August 1st, 2024
Fuji Nihon Seito Corporation
Cykinso, Inc.

Investment in the business for services throughgut microbiota analysis～Aiming to expand functional food business through collaborationon the theme of gut environment～

Fuji Nihon Seito Corporation (“Fuji Nihon” Head office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo, President: HidetoshiSoga) entered into a business alliance agreement with Cykinso, Inc. ( "Cykinso" President: Yu
Sawai) . Cykinso has been developing gut microbiota testing service based on the philosophy of“making people healthier with microbiota”.
Fuji Nihon is pleased to announce to underwrite capital increase through third-party allocation(Total amount: 30 million yen) and have made a capital participation into Cykinso.
１．Background and Purpose
Fuji Nihon is aiming to shift from “sugar company to food science company” under the long-term
vision “NEXT VISION 2024”, setting out to strengthen our functional material business to achieve
this goal. Fuji Nihon were successful in making Inulin from sugar for the first time in the world
based on the experience accumulated in the sugar business and has shown that Inulin has effects
on various functions of the body, such a skin, bones, and brain function as stating from theimprovement of the gut environment. In addition, our inulin derived from sugar has been shown
to be highly effective in increasing beneficial gut bacteria to aim for further expansion as a material
that benefits “gut health”.
Cykinso has been developing gut microbiota testing service “Mykinso” based on the philosophyof “making people healthier with microbiota” and envisions a society in which all disease risks arereduced and a primordial prevention system in which everyone can naturally become healthy isrealized through proposing dietary habits and lifestyles tailored to individual gut microbiota data.
Taking the opportunity of this investment and alliance, Fuji Nihon aims to the creation of healthy
lifestyles around the world through the collaboration relevant to the gut microbiota testing services
to raise awareness and expansion of testing kits and services for gut environment, combined with
Cykinso’s gut microbiota testing system development technology, accumulated knowledge andany materials and know-how being advantageous to Fuji Nihon.２．Details of AllianceFuji Nihon supplies inulin for the products of Cykinso as material for gut health and makes themost of the advantage that our inulin has an effect on gut health to develop our own products on
the theme of gut environment with the utilization of knowledge on gut environment accumlated
so far by Cykinso. In addition, Fuji Nihon will promote development of products that can be crossselling with our materials for gut health to expand awareness and use of testing kits owned byCykinso.

３．Cykinso Company Profile(1) Name

Cykinso, Inc.

(2) Headquarters Address

2nd Floor, Odaka Building, 1-36-1 Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
151-0053, Japan(3) Representative

Yu Sawai, CEO(4) Business Activities

・ Development and sales of indigenous bacterial microbiota
testing services
・Contracted research and consulting for indigenous bacterial
microbiota analysis
・Development and sales of functional foods
・Health management support(5) Capital

164 million yen(6) Establishment

November, 2014

(For further infomation, please contact:)
Planning & Administrative Division, Fuji Nihon Seito Corporation
Tel: (＋81)-3- 3667-7811
Public Relations, Cykinso Inc.
Tel: (＋81)-3-6682-7136※The information contained in this release is true and accurate at the time of publication; however,it may be subject to change without prior notice.