Q1 2017
Startup News Asia
Japan
- A quick look at 4 of Japan’s rising startups
- Japan: Fukuoka International Startup Hub conference – Jan 31st
- Japan: Viibar crowdsourced video startup raises $5.8M, partners Yahoo Japan
- Amazon Japan to offer innovative startups funding, distribution
- Japan: Mosquitone’s HRBrain HRtech platform gains seed round
- Japan: NTT Docomo eyes 20 startup investments; sets focus on AI, IoT
- Japan: A quick look at 5 startups
- Japan: Gov’t to send 55 startups, SMEs o’seas under innovation programme
- Japan: Consumers in Japan unconvinced re purchasing influence of video ads
- Japan: Asia Mobile Commerce and Card-Linking Forum set for February
- Japan: Campfire crowdfund site lands $3M for social lending service
- Japan: Cykinso healthcare startup lands $2.3M
- Japan: Brands target Chinese consumers before looking further afield
- ‘Japan’s tech startups are thriving in small, custom niches’
- Japan: Apple to invest $1Bn in SoftBank tech fund
- Japan: A quick look at 10 startups from Hack Osaka pitch contest
- Japan: Folio fintech startup first to offer online domestic equity trading
- Japan’s SoftBank considers investing over $1BN in WeWork
- Japan: CureApp digital health startup lands $3.4M
- Japan: Coiney mobile payments startup gains $7.1M
- Japanese megabanks bet on fintech with bitcoin exchange investment
- Japan: Bitcoin will be legal currency starting in April
- Podcast: How to create a micro-startup in Japan
- Japan: Dely culinary media startup secures $27M
- Japan: Corporates increasingly acquiring startups in search of tech, talent
- Japan: WAmazing wins B Dash Camp with tourism-related startup service
- Japan: 500 Kobe Accelerator details set for mid-April launch
- Japan: Ookami sports entertainment app developer closes Series A
- McCann Japan ad agency creates AI creative director, directs TV commercial
- Japan: Techsauce Global Summit & startup pitch – Tokyo, March 18th
- Japan: Fintech revenues expected to hit $743M by 2021
- Japan moves towards blockchain commercialisation with world-first pilot
