History

2003

August

Universal Business Incubators, Inc. is established in Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, with a capital of 1,000,000 yen for the purpose of importing and selling U.S. forensic tools.

2004

April

Head office relocated to 3-25-27 Takanawa, Minato-ku, Tokyo

June

Acquired exclusive rights to import and sell forensic tools in Japan from two U.S. forensic tool developers, Intelligent Computer Solutions, Inc. and Access Data Corp.

August

Company name changed to UBIC Corporation, specializing in computer forensics.

August

Forensic tools go on sale.

August

Head office relocated to 4-7, Konan 2-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo

November

Acquired exclusive rights to import and sell forensic tools in Japan from Digital Intelligence, Inc.

2005

April

Moved head office to 2-12-23 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo due to expansion of business scale

May

Established a forensic lab to provide forensic investigation services and discovery support services.

June

Launched Computer Forensics Service "Computer Forensics Investigation Service and Discovery (Disclosure of Evidence) Support Service".

2007

June

Listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers (currently Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market)

December

Established UBIC North America, Inc.

2009

March

Obtained ISO27001 (ISO/IEC 27001:2005) certification, an international standard for information security management systems (ISMS), and JIS Q 27001 (JIS Q 27001:2006) certification, a domestic standard.

December

Released Lit i View, the world's first Asian-language electronic discovery software

2010

August

Payment Card Forensics, Inc. established (now integrated into headquarters) to specialize in credit card fraud investigations

2011

April

UBIC Risk Consulting, Inc. is established to conduct analog investigations associated with forensic investigations.

October

UBIC Taiwan, Inc. (now FRONTEO Taiwan, Inc.) is established.

December

Established UBIC Korea, Inc. (now FRONTEO Korea, Inc.)

2012

March

Released in-house developed artificial intelligence (later KIBIT)

June

Established UBIC Patent Partners, Inc. as a specialized intellectual property consulting firm.

2013

January

Lit i View version 6.0 is released with "Advanced Predictive Coding" feature.

May

Listed on NASDAQ in the U.S. (delisted in February 2020)

2014

August

Acquired U.S. e-discovery company TechLaw Solutions, Inc. and made it a consolidated subsidiary.

2015

March

UBIC Risk Consulting Co., Ltd. was merged into the Company, with the Company as the surviving company.

April

UBIC MEDICAL Corporation, a medical information data analysis business, established (later renamed FRONTEO HEALTHCARE Corporation, a consolidated subsidiary)

July

Acquired U.S. e-discovery company EvD, Inc. and made it a consolidated subsidiary (now FRONTEO USA, Inc.)

September

Established Rappa Corporation, a digital marketing business (later changed its name to FRONTEO Communications Corporation, a consolidated subsidiary)

October

Merger with UBIC Patent Partners, Inc. as the surviving company.

November

Announced KIBIT, a proprietary AI engine based on natural language processing.

2016

July

Changed trade name to FRONTEO Corporation, meaning "progressive and cutting-edge value creation group.

July

UBIC MEDICAL Co., Ltd. changes its name to FRONTEO HEALTHCARE Co.

July

Changed the trade name of Rappa Corporation to FRONTEO Communications Corporation (merged with the Company as the surviving company in May 2018)

July

EvD, Inc. merged with UBIC North America, Inc. to form FRONTEO USA, Inc.

July

Changed the trade name of UBIC Korea, Inc. to FRONTEO Korea, Inc.

July

UBIC Taiwan, Inc. changed its trade name to FRONTEO Taiwan, Inc.

2018

May

Merged with FRONTEO Communications Corporation, with the Company as the surviving company.

May

FRONTEO Healthcare launches full-scale offering of Concept Encoder, an algorithm specialized for the healthcare industry.

May

FRONTEO Healthcare receives patent for "Concept Encoder" algorithm.

July

Launched "KIBIT Find Answer," a FAQ system based on the AI engine KIBIT.

August

FRONTEO Healthcare launches Concept Encoder Articles, an application for artificial intelligence.

November

Launched Patent Explorer 19, an advanced version of our patent search and analysis system using artificial intelligence.

November

Evolution of proprietary artificial intelligence engine Next-generation version of "KIBIT G2" launched

November

FRONTEO Healthcare Develops New Drug Candidate Exploration Technology Using the "Concept Encoder" Algorithm

2019

January

Changed the trade name of Payment Card Forensics K.K. to P.C.F. FRONTEO K.K. (merged with the Company as the surviving company in October 2023)

March

KIBIT Automator, an AI review tool, is released.

October

Merged with FRONTEO HEALTHCARE CORPORATION, with the Company as the surviving company.

2020

January

Received patent application in Japan for "Coroban®", a fall and tumble prediction system.

February

Delisted from the NASDAQ market in the U.S.

April

Opened two AI labs in the headquarters to serve as a base for AI applications and an AI lounge to provide practical know-how to customers.

April

AI-based Drug Repositioning for Novel Coronavirus Infections (COVID-19) Begins Research

June

Launched an AI-based solution for early detection of signs of child abuse

June

Received patent application in Japan for an AI system to support diagnosis of dementia.

July

Launched KIBIT Amanogawa, a paper search AI system.

August

OSINT (open source intelligence) research begins.

August

P.C.F. FRONTEO Corporation becomes a wholly owned subsidiary

September

Registered in the "Information Security Service Standards Compliance Service List" after review by the Information Security Service Standards Review and Registration Committee.

October

Launched OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) service

2021

January

Obtained Class I medical device manufacturing and sales license.

April

Clinical trial of "Conversational AI Program to Assist in Diagnosis of Dementia" begins.

May

Launched "Guideline Viewer," a specialized business support AI system for pharmaceutical companies.

May

Launched KIBIT, a hazard prediction solution.

June

OSINT Services Launches Supply Chain Analysis Solution

June

OSINT Services Launches Shareholder Control Network Analysis Solution

July

Obtains patent rights in Japan for Cascade Eye, a drug discovery support AI

August

Obtained patent rights in South Korea for "Conversational AI Program to Support Diagnosis of Dementia

September

Launched Patent Explorer X, an advanced patent search tool.

September

FRONTEO Legal Link Portal now has more than 5,000 registered members.

October

Launched WordATLAS, an information strategy support AI

October

Started providing services using Seizu Analysis, a supply chain analysis system.

November

Launched a shareholder control network analysis solution.

November

Obtained patent rights in Japan for "Amanogawa," AI software for medical article search

December

Launched a cutting-edge technology and researcher network analysis solution.

2022

January

Obtained patent rights in Japan for "Concept Encoder Optimizer," which shows remedial measures for risks that are predicted to occur.

February

Launched WordSonar, a new AI solution for risk detection and prediction.

March

Obtained patent rights in Japan for the technology of "Supply Chain Analysis Service," an economic security solution.

March

Launched AI drug discovery services using a new AI system "liGALILEO," which is a process innovation for drug discovery.

April

Launches "WordSonar for VoiceView" to utilize "customers' voices" in financial services.

July

Launched Coroban Care, a fall and tumble prediction AI system for nursing homes.

July

KIBIT's core technology, "Illumination Forest," which is based on multiple discrimination models and cross-validation, is patented in Taiwan.

August

Obtained patent rights in Japan for the analysis index of shareholding control for the economic security AI solution.

December

Obtained patent rights in Japan for new index calculation technology for supply chain analysis AI solution in economic security.

2023

January

Obtained patent rights in the U.S. for the core technology of the proprietary AI algorithm "Concept Encoder

February

FRONTEO Legal Link Portal reaches 10,000 registered users.

October

P.C.F. FRONTEO Corporation was merged into P.C.F. FRONTEO with P.C.F. FRONTEO as the surviving company.

2024

January

Obtained patent application in the U.S. for 2D map generation technology from natural language information such as academic papers using the AI engine "KIBIT".

February

Launched a new AI drug discovery support service that analyzes 600 Springer Nature journals.

February

Entered into a strategic business alliance agreement with Shionogi regarding an AI program business to support diagnosis of dementia and depression.

April

Established "Novel Targets Library" to introduce novel and high-potential target genes.

September

AI Solution for Economic Security Measures Patented New Technology for Calculating Priority of Trade Routes in Supply Chain Analysis

November

Launched a co-creation project using the AI drug discovery support service "Drug Discovery AI Factory