller-reported figures, not verified. Listings sell fast, the original may already be gone. Nothing here is financial or visa advice. Free weekly email: Japan Deal Flow.