User:Tekstinsyöttäjä/Cocone (company)

Cocone is a Japanese-headquartered company whose main business is avatar creation and styling. Cocone was founded in September 2008 by Chira Hyun.

Cocone employs over 1,100 people in 7 countries worldwide. Cocone has built a broad portfolio of award-winning apps and supporting technology to help people express themselves via digital worlds (metaverses), from creating unique fashion looks to styling your avatar and participating in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) marketplaces.

The company develops avatar-led apps based on social networks, such as the character-themed app "Pokecolo" and the story-type puzzle game "Cats Atelier”.

Concurrently has the No. 1 avatar mobile app in Japan and has sold 16 billion digital assets, and is promoting the conversion of digital assets to NFT since 2022.

Since April 2017, Cocone has also been operating the kindergarten "International Montessori Mirai Kindergarten".

Awards
2014


 * "Pokecolo" selected as Google Play Best of 2014

2015


 * Cocone 2nd Top Publisher in（ Non-Game iOS & Google Play )
 * "Pokecolo" 3rd place in Japan App Revenue Ranking （ Non-Game iOS & Google Play ）

2016


 * "Pokecolo" 3rd place in Japan App Revenue Ranking （ Non-Game iOS & Google Play ）

2017


 * "Disney My Little Doll" awarded Play Best of 2017 award (Social Category)
 * "Pokecolo" 3rd place in Japan App Revenue Ranking （ Non-Game iOS & Google Play ）
 * "Disney My Little Doll" 26th place in Japan App Revenue Ranking（Non-Game iOS & Google Play）

2018


 * "Cats Atelier" awarded Google Play Best of 2018 Grand Prize in Game category "Cute & Casual Category"
 * Cats Atelier awarded App Ape Award 2018 for "Game of the year 2018 Excellence Award"
 * 8th place in app consumption expenditure ranking by Google Play publisher
 * "Pokecolo" 5th place in Japan App Revenue Ranking

2019


 * "Pokecolo" 8 th place in Japan App Revenue Ranking
 * Named 27th ‘Greatest Place to work’ in the medium-sized company category in Japan

2020


 * App Annie Aggregate Ranking (Cocone) Consumption expenditure 6th place
 * "Pokecolo Twin" awarded Google Play Best of 2020 User-Voted Excellence Award

Notable appearances

 * Yukiko Kokura - Pokecolo 2015
 * Rino Shihara - Pokecolo 2017
 * Ryu Akiyama -（YOKO FUCHIGAMI) - Pokecolo 2018
 * Akiraoaki Motoma - Cats Atelier 2018（Song）
 * Bamboo force - Disney My Little Doll 2020