# ActEvolve

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/actevolve/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

ActEvolve Inc. (株式会社ActEvolve) was a Tokyo virtual-reality entertainment company incorporated on 9 August 2017 by Takuya Kato, a former Capcom game developer, together with other ex-game-industry engineers. In November 2018 it launched VARK, a VR live platform on which VTuber and virtual-artist performances — most visibly the long-running "Cinderella switch" series with hololive — were staged as ticketed, seat-based concerts for Meta Quest, Android and iOS, paid for with in-app VARK Coin. The company took strategic investment from KLab Inc. in August 2019, renamed itself VARK Inc. (株式会社VARK) on 1 May 2020 alongside a roughly ¥200M round from ANRI, raised a further ¥600M in May 2021, and diversified into the VARK SHORTS 3D animation tool and the STAR BLOOM liver-management agency, producing metaverse events for ANYCOLOR, Avex, KADOKAWA, COVER, Dwango, Shochiku and Meta. VARK was a consumer entertainment app rather than a platform business: it never operated a developer program, and no public API, SDK, webhook catalogue or machine-readable specification (OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL SDL, MCP manifest, agent card) was published on any of its hosts at any point — 1,812 archived URLs across vark.co.jp and its subdomains contain no /api, /developers, /docs, /openapi or /graphql path of any kind. The VARK metaverse service shut down on 4 March 2024 with same-day notice, refunding unused VARK Coin until 5 May 2024 under Japan's Payment Services Act; the free tier of VARK SHORTS ended on 30 September 2024; and in March 2025 the entire company was sold in an all-share transaction whose acquirer and terms were kept confidential, with founder Takuya Kato stepping down as representative director. This profile is retained as a historical record — there is no API surface to enrich.

## Tags

Company, Defunct, Acquired, Virtual Reality, Metaverse, Entertainment, Live Events, VTuber, Consumer, Japan

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