Tailor

Headless ERP for retail operations

tailor.tech

HQ: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

11-50

B2B

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 2, 2026

Overview

Tailor is a privately held, San Francisco-headquartered software company founded in Japan in 2021. It develops a headless, composable ERP and low-code application platform for modern retail, ecommerce, manufacturing, and other operations-heavy businesses. The product separates the ERP back end from the user interface so customers can assemble, extend, or replace modules without adopting a rigid monolithic suite.

Primary product

Tailor Platform, including Tailor Omakase: an API-first, headless/composable ERP with modules and workflows for inventory, purchasing, orders, fulfillment, finance, omnichannel operations, and light manufacturing.

Founded

2021

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Team size

Approximately 40-50 employees; YC lists about 40 and TechCrunch reported approximately 50 in June 2025.

Work style

Remote

Industry

Software development / enterprise software

Sub-industry

Cloud ERP, composable/headless ERP, retail and ecommerce operations software

Offices

San Francisco, California, United States

Tokyo, Japan

Business model

B2B SaaS / cloud enterprise software

Enterprise ERP platform licensing or subscription

Customizable low-code platform and implementation services

API, integration, and workflow automation platform

Funding

Stage

Series A

Total raised

$37M

Latest round

Series A final close · Nov 2025

Latest amount

$15M

Series A (final close)

Nov 2025

$37M

Series A final close (cumulative Series A total)

Nov 2025 · ANRI

$37M

Series A (second close / expanded round)

Jul 2025 · ANRI

$22M

Series A expanded close (cumulative Series A total)

Jul 2025 · ANRI

$22M

Series A first close

May 2025 · ANRI

$14M

Series A (first close)

May 2025 · ANRI

$14M

Seed

Sep 2022 · Global Brain and Y Combinator

$4.3M

People & investors

Leadership

Yo Shibata

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Misato Takahashi

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

Investors

Globis Capital Partners

i-nest capital

JIC Venture Growth Investments

JIC Venture Growth Investments (JIC VGI)

JPS Growth Investment Limited Partnership (Japan Post Investment Corporation)

JPS Growth Investment Limited Partnership / Japan Post Investment Corporation

New Enterprise Associates

New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

Spiral Capital

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank

Y Combinator

Work & culture

Public hiring materials characterize Tailor as distributed and remote-first, with asynchronous collaboration across US, Japan, and Australia time zones. The company emphasizes pragmatic, outcome-oriented operators who are comfortable with ambiguity; its website highlights technical depth, open-source contributors, and a mix of engineering, enterprise, and consulting experience.

Work style

Remote

Compensation

Public postings show examples including $120,000-$160,000 USD for a remote full-stack engineer, $130,000-$170,000 for a US-remote forward-deployed product manager, and $100,000-$200,000 for a senior frontend engineer in Australia. Sponsorship is not clearly stated.

Benefits

Paid time off and paid holidays

Work-from-home setup stipend

Parental leave and family support

Product & market

Pricing

Public pricing is not disclosed; sales appear demo- or quote-led for businesses. Tailor Omakase was offered free for the first year of core modules to companies referred through YC.

Differentiators

—Headless, API-first ERP architecture that decouples the back end from the interface
—Composable modules that can be adopted incrementally alongside existing systems
—Low-code schema, CRUD API, workflow, state-machine, and event-trigger tooling
—50+ integrations, including Shopify, QuickBooks, NetSuite, Odoo, and 3PLs
—AI capabilities including OCR, vector search, and LLM connectivity
—Designed for retail, ecommerce, omnichannel, supply-chain, and light-manufacturing complexity
—SOC 2-compliant platform

Technology

GraphQL APIs

JavaScript/serverless functions

Tailor SDK

TailorDB

Terraform provider

GitHub Actions

OpenTelemetry

OCR and document parsing

Vector search

LLM integrations including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Llama

Shopify, QuickBooks, NetSuite, Odoo, and 3PL integrations

Customers

Universal Jewelry

A strategic textile supplier to a $20B+ global clothing retailer (customer name not publicly disclosed)

A Japan-based hospitality company with nearly $1B in annual revenue (name not publicly disclosed)

Custom jewelry and omnichannel brands using Shopify, Pinterest, Etsy, TikTok, and Amazon

Competitors

SAP

NetSuite

Oracle

Workday

Point-solution inventory/order-management systems

Spreadsheets and Airtable workflows

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$1M-$10M annually (third-party estimate; not company-reported). A separate third-party profile estimated approximately $7.5M.

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Latest news

Tailor Announces $37 Million Series A to Accelerate Expansion of Composable Headless ERP

Tailor · Nov 2025

Tailor announced the final $15M close of its Series A, bringing the company-reported cumulative Series A total to $37M; proceeds support US expansion, product and AI development, and Japan operations.

Tailor Announces $37 Million Series A to Accelerate Expansion of Composable, Headless ERP

Business Wire · Nov 2025

Final close of Series A brought total Series A funding to $37M; new investors included i-nest capital, ALPHA, Fukoku CVC Fund, JPS Growth Investment Limited Partnership, and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank.

Tailor Expands Series A to $22 Million with Public-Private Support

Tailor · Jul 2025

Tailor announced an additional $8M Series A close led into the round by ANRI's earlier close, with new investors NEA and JIC VGI and increased Y Combinator participation.

Tailor, a 'headless' ERP startup, raises $22M Series A

TechCrunch · Jun 2025

TechCrunch covered Tailor's $22M Series A stage, its retail/ecommerce ERP product Omakase, investors including ANRI, JIC VGI, NEA, Spiral Capital, and YC, and its approximately 50-person distributed team.

Tailor Raises $14 Million in First Close of Series A

Tailor · May 2025

Company announced the first close of its Series A led by ANRI, with participation from Spiral Capital.

Jobs and careers at Tailor

54 jobs at Tailor

AI Platform Engineer

Remote

Global Engineering

Tokyo; Japan

1mo ago

Remote

Full-time