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Lean on Me, Inc.
“Special Learning” e-learning training aimed at promoting education in disabled care welfare There are a total of 9,647,000 disabled people in Japan, and that number is rising1. Currently, there are about 140,000 support facilities nationwide that support disabled people, with about 1,000,000 staff working in the field. In such circumstances, one major societal problem is the abuse of disabled people. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) conducts an annual survey of abuse of disabled people. That number has…
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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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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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Phybbit Ltd.
In February 2019, Phybbit’s CEO Satoko Ohtsuki took the stage with a beaming smile. She won the GET IN THE RING OSAKA 2019（GITR）, a regional selection of the world-renowned pitch contest hosted by Osaka Innovation Hub, and made it to GITR’s global meetup in Berlin. This experience helped her step up as a presenter and communicator, but most importantly, connected her with investors whom she needed to take her company to the next level. Phybbit, founded in 2011, has grown…
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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…
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mui Lab
Kyoto-based mui Lab successfully raised over $110,000 in its Kickstarter campaign in 2018, which was later chosen by Kickstarter as the Best of Kickstarter. Their product “mui” also received a CES Innovation Award 2019 in the smart home category. What’s so innovative about mui? At first glance, it is a simple plank of wood about 70 cm wide on a wall. It goes well with a sleek, minimalist Japanese home as an interior accessory. When the wood is touched, mui…