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Start Line

スタートライン

TSE Growth ・ Ticker 477A Listed

Result on listing day

+94.8%

Offer price

480 yen

First traded price

935 yen

Selling 100 shares at the first traded price would have produced a gain of 45,500 yen, before fees and tax. 100 shares is the minimum trading unit in Japan.

Application period (book building)
2025-12-05 — 2025-12-11
Lottery result
2025-12-12
Listing date
2025-12-22
Cash needed to apply for one lot (100 shares)
about 48,000 yen
Offering size (at the offer price)
806 million yen ・ 1,679,000 shares
Market capitalisation at listing
1.9 billion yen
Lock-up
Not translated — this is the wording from the Japanese offering documents, kept verbatim so it matches what your broker shows: 上位株主に180日間
Company website
https://start-line.jp/

Closing prices after listing

Compared with the first traded price of 935 yen.

2025-12-221,085 yen+16.0%
2025-12-23905 yen-3.2%
2025-12-24900 yen-3.7%
2025-12-25895 yen-4.3%
2025-12-26877 yen-6.2%

Brokers you can apply through

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

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

What stands out

  • 373 client companies and 2,514 people with disabilities supported as of the end of March 2026, with about 65% of clients being listed companies or their subsidiaries
  • Revenue of 5,599 million yen and operating profit of 450 million yen in the year to March 2026, both records for the company
  • Recurring monthly fees made up 64.4% of revenue, and the churn rate was 2.1%

What could go wrong

  • Demand rests on the statutory employment quota for people with disabilities, so changes to the rules or to how they are applied could affect the business
  • The model needs support staff at every site, so growth can slow if hiring or new site openings fall behind plan
  • Borrowing is heavy because new sites require up-front investment; the equity ratio was 22.9% at the end of March 2026

About the company

A company that works between employers required to hire people with disabilities and disabled people looking for work, handling everything from designing the workplace to recruitment and helping staff stay in their jobs.

How it makes money

It sells to companies satellite offices such as INCLU where its own support staff are stationed, support delivered inside client offices, consulting on disability employment, and recruitment and retention services, earning mostly monthly service fees. Almost all of its revenue comes from the disability employment support business, and recurring monthly fees accounted for 64.4% of revenue in the year to March 2026. It had 373 client companies and supported 2,514 people with disabilities as of the end of March 2026, and about 65% of its clients are listed companies or their subsidiaries.

Where growth is meant to come from

Its sites are concentrated in the Kanto and Kansai regions plus Niigata, and expanding across the country is its main growth plan, including a first location in the Tokai region planned for the year to March 2027. It also intends to widen its range of services and move further into disability welfare services such as Type B continuous employment support.

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.