Startup Japan
2nd quarter 2018
- Japan: A look at moves towards collaborative robots – ‘cobots’ – on the factory floor
- Japan: A podcast look at JustInCase, smartphone-driven insurance
- Japan: A look at Panasonic’s RFID-driven shopping system – cashierless and fully automated
- Japan: Plaid web analytics firm gains $25M backing
- Japan: MUFG partners Akamai for new blockchain-driven payments service
- Japan: Mercari online used-goods marketplace app aiming for $1.1BN IPO
- Japan: Micin mobile telemedicine app startup raises $10M
- Japan: Otaku Coin preps to launch cryptocurrency to serve communities and hobbyists
- An overview of 11 billion-dollar mega-projects transforming the world’s greatest cities by 2035
- Japan: Empath AI-driven call centre solution wins Tech in Asia Singapore 2018 Arena
- Japan: Doreming fintech app gives unbanked workers immediate access to wages
- Japan: An intro to Fukuoka, Japan’s startup city
- Japan: Yamap hiking and mountaineering app raises $11.1M
- Japan: Tokyo Metropolitan government seeking fintech startups for latest accelerator program
- Japan: Smartphone users set to increase 3% this year to 70.8M, 56% of the population
- Japan: Cinnamon, startup using AI to push workplace productivity and creativity, raises $9M
- Japan: $55M AI fund launched, focusing on seed and early-stage
- Japan: Tokyo expects to launch driverless car system by 2020
- Japan’s Aisin Group launches $50M VC fund with Silicon Valley’s Fenox Venture Capital for auto-tech startups
- Japan cryptocurrency space set to gain from entry of Coinbase from US
- Japan: Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance replace 34 employees with AI system
- Japan’s Wantedly HR startup launches job-matching services in Hong Kong
- Japan: 2020 Olympics to deploy facial recognition tech to screen staff, athletes and reporters
- Japan: Curbside, app offering shoppers mobile ordering from bricks-and-mortar stores for outside pickup, acquired
- Japan: Mercari flea market app set to expand from e-commerce with $3.65BN valuation
- Japan could become ‘unicorn’ central if some political constraints are lowered
- Japan: An intro to the DRAGON, airborne drone which can change shape during flight
- Japan: Umitron raises $8.2M for AI and data analytics in fish farming
- Japan: Tech In Asia conference set for Tokyo in September
- WIT Japan & North Asia Startup Pitch 2018 tourism-focused winners unveiled
- World Innovation Lab, a US-Japan VC firm, raises $521M 2nd fund to connect entrepreneurs with corporate resources
