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  "markdown": "Co-founder, TableCheck Inc..\n\nYu Taniguchi is co-founder and CEO of TableCheck, the restaurant booking and guest management company he founded in 2011. Before that he worked in sales, legal and corporate planning at CyberSource's Japan subsidiary and helped launch new businesses at English OK, later renamed Pikumedia.\n\n## What Yu builds\n\n- [TableCheck API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tablecheck.md), graded C, 57.1/100, in Restaurant \u0026 local bookings. TableCheck is a restaurant reservation and guest management platform used mainly in Japan and Asia. Its API components cover availability, booking, CRM, POS and distribution to booking sites, with an MCP server for merchants. Co-founder, TableCheck Inc., researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [John Shields](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-shields/), Co-founder, TableCheck Inc.\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [SMBC Venture Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/smbc-venture-capital/)\n- [DNX Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dnx-ventures/)\n- [Colopl Next](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/colopl-next/)\n- [Mizuho Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mizuho-capital/)\n- [Future Creation Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/future-creation-capital/)\n- [ABF Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/abf-capital/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Yu Taniguchi?\n\nYu Taniguchi is co-founder and CEO of TableCheck, the restaurant booking and guest management company he founded in 2011. Before that he worked in sales, legal and corporate planning at CyberSource's Japan subsidiary and helped launch new businesses at English OK, later renamed Pikumedia.\n\n### What does TableCheck Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists TableCheck API from TableCheck Inc.. TableCheck is a restaurant reservation and guest management platform used mainly in Japan and Asia. Its API components cover availability, booking, CRM, POS and distribution to booking sites, with an MCP server for merchants.\n\n### Who has invested in TableCheck Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name SMBC Venture Capital, DNX Ventures, Colopl Next, Mizuho Capital, Future Creation Capital and ABF Capital.\n\n### How are Yu's tools graded?\n\nTableCheck API is graded C, 57.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.tablecheck.com/en/join/about-us/team/\n- https://www.tablecheck.com/en/japan\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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