STARTUPS
IN 2017-2022

【2022】 New York Course Selected Companies

  • Interdimension Inc.

    Name of Representative:Hajime Ito

    Interdimension Inc. is a yoga x technology company that helps people around the world maintain their mental health and wellness.
    Our yoga service delivery platform, 1om1, provides one-on-one online yoga classes for people with obesity, chronic illnesses, back pain, pregnancy, postpartum, aging, and prosthetic limbs. By recruiting instructors from around the world, we are able to offer quality classes at reasonable prices.

  • INFORICH INC.

    Name of Representative:Akiyama Hironobu

    INFORICH INC. provides the mobile battery sharing service called “ChargeSPOT”. We are developing our business with the mission of “creating a society that thinks and acts for the next person and generation”. We currently have over 50,000 battery stands installed worldwide and aiming to accelerate our overseas expansion and become the world’s number one mobile battery sharing service.

  • SAKE Generation, Inc.

    Name of Representative:KAORI SHIMAZAKI

    “Vision:SAKE to the World” Led by a female Japanese entrepreneur, we set out to craft a premium ICHIDO sparkling sake that would challenge the preconceived notions of both traditional sake and sparkling wine, because we believe that sake can be Japanese in origin, but international in its appeal. “ICHIDO Sparkling SAKE” is the clean alternative to wine with 7-15% alcohol by volume, but Gluten-free, Sulfite-free, Tannin-free, and five times less acidity than wine. It is made only from natural Japanese ingredients. ICHIDO contains the best finest bubbles created by secondary fermentation and the new rich taste discovered with world-wide communication. As a result, ICHIDO won gold medals at worldwide competitions – Feminalise and Kuramaster at France, Milano Sake Challenge, CIVRE at Spain and others.

  • STANDAGE Inc.

    Name of Representative:Adachi Akinori

    STANDAGE Inc., aiming to be a digital trading company, offers “DiGiTRAD,” a comprehensive digital trade service that can complete all trade operations, from matching sales channel development, to negotiations, settlement and financing, and logistics.
    For settlements with emerging countries, we have developed a safe, reasonable, and speedy payment system that utilizes blockchain and crypto currency. Through trading company functions × tech, we aim to realize a society in which small and medium-sized domestic enterprises and the entire world are seamlessly connected.

  • Srust, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Kota Nozaki

    Srust, Inc. offers “free-ist”, a scientist-oriented global AI matching platform, to provide various job opportunities and work styles for scientists.
    By using unique database and intelligence engine, free-ist helps tech company to automatically find full time or freelance scientists and connect them with each other.
    More than 4,000 scientists have joined in 4 months from Harvard, Columbia, Oxford or working at Novartis, Amazon.

  • Beatrust Inc.

    Name of Representative:Kunio Hara

    Beatrust Inc. is a startup company founded in 2020 that provides a platform to facilitate collaboration by visualizing individual experiences and skills. With products such as “Beatrust People” and “Beatrust Ask”, we are developing cloud software services with the goal of building an environment where organizations around the world can collaborate and express their best selves.

  • Visual Alpha Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Jeffrey Tsui

    Visual Alpha Co., Ltd. provides cloud services to improve reporting efficiency for both institutional asset owners and asset managers, who have been struggling with tons of manual work. Users can save up to 80% of time on portfolio reporting and monitoring by switching from time-consuming spreadsheets.
    Asset owners can spot potential risks and opportunities in their portfolio easily in one place, while asset managers can streamline operations of standard or customized client reporting, as well as cash management and performance calculation. Both sides are also connected on our cloud service for seamless report sharing.

  • PJP Eye LTD.

    Name of Representative:Nishina Hiroaki

    PJP Eye LTD. is an energy solution company that uses mass-produced plant-based carbon batteries, “Cambrian”, that help solve climate change. 10x faster charging without risk of explosion and 20 years of battery life revolutionizing the mobility and energy storage industry.

  • blueqat Inc.

    Name of Representative:Yuichiro Minato

    blueqat Inc. is a startup company providing hardware and software for quantum computers. As a service, we provide SDKs for creating quantum applications and various cloud services to make quantum computers easier to use. We also provide a quantum app store to promote the commercialization of quantum computers.

  • RevComm Inc.

    Name of Representative:Takeshi Aida

    MiiTel is a cloud IP-phone powered by revenue intelligence platform which increases sales conversion rate and customer satisfaction rate while decreasing education & communication costs. Although sales agents and customer support agents have an important role in being the direct representative of the company to the potential/existing customers, nobody knows why their performance varies depending on each agent. This is because conversations between agents and customers are BLACKBOX. Agents must be able to “read” the situation by understanding customer’s pain points, answering questions, handling objections and challenges, and more. MiiTel analyzes and visualizes “what” and “how” sales agents are talking with customers (ex.talk:listen ratio, interruption, talk speed, call transcriptions etc.). Agents are able to improve their sales/support skills by themselves based on these quantitative ratings.We have acquired more than 40,000 paid users in 4yrs, and approximately 130M calls are made via MiiTel. Now we have MiiTel for Zoom to analyze Zoom conversations.

【2022】 Singapore Course Selected Companies

  • IDDK Co.Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Soichiro Ueno

    IDDK Co.Ltd.develops a space experiment platform inside an artificial satellite independent from the ISS to democratize space experiment. It is a remotely controlled and fully automated laboratory in outer space. With our patented core technology, Micro Imaging Device (MID), which enables us to perform microscopic observation by one-chip, we are able to develop a mini-lab inside an artificial satellite or other platforms available where the capacity is very limited.

  • ACCELStars, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Tadashi Miyahara

    ACCELStars Inc. is a sleep venture originating from the University of Tokyo School of Medicine. With the world’s most accurate sleep measurement algorithm by wristwatch device, we provide sleep checkups business. Also, we believe that sleep is an important biomarker for understanding symptoms in diseases of the central nervous system, and we aim to develop a new type of SaMD that will enable physicians to understand patient conditions in real time and optimize treatment in combination with medical interview information.

  • INFORICH Inc.

    Name of Representative:Akiyama Hironobu

    INFORICH INC. provides the mobile battery sharing service called “ChargeSPOT”. We are developing our business with the mission of “creating a society that thinks and acts for the next person and generation”. We currently have over 50,000 battery stands installed worldwide and aiming to accelerate our overseas expansion and become the world’s number one mobile battery sharing service.

  • Credit Engine, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Seiichiro Uchiyama

    Credit Engine, Inc. is a SaaS products provider, providing the financial sector services that cover online lending to debt collecting with our data-driven technology. Our mission is to develop SaaS lending solutions that deliver seamless, stress-free lending and collecting experience to our customers.

  • Skillnote Corporation

    Name of Representative:Takafumi Yamakawa

    Skillnote Corporation provides a Skill management system, basically focused for the manufacturing industry. With Skillnote, you will be able to record and visualize your operating department’s skill data, which will enable strategic human resource development. Skillnote is used by over 120 global companies and 100,000 users.

  • STANDAGE Inc.

    Name of Representative:Akinori Adachi

    Aiming to be a digital trading company, STANDAGE Corporation offers “DiGiTRAD,” a comprehensive digital trade service that can complete all trade operations, from matching sales channel development, to negotiations, settlement and financing, and logistics.
    For settlements with emerging countries, we have developed a safe, reasonable, and speedy payment system that utilizes blockchain and crypto currency. Through trading company functions × tech, we aim to realize a society in which small and medium-sized domestic enterprises and the entire world are seamlessly connected.

  • SpoLive SpoLive Interactive, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Yuhei Iwata

    SpoLive Interactive, Inc. aims to “Bring sports fans closer to athletes and teams by the power of digital” by improving the spectating experience and increasing the efficiency/profitability of team management by empowering the sports community worldwide. To achieve this vision, we develop the sports data management and fan communication platform “SpoLive” for sports organizations.

  • TBM Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Nobuyoshi Yamasaki

    TBM Co., Ltd. specializes in developing, manufacturing, and selling environmentally friendly materials such as LIMEX and resource recycling. LIMEX, a new material made mainly from limestone, can be an alternative to plastic and paper. It is also recyclable and can contribute to solving resource depletion, climate change, and environmental issues. TBM aims to spread the business by a fabless model with partners in each region.

  • Newrope

    Name of Representative:Satoshi Sakai

    Newrope provides companies with AI services focusing on the fashion industry such as recommendation engines for E-commerce and trend analysis for merchandising in the form of SaaS. Our current customers are fashion brands, retailers including E-commerce, OEM, media and so on.

  • HACARUS

    Name of Representative:Kenshin Fujiwara

    HACARUS INC. provides big insights from small data, and has since its founding in 2014 supplied solutions in 100+ Al projects across the Medical and Manufacturing fields. Headquartered in Kyoto, Japan and backed by Osaka Gas and Miyako Capital (Kyoto University) among others, its technology enables humans to make better, faster and more reliable decisions, based on data driven insights. HACARUS’ proprietary Al engine is built using Sparse Modeling, a method that understands data like a human would by its unique key features and is far more resource, time and energy efficient when compared to Deep Learning.

【2022】 Germany Course Selected Companies

  • INOPASE Inc.

    Name of Representative:Munemasa Sugimoto

    INOPASE Inc. develops an implantable neuromodulation utilizing wireless power and closed loop technology. The wireless power miniaturizes the implant device while the closed loop stimulation based on nerve activity sensing improves the outcome through personalized treatment. Currently, INOPASE develops a closed loop sacral neuromodulation for treatment of overactive bladder as well as a closed loop brain neuromodulation for treatment of epilepsy.

  • EXest Inc.

    Name of Representative:Yukihiro Nakabayashi

    EXest Inc. builds fan communities by incorporating shareowner systems into primary industries and creating content from agriculture and fisheries. These fan communities will be used as a basis for solving a variety of issues.
    The theme of this project is “a new way to bring people closer to and interact with rural areas.” By becoming an owner for a certain period of time, people will be able to be highly engaged with and involved in the local area. We will enliven these local regions by changing the concept of flow as consumers to stock as owners = fans.

  • Elephantech Inc.

    Name of Representative:Shinya Shimizu

    Elephantech Inc. is a startup that was the first in mankind to successfully manufacture PCBs using environmentally friendly metal inkjet printing, with the mission of “Making the world sustainable with new manufacturing technologies“. Compared to production methods, CO2 emissions were reduced by 77%, water consumption by 95%.We are planning to start selling inkjet printing system to make our manufacturing method the de facto standard. We are also considering expanding our business beyond PCBs into other areas.

  • Skillnote Corporation

    Name of Representative:Takafumi Yamakawa

    Skillnote Corporation provides a Skill management system, basically focused for the manufacturing industry. With Skillnote, you will be able to record and visualize your operating department’s skill data, which will enable strategic human resource development. Skillnote is used by over 120 global companies and 100,000 users.

  • DeepX,Inc.

    Name of Representative:Kaoru Nasuno

    Targeting the construction industry, DeepX,Inc. is developing software to automate heavy machinery, visualize construction sites, and optimize construction processes. Examples of our past achievements are as follows
    ・Automating the crane operation of lifting a load from one arbitrary point to another. (world’s first for mobile crane).
    ・Automating a digging and dump loading for the excavator.
    ・Development of GUI to remotely operate excavators (visualization of terrain and excavation residue)

  • toraru co.,ltd.

    Name of Representative:Jun Nishiguchi

    toraru co.,ltd. connects to the smartphones and tablets of local people who are looking for a job. GENCHI is the way to have people to work for you as your hands and feet to experience the Metaverse.

  • Red Arrow Therapeutics Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Takuya Miyazaki

    Red Arrow Therapeutics Co., Ltd. is an innovative biopharmaceutical company pioneering the development of therapeutics engineered to stimulate the body’s immune system for the treatment of cancer. We are leveraging our proprietary INTERMICIN platform to design conditionally activated molecules that stimulate both adaptive and innate immunity with the goal of addressing the limitations of conventional proinflammatory immune therapies. Our cytokines-loaded polymeric micelles are intended to remain inactive in peripheral tissue yet activate selectively in the tumor microenvironment. Our most advanced product candidate, A-001, is systemically delivered, conditionally activated Interleukin-12 (IL-12) molecules for the treatment of solid tumors. We are optimizing drug compositions and conducting preclinical studies for RA-001, and expect to advance each candidate in multiple tumor types as a single agent and in combination with an immune checkpoint inhibitor.

【2022】 London Course Selected Companies

  • M Bio Technology Inc.

    Name of Representative:Kazuhiro Matsuda

    M Bio Technology Inc. is a Japanese biotech company focused on the discovery and development of innovative therapeutic strategy for Mycoplasma Infectious Diseases (MID), proposing vaccines, antibody drugs, preventive medicine, digital health, and AI drug discovery based on world-leading and pioneering platform technologies.

  • Optimays Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Raghvendra Jain

    Optimays Co., Ltd. is developing AI for voice and video analysis, particularly distinguished in analyzing different aspects of communication (pace, voice strength, inflection, intonation, changes in emotion, and postural movement). We are cost-effective with a wide range of development capabilities because we develop elemental technologies in-house in a lean manner. We are currently offering “Opti Life,” an interview diagnosis AI, and “Opti Hire,” a recorded interview AI analysis platform, by combining these AIs.

  • Srust, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Kota Nozaki

    Srust, Inc. offers “free-ist”, a scientist-oriented global AI matching platform, to provide various job opportunities and work styles for scientists. By using unique database and intelligence engine, free-ist helps tech company to automatically find full time or freelance scientists and connect them with each other. More than 4,000 scientists have joined in 4 months from Harvard, Columbia, Oxford, Novartis, and Amazon.

  • DELIGHT Inc.

    Name of Representative:Hiroyuki Anno

    DELIGHT Inc. is developing an automated service for high volume call centers to increase user satisfaction and reduce costs by more than 70% with a multilingual phone bot. The bot handles 30 languages and covers phone number from 50 countries. Our business model is B2B SaaS. European embassy, local cities and B2B SaaS company with 2M users are our clients.

  • Visual Alpha Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Jeffrey Tsui

    Visual Alpha Co., Ltd. provides cloud services to improve reporting efficiency for both institutional asset owners and asset managers, who have been struggling with tons of manual work. Users can save up to 80% of time on portfolio reporting and monitoring by switching from time-consuming spreadsheets.
    Asset owners can spot potential risks and opportunities in their portfolio easily in one place, while asset managers can streamline operations of standard or customized client reporting, as well as cash management and performance calculation. Both sides are also connected on our cloud service for seamless report sharing.

  • Red Arrow Therapeutics, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Takuya Miyazaki

    Red Arrow Therapeutics, Inc. is an innovative biopharmaceutical company pioneering the development of therapeutics engineered to stimulate the body’s immune system for the treatment of cancer. We are leveraging our proprietary INTERMICIN platform to design conditionally activated molecules that stimulate both adaptive and innate immunity with the goal of addressing the limitations of conventional proinflammatory immune therapies. Our cytokines-loaded polymeric micelles are intended to remain inactive in peripheral tissue yet activate selectively in the tumor microenvironment. Our most advanced product candidate, A-001, is systemically delivered, conditionally activated Interleukin-12 (IL-12) molecules for the treatment of solid tumors. We are optimizing drug compositions and conducting preclinical studies for RA-001, and expect to advance each candidate in multiple tumor types as a single agent and in combination with an immune checkpoint inhibitor.

  • One Act, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Yusuke Asano

    One Act, Inc. is a startup that develops software and AI. Our service “PieceX” is the world’s first source code marketplace powered by AI. The ready-to-use source code dramatically reduces the time and cost of conventional software development. We provides an infrastructure that allows anyone in the world to create new services.

【2022】 Shenzhen Course Selected Companies

  • AZAPA Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Yasuhiro Kondo

    AZAPA Co., Ltd aims to realize a sustainable world that enriches humankind with technological innovation through solutions such as function and performance design, control optimization, and measurement adaptation in the three priority areas of Mobility, Communication, and Energy.

  • Water X Technologies Co., Ltd

    Name of Representative:Yuji Nakayama

    Water X Technologies Co., Ltd has developed a new bidet toilet seat that eliminates the need for toilet paper. The unique technology allows you to wash and dry your areas comfortably without using paper. By spreading this product around the world, we will provide a more hygiene environment in places where paper cannot be flushed in the toilet as well as create a world where no more forests are cut down to make paper.

  • GREEN UTILITY CO., LTD.

    Name of Representative:Jonathan Li

    GREEN UTILITY CO., LTD provides one-stop Digital Transformation (DX) Solutions, especially in Retail, Logistics, Healthcare, Sharing Economy, and Energy. With strength in both hardware and software(SaaS Cloud Platform), you will feel the benefit that letting your business take off at a lightning speed and at a super low cost.

  • ThinkCyte Inc.

    Name of Representative:Waichiro Katsuda

    ThinkCyte Inc. is developing a novel AI-based high-content high-speed cell analysis and sorting technology, named Ghost Cytometry (GC), for applications in cell therapy, drug discovery, and clinical diagnostics. Our platform technology can analyze and sort various cell types and cellular phenotypes in a label-free one-step process to improve workflow efficiencies and reduce labor and costs in both R&D and manufacturing. GC also offers fluorescence label-based analysis with intracellular spatial resolution level, combined with high throughputs and sorting capabilities. We envision GC to significantly improve cell therapy manufacturing processes, cell line development, target identification, and candidate hit rates, and more applications in life science R&D.

  • Cellid, Inc

    Name of Representative:Satoshi Shiraga

    Cellid, Inc is an innovative company developing waveguide type display module for AR glasses and spatial recognition software. The display module is establishing both wide FOV (60 deg.) and miniaturization (0.9cc) and supplied to AR glasses makers. The spatial recognition software uses own developed algorithms to estimate self-position through only video input from monocular camera and provided to enterprises such as construction companies, manufacturing companies, etc.

  • TBM Co.,Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Nobuyoshi Yamasaki

    TBM Co., Ltd. specializes in developing, manufacturing, and selling environmentally friendly materials such as LIMEX and resource recycling. LIMEX, a new material made mainly from limestone, can be an alternative to plastic and paper. It is also recyclable and can contribute to solving resource depletion, climate change, and environmental issues. TBM aims to spread the business by a fabless model with partners in each region.

  • palan, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Eishi Saito

    palan, Inc. is a startup based in Japan that strives to create an easy WebAR CMS SaaS for everyone. palanAR is a platform for everyone to create professional WebAR, mobile AR experiences without any code.

  • Panda Vision Inc.

    Name of Representative:Atsushi Sano

    Panda Vision Inc. will distribute our IP, Tokyo Gaming Girls, as anime, manga(comic), and games in China. We will develop it as an ACG business. Develop the original with a Chinese manga app, along with manga animation on video platforms such as Bilibili. It will be distributed as an app game in the Wechat mini program in China as a casual game when a certain number of fans gather. We consider games to be the main source of revenue.

  • VRC Inc.

    Name of Representative:Yingdi Xie

    VRC Inc., a Ubiquitous Avatar Platform company based in Tokyo, provides cutting-edge solution of photo-real capture for entire human body, as an entrance to metaverse. Meanwhile, targeting to global social infrastructure business, it provides top-tier platform and technologies related to 3D avatar. Up to now, it has achieved a wide business eco-system worldwide, and created the use cases in the field of telecommunication, entertainment, apparel, travel and fitness. Different from 3D modeling company, VRC provides a total solution from 3D capture, cloud, to front-end. The total solution capability enpowers VRC’s partner with prompt technology development and marketing exploration.

  • FutuRocket Co.

    Name of Representative:Hiroumi Mitani

    FutuRocket Co is a hardware startup developing a smart camera for small businesses, named “ManaCam”. FutuRocket was selected for Plug and Play Japan, HAX.Tokyo, and Aichi accelerator by 500 startups.

  • Youken Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Dai hongmei

    Youken Co., Ltd. develops, manufactures, and sells the medical material “PLA-X,” which uses polylactic acid (PLA) as the main raw material. PLA-X can be used in the fields of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and regenerative medicine, and we are aiming for overseas expansion through a fabless model with oversea partners. In addition, through the conductive PLA material “PLA-XE”, we are working to develop medical electronic products that are mainly made of recycled materials and contribute to resource recycling.

【2022】 Silicon Valley Course Selected Companies

  • Ac-Planta Inc.

    Name of Representative:JongMyong Kim

    Ac-Planta Inc. have created the world’s first environmental stress countermeasure, Skeepon, that enables plants to adapt to climate change by activating genes related to drought tolerances with epigenetics technology. We will work with local partners to distribute Skeepon to users mainly in regions of the world where agricultural production and forest area are declining due to the damage by climate change. In the future, we will further conduct R&D that will lead to reduced fertiliser use and increased production of bio-based raw materials based on epigenetics technology, thereby contributing to the realisation of a decarbonised society around the world.

  • ABEL, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Hideaki Oshima

    ABEL, Inc. is developing EQUTUM, a racehorse version of the Apple Watch. The company has developed an IoT device that is worn by racehorses during training, enabling them to analyze their training, which used to be done by experience and instinct. By analyzing time, speed, pitch, stride, and heart rate, condition and training progress can be monitored, and checking how to finish for races and creating schedules can be realized in a data-driven way.

  • VitaNet, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Takeo Yamada

    VitaNet, Inc. enable retailers to offer an intuitive customer in-store shopping combined with instant online experience. Our “VitaNet BLE Auth” mobile app user authentication service automatically and securely authenticates retailer’s membership app users when they visit stores. Stores can also dramatically reduce hardware and labor costs.

  • Gigalogy Inc.

    Name of Representative:Uddin Md Mosleh

    Gigalogy Inc. offers AI personalization with blockchain based reward management for e-commerce businesses. Our solutions are easy to integrate into web/mobile applications, affordable, and maximize end user satisfaction, brand loyalty and business revenue.

  • Greenroom K.K.

    Name of Representative:Shuhei Yamasaki

    An information platform that helps companies create “sustainable” and “buzz” products and services, that is a compass for success for the sustainable consumption market. Core services include: (1) Marketing research on sustainable consumers, (2) News application to efficiently collect information on the latest trends in sustainability

  • Temari, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Mari Utano

    Temari, Inc. have developed an innovative IoT device that can be attached to any toothbrush and is connected to a playful AND educational app called “Wakupika.” Our goal is to alleviate the painful experience in doing dental care at home for parents and kids. The mission for Temari, Inc. is to make oral care more fun! We have develped unique algorithm to help parents and pediatric dentists better understand the child’s performance of brushing teeth to mitigate the risk of dental diseases and cavities.

  • bitgrit Inc.

    Name of Representative:Tetsuro Masunaga

    bitgrit Inc. is a multinational company that helps organizations identify the most salient AI to improve operations and develop breakthrough business strategies using technology developed by a self-sustaining data science community. bitgrit facilitates this ecosystem through the power of blockchain, by providing an AI marketplace that gives its community access to gainful AI algorithms.

  • Plusman LLC

    Name of Representative:Yujiro Otsuka

    Plusman LLC is a specialist team of actuaries and other professionals. Based on mathematical engineering and actuarial sciences, we are focusing on medical imaging AI, such as pulmonary nodule AI, which has the incredibly high detection accuracy, lymph node AI, which detects even simple CT, and CXR AI, as well as AI drug discovery, autonomous surgical robots, and dolphin language translation. We are able to manipulate and control mathematical models of 100 million dimensions at will, and develop and provide the optimal mathematical models from scratch according to your needs.

  • Miletos Inc.

    Name of Representative:Hiroshi Asaka

    SAPPHIRE is an AI-based expense system aiming to minimize human interaction through the expense reimbursement process by leveraging AI technology. Our AI audit engine enables applicants, reviewers and accountants to focus on their core business, increase the integrity of the process, and strengthen corporate governance.

【2021】 European Conference Course Selected Companies

  • AMATELUS Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:SHINYA SHIMOJO

    SwipeVideo is a proprietary patented software that allows you to live-stream or archive stream multi-angle video over any web browser. With SwipeVideo you give control over the direction of the content to the viewer, increasing engagement by providing a totally new video viewing experience.

  • Innophys Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Daigo Orihara

    We are a world leading assist suit manufacturer from Japan.
    “Muscle Suit” is a lower back support assist suit which has been sold over 20,000 units in the world, this figure means it is the best seller exoskeleton assist suit in the world (internal research). From lightening the load on your back at work, to helping with daily labor-intensive activities.Since it does not need any electricity, worker can use the product even outside situation.In France, Spain, Italy, Malaysia, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan, this product has been on sale via local distributors. In other areas, we are highly looking for distribution partners.

  • APB Corporation

    Name of Representative:Hideaki Horie

    APB Corporation, a Japanese start up, is the worldwide innovative Li-Ion Battery, All Polymer Battery (APB), manufacturer,APB is bipolarly structured, large-size 2nd gen Li-ion batteries that offer a unique solution for utilities, IPP, T&D, other network players and EPC. APB offers high reliability. Current collectors are made from resin and bring low risk of fire or explosion. Other benefits are higher energy density and shortened manufacturing time.
    Further, APB Corporation is not only a battery supplier. In order to build the social infrastructure rooted in each region of the world, we will establish a global position by partnering with entrepreneurs and investors around the world who share our vision and have the noble business sense and the future strategy

  • Empath Inc.

    Name of Representative:Takaaki Shimoji

    Empath is Emotion & Conversation AI, which can identify emotions and conversational behaviors from the voice. Our technology has been adopted by 2,800 developers over 50 countries mainly in contact center industries. In the contact center, our AI has been utilized to improve customer satisfaction,quality assurance, operators’ retention rate, and sales rate.

  • TBM Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Yamasaki Nobuyoshi

    TBM is specialized in development, manufacturing, and sales of LIMEX®, a new environmental material mainly made from limestone, to be paper and plastic alternatives.
    LIMEX is recyclable, and it also can solve the plastic waste issues, resource depletion and various environmental issues.
    TBM aims to spread their business by fabless model with partners in each region.

  • Net Smile, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Saito Yoshimitsu

    Net Smile Inc. is a leading provider of Digital transformation/Digital Innovation (DX/DI) solutions using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to simplify and assist with work that was thought to be possible only by humans. With the mission of “creating artificial intelligence that thinks like a human being,” Net Smile aims to create an AI that will grow with people while helping them in case of trouble. Net Smile, Inc. has developed a technology that can read complex invoices, order forms, and even healthcare documents. It’s called AIScanRobo® and it can convert images of typed, handwritten, or printed text into Comma-separated values (CSV), whether from a scanned page, PDF, a photo, or an image. Comments from clients such as Nestle Japan have claimed that they are highly satisfied with the overall usability, accuracy, and savings AIScanRobo® has to offer. Net Smile’s mission is not to achieve 100% accuracy. But, AI is expected to learn complex business processes in which even human beings make mistakes. With Net Smile, rather than pursuing 100% accuracy from the beginning, a human-like AI that incorporates mistakes to the same extent that would arise artificially is introduced. “Training” the AI then improves its accuracy and results in the reduction of total costs.

  • HACARUS INC

    Name of Representative:Kenshin Fujiwara

    HACARUS INC, founded 2014 in Kyoto, Japan is the leading provider of Explainable Lightweight AI Tools, backed by Osaka Gas and Miyako Capital (Kyoto University) among others. Its solutions are used in the Medical field to enable humans to make better, faster and more reliable decisions, based on AI driven insights. HACARUS’ proprietary AI engine is built using Sparse Modeling, an AI method that understands data like a human would – by its unique key features and is far more resource, time and energy efficient when compared to Deep Learning.

  • Biodata Bank, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Takeshi Anzai

    Biodata bank, Inc is R&D and manufacturer of products and solutions related to core body temperature using innovative sensor technologies.
    Our flagship product is Heat Warning Watch ™ a smart band that embeds our innovative sensor based on a unique technology to continuously assess the amount of heat accumulated and dissipated by the body and alert the user of a heat risk.

  • Preferred Networks Inc.

    Name of Representative:Toru Nishikawa

    Preferred Networks, Inc. (PFN) is a technology company with the mission to make the real world computable by applying deep learning and other advanced technologies to solve difficult real-world problems. PFN focuses on the use of deep learning in various fields, including the three key business domains of transportation systems, manufacturing, and healthcare.

  • Yukai Engineering Inc.

    Name of Representative:Shunsuke Aoki

    With the vision of making “robotics for fun living,” Yukai Engineering is a robotics venture that develops and sells unique products for everyday life, including the family communication robot “BOCCO emo,” the therapeutic cushion robot with a tail “Qoobo,” and the educational robotics series “kurikit.”

  • Tenchijin Inc.

    Name of Representative:Yasuhito Sakuraba

    Tenchijin provides the Land Evaluation Engine by using satellite data, ground data and human knowledge, which supports to find best place for agriculture, real estate etc. and also to find potential of each place and make effective use of them. One of JAXA(Japanese Space Agency) certified venture company and awarded at S-booster 2018.

  • Rapyuta Robotics Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Gajan Mohanarajah

    Rapyuta Robotics is a cloud robotics platform company founded as a spin-off of ETH Zurich.
    Through rapyuta.io – our next-generation cloud robotics platform – as well as our domain-specific robotics solutions such as the collaborative picking assistance ‘AMR’ robots, we support DX in the logistics and manufacturing segments.

  • One Act, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Yusuke Asano

    One Act Inc. develops and operates the web service “PieceX”, the world’s first source code marketplace with dynamic pricing by AI.
    By trading software components on a global scale, PieceX allows Seller companies to earn new income from the source code itself and Buyer companies to save 80% and more on software development time and costs by purchasing guaranteed, ready-to-use source codes.
    PieceX creates a new infrastructure where anyone in the world can rapidly develop new services.

【2021】 Shenzhen Course Selected Companies

  • Arachnoforce

    Name of Representative:Kenji Honda

    ArachnoForce’s SPIDAR series are wire-driven 6-DOF force presentation devices. The system consists of wires, pulleys and DC motors. SPIDAR can significantly reduce inertia due to the light weight of the operation part and can realize extremely accurate force sense presentation.

  • Water X Technologies Corporation

    Name of Representative:Yuji Nakayama

    We have developed a new bidet toilet seat that eliminates the need for toilet paper. The unique technology allows you to wash and dry your areas comfortably without using paper. By spreading this product around the world, we will provide a more hygiene environment in places where paper cannot be flushed in the toilet as well as create a world where no more forests are cut down to make paper.

  • Kiara Inc.

    Name of Representative:Yuta Takahashi

    We have developed more than 100 APIs for natural language processing in order to improve the efficiency of office work using AI. The most representative one is Kiara translation. Our goal is to create a system that users can use to bring up a wide variety of APIs as needed. Taking advantage of our multilingual capabilities, we are planning to make partnership with worldwide IT giants and to provide our service to global customers.

  • GROOVE X, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Kaname Hayashi

    LOVOT, developed by GROOVE X, is a love nurturing family-type pet robot. Unlike conventional robots which aim to enhance productivity, LOVOT aims to make humans happier, tickling your sense of love, filling you with warmth and happiness, and giving you the energy to face your life ahead.

  • Zenport Inc.

    Name of Representative:Fumiyuki Ota

    Zenport is an open platform for agile global supply chain management that bridges business operations across borders. Out of all the complex flows of the global supply chain, Zenport uniquely focuses on international, inter-company communications. This is an insight that provides a simple, standardized open platform for industry. A patent has been granted. Currently, our service is halving communications for cross-border businesses, especially those with a large number of products, such as apparel and lifestyle products.

  • nanolux co. ltd.

    Name of Representative:Motoshi Sobue

    Nanolux will pioneer a new field with the innovative “glare-free fundus camera”. Fundus imaging is an indispensable measurement for early detection of life-related diseases, e.g., hyper tension and arteriosclerosis., because it is the only means to observe the arterial condition directly. Delay in disease detection will cause significant impact to our healthy life and expenditure. Nanolux will implement the unique “glare-free” infrared color technology in the fundus camera that allows the patient to take a fundus image without going to the hospital.

  • HACARUS INC.

    Name of Representative:Kenshin Fujiwara

    AI Powered Inspection – enabling superior results, even with limited training data. Based on our proprietary AI technology, SPECTRO delivers faster and more accurate results, even with small amounts of training data. Where traditional AVI / AOI systems are prone to false positives, SPECTRO excels and enables factory automation by vastly reducing the amount of reclassification needed by human inspectors.

  • panda vision, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Atsushi Sano

    We will distribute our IP, Tokyo Gaming Girls, as anime, manga(comic), and games in China. We will develop it as an ACG business. Develop the original with a Chinese manga app, along with manga animation on video platforms such as Bilibili. It will be distributed as an app game in the Wechat mini program in China as a casual game when a certain number of fans gather. We consider games to be the main source of revenue.

  • PJP Eye LTD.

    Name of Representative:Inketsu Okina

    We are the producer of cotton-based carbon batteries that charge 10 times faster and last more than 10 years.

  • Medifellow Inc

    Name of Representative:Udai Ikeda

    Utilizing the network and know-how of highly specialized medical institutions, we provide an online second opinion service for all medical departments for Chinese patients.

【2021】 Germany Course Selected Companies

  • AO LLC

    Name of Representative:Takumi Tanaka

    AO LLC has created “LQ,” an innovative video chat device projector designed for the eldery with IoT hardware & software in impact unified systems that easily connects to apps to interpret, organize, and manage data. “LQ” is a one-touch device and it is very easy to use. We provide voice computing in life balance, telehealth solution for selfcare and caregivers platform. We strive to support “art & design thinking in oriental” IoT product idea and concept making for City OS / Smart City.

  • Adacotech Incorporated

    Name of Representative:Ryota Kawamura

    Adacotech’s solution is to automate visual inspection process using a camera and original image analysis AI. Whereas normal AI requires more than 10,000 data samples, Adacotech’s AI is able to learn just from 100 normal data, which makes this process easier for every user. Our AI is also proved to be extremely accurate and is already implemented in many production lines of top automotive parts manufacturers in Japan.

  • AMATELUS Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Shinya Shimojo

    SwipeVideo, provided by AMATELUS, is a proprietary patented software that allows you to live-stream or archive stream multi-angle video over any web browser. With SwipeVideo, you hand over control for the direction of the content to the viewer, increasing engagement by providing a totally new video viewing experience.

  • APB Corporation

    Name of Representative:Hideaki Horie

    APB Corporation manufactures and sells the “”All Polymer Battery,”” an innovative Li-ion battery. “”All Polymer Batteries”” are bipolarly structured, large-scale Li-ion batteries that offer a unique solution for utilities, IPP, T&D, other network players and EPC companies. “”All Polymer Batteries”” offer high reliability – current collectors are made from resin instead of metal and have low risk of fire or explosion. Other benefits are higher energy density and shortened manufacturing time.
    Further, APB Corporation is not only a battery supplier. In order to build a social infrastructure rooted in each region of the world, we aim to establish a global position by partnering with entrepreneurs and investors around the world who share our vision and have a strategy for the future.

  • AC Biode Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Tadashi Kubo

    AC Biode upcycles biomass ash or coal ash or sewer sludge ash into absorbent or antibacterial materials, such as for filters, CO2 capture, absorbent for oil spills, soil improvement, wastewater treatment, cosmetics, and more. We have already successfully completed two projects in Japan and Taiwan.

  • SpoLive Interactive, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Yuhey Iwata

    SpoLive Interactive, Inc. aims to “shorten the distance between sports fans and athletes/teams by the power of digital technology” by improving the spectating experience and increasing the efficiency/profitability of team management by empowering sports community worldwide. In order to achieve this goal, we develop the virtual spectating platform “SpoLive” for sports organizations and fans.

  • TBM Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Nobuyoshi Yamasaki

    TBM is specialized in development, manufacturing, and sales of LIMEX®, a new environmental material mainly made from limestone, to be paper and plastic alternatives. LIMEX is recyclable, and it also can solve the plastic waste issues, resource depletion and various environmental issues. TBM aims to spread their business by fabless model with partners in each region.

  • Net Smile, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Yoshimitsu Saito

    Net Smile Inc. is a leading provider of Digital transformation/Digital Innovation (DX/DI) solutions using AI to simplify and assist with work that was thought to be possible only by humans. With the mission of “creating artificial intelligence that thinks like a human being,” Net Smile aims to create an AI that will grow with people while helping them in case of trouble. Net Smile, Inc. has developed a technology that can read complex invoices, order forms, and even healthcare documents. It’s called AIScanRobo® and it can convert images of typed, handwritten, or printed text into Comma-separated values (CSV), whether from a scanned page, PDF, a photo, or an image. Comments from clients such as Nestle Japan have claimed that they are highly satisfied with the overall usability, accuracy, and savings AIScanRobo® has to offer. Net Smile’s mission is not to achieve 100% accuracy. But, AI is expected to learn complex business processes in which even human beings make mistakes. With Net Smile, rather than pursuing 100% accuracy from the beginning, a human-like AI that incorporates mistakes to the same extent that would arise artificially is introduced. “Training” the AI then improves its accuracy and results in the reduction of total costs.

  • biomy, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Teppei Konishi

    biomy, Inc. provides innovative services for pharmaceutical companies using AI and biological technologies. We develop an AI platform that maximizes medication efficacy by selecting the appropriate cohort through unsupervised AI analysis of past patient information. Conventional medication criteria in companion diagnostics have been determined by reducing information from the vast amount of information inherent in test results to “expression levels of specific proteins” or “genetic mutations in the genome”. We can predict the prognosis of anti-tumor drugs by picking up various information in the test results using AI, and to support decision making on medication.

  • Rapyuta Robotics Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Gajan Mohanarajah

    Rapyuta Robotics is a cloud robotics platform company founded as a spin-off of ETH Zurich. Through rapyuta.io – our next-generation cloud robotics platform – as well as our domain-specific robotics solutions such as the collaborative picking assistance ‘AMR’ robots, we support DX in the logistics and manufacturing segments.

  • One Act, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Yusuke Asano

    One Act, Inc. develops and operates the web service “PieceX”, the world’s first source code marketplace with dynamic pricing by AI. By trading software components on a global scale, PieceX allows Seller companies to earn new income from the source code itself and Buyer companies to save 80% and more on software development time and costs by purchasing guaranteed, ready-to-use source codes. PieceX creates a new infrastructure where anyone in the world can rapidly develop new services.

【2021】 Singapore Course Selected Companies

  • AMATELUS Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:SHINYA SHIMOJO

    SwipeVideo is a proprietary patented software that allows you to live-stream or archive stream multi-angle video over any web browser. With SwipeVideo you give control over the direction of the content to the viewer, increasing engagement by providing a totally new video viewing experience.

  • AI Medical Service Inc.

    Name of Representative:Masayuki Tokano

    AIM, or AI Medical Service Inc., is a medical start-up company developing AI (artificial intelligence) that brings together the wisdom of Japanese endoscopists. In next spring, we expect to launch the world’s first Endoscopic AI that classifies gastric cancer, trained with more than 150,000 endoscopic videos. We are willing to branch out into the Singapore market at about the same timing of the launching in Japan. By setting the Singapore market as our leading market and a base for overseas expansion, we intend to branch out into the markets of Asia and Middle East countries one by one. At the same time, we will endeavor to hasten progress on research and regulatory approval to expand our business to North American and Europe, the largest markets in the world.

  • Aerosense Inc.

    Name of Representative:Satoshi Shimada

    Aerosense provides industrial automation solution by combining autonomous UAVs with cloud data analysis services,
    in order to enhance operational safety and efficiency.

  • Sagri Co., Ltd

    Name of Representative:Satoshi Nagata

    Sagri is solving agricultural and environmental problems with satellite data, machine learning and grid mapping technology. Sagri is developing an application for monitoring abandoned, AI mapping for farmland boundary, and soil data check by satellite data.

  • TOY EIGHT HOLDINGS Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Masaki Ishibashi

    Toyeight is an AI-backed customized online learning startup, from Japan,  that was developed by ex-MIT researchers, creative directors and educators, and psychologists with the premise that all children are born with talent. The program seeks to uncover their natural-born talent and maximize their learning.

  • Plusman LLC

    Name of Representative:Yujiro Otsuka

    Plusman is a specialist team of actuaries and other professionals. We are focusing on medical imaging AI, such as pulmonary nodule AI, which has the best performance among existing research, lymph node AI, which detects even simple CT, and CXR AI, which detects each finding including COVID-19, as well as AI drug discovery, automated surgical robots, and dolphin language translators. We are able to manipulate and control mathematical models of 100 million dimensions at will, and provide the most suitable model according to the issues and needs.

  • PLAID, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Kenta Kurahashi

    PLAID is a technological company that upholds the mission of “Maximize the value of people with the power of data”. PLAID officially released the customer experience (CX) platform “KARTE” in 2015, followed by “KARTE for App” for native smartphone applications and a customer data integration platform “KARTE Datahub,” in 2018.

  • Rapyuta Robotics Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Gajan Mohanarajah

    Rapyuta Robotics is a cloud robotics platform company founded as a spin-off of ETH Zurich.Through rapyuta.io – our next-generation cloud robotics platform – as well as our domain-specific robotics solutions such as the collaborative picking assistance ‘AMR’ robots, we support DX in the logistics and manufacturing segments.

  • Long Term Industrial Development Co.Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Yasuo Taniguchi

    In developing countries, there is limited information available regarding market activities, which creates huge gaps in sound decision-making. This results to consumers and producers alike to depend on the services of predatory middlemen. LTID bridges this gap through the employment of fintech to make information and services directly accessible to players in the market.
    LTID’s unique AI-powered dynamic pricing system is a first of its kind, as it tries to collate historical data to make future predictions regarding price. This becomes especially helpful in forecasting demand and supply in the market during particular periods of a year, thereby contributing valuable data to suppliers as well.
    LTID aims to establish a digital agri-ecosystem that is free and readily available in just a few clicks. Through this, consumers and producers are provided with ample information regarding market-related activities without relying on numerous middlemen. This digital agricultural cooperatives will provide a new food value chain for farmers in developing countries.

  • RevComm Inc.

    Name of Representative:Takeshi Aida

    RevComm is a company that solves communication issues through “AI x Voice x Cloud” software and database, based on the philosophy of ” Reinventing communication to create a society where people think of others.”MiiTel is an IP phone equipped with voice analysis AI that visualizes telephone sales and customer service.MiiTel records and transcribes sales calls and customer service calls, and AI analyzes them in real time to provide highly accurate feedback, thereby increasing the closing rate of business negotiations and reducing churn rates and training costs.

【2021】 New York Course Selected Companies

  • Abroach Inc.

    Name of Representative:Katsuhiro Okumura

    Abroach Inc., is developing a cutting-edge business intelligence platform (BtoB SaaS) to help the challenges faced by business people in terms of gathering and analyzing overseas information by providing business information of all kinds from across the globe, ranging from company information and industry reports to market data, news, statistics with collaborating global/local partners.

  • EAGLYS Inc.

    Name of Representative:Hiroki Imabayashi

    EAGLYS strives to create secure computing systems which can process over always encrypted data, ensuring that no information is exposed until the process is complete – keeping data safe throughout its lifecycle. We build on this to develop high quality AI systems by enabling access to knowledge contained within data without revealing the contents – giving back control over information to its respective owners, and to create a more sustainable data ecosystem.

  • Capy Inc.

    Name of Representative:Mitsuo Okada

    Capy helps website owners with avoiding serious damage caused by unauthorized login. We create smart cybersecurity solutions with human-centered design. Capy received more than 15 world awards at prestigious conferences including SF NewTech, TiE50 and IVS Launchpad. We’ve been backed up by 500 Startups, Microsoft Ventures, Orange Fab.

  • ZeBrand Co.,Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Ryo Kikuchi

    ZeBrand was founded in October, 2019, to provide a brand-building platform fit to help emerging businesses brand their way. After you go through a 6-minute questionnaire, our AI-based algorithm generates your original brand guidelines and brand assets. We also provide brand strategy frameworks and brand coaching sessions.

  • biomy, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Teppei Konishi

    biomy, Inc. provides innovative services for pharmaceutical companies using AI and biological technologies. We develop an AI platform that maximizes medication efficacy by selecting the appropriate cohort through unsupervised AI analysis of past patient information. Conventional medication criteria in companion diagnostics have been determined by reducing information from the vast amount of information inherent in test results to “expression levels of specific proteins” or “genetic mutations in the genome”. We can predict the prognosis of anti-tumor drugs by picking up various information in the test results using AI, and to support decision making on medication.

  • VISITS Technologies Inc.

    Name of Representative:Masaru Matsumoto

    VISITS Technologies Inc. is a company that supports corporate innovation based on its proprietary technology for quantitative assessment of people and business ideas.
    The “Design Thinking Test” is an online assessment tool that scores people’s creativity. More than 200 companies in Japan, including a trade company, an international consultant firm, manufacturers, and governments use it for recruitment, human resource management, and training effectiveness measurement, and more than 130,000 people have taken the test. It has already been patented in the US and Japan.

  • Eukarya Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Kenya Tamura

    Eukarya Co., Ltd. is a research and development startup that provides open-source next-generation database and data utilization technologies to humanity. Re:Earth is a non-code WebGIS that provides an environment to manage, analyze, and visualize large-scale and increasingly complex urban information on a digital globe.

【2021】 Silicon Valley Course Selected Companies

  • I’mbesideyou Inc.

    Name of Representative:Shozo Kamiya

    We founded for healing the pain of COVID-19.
    It’s really hard to feel people’s reaction online.
    Our service visualizes psychological safety of online meetings, each person’s engagement and mental health status.
    We already applied 119 patents globally.
    We visualize every person in the world as one and only.

  • Aillis Inc.

    Name of Representative:Sho Okiyama

    AIllis Inc. develops medical devices related to artificial intelligence technology (AI) for hospitals and doctors.
    Our first product is a medical device that diagnoses influenza by capturing pharyngeal images. We are working towards realizing new medical care using AI technology to enable other doctors to replicate the examination skills and “mastery” that only a few doctors have.

  • Integral Geometry Science Inc.

    Name of Representative:Noriaki Kimura

    We develop, manufacture, and sell various measurement systems based on the world’s first inverse analysis theory of electromagnetic field and inverse analysis theory of scattered field. We have succeeded in deriving analytical solutions for unsolved problems in the history of applied mathematics in many inverse problems such as “inverse problem of scattered field”. Sales results include infrastructure inspection radars, sales of current path imaging systems that measure the current paths of lithium ion secondary batteries in a non-destructive manner, and the like. In the future, we will promote the practical use of breast cancer screening device and Super Security Gate.

  • GUIDE ROBOTICS Inc.

    Name of Representative:Manabu Ushiro

    Guide Robotics Inc. was founded as an SRI International spin-out with a mission to develop tools/services for optimizing industrial operations in logistics, construction and security, using proprietary computer vision technology and autonomous robotics algorithms. The first offering is a Visual SLAM based Indoor Positioning System for forklifts and autonomous robots. It can localize and visualize the trajectory of assets in real time with cm accuracy in GPS denied environments such as warehouses using an edge device. The visualization of the indoor operations will help warehouse/logistics operators to improve their productivity and safety for forklift operations. The target market for this system will be warehouse/logistics operators (including refrigerated warehousing) and manufacturers with large warehouses globally, starting with Japan and USA.

  • Canaan Advisors, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Tokumasa Yamashita

    Canaan Advisors, Inc. develops and operates “Zenihub”, a blockchain-based real estate investment ecosystem. Primarily focusing on the emerging markets in Southeast Asia where the economy is growing extremely rapidly, we securitize high-yielding properties that are sourced and vetted by our professional staff, making those attractive real estate deals accessible and affordable for anyone.

  • Kotozna, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Genri Goto

    Kotozna develops two multilingual, SaaS tools for hotels enhancing pre-travel, concierge and in-room services.
    Both products, Kotozna In-room and Kotozna Live Chat cross translate over 109 languages, which facilitates for our hotels to communicate better with their guests, increase staff efficiency and productivity, and improve guest experience.
    Our products are equally designed to support other industries, delivering the same, desired business results.

  • ScientistPage Inc.

    Name of Representative:Shashank Tyagi

    GoToPitch is a pitch video platform that connects entrepreneurs and investors globally. Entrepreneurs can self record a short pitch video using unique recording function and investors can watch the video, reducing each communication process such as searching and getting appointments when raising funds. It makes fundraising process easier and faster.

  • SOUNDRAW Inc.

    Name of Representative:Daigo Kusunoki

    SOUNDRAW is an AI music composition service for creators.
    With SOUNDRAW, you can create music freely in terms of genre, instruments, song length, song structure, etc., and use the music for commercial use, YouTube distribution, podcasts, etc., license-free.
    SOUNDRAW Inc will realize a world where anyone can compose music easily with SOUNDRAW.

  • Social Good Foundation Inc.

    Name of Representative:Soichiro Takaoka

    Social Good Foundation Inc.’s mission is to build the world’s largest global platform and to provide financial freedom to all people worldwide.
    The more they shop through the SocialGood App, the more assets users earn. There are over 1.6 million users from more than 160 countries worldwide using the app (as of Jan. 2022).
    The app has partnered with over 1,800 major shopping websites worldwide including Aliexpress, eBay, Walmart, Lazada, and Nike, and users can earn SocialGood (SG) cryptocurrency in proportion to how much they spend at these stores.
    SG is listed on major crypto exchange platforms and the highest SG market cap was recorded at $1.48 billion USD. Social Good Foundation Inc. has registered 68 patents in Japan, including their patented Crypto Back system.

  • Dots for Inc.

    Name of Representative:Carlos Oba

    Dots for Inc. aims to create a world where the inconveniences faced by people living in rural villages in Africa are resolved and they can freely choose where to live. Dots for is developing a wireless network service called “d.CONNECT” within villages to provide an affordable and sustainable digital platform for people in rural African villages who do not have access to the Internet.

【2020】 North America West Coast Course Selected Companies

  • Artrigger Inc.

    Name of Representative:Madoka Sakaitani

    We are in the business of planning, development and operation of services using blockchain technology. Our “Smart storage” service allows you to strengthen your document management and ID/account management. It can be used to reinforce areas that are not covered by the security of cloud management, preventing information leakage even in a remote work environment. It can also be integrated with payment terminals to prevent the collection of license fees and royalties for complex custom and subscription-based products from being missed.

  • Infostellar, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Naomi Kurahara

    We operate a flexible and scalable cloud-based ground station platform called StellarStation. Satellite operators can access ground stations around the world with a single setup. Meanwhile, ground station owners can generate revenue by renting out their inactive ground station time to other satellite operators.

  • OPE×PARK Inc.

    Name of Representative:Yasunori Honda

    We are developing products that make doctors’ decisions more visible by using surgical data. OPeLiNK is the world’s only product that absorbs the protocols of all the devices in the operating room with ORIN middleware, making it possible to utilize all kinds of surgical data. Our goal is to create a platform for surgeons around the world to use this technology to innovate medical education.

  • THEY OWN

    Name of Representative:Lily Okamoto

    THEY OWN empowers womxn with the menstrual products with end-cycle in mind. Womxn takes enough burden. No need to feel the guilt of creating more waste or compromise convenience and comfort for our mother earth every month. Our green menstruation solution meets the needs of womxn with strong social responsibility.

  • bajji, Inc

    Name of Representative:Noritaka Kobayashi

    We provide”Feelyou” that is a self-care app that aims to make it easy to take care of your mental health with a single tap. It combines two functions: a system to help each other by empathizing with others, and mood tracking to improve your mental health by yourself. Feelyou reduces loneliness by empathizing with other people around the world who are feeling the same way, and prevents serious mental health problems by reflecting on your own emotional waves.

  • bitBiome, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Sunao Fujioka

    bitBiome provides “microbial single-cell genomic analysis” as a service for various industries/academia researchers, from basic research to product development. Our proprietary single-cell, whole-genome analytical platform called bit-MAP® enables strain-level differentiation and functional analyses with high accuracy, broad spectrum of bacteria, and high throughput. It delivers unprecedented strain-level genomics with functional insights into microbiome not available with the existing technologies.

  • Latona, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Kyoko Otawa

    We provide services that accelerate high-speed and secure data processing on edge devices by providing an AI and IoT platform. The functions required for the edge are subdivided into microservices, and like Lego bricks, combinations of them are loaded on the edge as containers according to the demand, and container orchestration by Kubernetes enables high-speed and highly accurate data processing control even within a LAN disconnected from the cloud.

  • ScientistPage Inc.

    Name of Representative:Tyagi Shashank

    We are a video platform that provides researchers and scientists with the opportunity to disseminate their research findings to the world through videos. We believe that simplicity is always important, and that the shift from reading papers to watching videos will reduce the time and cost of information retrieval for researchers and make it more understandable.

【2020】 North America East Coast Course Selected Companies

  • EAGLYS, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Hiroki Imabayashi

    DataArmor is a secure computing solution designed to protect data while it is processed. It supports analysis, operations, and machine learning over private and confidential information ? allowing for improved accuracy, secure exchange of data, and reduction of costs associated with protecting secrecy.

  • Zenport Inc.

    Name of Representative:Fumiyuki Ota

    With fresh eyes and deep insights, we simplify and standardize the inter-company communications of global supply chain management, acquiring the patent on our product concept. The current product is a communication platform based on the Object-oriented design to halve the communication costs of legacy off-line methods, such as emails, calls, and excel spreadsheets, among exporters, importers, and various logistics providers.

  • Newrope Co. Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Satoshi Sakai

    We provide companies with AI services focusing on the fashion industry such as recommendation engines for E-commerce and trend analysis for merchandising in the form of SaaS. Our current customers are fashion brands, retailers including E-commerce, OEM, media and so on.

  • Triple W

    Name of Representative:Atsushi Nakanishi

    Triple W empowers people with incontinence to live without worries. Triple W believes that having control of your senses is the key to independence and living life to the fullest. The company was founded in 2015 and has offices in Tokyo and San Diego. DFree’s award-winning and patented technology is currently used in over 500 senior care facilities in?Japan, Europe and U.S. since 2017. For more information visit: www.dfreeus.biz

  • Graffity Inc.

    Name of Representative:Toshiaki Morimoto

    Graffity is an AR game company founded in 2017 with the mission of “”Play AR, Play Real””, which means that change the communication through AR entertainment. We released an AR shooting game “”PechaBato”” and got 160K downloads without any advertisement. Now, advancing the project on developing an AR multiplayer shooting game for its official release.

  • One Act Inc.

    Name of Representative:Yusuke Asano

    One Act Inc. develops and operates the web service “PieceX”, the world’s first source code marketplace with dynamic pricing by AI. By trading software components on a global scale, PieceX allows Seller companies to earn new income from the source code itself and Buyer companies to save 90% on software development time and costs by purchasing guaranteed, ready-to-use source codes. PieceX creates a place where anyone in the world can rapidly develop new services.

  • Spider Labs, Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Satoko Ohtsuki

    “Spider AF is an ad fraud tool specialized in automation and data visualization. Along with businesses involved with ad networks, Spider AF aims to be a tool applicable to a wide variety of users from agencies to advertisers. We also provide data scientist consulting support against digital advertising fraud, which is evolving daily.”

  • Zweispace

    Name of Representative:Hayato Kameta

    Zweispace is AI x Blockchain powered PropTech company. All major PropTech app portfolio in one company, on top of competitive AI x blockchain capabilities. Real-estate tokenization for the transitional age in major capital market is the main focus, surrounded by AI blockchain functions. Awarded Top PropTech Company in APAC region, and holds early blockchain patent family in multiple countries. Zweispace won startup award at Plug and Play 2020 summer summit in real estate and construction domain.

【2020】 Shenzhen Course Selected Companies

  • I’mbesideyou Inc.

    Name of Representative:Shozo Kamiya

    We provides BtoB SaaS that uses multimodal AI to analyze online communications such as Zoom to create high quality communications that are unique to online, tailored to each individual’s reaction. We believe that our system could be the new backbone system of the Corona era, and we have applied for 13 international patents.

  • Instalimb, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Yutaka TOKUSHIMA

    We provide unprecedentedly low-cost, high-quality 3D printed prosthetics to the approximately 90 million people around the world who cannot afford prosthetics. In order to achieve this goal, we have developed three technological elements from scratch: software (3D-CAD and AI), hardware (3D printer and materials), and design (prosthetic design and production technology using 4D technology) to create a completely new prosthetic digital manufacturing solution and product.

  • Water X Technologies Corporation

    Name of Representative:Yuji Nakayama

    We develop a new bidet toilet seat that eliminates the need for toilet paper. The unique technology allows you to wash and dry your areas comfortably without using paper. By spreading this product around the world, we will provide more hygiene environment in places where paper cannot be flushed in the toilet as well as create a world where no more forests are cut down to make paper.

  • MK PLUS Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Kazumasa Kurokawa

    We aim to develop practical applications of Vanadium Solid-State Battery (VSSB) eg. EVs (Electric Vehicle), PHEVs (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), solar electricity and gadgets of mobile batteries. The most appealing point of this battery is its short charging time which is 100 times faster than the existing batteries. For example, in the case of an EV, a full charge in 90 seconds is expected to be feasible compared to Tesla’s lithium-ion battery which takes about five hours to charge each time.

  • Gatebox Inc.

    Name of Representative:Takechi Minori

    Gatebox Inc. was founded in 2014, to find a way to live with virtual characters. Gatebox mass production model has a projection technology which realizes the virtual character in this world, and through an array of sensors, a virtual character can talk to you with affection as a real human. You can have a solution for engagement with customers by developing the character app on the Gatebox Platform.

  • Samaria Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:YUKO YAMASAKI

    Samaria Inc. is an advertising agency with some of the world’s leading creators. There aren’t many manga and anime advertisements and blogs in the world that you can see in Japan. Japan’s world-class stories require a sense of style that has been cultivated over many years. We would like to spread manga and anime around the world by making the most of our rich creators and by taking an approach that has an affinity with the corporate world of advertising.

  • SmartCity Research Institute

    Name of Representative:XUE KAI

    Smart City Research Institute, is a startup from The University of Tokyo, with the passion of building smarter technologies for smart city. We are providing the next-generation road management platform, GLOCAL-EYEZ, for making road maintenance easier and cheaper. We developed road profile and IRI estimation method, as well as AI road damage (pothole, crake, etc.) estimation method that can evaluate road condition with high accuracy, by simply using a smartphone or drive recorder installed in vehicle. Our core technology has been introduced to more than 11 countries and the total measurement length is over 1million kilometers. We believe GLOCAL-EYEZ will make the road condition better among the road.

  • Setsuro Tech Inc.

    Name of Representative:Shinichiro Takezawa

    Seturo Tech Inc. is a startup founded in 2017, which originated in Tokushima University. Our technological foundation is the efficient and stable genome editing methods “GEEP method” and “VIKING method”. These original genome editing methods enable us to provide genome-edited animals and cells at a low cost and in a short period of time. We will contribute to the development of genome editing technology through contract genome editing services, fostering the genome editing industry, and enriching people’s lives.

  • Zenport Inc.

    Name of Representative:Fumiyuki Ota

    With fresh eyes and deep insights, we simplify and standardize the inter-company communications of global supply chain management, acquiring the patent on our product concept. The current product is a communication platform based on the Object-oriented design to halve the communication costs of legacy off-line methods, such as emails, calls, and excel spreadsheets, among exporters, importers, and various logistics providers.

  • Haloworld Inc.

    Name of Representative:Tempuu Siva

    We are developing a robot autonomous mobility technology called ReFRO. Currently, the company is working with Japanese general contractors, railway companies and other large corporations to make various operational robots autonomous, establishing and further refining autonomous mobile technology that moves mainly on point cloud data captured by 2D LiDAR. In addition, BeTHERE, a 3D scanner developed to facilitate the conversion of construction, real estate, and disaster sites to DX, takes images of space with LiDAR and a 360° camera, and creates texture-mapped spatial data that is pasted into spatial point cloud data in minutes, making it easier, faster, and more understandable than ever before. It can create easy to use spatial data.

  • HelloLight,Inc.

    Name of Representative:Akatsuki Torii

    We are developing a SIM-embedded light bulb with the latest technology to help eliminate misery with just one light bulb: the integration of LPWA communication technology and the light bulb (IoT light bulb), and the cloud technology to achieve a tremendous price and convenience at one-tenth of conventional light bulbs. We aim to solve the problems of aging society and crime prevention with the simplest ever device for monitoring and crime prevention.

  • Fun Group Inc.

    Name of Representative:Kenji Miki

    We are a travel tech company that plans and manages local optional tours and sightseeing experiences for travelers around the world with the vision of creating a mechanism to access inspiring experiences. As a tourism supplier platform, we support the digital transformation of small and medium-sized tourism businesses and set a global standard in the inefficient Tours & Activities industry, which has not yet gone online.

  • RESC Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Daisuke Suzuki

    RESC, Ltd. has been aiming to realize the smart cities that are resistant to natural disasters, achieve zero emission, and have widespread e-Mobilities. Since we think that expanding the use of batteries is essential for this realization, we have developed a battery platform that makes full use of ICT system, big data, and prediction algorithms. Our battery platform can be used for battery sharing/swapping services for e-Mobilities and energy services for power grids. Our patented ICT system and prediction algorithms enable the maximization of user-convenience, economy, and environmental-friendliness for these services.

【2020】 Singapore Course Selected Companies

  • Dental Assist Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Naozumi Matsumoto

    We manufacture and sell orthodontic aligners, which were born out of our desire to lower the threshold for orthodontic treatment and solve many people’s dental problems. We boast the largest number of orthodontic cases in Japan, and with our proprietary state-of-the-art computer modeling technology, we have been able to provide a wide range of orthodontic services. We make aligners that best fit each patient’s dental profile.

  • Lizuna

    Name of Representative:Jason Sio

    We protect eCommerce business from online fraud orders. Fraud orders can cost the merchants a lot of money, time, and resources from bad-actors and chargebacks. We specialize in helping small to big companies further automate and reduce their fraud orders and false positive by using Big Data, digital verification, and an assisted learning fraud detection system.

  • RevComm Inc.

    Name of Representative:Takeshi Aida

    We develop and provide a service called MiiTel, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze and visualize phone sales and call center operations to dramatically increase productivity. A year and a half after the service was launched, more than 11,000 users across all industries and company sizes have used the service and 22 million calls have been made through MiiTel.

  • RESC Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Daisuke Suzuki

    RESC, Ltd. has been aiming to realize the smart cities that are resistant to natural disasters, achieve zero emission, and have widespread e-Mobilities. Since we think that expanding the use of batteries is essential for this realization, we have developed a battery platform that makes full use of ICT system, big data, and prediction algorithms. Our battery platform can be used for battery sharing/swapping services for e-Mobilities and energy services for power grids. Our patented ICT system and prediction algorithms enable the maximization of user-convenience, economy, and environmental-friendliness for these services.

  • GINKAN, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Tomochika Kamiya

    GINKAN runs SynchroLife, a social media restaurant discovery service with a token economy. SynchroLife helps diners find good restaurants with AI recommendations and rewards them with cryptocurrency for posting reviews and dining out. SynchroLife is also digitally transforming marketing in the restaurant industry with risk free PR and a big data based customer relationship management service.

  • GAOGAO Pte. Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Takuya Tejima

    We are a startup studio from Southeast Asia. Our start-up engineers, with past CTO and idea stage development experience, provide consulting and sustainable MVP development support to entrepreneurs and new business unit clients. We are currently headquartered in Singapore with offices in Bangkok and Japan, and have a global reach.

  • AI Communis Pte. Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Nobuhiko Suzuki

    We aspire to take our communication to the next generation with our proprietary Automatic Speech Recognition engine, co-developed and researched with Carnegie Mellon University. We provide a customized ASR engine for each client through their own audio data, leading to higher accuracy rate. Our solution being hosted on AWS, we ensure there is no data contamination and provide enterprise grade security with restricted access.

  • Quantum Operation Inc.

    Name of Representative:Kazuma Kato

    We are an IoT startup with medical-level sensor technology. We are developing continuous-measurable solutions and hope to help people around the world suffer less from disease and avoid serious illnesses. We are also currently developing the world’s first continuously-measurable, non-invasive blood glucose meter.

  • TRUSTDOCK Inc.

    Name of Representative:Takahiro Chiba

    We are a new classified startup called KYC as a Service, which provides the only eKYC all-compliant digital ID app in Japan, TRUSTDOCK, and the API infrastructure for KYC & AML. KYC & AML business processes in compliance with various laws are being provided 24/7 via API.

  • Kiara Inc.

    Name of Representative:Daisuke Ishii

    We develop and sell Kiara, a real-time translation tool for 100 languages as a plug-in for Slack and email with the mission of “Boost Humans with AI.” Our strength is the simplicity of one-stop operation on Slack, with no management screens, and we plan to take advantage of the fact that we have 100 million characters of big data to add additional automated functions that other companies cannot offer.

【2020】 Germany Course Selected Companies

  • INDETAIL Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Daisuke Tsuboi

    To achieve our business model of becoming a start-up production that creates 100 different businesses (details), We are creating new businesses to solve the problems faced by local communities and regions. Our goal is to create new approaches to economic spheres and new user experiences by using advanced technologies, and we are actively engaged in prototyping and PoC to create highly practical businesses.

  • EAGLYS, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Hiroki Imabayashi

    We are committed to bringing about a society where all data can be used safely through Secure Computing systems – our DataArmor line of products aim to provide services that are simple to adopt, and create value for our customer’s clients by securing their data while it is being processed. This approach protects confidentially, and allows for greater precision as well as lower cost in analysis of sensitive data. With our solutions your data stays encrypted while remaining connected – allowing you to build a truly sustainable data ecosystem.

  • AISing Ltd

    Name of Representative:Idesawa Junichi

    We are professionals in edge AI and mechanical engineering. Edge AI is AI that can be used on the edge devices (end devices), and our proprietary AI algorithm, DBT (Deep Binary Tree), is the world’s first edge AI technology that can learn, predict, and add to data in real time without the need for a cloud connection. Using our unique AI, we have been developing joint projects with major companies in various industries and licensing AI technology to improve productivity and quality at the same time.

  • XPAND K.K.

    Name of Representative:Nanmoku Toworu

    We invented “”The XPAND Code””, which is a new super contactless tool for smartphones that can be applied with QR codes. Its horizontal elongated shape makes our prodcut unique. Our specific product shape not only hamonizes with the existing landscape and design, but also enabled long-distanced scanning, which has been the drawbacks with QR code technology.

  • APB Corporation

    Name of Representative:Hideaki Horie

    APB is a startup developing and manufacturing the first large scale bipolar lithium-ion battery modules called All Polymer Battery, which was co-developed by Hideaki Horie, current CEO of APB, and Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd. (“Sanyo Chemical”.) To realize high-quality batteries, we have developed a bipolar structure where current flows across the cell interfaces perpendicular to the electrode plane, and polymer as basic material. The electrode material of All Polymer Battery is wrapped with gel-like polymer containing electrolytic solution, which is realized by surface activity control technology of Sanyo Chemical. Through the adoption of such technologies, our All Polymer Battery is characterized by such features as high reliability, high energy density, and innovative manufacturing processes at the same time.

  • Corpy&Co., Inc.

    Name of Representative:Kohei Yamamoto

    With a mission to save lives and extend equality through advanced AI technology, We are developing solutions to implement AI in mission/safety critical areas where high reliability is required. DAIDS is a brain aneurysm diagnostic AI system using state-of-the-art image recognition and explainable AI technology.

  • Sharing Energy Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Emiko Koga

    Since February 2018, Sharing Energy have been rolling out “Share-Denki”, third party ownership model for PV systems, mainly to household users. The number of contracts in Japan exceeds 1,000 and the number of partner companies exceeds 250. We are also providing storage batteries and other energy resources to prosumers. In addition, we have partnered with Power Ledger, an Australian blockchain developer and erex which is a major retail electricity provider to conduct a PoC of P2P energy trading.

  • 16Lab Inc.

    Name of Representative:Ko Kijima

    A developer of the world’s smallest IoT/Wearable module, 16Lab, offers intuitive solutions for Human-Computer Interactions – not limited to preventing car theft effectively but also perfectly fits the Smart City era. Personal authentication would matter a lot in this new era as a growing number of computing intelligences are being implemented around us. Smartphones can remain a multi-purpose controller, but people really don’t want to be burdened to look at their smartphone screens 700 to 800 times a day.

  • Green Science Alliance Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Ryohei Mori

    We are engaged in research and development of cutting-edge materials and technologies specializing in the environmental and energy fields. We have synthesized advanced materials such as lithium-sulfur batteries and other next-generation rechargeable batteries, fuel cells, petroleum-free 100% natural biomass biodegradable resins, antibacterial and antiviral materials, quantum dots, quantum dot solar cells, and metal-organic structures, and we are conducting research and development based on these materials.

  • Tsukuba Technology Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Bo Wang

    We are a start-up that originated from AIST, and develops, manufactures and sells non-destructive inspection equipment for use in various industries including energy, infrastructure and transportation. The Laser Ultrasonic Visualizing Inspector (LUVI), is the world’s first system to simultaneously visualize the transmission of ultrasonic waves generated by a laser, and detect the inner defects of a complex-shaped object, including CFRP. The compact X-ray inspection system utilizes a unique cold-cathode structure, which reaches high voltages and maintains a long life, and enables the instant imaging of a structure. Along with the wireless function and the battery, it can be used to inspect narrow and high places onsite.

  • PicoCELA Inc.

    Name of Representative:Hiroshi Furukawa

    We are a pioneer in corporate WiFi mesh and aims to create a platform business to support a new era. PicoCELA offers enterprise-grade stability and quality in its wire-free commercial products.

  • PJP Eye LTD.

    Name of Representative:Hiroaki Nishina

    We are a global solutions company that is revolutionizing the world’s sustainable energy revolution with its unique “Cambrian™” carbon battery. Cambrian” uses no rare metals, can fully charge a mama’s bike in 20 minutes, does not deteriorate for more than 10 years, can withstand temperatures from -20 to 61 degrees Celsius, and is easy to recycle.

【2020】 Web Summit Course Selected Companies

  • Anaut inc.

    Name of Representative:Nao Kobayashi

    We are developing software that uses artificial intelligence to support surgery in the surgical filed, a product called the “Precision Mapping (Map of the human body)” . This product uses AI technology to help the sight of surgeons’ surgery, thereby making an impact on improving the biggest complication in surgical care. We aim to bring innovation to surgical care.

  • XPAND K.K.

    Name of Representative:Nanmoku Toworu

    We have developed XPAND Code, a new super contactless link tool for smartphones that can be used in conjunction with QR codes. The most distinctive feature of the product is its long and narrow horizontal design. The shape of the code enables it to be read from long distances and to compensate for the weaknesses of QR Code.

  • Dream Drive K.K.

    Name of Representative:Jared Campion

    We are a new lodging option, a high-end van conversion camper rental business. Unlike traditional large campers, our minivans are customized for today’s travel needs, including ease of driving and finding parking, providing the ideal mobile lodging space for all travelers who want to enjoy the freedom of travel.

  • Corpy&Co., Inc.

    Name of Representative:Kohei Yamamoto

    With a mission to save lives and extend equality through advanced AI technology, We are developing solutions to implement AI in mission/safety critical areas where high reliability is required. ‘DAIDS’ is a brain aneurysm diagnostic AI system using state-of-the-art image recognition and explainable AI technology.

  • Zenport Inc.

    Name of Representative:Fumiyuki Ota

    With fresh eyes and deep insights, we simplify and standardize the inter-company communications of global supply chain management, acquiring the patent on our product concept. The current product is a communication platform based on the Object-oriented design to halve the communication costs of legacy off-line methods, such as emails, calls, and excel spreadsheets, among exporters, importers, and various logistics providers.

  • Tenchijin inc

    Name of Representative:Yasuhito Sakuraba

    We provide the Tenchijin Compass, which combines satellite data, ground data and human expertise to evaluate land. This primarily helps farmers understand the changing conditions of their cropping environment and pests caused by climate change so they can farm more efficiently and profitably.

  • bajji Inc.

    Name of Representative:Noritaka Kobayashi

    We provide “Feelyou” that is a self-care app that aims to make it easy to take care of your mental health with a single tap. It combines two functions: a system to help each other by empathizing with others, and mood tracking to improve your mental health by yourself. Feelyou reduces loneliness by empathizing with other people around the world who are feeling the same way, and prevents serious mental health problems by reflecting on your own emotional waves.

  • Bisu

    Name of Representative:Daniel Maggs

    We develop healthcare products that use personalized data. With a simple weekly exam, you get specific advice on how to improve your health and prevent disease, including customized meal plans and nutritional deficiencies.

  • PJP Eye LTD.

    Name of Representative:Hiroaki Nishina

    We are a global solutions company that is revolutionizing the world’s sustainable energy revolution with its unique “Cambrian™” carbon battery. Cambrian” uses no rare metals, can fully charge a mama’s bike in 20 minutes, does not deteriorate for more than 10 years, can withstand temperatures from -20 to 61 degrees Celsius, and is easy to recycle.

  • Plusman LLC

    Name of Representative:Yujiro Otsuka

    Founded by actuaries, Plusman LLC specializes in mathematical engineering and carries out research and development in the fields of AI medical devices and drug discovery. Our flagship product, Plus.Lung.Nodule, is the world’s best performing Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) for pulmonary nodules. It reduces the workload of radiologists and enables pulmonologists to evaluate response to anti-cancer drugs by automatically detecting characterizing and historically tracking pulmonary nodules on CT images. This and other products by Plusman contribute to an improved QOL for doctors and patients alike.

  • I’m beside you Inc.

    Name of Representative:Shozo Kamiya

    We provides BtoB SaaS that uses multimodal AI to analyze online communications such as Zoom to create high quality communications that are unique to online, tailored to each individual’s reaction. We believe that our system could be the new backbone system of the Corona era, and we have applied for 13 international patents.

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  • LPIXEL Inc.

    Name of Representative:Yuki Shimahara

    EIRL is the collective name given to LPIXEL’s AI medical image diagnostic support technology. LPIXEL aims to provide solutions that enable a faster and more accurate diagnosis by implementing its unique algorithms to analyze medical big data, such as brain and breast MRI, chest X-rays, and colonoscopy.

  • AI Medical Service Inc.

    Name of Representative:Tomohiro Tada

    AI Medical Service Inc. is one of the world’s first real-time endoscopic artificial intelligence (AI) developers that collaborates with approximately 80 medical institutions representing Japan in the field of gastrointestinal endoscopy to research and develop AI endoscopies. The results have been widely accepted by experts all over the world, including the conference for Digestive Disease Week (DDW), the world’s largest gastroenterology association, in which as many as 12 studies by AI Medical Service were selected for presentation including the one awarded as “Best of DDW.” The company will enable the practical use of these technologies at an early stage and will contribute to the world’s endoscopic medical practice by supporting physicians’ diagnoses, thereby reducing the risk of overlooking diseases to the highest extent possible.

  • Xenoma Inc.

    Name of Representative:Ichiro Amimori

    Xenoma develops the next-generation smart apparel ‘e-skin’ to provide well-being and happiness in your daily life. Tracking various data anytime and anywhere on the whole body, e-skin is one of the most ideal interfaces to monitor activities and vital signs. Each product has different functions and designs depending on the applications.

  • DoctorsMobile, Corp.

    Name of Representative:Akihiro Nakao

    We “DoctorsMobile” provide various ICT services for hospitals and patients. We have over 2000 models of patient condition, and we provide application to run and use these models in the care pathway. With these models, we can visualize and optimize the workflow of patient treatment in hospitals continuously. Optimizing of the workflow decreases unnecessary tasks and improves the quality of the services, and it therefore improves the patients’ outcomes.

  • Triple W Japan Inc.

    Name of Representative:Atsushi Nakanishi

    Triple W’s vision is Live your life to the fullest through vital technology and we focus on ultrasound wearable technology which is only to monitor and quantify organs inexpensively and safely. At this stage, we have developed bladder monitor device named DFree and provide to care facilities and home users especially in Japan and the U.S. And now we have been developing bowel movement detector. Next stage, we will develop sensor techs for other organs. Then, we will make integrated healthcare management system for biological information and collaborate with medical industry to improve home healthcare services.

  • Novumcella Inc.

    Name of Representative:Yasuyuki Kusuhara

    Novumcella Inc is a venture company that develops regenerative medicine products and performs medical big data analysis. In regenerative medicine, a technology that enhances the function of stem cells by adding statin PLGA nanoparticles to adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells, has the exclusive normal license of patents related to myocardial regeneration, We have exclusive licenses outside as well. The University of Tokyo Professor Hashida’s Personal Life Repository (PLR) technology is usually licensed, and by conducting medical big data analysis, for patients who have had stents in place for myocardial infarction. In collaboration with domestic manufacturers, we will develop medical devices that can quickly identify signs of restenosis for such patients.

  • Blue Practice Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Koji Suzuki

    The latest medical practice technology using advanced medical devices is accelerating in importance to support the healthy life expectancy of people. And with the evolution of technology, treatment methods and surgical techniques will continue to evolve. However, the subject of treatment remains the human body that lives. Blue Practice has created a biological model that closely approximates the human body using technology that accurately reproduces the characteristics of human organs and blood vessels. By installing multiple microsensors in a biological model, we provide an advanced platform for medical simulation that accurately enables data collection and analysis in the development and evaluation of medical devices that use the model.

  • Medmain Inc.

    Name of Representative:Osamu Iizuka

    “TO CREATE A WORLD WHERE MEDICAL SEVICES CAN BE ACCESSED WITH TECHNOLOGY ANYWHERE, ANYTIME” As a supporting partner to medical practitioners throughout the world, Medmain develops and operates PidPort, an analytical system for pathological image diagnosis that makes use of Deep Learning. PidPort is an analytical system for pathological image diagnosis that enables super-precise, prompt pathological diagnosis using our unique Deep Learning/AI-based image processing technology. PidPort also features a remote pathological diagnosis function that leverages cloud network technology.

  • RIVERFIELD Inc

    Name of Representative:Kenji Kawashima

    We are a start-up company that manufactures and sells telesurgery robots that are pneumatically driven. Based on many years of research at Tokyo Institute of Technology, we started operations in May 2014 for the purpose of commercializing surgical assistant robots. The feature of our operation assistant robot is that the forceps entering the body are driven pneumatically, the force applied to the tip of the forceps is measured by the amount of air in the external pneumatic cylinder, and the force is measured in real time by the operator We use the only technology in the world to reproduce the sense of force in real time for the operating doctor. By driving with pneumatic drive air, it is attractive that it can be manufactured lightly and compactly with fewer parts. It weighs less than 400kg and is half of Da Vinci. With this advantage, we would like to manufacture and sell small surgical support robots that function in lung, esophagus, and pediatric surgery and expand them worldwide.

X-HUB TOKYO course8: GLOBAL STARTUP ACCELERATOR Batch 1 Mobility Program Selected Candidates

  • AC Biode Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Tadashi Kubo,

    We will develop the world’s first standalone AC (Alternating Current) battery. Compared to the current DC (Direct Current) Li-ion battery, our battery is 30% more compact in terms of volume, safer, a double lifecycle, and reduce AC-DC conversion loss. We will achieve them by utilizing all the existing materials and production lines; therefore, it is going to be quicker and more affordable than developing new materials or new types of batteries. Our first target will be for smaller applications such as e-bikes, e-scooters, or energy storage, then will expand to EVs, aerospace, and more. Applicable not only to Li-ion batteries but also the future generations, such as all-solid-state batteries. We have entities in Japan and the UK, we won or got awarded at 7 international start-up competitions around the globe, such as the University of Cambridge, MIT/USA, European Space Agency, Science Park Graz in Austria and more.

  • EAGLYS, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Hiroki Imabayashi

    EAGLYS provides Secure Computing Platform called “DataArmor”, where any operations are executed over encrypted data in whole process without decryption. With DataArmor, 3rd parties’ data base (DB) and analytics/AI algorithm are turned into SecureDB, SecureAnalysis and SecureAI, which is designed to be easily integrated through add-on to existing system. Even confidential data can be shared, managed and analyzed over encrypted data. SecureDB by DataArmor can maintain, collect, search and DB-integration in always-encrypted form, and SecureAnalysis/SecureAI process pattern analysis, association mining, and machine learning/deep learning with encrypted data.

  • Enhanlabo Co., Ltd

    Name of Representative:Takeshi Zayasu

    We developed the glasses type wearable “b.g.”. You can see the display information with a slight glance movement, with Hands-free situation. The key concept is visual extension. We aim to increase productivity by drawing out new visual possibilities mainly in the BtoB area. “b.g.”, the design of “how to see” and “comfort” are pursued. Moreover, it becomes the design of the over glass type so that the person who needs the sight correction can hang from the top of the glasses. “b.g.” is developed with the know-how of “Megane Super, it’s famous Japanese retail chain”, and the manufacturing of the sacred place of glasses “Sabae, Fukui-prefecture”. The company name “Enhanlabo” is named after a combination of enhance and laboratory. We want to contribute to society by enhancing the possibilities of people through the expansion of vision and the five senses.

  • Kenpal Inc.

    Name of Representative:Ken Iida

    In Japan, about 38,000 accidents occur annually due to sleepy and/or casual driving, and more than 700 people lose their lives by those accidents. Kenpal Inc. has developed a drowsy driving prevention service “Drivescore” to solve this social problem. (Patent No.6132327, PCT examination completed) Drivescore is our proprietary technology that analyzes EEG data and detects changes of the degree of sleepiness. It measures brain waves of the driver using a simple brain wave sensor and a smartphone app. The drowsiness diagnosis before driving predicts the risk of dozing and proposes a guide for a break. While driving, as well as sleepiness, catch early signs of drowsiness and prompt the driver to take an early break.

  • Mujin, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Issei Takino

    Mujin is a company which develops and sells “intelligent robot controllers,” designated as a common platform for industrial robots. Conventional robots, even though they are suitable for the automation of repetitive work, were difficult to install in environments where handled products and the surroundings are liable to change, due to the robots’ operations differing by manufacturer and the complex settings. Mujin has solved this problem using technology called motion planning, and is providing solutions in which heavy/simple work done by humans at the logistics/manufacturing scene are automated by robots.

  • NearMe, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Koichiro Takahara

    NearMe is a startup aiming to contribute to regional revitalization by providing services that match various, in-the-moment needs through the instant matching platform. Currently, NearMe operates a “taxi ride-sharing” service, which enables instant matching of people who want to go in the same direction by taxi. Also, NearMe has released “SmartShuttle™”, which is the next-generation airport shuttle realizing optimal transfer route by Artificial Intelligence. With those sharing services, users can save taxi fare and avoid the long wait for “last one-mile” mobility. By providing an effective mobility system, NearMe can build more convenient living conditions for suburbs and solve shortages in alternative transportation methods such as in the aging society and tourist places, with new mobility experiences.

  • Nightley inc.

    Name of Representative:Yutaka Ishikawa

    We “Nightley inc.” is specialized in Location Big Data Analytics. Since our company was founded in 2011, we have been developing technologies and producing services. We have two products, “inbound insight” and “LOCAL INSIGHT”. “inbound insight” provides behavioral analytics of international travelers to Japan. “LOCAL INSIGHT” provides Data Analytics to solve regional problems. In recent years, we concluded an alliance about Data Analytics of Connected Car with an auto manufacturer. Also, we have started to attempt to realize Cashless Society and Smart City by data connections with the largest credit card company and communication apps company. We are trying to solve business tasks and social issues by seeking possibilities of Location Big Data.

  • TAGCAST,Inc.

    Name of Representative:Akatsuki Torii

    TAGCAST makes GPS evolved. We provide “Location Tech” which authenticate Space Location, Table Location and Wall Location by IoT with world patents in 9 countries. TAGCAST is switch to move to Digital Transformation(DX) and create User Experience(UX). TAGCAST is used by mobile order application “Putmenu” and realize shopping innovation for restaurant, food court and event.

  • HoloLab Inc.

    Name of Representative:Kaoru Nakamura

    HoloLab Inc. is a research and application development company focusing on Mixed Reality related technology. Since its establishment on 2017, HoloLab has a handful of MR app development achieves with various market segments like Manufacturing, Construction, and Telecommunication/Media industry. mixpace is the SaaS package for 3D Visualization of 3DCAD. User can upload their 3D design data to our mixpace cloud to auto-convert into 3DCG data. And mixpace client app for each AR/VR/MR device can download it to visualize, and enable the data to be experienced in the 3D space.

  • AISing Ltd

    Name of Representative:Junichi Idesawa

    We are the company that gathers AI and mechanical engineering professionals. We develop original edge AI algorithms suitable for machine control (lightweight, no internet connection required, world-class AI technology that can be embedded on edge devices one by one, real-time learning) and jointly develop with major companies in various industries.

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  • KINDLER, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Asuka Kadowaki

    Find your life style! Do you have a lifestyle that suits you? What do you think is good for building a lifestyle that suits you? It’s to know yourself. “Mira (Mira)” provided by Kindler Corporation provides hints for knowing yourself. KINDLER, Inc. provides matching platforms and make simulators for beauty advisers and students with AI face analysis tools.

  • GIFT PAD Co., Ltd.

    Name of Representative:Yukihiro Sonoda

    Gift pad system provide new way of sending high quality gift via SNS or e-mail. In Japan there is so-called catalogue gift which you pick the gift from the booklet and order it by sending order form post card to receive it. Gift pad system replaces this old gift style to new WEB catalogue gift. Not just to send personal gift, the system is widely accepted in B to B market such as sales promotion and gift from company to employee.

  • Synapse corp.

    Name of Representative:Yoshihiro Katayama

    Our company develops, maintains and consults AI system, It is a company that provides BTM platform “DEPPARI” and “DEPPARI SDK”. “DEPPARI” realizes improvement of convenience for users by unifying all travel goods, and it is also compatible with personal trips as well as corporate business trips. In addition, we will monetize the collected BIG data with marketing data.

  • AnyTech inc.

    Name of Representative:Yoshiki Shimamoto

    Collateral of water quality in the water treatment facility is important, but it is unrealistic to monitor at all times because the amount of water is enormous, it is a problem that the discovery of water quality abnormality is delayed. Install surveillance cameras in the water treatment facility, acquire moving images, analyze, and provide AI technology services to detect abnormalities.

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  • INNOPHYS CO., LTD.

    Name of Representative:Takashi Furukawa

    We, INNOPHYS Co., LTD, are venture company using technologies from Tokyo University of Science. Our products are wearable robotics suits as Exoskeletons model that support person’s action. Main product name is “Muscle suits“. Muscle suits can support wearer’s lower back and improve a working environment. We already have sold over 3500 units in Japan. Our users belong to heavy works. For example, Elder care, Manufacturing, Construction, Agriculture and so on. We use Artificial Muscle, it works by air, for our product. As the result our robotics suits are no battery and no electric motor. And more, we have just launched “Muscle Upper” that support lower back and arms from Oct. 2018. We also research and develop Rehabilitation equipment as wearable robotics suits.

  • Vacan, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Takanobu Kawano

    Vacan, Inc. develops and manages a vacancy search service “VACAN” that allows users to grasp whether venues are vacant or not in just one second, even if the user does not visit the site due to IoT and artificial intelligence. By using “VACAN”, users can instantly know whether they are available simply by looking at digital signage or smartphones without looking around each floor purposely about restaurants, cafes, toilets, etc. of commercial facilities and department stores. On the other hand, the introduction facility side improves customer satisfaction, efficiently mobilizes vacant facilities, improves migration effect, and also utilizes facilities in real time by grasping the usage situation of the facility, thereby also utilizing it for maintenance of facilities And it will lead to value improvement of the facility.

  • SENSYN ROBOTICS, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Naoaki Mashita

    SENSYN ROBOTICS,Inc., Our vision is We evolve the social common sense by robotics technology. We are planning, developing and selling business solutions combining robotics technology such as drone and advanced technology. We have four main technical components. 1 Real time visual communication system 2 Image recognize/analysis 3DRONEBOX (fully autonomous drone station) 4FLIGHT CORE (Flight Operation system). We combine these components to develop Package for specific tasks. For example, SOLAR CHECK (Solar photovoltaic panels inspection package), TOWER CHECK (Tower inspection package), etc. We aim to solve imminent social problems caused by a decrease in labor force.

  • Whomor Inc.

    Name of Representative:Mikiya Shibatsuji

    We are linking creators (creators wishing to receive a lot of work) and clients and consumers (who want high quality content) while guaranteeing quality. The main business is below. -Illustration Production -Manga Production for business -Manga Production for custormer -Our Web and App services -Entertainment Production for Business Our strengths are the following three points. -Establish network of one of the largest creators and writers in the country -High-quality content results by intervention of production system and production progress by division of labor -Supports solutions that utilize entertainment not only for production contractors

  • Amegumi Inc

    Name of Representative:Eisuke Tokiwa

    We will sell smartphone with new OS called “SUNBLAZE” for business use such as individual, SME, and Employee. This smartphone is cheaper (40-50 USD) and Long Life (at least 3 years). Android apps can work, so business sector want to use this smartphone with a few apps such as micro loan, post payment, and B2B EC.

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  • Mashroom

    Name of Representative:Yoichiro Hara

    Mashroom provide smart delivery box system called VOX which can be controlled via smartphone that has permission to open. With using this delivery box, courier service providers can collect and deliver package to customer anytime. Our aim is to reduce the cost caused by receiver’s absence and simplify the customer’s experience of package shipping and reduce the receipt related burden. VOX system provides secure unlock authentication that can work with no supplying electricity and with no network setup. Since our proprietary bi-directional communication technology between the smartphone and VOX device authenticate access permission via smartphone’s mobile network, that allows low-energy consumption and extremely low the manufacturing cost (Under €40/device). Customers will pay €4/mo. as subscription service.

  • New World Company Inc.

    Name of Representative:Tomohiro Ono

    New World Company is engaged in fashion-technology, creating convertible shoes for women by its brand “FAMZON”.
    With one touch, FAMZON heels can be changed to fit any style, scene or occasion. Since the 2017 launch of the D2C model, EC revenue has been substantially increasing without any advertising expenditure, solely relying on the word of mouth among working women.
    In cooperation with national research institutions, we are devoted to solving the problems of shoe buying with technological development that can easily be adapted to the modern customer’s lifestyle.
    As a brand that satisfies the world’s needs by creating an essentially beautiful design, we pursue the goal to become the premier manufacturer with unique craftsmanship and original technology.

  • Crowd Realty, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Takeshi Kito

    Crowd Realty is running a Peer to Peer equity financing marketplace specialized for real estate. We are providing fundraisers with opportunities to raise small amount of equity from public capital markets by using our independently-developed securitization scheme and equity crowdfunding, and digitizing and streamlining various processes for securities issuing and offering.
    Crowd Realty has headquarters in Japan and a subsidiary in Estonia and is executing both domestic and cross-border transactions and keeps expanding to other regions in parallel.

  • Warrantee Inc

    Name of Representative:Yusuke Shono

    Our company brings significant benefits to both your consumers and companies with “Platform × Data utilization × Insurance” services. We provide digital CRM automation service.
    1.Lead Management Automation
    We contribute to your purchasing promotion by providing relevant information to potential customers at the appropriate timing.
    2. Lead Nurturing Automation
    We understand the potential customers’ taste and the timing of new purchase / replacement and move them to purchase your products.
    3. Deal Management Automation
    We build up a “purchase channel” on the app, and automatically lead customers to purchase.
    4. Customer Support Automation
    We automate repair and other after-sales support.
    Through these four functions, we help your companies to reduce time and cost.

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  • Lily MedTech Inc.

    Name of Representative:Shiho Azuma

    Today in Japan, one in twelve women is facing to develop breast cancer. The morbidity is higher in younger ages, which is Eastern Asia (incl. Japan)- specific, and while the 10-year survival rate hits higher than 90% in early-treatments, the survival rate drops significantly in the post-metastasis-treatments. Therefore, the promotion of breast cancer screening is desired but only to remain the screening rate around 30%. Mammography is the only screening tool recommended by the guidelines. However, its cancer detection rate declines when a patient has a high breast density. Sonography is recommended for the combined examination with mammography. Its cancer detection rate depends on skills of the examiners.
    We have developed an imaging system “Cocoon” that scans breasts of female of all ages without pain, radiation or skills, to contribute to early-detection and early-diagnosis of breast cancer.

  • primesap

    Name of Representative:Takeshi Kimura

    We provide health fitness optimize solution with AI x IoT for everyone. No matter what life stage they are in, people want to improve their own health fitness. Athletes want to improve their performance to win every next game with avoiding risks of injuries. Elder people want to improve and maintain their fitness every next year. As of today, we provide three products line for three segment; LiveTrac is an intelligent sports analytics for those who want to improve performance with avoiding any risks of injuries. LifeTrac is a smart AI monitoring for hospitals, nursing homes and single living elder people. IndusTrac is a pre-cognitive field worker monitoring system.

  • EmbodyMe, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Issei Yoshida

    We are building a smartphone app called Xpression, which uses AI to easily create fake videos indistinguishable from reality. Xpression replace someone else’s expression in a video with your own in real time. For example, using a clip of Donald Trump speech on Youtube, you can speak as the US president and easily create a fake video that is indistinguishable from a real speech.

  • Ubie, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Kota Kubo

    Ubie, Inc is an AI health-tech startup which core technique is disease prediction. We have introduced Hospital-Ubie into more than 50 clinics. Hospital-Ubie reduces the doctors’ EHR typing costs, by making the medical questionnaire texts. It uses the AI to provide the questions. We also develop the app Dr.Ubie for individuals who got a symptom. Dr.Ubie predicts the disease patients got, and suggests which they should go to the hospital or not, which OTC-drugs to buy, and treatments.

  • Holoash,Inc.

    Name of Representative:Yoshua Kishi

    Unleashing the potential of Anomaly such ADHD by emotional device(Hologram) and AUIs Using our technology, our goal is to develop solutions to the problems that people with potential such as ADHD face on a daily basis. Internet rewrite human brain as distractive and fidget. We cannot endure a minute to talk or see something because massive notifications. We aim to create an environment in which these individuals can focus on what they truly want to do, by supporting them in various aspects throughout their daily lives. Our products will aid in the creation of plans and provide support for users to stick to them, assist users to not forget things, and provide support in making minor decisions.

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  • YUKASHIKADO Inc.

    Name of Representative:Shinya Minobe

    The corporate vision of YUKASHIKADO is “Both at home and overseas, we will do our best to create equal environment and opportunity, and create the world where the people who can have an ability to make an effort would get stronger.” To realize our vision, we develop the world-first device called VitaNote that can check nutrition levels and nutritional foods.

  • UNIVERSAL SOUND DESIGN Inc.

    Name of Representative:Shinichiro Nakaishi

    A company that develops and sells “comuoon”, a support device that improves dialogue on the speaker’s side to support hard of hearing. 8,000 of “Comuoon” are being used since its releas in 2013. The number of people with hardship to hear in Japan is approximately 15 million people. Problems arise with the acquisition of voice information due to hearing loss, and as a result, social participation becomes difficult, which is a big problem. There are also cases where you are misdiagnosed as dementia in dementia testing due to hearing loss.

  • Sustainable Medicine, Inc.

    Name of Representative:Taro Ueno

    Cognitive behavioral therapy is recommended as a first line treatment for insomnia.However, it has not been widespread due to the lack of manpower at medical sites and the overprescription of the sleeping pills is a problem.We have developed a mobile application which enables cognitive behavioral therapy and are promoting clinical trials.Furthermore, in order to lower the cost of the clinical development, we developed a clinical development system using blockchain technology.These products will contribute to the compatibility between innovation and sustainable medicine.

  • Holoeyes Inc.

    Name of Representative:Naoji Taniguchi

    Holoeyes provides VR / Mixed Reality based communication service for doctors and hospitals . Holoeyes provides customized VR / MR application for surgical procedure form each patients CT scan data . Our final goal is provide 3D library of procedure and cases for doctors, patients and students .

  • BONX Inc.

    Name of Representative:Takahiro Miyasaka

    We are a company behind “BONX Grip”, ultra verstaile group talk technology. We also launched business voice-based communication solution “BONX for Business.” We create the future of communication through the power of IoT.

  • Triple W Japan K.K.

    Name of Representative:Atsushi Nakanishi

    Triple W Japan K.K. is a Tokyo-based startup company that develops the first connected wearable device that can track the progression of bladder movements using non-invasive ultrasonic sensors. DFree has started its service from spring 2017 and used in about 150 senior care facilities in Japan. From spring 2018, Triple W Japan started a new service to support the independent excretion for the elderly. Also, the sales for individuals is scheduled to start from summer 2018.

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  • Coaido Inc.

    Name of Representative:Gensho Makoto

    We are committed to innovating emergency lifesaving by technology and design. A person who encounters a sudden cardiac arrest can use the Coaido 119 application to instantly contact registered and medical volunteers in surrounding areas. The nearest AED can also be tracked simultaneously as an ambulance is being called. Providing quick intervention and first aid helps people suffering from cardiac arrest, which will rise the survival rate as a result.

  • LPixel Inc.

    Name of Representative:Yuki Shimahara

    LPixel is a leader in advanced image analysis and processing technology encompassing the life science field. The company is currently working with the University of Tokyo and the National Cancer Center Japan alongside other research institutions and developing AI-based medical diagnosis technologies represented by implementation of *EIRL in the ongoing research and development of various areas of medical image diagnostics. *EIRL is the collective name given to LPixel’s AI-based medical image diagnostic support technology.

  • Trillium Inc.

    Name of Representative:David M. Uze

    Trillium is the leading provider of transportation safety & information security solutions, including lifecycle protection for connected vehicles and fleets. Founded in Japan 2014, it now operates in Asia, North America and Europe. Current traction includes collaborations with Automotive OEM and Tier1 aimed at a 2020 vehicular Security as a Service offering deployment.

  • Tokyo Hearth Inc.

    Name of Representative:Tomonari Kino

    Tokyo Hearth, Inc. will make Japan international from Tokyo. Tokyo Hearth offers very first online housing platform to support international tenants in Japan. It makes it possible to sign the contract, pay, and give guarantee online. Community manager at residence also support the various housing needs We support all of the people who want to live in Japan, and Asia.

  • Ascent Robotics Inc.

    Name of Representative:Almeida Fred、Masayuki Ishizaki

    Ascent Robotics is a Tokyo based startup focused on developing safe, robust autonomous robotic systems that think like humans do. We apply cutting edge deep learning (differential programs/reasoning) and deep reinforcement learning with strong neuroscience foundations to learn complex tasks such as driving the roads of Tokyo or collaborating in a factory.

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  • Caulis Inc.

    Name of Representative:Atsuyoshi,Shimazu

    Caulis Inc. is a cybersecurity startup which aims to build the cyber intelligence infrastructure to support ICT in the society. We’ve been securing the internet for everyone through the new approaches for cybersecurity solutions.

  • Zpeer

    Name of Representative:Yutaka,Fujimoto

    Zpeer, Inc. develops and operates the largest veterinarian web-community, Vetpeer. Around 60% of companion animal vets in Japan are using the site to consult each other about clinical / management topics, to discuss the newest scientific topics, and so on. After focusing on the companion animal vets for the last four years, Zpeer has expanded its service to cattle and swine vets (and farms

  • Bespoke Inc.

    Name of Representative:Akemi,Tsunagawa

    Bespoke Inc. is a leading AI solution provider for the travel industry. Its AI-powered concierge, Bebot, is Japan’s first multilingual chatbot that acts as a hotel concierge. It is designed to empower guests through instant, real-time assistance such as exclusive recommendations for both popular and little-known sights in the area, answering questions only hotel staff would know about, or even making restaurant bookings.

  • MATCHA

    Name of Representative:Yu,Aoki

    MATCHA, a top class web media platform for visitors to Japan publishes travel information related to all the regions of Japan in 10 languages. Aiming to enhance the quality of what visitors to Japan experience during their trip, it promotes the still unknown charms of Japan towards an international audience from all over the world.

  • Phantom AI

    Name of Representative:Shirabe,Ogino

    Phantom AI, Inc. is founded in 2017 with the Artificial Intelligence technology to develop “Weekly Bitcoin Forecast”. Its objective it to foster 3rd party’s forecasting algorithm to be accessible for retail investors through PAI Token platform, which is just announced publicly on ICO process.