What does Kikuvi's AI agent do?

It designs and conducts interviews by voice, digs deeper with each respondent, and structures the collected answers into summaries, Q&A tables and reports for decision-making.

How many people can it interview at once?

It can interview hundreds to thousands of people asynchronously and in parallel, at the same quality, according to the company.

What other products is Kikuvi developing?

Besides the Kikuvi interviewing agent, it is developing Tsuguvi, an AI business succession agent, and Subako, a cloud platform for running AI agents.

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Kikuvi wins Ignition Stage and SBI Investment Award

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What happened
Kikuvi's AI interviewing agent won the Ignition Stage pitch at Sumitomo Realty's Venture Summit 2026 and also took the SBI Investment Award, founder CEO Sato Kento said.
Why it matters
The double win gives Kikuvi, whose agent is used by major firms in automotive, real estate and consulting and by government agencies, validation as it pitches its three-product vision.

WHO IT HITSStartup founders and venture capitalists evaluating early-stage AI tools may see the award as a signal of Kikuvi's traction among large enterprises and public-sector buyers.

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Kikuvi's pitch centered on a specific bottleneck: the reasons behind human judgments and experience-based knowledge stay tacit unless someone asks, and human interviewing caps out at 10 to 20 people at a time and takes weeks to finish. The company positions its agent as infrastructure for 'AI asking people' — designing interviews from a stated goal, conducting them by voice, and analyzing the responses.

The award comes as Kikuvi is already deployed at large companies in automotive, real estate and consulting and at government agencies, and it used the stage to outline a three-product lineup: Kikuvi for interviewing, Tsuguvi for business succession and Subako as the cloud foundation for running agents. The event itself, hosted by Sumitomo Realty and invitation-only, drew more than 2,700 registered attendees and over 170 exhibitors in 2026, with eight startups each presenting six-minute pitches to seven judges from venture capital, operating companies and securities firms.

FAQ

What does Kikuvi's AI agent do?: It designs and conducts interviews by voice, digs deeper with each respondent, and structures the collected answers into summaries, Q&A tables and reports for decision-making.
How many people can it interview at once?: It can interview hundreds to thousands of people asynchronously and in parallel, at the same quality, according to the company.
What other products is Kikuvi developing?: Besides the Kikuvi interviewing agent, it is developing Tsuguvi, an AI business succession agent, and Subako, a cloud platform for running AI agents.

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