Skydea

A small English-speaking team in Minami-Aoyama, Skydea works as both a design agency and a digital product incubator, founded in 2018 with more than 60 projects completed. The bilingual staff pairs Tokyo roots with Silicon Valley experience, running remote-first across time zones so clients outside Japan can work in English throughout.

Services cover strategy consulting, creative direction, branding, website design and development, and digital product design, backed by UX research, interaction design, and frontend and backend engineering for web and mobile. Rather than splitting a project across specialists, one team carries it from initial strategy through brand and design into shipped code, which is how Skydea frames its four-week zero-to-MVP timeline.

That structure is the core of the incubator model: strategy, design, and build sit inside a single engagement instead of being handed off between vendors, aimed at getting a product live and testable fast rather than managing a long multi-phase rollout.