• 2009 April 06

Company Description

Milog develops AppLog, a software solution that is able to monitor and optimize the Android devices’ battery life.

-Milog inc is founded in April 2009, aiming to focus on Android platform on smartphone. Business domain is an intelligence of application usage data on Android OS platform to provide worldwide handset companies and telecom operators, employing high-level statistical analysis, with Harvard Physics Team. Milog has raised $5 million (1.2 million USD in a seed round, 3.8 million USD in Series A). Acquired on March 2012.- Milog is founded by Yohei Kiguchi, Co-Founder/ CEO in April 2009, and his friends, then sold the entire business in March 2012. Milog has the headquarter in Tokyo, and also have contractors across the world, mainly in Shanghai, San Francisco. In Japan, milog patented a core programme for this field, and was widely recognized as a top runner and innovative challenger in IT field. Milog developed 'AppLog', which was an embedded software to monitor application’s battery and data consumption on an android device, and automatically optimise the application’s running task to improve the battery life. To address the battery life problem, which is the most common users concern in many polls, the demand side approach was unique and more efficient, while a lot of hardware companies tackled the issue by improving the battery size or efficiency. Milog raised total 5 million USD(1.2 million USD in a seed round, 3.8 million USD in Series A) from JAFCO, No.1 Japanese VC, and OPT, No.1 advertising agency, and RECRUIT, No.1 Japanese Human Resource company.