The story
Coin Ltd., the predecessor to COOKPAD Inc., was established in October 1997.
It launched “Kitchen@coin” as a sharing service for cooking in March 1998 and changed the services name to "COOKPAD" in June 1999.
It started advertising business in March 2002.
It launched a premium service in September 2004, the mobile service “MOBAREPI” in September 2006 and MOBAREPI's premium service in November 2008.
Listed was on TSE Mothers in July 2009.
In March 2010 it opened an office in California, USA and an office in Singapore in May 2011.
In June 2016 it Acquired Cucumbertown.
In October 2017 it opened an office in Bristol, UK.
From Wikipedia’s article on Cookpad, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4