aid: ababa
name: ABABA
description: 'ABABA (株式会社ABABA) is a Tokyo-based Japanese HR technology company operating a new-graduate
  direct-recruiting platform built on an unusual premise: only students who have already reached the FINAL
  interview stage at another company may register, and each submits evidence of that selection history,
  so every candidate in the database arrives pre-qualified by someone else''s hiring bar. Employers then
  scout those near-miss finalists into abbreviated selection flows — the company reports that 94% of adopting
  employers waive the entry sheet or the first interview for an ABABA candidate. A second product, REALME,
  runs AI mock interviews and matching. Founded 19 October 2020 and led by co-representatives Shunki Kubo
  (CEO) and Tatsuya Nakai, ABABA raised a 1.25 billion yen Series B in March 2025 led by DBJ Capital (1.82
  billion yen total to date) and reported passing 3,000 cumulative adopting companies in November 2025.
  The product ships purely as an end-user web application: ABABA publishes no developer portal, API documentation,
  SDK, webhook catalog or machine-readable specification of any kind.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ababa/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://storage.googleapis.com/production-os-assets/assets/d1928efe-3d67-4bc2-ba43-8608be43531f
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-05'
modified: '2026-09-05'
position: Producing
tags:
- Company
- Human Resources
- Recruiting
- Talent Acquisition
- HR Technology
- Job Search
- Artificial Intelligence
- Japan
- Software-as-a-Service
tags_raw:
- Company
- Human Resources
- Recruiting
- Talent Acquisition
- HR Technology
- Job Search
- Artificial Intelligence
- Japan
- SaaS
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ababa-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://hr.ababa.co.jp/
- type: Blog
  url: https://hr.ababa.co.jp/article
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://hr.ababa.co.jp/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://ababa.co.jp/terms_of_service
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://equityzen.com/company/ababa
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/ababa-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-05'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 5
  pass: local-v3
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: 'ABABA runs two real first-party hosts — a Bubble.io end-user application at ababa.co.jp whose
    robots.txt is Disallow:/ for every user agent, and an undocumented Go API at api.ababa.co.jp (AWS
    ap-northeast-1, permissive CORS, /health 200) that backs it — but the company publishes no developer
    program at all: every OpenAPI/Swagger/GraphQL/agent-card/apis.json path on all three hosts 404s against
    a clean negative control, api./docs./developer subdomains either 404 or do not resolve, and the corporate
    site''s own sitemap lists only company, article, whitepaper, news, privacy and job-posting-policy
    routes with nothing developer-facing.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.ababa.co.jp/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.ababa.co.jp/graphql
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.ababa.co.jp/docs
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.ababa.co.jp/health
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.ababa.co.jp/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.ababa.co.jp/.well-known/ababa-negative-control-7f3ab91c.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://ababa.co.jp/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://ababa.co.jp/apis.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://ababa.co.jp/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://ababa.co.jp/robots.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://hr.ababa.co.jp/sitemap-static.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://hr.ababa.co.jp/zzz-does-not-exist-9f3a
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-09-05'