Company
Company
Message from the CEO
Something that accumulates, like strata.
Most conversations about AI settle on model capability. But when a company actually tries to embed AI in its operations, the first obstacle is rarely how clever the model is. There is not enough compute; the unit economics cannot be forecast; nobody owns operations. Almost everything stops short of the model.
That earlier ground is our business. How compute is procured, how it is kept running, what inference costs to serve, and who keeps operating it. It is unglamorous, largely invisible from outside, and — once built — it keeps paying for a long time.
Since our founding in 2024 we have worked on nothing else. It is not a fashionable field, and few firms are willing to carry it. If our clients' businesses are going to last ten years, we would like the ground beneath them to last ten years too.
Please bring us in while it is still an idea. We are glad to start the conversation before anything has been decided.
Yukiko Sato, Representative Director, Yolaiz Inc.
Origin of the name
Yolaiz
The letters A and I sit in the middle of the name. Yol-AI-z. That is not an accident.
The first part comes from the Japanese word yoridokoro (拠り所) — the ground you have to be standing on before you can move at all. The ending is the English suffix -ize, as in realize and materialize: to actually make it so.
Our work is not to build AI itself. It is to lay the compute beneath it, and to turn what comes out of it into working operations above. The two sides of AI — below and above — are our territory.
The spelling of the name is the structure of the business.
Corporate profile
Corporate profile
| Legal name | Yolaiz Inc. (株式会社Yolaiz) |
|---|---|
| Founded | May 2, 2024 |
| Representative | Yukiko Sato, Representative Director |
| Capital | JPY 9,000,000 |
| Head office | 2F Ginza Otake Bujidence, 1-22-11 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan |
| Employees | 25 (14 full-time, 11 contractors and technical advisors, as of July 2026) |
| Fiscal year end | April 30 |
| Lines of business | AI Infrastructure / LLM & Token Platform / Applied AI |
| Principal bankers | Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation / Japan Finance Corporation |
History
History
May 2024
Yolaiz Inc. founded in Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo. Began contract GPU cluster construction.
Sep 2024
Partnered with a domestic data centre operator to offer GPU environments in high-density racks at 40 kW per rack.
Jan 2025
Launched the LLM gateway, productising the consolidation of multiple models behind a single endpoint.
Apr 2025
Built and began operating a 128-GPU training cluster for a research institution, jointly with a data centre operator.
Aug 2025
Launched the inference optimisation practice, focused on vLLM and TensorRT-LLM performance and cost.
Dec 2025
Delivered a private inference environment for a financial services provider, now running as its company-wide token platform.
Mar 2026
Formed a dedicated Applied AI team, scaling RAG and agent development capacity.
Jul 2026
GPUs under our operation passed 400.
Access
Access
Directions from the nearest station are sent individually on enquiry. Please contact us in advance of any visit.
Bring us in while it is still an idea.
The most common questions we receive are "how many GPUs should we buy" and "should we own or rent". We welcome conversations long before requirements are settled.