Japan’s startup news
#startupJP – 05/2019
Today’s startup news:
on LinkedIn, on Twitter and on Facebook
- Japan: LinePay aiming to invest $180M this year in AI and blockchain aiming to become all-in-one super-app
- Venture capital in Japan: the current startup ecosystem
- An overview of Japan’s ‘Society 5.0’ initiative, a transformation potentially more radical than any the industrialized world has seen
- Japan: Toyota partners University of Tokyo and TRENDE renewable energy retailer to test peer-to-peer electricity trading using blockchain
- Japan: China’s Alipay expands mobile payments to 300K retailers in Japan with goal of taking advantage of 2020 Olympics tourist traffic
- Japan: How the country became Twitter’s second-largest market globally
- Japan External Trade Organization and PROJECT NIPPON sign MOU around business matching of overseas startups and Japanese companies
- Japan: Campfire crowdfunding platform operator backed for $20M, in part by Global Brain VC
- Japan: Tokyo Metropolitan Government launches FinTech Business Camp Tokyo accelerator
- Japan’s LINE messenger platform aiming for transition from single-purpose to super-app, with Thailand as testing ground
- GREE Ventures seed to early-stage startup VC company rebrands into STRIVE, launching $130M STRIVE III fund
- Japan: DataGrid develops new AI system to create photorealistic models of entire people
- India’s ToneTag sound-based payments startup partners GMO Payment Gateway for Japan market entry
- Japan’s KDDI and SUMITOMO prep to enter Myanmar’s mobile game industry
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