Wataridori Inc.株式会社ワタリドリ

Company

Company

Founded in 2015. An IT company that moved from Chiba to Aoki Village, Nagano. We build software, support growth, and run a cafe at the foot of Mt. Ogami.

Corporate profile

Profile

Name
Wataridori Inc.株式会社ワタリドリ
Representative
Yasuyuki Toriumi, Representative Director
Address
660 Ogami, Aoki-mura, Chiisagata-gun, Nagano 386-1605, Japan
Founded
2015
Business
  • Software development
  • Wataridori businesses

Logo

The thinking behind the logo

A bird, flying the open sky and going anywhere it likes.
A sea, moving freely and never holding one shape.
Together they stand for the migrating bird — unbound by place, free to fly.

Look at it another way.
The two waves that make the sea have the same shape as the bird, so they are us, the migrating birds.
The bird poking up out of them is someone, or something.
Someone or something is born from us.
The logo shows the future we are making.

Vision & Mission

Vision & Mission

Free as a bird

Freedom is the word we hold onto.
For us, freedom means choosing for yourself and acting on it.
We want those choices to come from beyond the frames around us — from acting, learning,
and from what we see and hear out in the wider world.
Picture that, and it looks like a bird flying free in the open sky.

To widen your choices you have to learn what you do not know, and experience it.
An encounter with the unknown should be packed with nerves and excitement.
Let us fly freely and spend our days full of the unknown.
Take on all kinds of things, make all kinds of things, go all kinds of places.
Wataridori Inc. exists to bring encounters with the unknown, and the excitement
that comes with them, to us and to you.

Members

Members

Yasuyuki Toriumi (Tori)

Representative Director

MSc, Mechanical Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shinshu University.

Currently studying computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Took a leave of absence during graduate school for a working holiday in Canada, and earned the Black Apron at Starbucks Canada.

Joined an enterprise ERP vendor as a new graduate and worked in its R&D division, building an internal service for streamlining the development process and rolling it out across the company. Also taught the new-graduate training programme that brought 300 people with no prior experience up to working level in three months.

After leaving, co-founded a social venture tackling problems in the nursing care sector and served as CTO, then founded Wataridori Inc. (renamed in 2017), where he is Representative Director.

Roasts the coffee at Wataridori Cafe, which opened in May 2021.

Builds his own apps and web services on the side, with an eye on turning them into a business.

In charge of using technology to create the openings where encounters with the unknown happen.

Masayo Toriumi (Tsukahara) — Tsuka

Director

Certified facilitator, LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method and materials training

ICC-certified coach, International Coaching Community

A single mother with a two-year-old and no employment history, she took a job in the IT industry and taught herself design, development and operations. Across three IT ventures she worked as an engineer, project manager, and in new business, recruiting and people development.

After going independent she has worked on community building and programme improvement for courses that develop co-creation skills, and as a planner and facilitator in support of social innovation. She became a Director of Wataridori Inc. in 2017.

Runs Wataridori Cafe, which opened in May 2021.

In charge of helping people find what excites them, through communication, workshops and coaching.

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