Company: CNCKW
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: F-1/A
Source: 0001013762-25-003470
Chunk: 184

Company: Coincheck Group N.V.
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: F-1/A
Chunk 184
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 has acquired Sakura Exchange BitCoin in November 2022 to enter the Japanese market and launched its initial services on its platform in August 2023, while Coinbase K.K. and Kraken shut down their services in Japan. We compete on factors including: •the quality of our user interface for both smartphone and PC users; •the security of our cryptocurrency exchanges and reliability of execution; •provision of information and brand strength, including our association with Monex Group; and •innovation to provide additional products and services of interest to our customers. Employees As of December 31, 2024, we had 186 full -timeemployees, (excluding directors, executive officers, audit and supervisory board members, contract employees, temporary employees, and temporary staff), 37.1% of which were engineers, allowing us to innovate rapidly to maintain our competitive edge. We work to identify, attract, and retain employees who are aligned with and will help us progress our mission. In recognition of our positive work environment that supports flexibility, childbirth and childcare, and promotes work -lifebalance, in November 2021 we were awarded the “7 thWhite Company Award” sponsored by the Japan Next Generation Enterprise Promotion Organization in the employee benefits category. This award recognizes noteworthy human resource systems and initiatives among companies that have obtained the White Company Certificate. This was our second time winning this award, following our recognition in the “Flexible Working Category” in the first half of 2021. Furthermore, in January 2023, our strong commitment towards improving our employees’ well -beingwas recognized, and we were awarded the “9 thWhite Company Award” in the diversity and inclusion category. Facilities We lease office space for our headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and we also lease office space in Tokyo, Japan. We believe that our facilities are adequate and suitable to meet our needs for our business as currently conducted. Intellectual Property We strive to acquire intellectual property rights related to the services we operate, and we recognize that the protection of our technology and intellectual property rights is an important aspect of our business. In order to prevent the infringement of not only our own intellectual property rights but also those of third parties, we conduct preliminary investigations throughout our company and with legal counsel. We rely on a combination of patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights, confidentiality procedures, contractual commitments and other legal rights to establish and protect our intellectual property. We generally enter into agreements with our employees and consultants that contain confidentiality provisions to control access to our proprietary information. Legal Proceedings We are involved