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Liberaware

TSE Growth ・ Ticker 218A ・ Listed

Updated

Result on listing day

+46.5%

Offer price

310 yen

First traded price

454 yen

Selling 100 shares at the first traded price would have produced a gain of 14,400 yen, before fees and tax. 100 shares is the minimum trading unit in Japan.

Application period (book building)
2024-07-11 — 2024-07-18
Lottery result
To be announced
Listing date
2024-07-29
Cash needed to apply for one lot (100 shares)
about 31,000 yen
Offering size (at the offer price)
1.1 billion yen ・ 3,616,600 shares
Market capitalisation at listing
5.8 billion yen
Lock-up
Not translated — this is the wording from the Japanese offering documents, kept verbatim so it matches what your broker shows: 役員に180日間、ベンチャーキャピタル等に90日間または公開価格の1.5倍で解除条件付きのロックアップ

Brokers you can apply through

You can only enter this lottery through a broker underwriting it. The lead underwriter is SMBC Nikko Securities, which receives the largest allocation.

Broker pages are in Japanese. A comparison in English is on the brokers page.

What stands out

  • Develops its own IBIS small drone, specialised for inspecting cramped, dark indoor spaces
  • Selected under Japan's SBIR programme as the lead company for developing railway inspection drones, with subsidies of up to 5.2 billion yen
  • Revenue of 1.595 billion yen in the year to July 2026 (up 13.4%), with a company forecast of 2.3 billion yen (up 44.2%) for the year to July 2027

What could go wrong

  • The core business is deep in the red (an operating loss of 2.397 billion yen in the year to July 2026), and subsidy income (non-operating income) is what narrows the ordinary loss
  • The company also forecasts a net loss of 1.109 billion yen for the year to July 2027
  • The subsidised projects run for a fixed period, and whether the technology developed will turn into a profitable business is still to be seen

About the company

A company that develops IBIS, a small drone for inspecting cramped, dark indoor spaces that people struggle to enter, such as ceiling voids, ducts and sewer pipes, and also provides inspection services and analysis of the footage.

How it makes money

It earns money by selling and renting its IBIS small drones, by carrying out inspections with them, and by analysis services that turn the footage into 3D data and other outputs. Its customers are companies with infrastructure or large facilities, in sewerage and disaster prevention as well as railways, electricity and gas, steel and chemical plants, and construction. Consolidated revenue for the year to July 2026 was 1.595 billion yen, up 13.4% on the previous year.

Where growth is meant to come from

Under Japan's SBIR programme, which supports technology development by start-ups, it was selected as the lead company for the transport ministry's project on railway inspection solutions using drones built for railway environments, and it is developing them with subsidies of up to 5.2 billion yen through fiscal 2027. For the year to July 2027 it expects revenue of 2.3 billion yen (up 44.2%), but because investment in development and staff continues, it forecasts a net loss attributable to owners of the parent of 1.109 billion yen.

Read about this company in Japanese →

Figures are taken from the offering documents and public sources, and are checked against two independent sources before publication. Nothing here is investment advice. Shares can and do open below their offer price.