Step One was established in Kobe, Japan, with a mission "to provide the highest quality software development services available."

From the beginning, our obsession has always been to help develop flawless products. As our business progressed and we moved towards specializing in embedded products, we realized more and more the impact our development had on the daily lives of consumers, and we changed our mission to its current form to reflect this.

Our mission is to make technology transparent to consumers by providing the highest quality embedded development services to product makers.

What drives us is the prospect of making people's daily lives simpler so they can form stronger bonds with the people around them.

We make connections through embedded technologies!

Step One Limited founded by 10 experienced software engineers in Kobe, Japan, with the mission "to provide the highest quality software development services available."

Developed and commercialized an I/O library for PC monitors nation-wide.

Following the burst of the economic bubble in Japan, the Japanese economy began its 10-year decline, but Step One forged ahead and continued to expand its business amid harsh economic conditions.

Step One breaks even for the first time since its foundation. Since then, the company has consistently been profitable every year.

Step One begins specializing in embedded technologies with its first large-scale embedded development project for a major Japanese eletronics maker.

Due to its continually expanding business, Step One relocates to Sannomiya (downtown Kobe), the current location of the company's headquarters.

Step One expands its business into medical devices and takes on projects for the development of various devices, such as for blood control testing.

Major earthquake hits Kobe! Step One establishes a temporary office in Osaka and Akashi cities in order to continue its operations.

After restoration of basic public infrastructure, Step One moves its headquarters back to Kobe. Despite the difficult working conditions (interrupted public transport and other infrastructure services), Step One continues its expansion and hires more new employees.

Step One continues to expand its embedded development business by embarking on a large-scale car audio development project.

Step One doubles the size of its office to accomodate its expanding business.

Received award of recognition from the Hyogo Prefectural Administration New Industrial Creation Program for work on the theme "Random Access Memory Disk".

Awarded Chusho Kigyo Sogo Jigyodan, a prestigious government grant awarded by MITI for advanced research in the area of biometrics (face recognition).

As its semiconductor engineering business continues to expand, Step One establishes a regional office in Tokyo.

Step One expands embedded development into home networking.

Step One expands further into the life sciences by helping to establish Bioscene Informatics Inc., a joint venture with Kyoto University's LSD project and Konova Solutions Inc. of Montreal, Canada.

Step One joins the ZigBee Alliance.

Step One continues to expand its business through the foundation of a fully-owned subsidiary, Join Next Inc.

Awarded the Sangaku Renkei Shinsangyo Soshutu Shienjigyo grant by the Hyogo Prefectural Governemnt, in collaboration with Kyoto University, for research and development of a multi-lingual information retrieval system.

Step One acts as sales agent for Kyoto University's LSD project.

StepOne further expands its software development in the area of car navigation systems.

Step One becomes full member of ZigBee SIG-Japan.