Founded in November 1999 to nurture venture businesses in wireless and/or internet-related technologies, Mobile Internet Capital has 3 corporate shareholders, each holding 30% of the total equity. The remaining 10% of the equity is held by CEO/CIO Ikuo Nishioka, ex-head of computer research at Sharp and former President and Chairman of Intel Japan.

NTT DoCoMo is the world's largest single-country cell-phone operator with a market capitalization of $175 billion. It has 36.4 million subscribers, of whom nearly 18.6 million surf the net using its proprietary i-mode web-phone technology.
(Figures as of Feb. 2001)

IRI (Internet Research Institute) is the leading internet technology provider in Japan, focused on high-value-added business incubation based on its data center, ancillary services and specialties of router and server operation.

Mizuho Securities is the securities arm of the Mizuho Financial Group. The Mizuho Financial Group is the largest banking group in Japan and was formed when Dai-ichi Kangyo Bank, Fuji Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan integrated their resources in September 2000. Mizuho Securities is the result of the merger of the securities subsidiaries of the 3 banks.