Internet group Cybridge has purchased the beauty salon booking app operator in a deal of undisclosed size that enabled Adways, Colopl, iStyle, Monex and Vector to exit.

Internet services firm Cybridge Group has paid an undisclosed sum to acquire Requpo, a Japan-based cosmetic treatment booking platform backed by corporate investors Adways, Colopl, iStyle, Monex and Vector.

Requpo’s lead product is a beauty salon reservation app of the same name. It also runs Pocoro, a social media platform previously called Poplle which provides shopping rewards to users.

The company had secured an undisclosed amount from venture capital firm iFund in November 2020, following $930,000 from unnamed investors six…

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Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.