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AnyMind Group

March 18, 2020

AnyMind Group acquires POKKT Mobile Ads, marking expansion into India and the Middle East

AnyMind Group, a company in the marketing technology, entertainment technology and HR technology spaces, has today announced the full acquisition of India-based mobile video advertising platform, POKKT Mobile Ads (POKKT).

POKKT was founded in 2012 in India, and expanded into Southeast Asia and the Middle East. POKKT Mobile Ads is the leading in-app smartphone ad platform that is integrated with over 1000 app publishers. Reaching over 500 million monthly active users, POKKT’s key offerings include in-app video ads, rich media innovations and app perfor

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AnyMind Group

March 5, 2020

AnyMind Group adds direct-to-consumer offering and capital from Japan Post and existing investors

SINGAPORE - 5 March 2020 - Singapore-headquartered AnyMind Group, a company in the marketing technology, entertainment technology and HR technology spaces, has today announced the addition of a direct-to-consumer (D2C) offering with an investment in and strategic partnership with fitness apparel brand LÝFT.

LÝFT is a business owned by Edward Kato, an athlete

and entrepreneur, that produces and sells branded merchandise through online commerce. Together with LÝFT, AnyMind Group will start a D2C offering for social media influencers and content creat

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HR Tech

January 29, 2020

TalentMind bolsters features to help HR teams in Thailand go digital faster

TalentMind, a human resource technology business and part of AnyMind Group, has today announced the launch of a payroll system under the TalentMind People platform for the Thailand market.

Human resource and payroll professionals in Thailand now have a single platform to automatically consolidate data points, calculate, manage and track payroll, compared to traditional means of spending many hours keeping track of employee movements, manually collecting individual employee information from multiple siloed data sources, and tabulating this data to genera

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AnyMind Group

January 8, 2020

AnyMind Group acquires Japan-based influencer network, GROVE

SINGAPORE - 8 January 2020 - AnyMind Group, a technology provider for the advertising, influencer marketing and human resource industries, has today announced a strategic agreement with Japanese media company, Space Shower Network Inc. (TSE: 4838, hereinafter Space Shower Network). As part of the agreement, AnyMind Group will acquire 91,600 shares (at 51% ownership) of GROVE Inc. (hereinafter GROVE), a Japan-based influencer network owned by Space Shower Network. This is AnyMind Group’s fourth acquisition globally, and second acquisition in Japan.

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Influencer Marketing

December 10, 2019

CastingAsia signs strategic partnership with influencer marketing company, GROVE

CastingAsia, an influencer marketing business and part of AnyMind Group, has announced the agreement of a strategic partnership with GROVE Co., Ltd., an influencer network based in Japan.

The new partnership will see 150 exclusive creators and around 700 registered creators within GROVE’s network, join the CastingAsia Creators Network. Through the CastingAsia Platform, marketers can also discover, activate, manage and track influencer marketing activity. This is enhanced through local teams across Asia providing marketers with strategy consultation,

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AnyMind Group

December 10, 2019

Forbes Japan selects AnyMind Group’s CEO and co-founder, Kosuke Sogo, as one of the top 20 entrepreneurs in 2020

Kosuke Sogo, CEO and co-founder of technology company, AnyMind Group, has been selected by Forbes Japan magazine as one of the top 20 Japanese entrepreneurs in the “Japanese Entrepreneurs Ranking 2020.” Among the top 20 companies in this ranking, AnyMind Group is the youngest company to be selected, whilst Kosuke Sogo is the youngest entrepreneur highlighted in this ranking.

©︎Forbes JAPAN CEO Conference 2020

On 28 November 2019, Sogo received the award at the “Forbes Japan CEO Conference & Special Gala Dinner” at Palace Hotel in Tokyo. Since 2015,