Company
Where our name comes from
Our name comes from “BREAK + PROBLEM + THROUGH.”
We founded the company with one motto: break through the problem in front of us and carry it all the way to a solution.
Our logo mark combines shapes for these three words.
Company information
- Company name
- BREAKTHROUGH Co., Ltd.
- Address
- Horio Bld 3F, 16 banchi, Minami 2-jo Higashi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0052, Japan
（〒060-0052 札幌市中央区南2条東2丁目16番地 堀尾ビル3F） - Kagoshima
- Kagoshima R&D Office (in Kagoshima City)
Advanced Forestry ICT Laboratory (at Kagoshima University) - Representative
- Kentaro Kitahara, Representative Director and CEO
- Founded
- April 5, 2017
- Capital
- ¥8,000,000 (JPY)
- Patent
- Japanese Patent No. 7655489 (Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2025-110054)
- Business
- Custom software development of business systems, smartphone apps, and embedded software
Development and sales of ICT products for forestry - Banks
- The Hokkaido Bank, MUFG Bank
- Registrations and licenses
- Notified telecommunications carrier, No. J-02-00721
Secondhand goods dealer, licensed by the Hokkaido Public Safety Commission, No. 101010001541 - Registered lines of business
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- Planning, development, and maintenance of computer hardware, software, and computer peripherals
- Information services using computers
- Planning, research, and consulting for computer systems
- Consulting on building computer systems
- Contract data processing and clerical processing using computer systems
- Acquisition, investment, holding, and management of securities
- All business incidental or related to the above
Track record
- Software
- Software development companies (mainly in the Greater Tokyo area and Sapporo)
- Forestry
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- Forestry Agency of Japan, university-related organizations, and forestry vocational schools
- Forest owners' cooperatives and their federations
- Town offices and forestry-related organizations
- Hokkaido Forest Development Public Corporation (smartphone app for electronic tree calipers)
- Hokkaido Forest Seedling Cooperative (website development)
- Sales partner
- JVCKENWOOD Corporation
Awards
- Mar 2019
- Letter of appreciation from the Governor of Hokkaido (for naming the Hokkaido Kita-no-Mori Zukuri Senmon Gakuin, a vocational school for forestry)
- Oct 2019
- X-Tech Innovation 2019 (NoMaps NEDO Dream Pitch): Judges' Special Award and Mt.Fuji Innovation Engine Award
- Feb 2020
- Special Award from the Director-General of the Hokkaido Regional Forest Office (FY2019 Kita-no-Kuni Forest Development Technology Exchange Presentations)
History
- Apr 2008
- Started a sole proprietorship, “Jōhō Kōmuten Kentalogic” (a “jōhō kōmuten” is a hands-on software builder, like a local building contractor)
- Mar 2016
- Changed the trade name to “Breakthrough”
- Apr 2017
- Incorporated as BREAKTHROUGH Co., Ltd.
- Jul 2017
- Licensed as a secondhand goods dealer (Hokkaido Public Safety Commission, No. 101010001541)
- Aug 2019
- Developed “Soko-co Forest,” an ICT platform for forestry
- Jan 2020
- Increased capital to ¥8,000,000 (JPY)
- May 2021
- Opened the Forest ICT Development Center at the Hokkaido Forestry Hall (closed in May 2023)
- Aug 2023
- Opened the Kagoshima R&D Office in Kagoshima City
- Mar 2025
- Obtained a patent for our location-sharing system (Japanese Patent No. 7655489)
- Jun 2026
- Began joint research with Kagoshima University