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ACALL Inc.
People’s lifestyles have diversified due to a declining birthrate, aging society, advances in IT, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, greater diversity is being called for in workstyles, which include sideline jobs and telework. “WorkstyleOS” that ACALL Inc. created is a platform that enables all employees of a given company to share who is working when and where by having the employees use their personal computers or other terminals to check in and check out and log their hours at registered…
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Akiya Katsuyo Co., Ltd
Of the 62.4 million homes in Japan, 8.49 million are currently vacant. The problem of vacant houses has become a pressing social issue alongside the nation’s declining birthrate, aging demographic, and declining population. In an effort to find a solution to this problem of vacant houses, Akiya Katsuyo created a database of vacant houses throughout the country and began a service that connects the owners of vacant houses to people who want to use such houses. By addressing the emotional…
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Sagri,Inc.
As a child, Shunsuke Tsuboi, the founder and CEO of SAgri, was fascinated by space. “I kept on talking about my passion for the space industry throughout my teenage years.” The feedback from adults was generally discouraging and he was chided off as being unrealistic. “I noticed my friends had changed their dreams to sound realistic,” he recalls. In 2016, as a sophomore in college, he started a space education company along with his peers to teach children about space…
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KURASERU,INC.
KURASERU is one of the Kansai-born healthcare startups, which was selected for the KOBE Global Startup Gateway in December 2017 and launched its service in January 2018. Further, the company was a part of the OIH Seed Acceleration Program Batch 5 in 2018, before it started the demonstration experiment at nine medical institutions in Kobe City and successfully raised 180 million yen (about 1.6 million USD) in 2019. Daiki Kawahara, the co-founder and CEO of KURASERU, set his mind to…
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akippa
Osaka-based akippa is a leading company in the Japanese sharing economy, gaining over 1 million users in 5 years. Their goal is to build the world’s largest mobility platform by 2030. “Entrepreneurs need two qualities: logical thinking and more importantly perseverance,” says CEO Genki Kanaya. He learned the latter playing soccer, trying to make it to the professional league. It was a blackout that inspired him to start a business that would be “indispensable” for society, just like electricity. Genki…