Our Story

STORY

Our journey from founding in 2017 to where we stand today.
A look back at how we've been building a new everyday with AI and creativity.

History

  • 2025.1

    TABEMON AI Beta Launch

    Launch of the TABEMON AI beta

    Launched the beta of TABEMON AI, our in-house AI product, and continue building new AI services designed to become the operating system for businesses.

  • 2024.12

    Vibes Japan

    Vibes Japan Sponsorship

    Supported Vibes Japan, an event run by Kindai University students, as a sponsor, and began strengthening our intern recruitment as a company.

  • 2024.5

    Sauna opening

    Sauna opens for business

    The sauna was officially opened for business. It's built in a way where guests can lie flat on their backs, with a second tier that lets them sit higher to enjoy more intense heat. We also installed a cold plunge pool large enough for two people at once — a rarity among private saunas in the city centre.

  • 2024.4

    The SAUNA Bar

    The private sauna is completed

    Completed a private sauna adjoining the Backdoor bar.

  • 2024.3

    New office at Kitahama

    Office relocates to Kitahama

    A new office was set up in Kitahama, Osaka.

  • 2023.4

    Development of Private Sauna

    Private sauna construction planned

    Planned the construction of a private sauna in Shinsaibashi, Osaka, aiming to build a sauna bar next to Backdoor to elevate guest experience.

  • 2021.11

    Lecture and Career fair

    University lectures and industry briefings

    Began giving university lectures and industry briefings as a first step toward future industry-academia collaboration and new-graduate recruitment, while advancing research into the concept of geospatial space in the metaverse from an academic perspective.

  • 2021.9

    Backdoor is now open

    BACKDOOR opens

    CREAX opened ‘BACKDOOR’ in Shinsaibashi, Osaka, launching it as a base for business matchmaking built on real-world connections.

  • 2021.3

    Entrepreneurship Development Program

    Entrepreneurship programme leads to CRX leadership

    As the first graduate of our in-house entrepreneurship development programme, team member Suzuki became Representative Director of group company CREAX (CRX) — a first step toward an organisational model that, alongside client-facing business, supports our own people in creating new ventures.

  • 2021.3

    CREAX, Inc.

    Founding of CREAX, Inc.

    Founded group company CREAX, Inc. (CRX). Where Virtual Arts focuses on IT, CRX takes on experience-driven ventures centred on people, with a mission to create spaces that move the heart, based in Shinsaibashi, Osaka.

  • 2019.5

    Abeno Harukas

    Move to Abeno Harukas

    In line with our commitment to Osaka as our base, the office relocated to Abeno Harukas, Japan's tallest skyscraper, accelerating the build-out of a new customer base and talent network to support our growth.

  • 2018.10

    Incorporation of the Company

    Founding of Virtual Arts

    About two years after starting as a sole proprietorship, incorporated as Virtual Arts Co., Ltd. We rebranded around the idea of raising ‘substantive value’ — something you cannot touch but which surely exists — and around this time Sakaguchi and Ikeda, who had shared the vision since our earliest days, formally joined, bringing the team to three.

  • 2017.1

    The Beginning

    Prologue

    Founded by CEO Katayama after leaving a major IT company, launching the web marketing business that would become the predecessor of Virtual Arts.