Japan’s startup news
February 2020’s tech, startup and funding news from Japan.
Each link below leads to the original online news source for each item, and each item is drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily news feed:
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- Japan: SBI Holdings financial group plans $920M VC fund, seeking investors to focus on 5G, robotics and IoT
- Japan: Daiko Holdings takes controlling stake in Bitgate cryptocurrency exchange parent, in step to keep up with competitor crypto moves
- Japan: A look at Aissy, neural network-driven taste analysis startup
- Japan: H2O vacation rental management startup raises $7M with platform aiding owners to manage operations, housekeeping and bookings
- Japan to expand support for domestic drone industry to alleviate security concerns posed by Chinese-made devices
- A brief look at Japan’s moves towards providing financial services for the unbanked population of expats and migrant workers
- Japan: Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers to trial blockchain technology for music copyright management
- Japan: An interview with the Director, InsurTech, at Plug And Play Japan, on Asia Insurtech Podcast
- An overview of Japan’s hesitancy around, and likely moves towards, a central bank digital currency
- Japan’s Rakuten e-commerce conglomerate offloads $1.4BN in tech shares, including entire Pinterest stake, adding to growing concerns about overvaluations
- Japan has a radically different profile when it comes to three important areas of 5G deployment…
- Japan: Manga designed by AI and drawn by robotic hand to be published in Japan’s Morning magazine, created by studying works of Astroboy creator, Osamu Tezuka
- A brief intro to 12 of Asia’s legal-tech startup founders and their businesses
Other news in February 2020
Other subject-specific news from across Asia-Pacific in February 2020:
• Blockchain news across Asia-Pac
• Artificial Intelligence news, Asia
• Cybersecurity and data security news
Asia’s tech news, daily
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