Startup

Go Inc. raised ¥88.6 billion ($553 million) in Japan's largest IPO of 2026, debuting 21% higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after a 25-times oversubscribed offering backed by BlackRock, Wellington, and Goldman Sachs. The taxi-aggregation company's regulatory-partnership model , built to work within Japan's strict licensing rules rather than around them , offers a sharper blueprint than the disruption playbook Uber spent years trying to force on the same market.