Timee
👤 Ryo Ogawa (Rikkyo student, 20, who lived the part-time-job friction; killed a failed apparel startup fast, then raised 3 rounds in 9 months.)🌐 site𝕏
Ogawa made every casual shift a same-day direct hire, sidestepping Japan's staffing-license law and its friction.
Will it work? · our read
Density won. A 21-year-old reframed a legal contract and put millions of idle workers into shifts. But it's Japan-bound, the 30% fee invites poaching, and growth leans on new verticals.
01How the money moves
Business posts an open shift; a worker taps 'work' — no resume, no interview
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Worker shows up, does the shift, and is paid the same day
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Business pays the wage plus a 30% service fee to Timee, billed monthly
02The numbers
14.2M+
registered workers
215A filing
465k+
client locations
215A filing
85.9%
shifts filled (fulfillment)
215A filing
From the 6-month period ended April 2026 (fiscal-year-end change). Timee IR
FY2025 (ended Oct 2025) revenue about $230M, up 28%, publicly filed (TSE:215A).
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Timee corporate & investor relations (official, TSE:215A)Reuters via Investing.com: Timee shares pop 30% in Tokyo debut (Jul 2024)AIM Group: Mercari Hallo tops 11M workers before its 2025 exitTORYUMON Journal: Timee founding story with CEO Ryo OgawaCompound with Rene: anatomy of Timee's (215A) moat
Revenue is FILED: Timee is public (TSE Growth 215A), and FY2025 (ended Oct 2025) revenue of 34.3B yen (about $230M, up 28%, net income 5.31B yen) plus the metrics (14.2M workers, 465k sites, 85.9% fill, about 30% take rate) come from its filings; yen-to-dollar at about 150. Rivals weights are our rough read, not published shares — Timee is the documented leader, and Mercari's 5.9B yen ($40M) loss and 2025 exit are reported. The 'sidesteps dispatch law' angle is our read on a documented fact (each shift is a direct employment contract); the regulatory risk is forward-looking. We never score you.