Q3 2016
Startup News Asia
Japan
- Android leads in Japan’s expanding tablet market
- Mobile payments ride tourism wave from China to Japan
- Android Pay may be heading to Japan
- Japan: Mizuho Bank tests Amazon and Facebook for banking service innovation
- Japanese fintech targets hedge funds with big-data research
- Japan’s Rakuten acquires bitcoin startup team for UK Blockchain Lab
- Ripple blockchain to power payments for Japanese 15-bank consortium
- TransferWise starts Japan business in expansion push
- Japan: $52M fund launched, dedicated to Japanese startups
- Japan: A look at Live3, Tokyo’s all-you-can-club pass
- Japan: Nomura-Keio venture fund to raise 50% more for startups
- Japan: SmartHR HR automation startup raises $5m
- Japanese investment in startup companies is surging
- Japan’s AnyDoor acquired for $14m, including Conyac crowdsourced translation service
- TV ads are important for Japan’s tech startups
- ‘Venture capital investing in Japan is dominated by corporations’
- Japan’s office comm’s platform ChatWork adds Vietnamese to take on Slack
- A look at 5 startups set for TIA Tokyo 2016 in September
- Fuzuoka’s mayor interviewed on the launch of city’s ‘startup cafes’
- Japan: AgIc Circuit Marker pen lets users draw working electrical circuits
- Japan: IoT startup Veldt closes undisclosed seed round
- Japan: Mobile app analytic service Fuller raises $4.2m
- Japan: Retty lands $10.5M aiming to take on Yelp
- Japan: social media news provider Spectee secures funding
- Japan: startup Creww launches accelerator program with Panasonic
- Japanese startups to launch virtual reality shopping
- Japan’s Abeja gets $5m for retail artificial intelligence platform
- Japan’s Whill aims to revolutionize the wheelchair
- Tokyo’s Creema handmade goods marketplace expanding to HK & Taiwan
- Fukuoka mayor visits Taiwan for startup community & government ties
- 5 startups from Tech In Asia’s Tokyo event
- A quick look at Tokyo’s tech startup scene – people, places, incubators…
- Japan: Digital image & video content startup Pulit lands funding
- Japan: Kyushu cosplay haven opens artist startup program
- Japan’s younger smartphone users taken with Twitter
- UniFa wins Startup World Cup Japan heat
- Japanese-Thai partnership set to nurture startups
- Japan plans drone delivery by 2018 for elderly care, disaster relief
- Japan’s SmartNews app raises $38m
- Japan’s Trillium Inc car anti-hacking startup lands funding
