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Tech City Ventures

Tech City Ventures is the full stack innovation platform for SMEs, corporates and government. We help the best ideas to scale faster and strive to make organisations more efficient, streamlined and focused on growth. Startups and SMEs working with us are exclusively world-class entrepreneurs looking to create, grow and exit in a smarter way, coming to us with help on their journey towards exit. We’ve worked with over 2,000 funded startups and 150 national and international delegations and work with over 300 engaged C-level buyers and decision makers from large enterprises. London-based, we have a global reach and are plugged into startup ecosystems across the world.

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Silicon Valley Forum

At Silicon Valley Forum, we facilitate connections and provide resources for entrepreneurs and innovators to build and grow a successful company. While we focus on technology and startups in practice, in spirit we build our work around anyone who wants to run their business the Silicon Valley way—this is a place where creativity and innovation are crucial components of success. Our events, customized programs, Startupedia, and strategic partnerships provide the necessary tools to thrive in today’s fast-paced digital economy. For 35 years, our organization has been a key part of Silicon Valley’s vibrant ecosystem. We organize over 70 different activities per year and have worked with over 40 countries. For more information, visit our website at http://www.siliconvalleyforum.com/.

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Venture Cafe Global Institute

Venture Café is a global movement working to build stronger and more inclusive innovation ecosystems and accelerate and enhance the innovation process, in cities around the world. Venture Café is a network of independent nonprofits that offer high-touch programming, spaces, storytelling, and broad innovation engagement. Each café offers three core programs: a Thursday Gathering, a Civic Innovation Center, and the Captains of Innovation program, coupled with localized programming and support to serve the unique needs of their community.

US East

Cambridge Innovation Center

CIC is a community of startups. Our mission is to make the world better by helping innovators and entrepreneurs launch new ventures quickly and efficiently. We provide world-class infrastructure including high quality, flexible office space, shared wet-lab facilities, civic innovation spaces, as well as targeted programming to help entrepreneurs grow their companies. We serve approximately 1,400 companies across seven buildings in Cambridge, Boston, St. Louis, Miami and Rotterdam, with more sites on the way

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NYU SPS TOKYO

NYU School of Professional Studies Tokyo is an international learning environment that draws upon the resources of New York University, a prestigious research university with campuses and sites around the world. Our mission is to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to succeed professionally. Our programs foster collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and effective problem-solving.

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TMI associates

TMI associates offers superior and comprehensive services in the diverse area such as various negotiation, contract drafting, arbitration, litigation or bankruptcy, mainly focusing on intellectual property, M&A, corporate law, and finance sector. The firm consisted of a total 795 members including 362 attorneys, 77 patent attorneys, and support staff (as of October 2017). Furthermore, TMI associates has developed unique global networks. They have established qualified joint venture with English, American, German, Canadian law firm, and opened international offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi, Singapore, Yangon, Phnom Penh and Silicon Valley, along with the domestic office in Nagoya and Kobe.

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Morgan, Lewis & Bockius

Morgan Lewis offers more than 2,200 lawyers, patent agents, benefits advisers, regulatory scientists, and other specialists in 30* offices across North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. The firm provides comprehensive litigation, corporate, transactional, regulatory, intellectual property, and labor and employment legal services to clients of all sizes – from globally established industry leaders to just-received startups.

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Plug and Play Japan

Plug and Play is a Silicon Valley based accelerator and VC. Since inception in 2006, the company has accelerated thousands of startups. Startups in its community have successfully raised over $6.6 billion in funding. Plug and Play Japan was established to connect Japanese and Asian high-tech environments to the world, and create the world leading ecosystem in Tokyo. Throughout acceleration programs, we encourage Japanese startups to develop new businesses by mainly helping them secure access to foreign markets and cooperate with big companies.

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Tokyu Land Cooperation

Tokyu Land Cooperation is moving forward with urban development projects in Shibuya under once-in-a-century redevelopment with a focus on enhancing creative contents industry of the area. We will invite promising startups and innovative corporations to Shibuya, the city which has led the commerce and culture of Japan. Our goal is to attain the future where people wish to work or start their businesses in Shibuya as an accumulated city by world’s most stimulating startups and corporations.

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ARQIS Foreign Law Office Foreign Law Joint Enterprise with TMI Associates

ARQIS Foreign Law Office is the Tokyo office of an originally German-based law firm with offices in Munich and Dusseldorf. The Tokyo office is operating as a joint enterprise with the Japanese law firm TMI Associates, one of the five largest law firms in Japan. Since more than 20 years ARQIS/TMI is particularly serving European investors to Japan in all areas of corporate and commercial law, M&A, labor law, data protection, anti-trust and competition law, dispute resolution, litigation and negotiation support.