Ownership profile
Who owns TENGA Co., Ltd.?
TENGA Co., Ltd. is a privately held Japanese company founded and led by Koichi Matsumoto; no private equity ownership has been identified in any public source.
Ownership profile
TENGA Co., Ltd.
TENGA Co., Ltd. (株式会社典雅)
Evidence (6)
TENGA Co., Ltd. is a kabushiki gaisha (joint-stock company / close corporation) founded on 25 March 2005 by Koichi Matsumoto, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenga_(company)Wikidata classifies the legal form as 'joint-stock company' (kabushiki gaisha) with Koichi Matsumoto listed as chairperson and no parent entity recorded.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21019188The official corporate website lists Koichi Matsumoto as head of the company and shows only TENGA-branded subsidiaries (TENGA USA Inc., TENGA Healthcare Inc., Taiwan Branch), with no holding company or external investor named.
https://tenga-group.com/en/company/profile/Matsumoto bootstrapped the company using personal savings of 10 million yen; no investor or external funding source is mentioned in any corporate biography.
https://tenga.ph/about-us/corporate-informationNo PE acquisition, majority-stake transaction, or recapitalisation press release involving TENGA Co., Ltd. was found in any news source or PE portfolio page.
https://tenga-group.com/en/company/history/Bloomberg's company profile for Tenga Co., Ltd. lists it as founded in 2005 with no parent company or PE owner mentioned.
https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/ABMMZZ:JPWhat's uncertain
- TENGA Co., Ltd. is a Japanese private company and is not subject to SEC EDGAR or most Western public filing requirements; shareholder registers in Japan are not publicly accessible, so minority stakes or silent investors cannot be ruled out from public sources alone.
- The 'none' PE involvement rating reflects an absence of any evidence of PE involvement across multiple sources, but the confidence is moderate (65) rather than high because private Japanese company ownership records are opaque.
- Revenue and employee figures cited in Wikipedia date to 2012 and may be significantly out of date.
- The Nexstar/Tenga Media result in the PE search is an unrelated company (a TV station deal); it was disregarded.