Safie operates a cloud video platform that enables remote live viewing, cloud recording and management of networked cameras for security, operations and business improvement use cases. It provides end-to-end offerings including cloud-connected cameras and gateways, SaaS management, and analytics integrations that let businesses use video for surveillance, operational monitoring and marketing insights. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Safie holds the top market share in Japan for cloud video platforms and serves customers across retail, logistics, construction and the public sector.
Software
Streaming & OTT Platforms
Security & Surveillance Robotics
Surala Net provides ICT learning content called Surala aimed at bridging education gaps and empowering children, based on its mission 'the revolution in the education and power to live in children'. Its platform is used by about 58,000 students through some 690 cram schools and 150 schools in Japan, and the company also offers localized Surala products in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India and the Philippines. Surala Net expanded publicly when it was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market in 2017.
Education
EdTech Platforms
E-learning
SmartDrive develops easy-to-install in-vehicle sensing devices that collect real-time driving and vehicle data. It operates a cloud data platform that aggregates and analyzes data from sensors and dashboard cameras to provide telematics, fleet management and mobility analytics. The company delivers enterprise and consumer services that monetize driving data for transportation, logistics and insurance customers in Japan.
Data & Analytics
Fleet Management
Internet of Things
SmartHR provides a cloud-based human resources and labor management platform that digitizes employee onboarding, social insurance and payroll-related procedures for businesses in Japan. Its software automates personnel administration, electronic contracts, attendance and leave management, and integrates with payroll and government filings to reduce paperwork and compliance burden. It primarily serves Japanese companies ranging from small and medium enterprises to large corporations seeking to modernize HR operations.
Professional Services
Software
Human Resources
Studio Ousia develops natural language processing technologies and operates a cloud NLP platform and APIs to enable semantic understanding of Japanese text. The company builds tools for text analysis, intent detection, entity extraction and chatbot/NLU integration for enterprise applications. Its customers include businesses across IoT, ICT, media and other sectors seeking to add Japanese-language conversational AI and text analytics to products and services.
Software
Artificial Intelligence
Natural Language Processing
ThinkCyte develops single-cell analysis technologies that combine advanced optics, machine learning and biotechnology to support life-science research, diagnostics and therapeutics. It commercializes Ghost Cytometry, a high-throughput fluorescence image-based cell-sorting platform that enables rapid, image-informed sorting and characterization of cells. The company targets research institutions, diagnostic developers and cell-therapy manufacturers seeking high-speed, image-based cytometry and sorting solutions.
Laboratory Equipment
Diagnostics
Bioinformatics
SkymatiX is a Japanese remote sensing services company that develops an image data processing and analysis platform using drone and satellite imagery backed by proprietary image-processing and GIS technologies. It combines space- and GIS-industry expertise with AI to provide industrial remote sensing and DX services for agriculture, construction and surveying, disaster prevention, and facility inspection. SkymatiX aims to modernize traditional '3K' industries by delivering geospatial insights that improve operational efficiency, safety, and profitability.
Farming & Agriculture
Drones & UAVs
Earth Observation
Closer develops a versatile robotic automation package designed to automate manufacturing lines that heavily rely on human labor in sectors such as food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Its solution enables the introduction of robots into production-line processes that have been difficult to automate by providing adaptable hardware and software for repetitive tasks. By automating repetitive operations, Closer helps factories address labor shortages and increase production capacity.
Robotics
Industrial Automation
Industrial Robotics
Skydisc is a Japanese IoT and data science company that designs and deploys end-to-end industrial IoT systems and AI solutions for manufacturers and other industrial clients. It provides data analysis and AI model development as well as workflow design, hardware and equipment selection, and data acquisition services to support customers' digital transformation efforts. Since its founding in 2013 it has worked with more than 100 customers, mainly manufacturers, across over 200 projects to boost workers' capabilities rather than replace them.
Industrial IoT (IIoT)
Data Science
Internet of Things
Genomelink operates a personal DNA cloud where people upload and store raw consumer genotyping data to receive trait and ancestry insights, discover related products, and contribute to research. The company provides consumer-facing reports and developer APIs that derive phenotype and ancestry information from uploaded 23andMe/Ancestry-style raw data and offers services to researchers and biotech partners. Genomelink is active in the US and Japan startup ecosystems, has participated in accelerators including Berkeley SkyDeck and StartX, and has been featured in Japan's METI J-Startup program.
Data & Analytics
Biotechnology
Genomics
GRA develops environmental technology and services that help organizations reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy efficiency. The company commercializes sensor hardware and data-driven SaaS tools that monitor energy use and automate optimization across industrial facilities and buildings. Its customers include manufacturers, utilities and municipalities in Japan seeking to decarbonize operations and comply with emissions regulations.
Data & Analytics
Environmental Science
Energy Efficiency
SyntheticGestalt is an AI startup that develops autonomous discovery systems to mass-produce valuable discoveries for the life sciences sector. It builds machine learning models to identify candidate drug compounds and design enzymes with novel functions, supporting drug discovery and protein engineering workflows. Founded in 2018 with offices in Tokyo and London, its team includes many PhD scientists and engineers from top UK universities and it participates in Japan's METI J-Startup program.
Artificial Intelligence
Drug Discovery
Machine Learning
Sukedachi operates a platform that matches construction craftsmen with construction companies and provides industry-specific job placement through its Sukedachi and Sukedachi Employee services. The company serves over 190,000 registered businesses and is a market-leading matching and recruitment platform for Japan's construction sector. It helps construction firms find clients and recruit workers to address labor shortages and continues expanding services to tackle broader industry challenges.
Professional Services
Software
Human Resources
SpoLive builds an interactive sports-technology platform that connects fans, players, teams and sponsors through data-driven fan communication and engagement tools. The company provides a suite of services and platform features such as real-time fan interaction, audience analytics and monetization tools to help sports entities and sponsors create new revenue and relationship channels. SpoLive primarily serves professional sports teams, leagues, broadcasters and sponsors in Japan and abroad and has received recognitions including a Good Design Award and a SportsPro OTT Awards shortlist.
Sports
Software
Fan Engagement
SORA Technology develops and deploys drone and air-mobility solutions to address last-mile delivery and global health challenges. The company engineers unmanned aerial systems and operational services to support delivery of medical supplies, vector control and disaster-resilient logistics in developing countries. Its technology and services target governments, international health organizations and logistics providers seeking sustainable, resilient solutions for epidemic response and hard-to-reach communities.
Health Care
Delivery
Drones & UAVs
SmartBank provides a household finance management service called B/43 that pairs a Visa prepaid card with a finance-management mobile app. Its product lineup includes the B/43 Pair Card, which creates shared accounts for couples to manage finances together, and the B/43 Junior Card, a prepaid card that lets parents give pocket money and oversee children's spending cashlessly. SmartBank targets family finance and personal fintech markets in Japan and aims to build a platform that helps families manage, save and build wealth for the future.
Payments
Personal Finance
FinTech
Shizen Energy develops, builds and operates utility-scale and distributed renewable energy power plants and projects in Japan and internationally. The company provides a self-developed energy management system and offers microgrids capable of islanded operation, virtual power plant (VPP) aggregation for coordinated control of distributed resources, and smart EV charging and discharging services. As of 2023 the Shizen Energy Group had been involved in over 1 GW of renewable generation and in 2022 raised ¥74.4 billion from investors to accelerate its growth toward 100% renewable energy.
Energy & Utilities
Energy Management
Solar Energy
Sagri develops satellite-data and AI-powered solutions to address food security and climate change by providing remote sensing and analytics for agriculture. Its products include Actaba and Detaba for efficient farmland management, AI Polygon for generating agricultural polygons from satellite imagery, and Sagri for soil analysis using satellite data. Headquartered in Japan with branches in Singapore and India, Sagri serves farmers, agribusinesses and governments seeking scalable precision agriculture and land monitoring tools.
Artificial Intelligence
Earth Observation
AgTech
SUN METALON promotes decarbonization in the metal industry by developing and commercializing heating technologies for metal processing and recycling. It offers a proprietary portable metal heating system designed to deliver low‑cost, low‑CO2 heating to enable more efficient melting, treatment and on‑site recycling operations. The company targets metal manufacturers, recyclers and industrial operators seeking to realize a more efficient circular supply chain in metal manufacturing and recycling.
Manufacturing
Waste Management
Metals & Metallurgy
SPACE ONE provides space transportation services focused on launching small satellites. The company develops the KAIROS small launch vehicle and operates a private launch site, Spaceport Kii (SPK), in Wakayama Prefecture to support dedicated orbital launches. SPACE ONE targets the growing small-satellite market by offering flexible, high-frequency launch capabilities to meet diverse access-to-space needs.
Space & Aerospace
Launch Services
Shippio builds a cloud-based international trade and logistics platform that lets users track cargo vessels, manage quotations and orders, centrally store and share trade documents, and communicate with stakeholders via in-platform chat. The company promotes trade digital transformation by digitizing business processes and operational support to eliminate fragmented, telephone-game style communication and to create a shared information infrastructure across departments, locations and business partners. By aggregating and linking trade data across transportation, inventory and planning, Shippio enables end-to-end visibility and supports holistic optimization of supply chain operations.
Software
Supply Chain
Logistics
Sakanotochu (On-the-Slope) is a Japanese social venture that produces and markets pesticide- and chemical fertilizer-free agricultural products under the vision of "Farming for the Next 100 Years." It specializes in supporting new entrant farmers—approximately 80% of its partners—by aggregating limited and variable volumes and guaranteeing fair pricing to help them access markets and adopt environmentally sustainable practices. The company also operates the "Uminomukou Coffee" project in Southeast Asia to raise coffee quality while promoting forest conservation and increasing local incomes for farming communities.
Food & Beverages
Farming & Agriculture
Organic Food
Cyfuse Biomedical develops Bio-3D printing technologies and instruments for regenerative medicine, best known for its Regenova Bio-3D Printer and the Kenzan spheroid-based bioprinting method. The company manufactures scaffold-free, cell-assembled tissue constructs by fusing multicellular spheroids to create transplantable tissues and in vitro models for drug discovery and research. Cyfuse primarily serves academic, clinical and commercial research customers worldwide from its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.
Biotechnology
3D Printing
Regenerative Medicine
CYBERDYNE develops cybernics technologies and robotic medical devices that integrate humans and machines to assist movement and rehabilitation. The company is best known for its wearable Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) exoskeleton and related Cybernics interfaces and devices, which are used in medical rehabilitation, nursing care, industrial workplaces and daily living support. Founded as a university-originated venture in 2004, CYBERDYNE commercializes and socially implements Cybernics systems through clinical deployments, licensing and partnerships in Japan and international markets.
Robotics
Medical Devices
Exoskeletons & Wearable Robotics
Connected Robotics develops specialized robotic systems for commercial restaurant kitchens that automate food preparation and cooking tasks. The company combines industrial-robot control expertise with sensing and deep learning–based perception to create intelligent kitchen robots and integrated automation solutions. Its products target hospitality and foodservice operators facing labor shortages, aiming to reduce manual workload in kitchens while improving consistency and operational efficiency.
Robotics
Food & Beverages
Service & Hospitality Robotics
CONNECTEC JAPAN develops and commercializes MonsterPAC assembly technology for electronic devices, enabling ultralow-temperature (80–170°C) and low-load bonding processes. Their Monster Desk Top Factory and MonsterPAC solutions reduce manufacturing process steps to roughly one tenth of conventional methods and expand material choices for IoT devices, sensors and advanced electronics. The company produces and promotes assembly development projects and manufacturing platforms that connect people, technologies and companies to accelerate device prototyping and low-volume production in Japan and international markets.
Manufacturing
PCB & Assembly
Electronics Manufacturing
Gojo & Company is a Tokyo-based holding company that builds and operates inclusive financial-service businesses across developing countries, with eight subsidiaries active in Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, India and Tajikistan. It provides microfinance, lending and digital financial services focused on formalizing and growing micro, small and medium-sized enterprises while extending affordable financial access to unserved and underserved populations. Gojo aims to enable the provision of high-quality affordable financial services to over 100 million people in 50+ countries by 2030.
Kotozna develops multilingual communication and translation solutions to remove language barriers for visitors and service providers in Japan. It offers a cloud-based platform plus on-site hardware such as tablets and kiosk terminals, together with mobile apps, QR and voice-enabled features to enable real-time chat and automated translation for hotels, retailers, transportation hubs and public services. Its products target inbound tourism and local public-sector and commercial markets to improve accessibility, safety and service efficiency while helping address social challenges like an aging population and workforce shortages.
Travel & Tourism
Software
Translation Services
CoreTissue BioEngineering develops medical devices derived from biological tissue using a proprietary decellularization technology to enable transplantation medicine without harvesting patients' own tissues. Its flagship pipeline is an artificial anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) for reconstruction that aims to replace the need to harvest autologous tendon grafts and reduce complications such as dysfunction, numbness, and infection. The company targets surgical and regenerative medicine markets in Japan and internationally, addressing high volumes of reconstructive procedures that currently rely on autografts.
Health Care
Regenerative Medicine
Medical Devices
Global Mobility Service provides fintech-enabled vehicle financing and mobility solutions to people who lack access to traditional loans, targeting the estimated two billion underserved consumers. The company develops alternative credit evaluation and underwriting tools to enable financial institutions and partners to offer loans and mobility services in Japan and ASEAN markets. It operates across Japan, the Philippines, Cambodia and Indonesia to expand access to vehicle ownership and related financial products for hardworking individuals.
Transportation & Logistics
Lending
FinTech
Human Life CORD is a clinical-stage Japanese biotechnology company that develops off-the-shelf umbilical cord-derived allogeneic cell therapies. Its pipeline includes genetically unmodified mesenchymal stromal cell products intended to treat a range of indications from incurable disorders to aging-related diseases. The company focuses on using domestically sourced umbilical cord tissue to scale manufacturing, ensure quality and availability, and advance the next evolution of cellular medicine for an aging population.
Biotechnology
Regenerative Medicine
Cell & Gene Therapy
HOMMA is an architecture and real estate development studio that integrates technology to design modern, functional living spaces. The company develops in-house smart-home software and systems under the Cornerstone AI brand and combines architectural design with property development to deliver turnkey homes and communities. HOMMA operates between Japan and Silicon Valley, serving residential markets that seek technology-enabled, design-forward living environments.
Smart Home Devices
Architecture
Property Development
HERALBONY is a Japanese social enterprise that collaborates with artists who have intellectual disabilities to commercialize and license their artwork. It maintains a collection of over 2,000 high-resolution art pieces and applies them to fashion items, interior goods and public art projects such as nationwide hoarding art museums while managing copyrights and licensing. HERALBONY serves retail and corporate customers as well as urban art initiatives and seeks to transform perceptions of disability by promoting an inclusive art lifestyle.
Media & Entertainment
Apparel & Fashion
Content Creation
Helical Fusion develops steady-state fusion reactors based on the Helical Stellarator and aims to realize the world's first commercial steady-state fusion reactor by 2034 to create a sustainable energy source. It designs entire fusion reactors and develops elemental technologies, leveraging R&D members with extensive experience at national laboratories and work on the Large Helical Device at Japan's National Institute for Fusion Science, and has been awarded a Japanese government grant of $13.5M for high-temperature superconductor development. Helical Fusion targets commercialization of fusion power for utilities and industrial customers seeking low-carbon baseload energy solutions.
Science & Engineering
Nuclear Engineering
Nuclear Energy
HarvestX develops robotic and automation solutions to enable fully automated cultivation of pollination-dependent fruits and vegetables in plant factories. The company pioneered the world's first robotic strawberry pollination system and supplies integrated hardware and software for automated pollination, environmental control, and cultivation management for commercial indoor farms and greenhouse operators. Founded at the University of Tokyo in 2018, HarvestX targets growers and plant factory operators in Japan and abroad to realize sustainable, high-quality fruit production by combining engineering and agricultural science.
Robotics
AgTech
Agricultural Robotics
Groove X develops companion robots for the consumer market and is best known for creating Lovot, an affectionate social robot designed to provide emotional interaction and companionship. The company designs integrated hardware and software combining sensors, actuators and behavioral AI to produce pet‑like behaviors and encourage human–robot bonding rather than task automation. Groove X targets households and family consumers in Japan and international markets, positioning its robots as lifestyle devices for emotional wellbeing.
Consumer Goods
Robotics
Service & Hospitality Robotics
Graffer is a Japanese govtech company that provides IT solutions and digital services for local governments. The company offers products that enable online applications, digital authentication, and improved citizen–government interactions across municipalities ranging from major cities to smaller villages. Graffer's mission, "Digital Government for the People," focuses on modernizing public sector workflows and enhancing the government-related experience for residents.
Government
Software
Digital Government
Global Vascular develops implantable vascular stents for peripheral artery disease (PAD), and its lead product, the BioStealth Stent, uses next-generation "stealth" technology to reduce foreign-body recognition and restenosis. The company's devices are engineered to tolerate repeated bending, twisting and deformation in lower-limb arteries and aim to provide durable revascularization for long-segment occlusions, including below-the-knee lesions. Global Vascular focuses on the global PAD market, addressing tens of millions of patients worldwide with the goal of improving limb salvage and long-term walking function in aging populations.
Health Care
Medical Devices
Gellycle develops proprietary hydrogel technology called TetraGel, a biocompatible soft material engineered for precise control over physical properties to enable applications in biological systems. Using a platform business model, the company is developing a pipeline of medical products including hemostatic agents, anti-adhesion materials and nerve-regeneration scaffolds, and has extended its hydrogel applications into industrial and agricultural markets. Gellycle positions itself as a pioneer in high-performance soft materials for medical engineering and biotechnology, aiming to replace hard materials with adaptable gels across clinical and commercial use cases.
Advanced Materials
Medical Devices
Biomaterials
CrowdWorks develops and operates Japan's largest crowdsourcing platform, CrowdWorks, and other online human-resources matching services that connect companies and individual workers. Its platform facilitates remote freelancing and task-based work and, as of the end of September 2021, had 4.7 million users and 760,000 clients and is used by more than 80 local governments and government-related organizations including the Cabinet Office and Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. CrowdWorks serves businesses, government agencies and independent professionals across Japan and has been listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market since 2014 (ticker 3900).
Professional Services
Software
Human Resources
QUANDO develops SynQ Remote, a remote collaboration platform that enables professionals in the field to provide real-time decision support and work instructions from remote locations. The product combines IoT and ICT capabilities to connect field workers beyond barriers of time, distance, and language and has been adopted by global companies originating from Japan. QUANDO's mission is to modernize Japan's local and legacy industries by transforming individual on-site knowledge into shared operational value.
Software
Internet of Things
Communication & Collaboration
Kyoto Fusioneering develops advanced technologies for commercial fusion reactors, with particular focus on gyrotron systems, tritium fuel cycle technologies, and breeding blankets. It designs and supplies engineering solutions and components to support tritium production, high-power microwave systems and reactor subsystems aimed at improving performance and commercial viability. The company works with both public and private fusion developers globally to accelerate the realization of fusion energy as a practical power source.
Science & Engineering
Nuclear Engineering
Nuclear Energy
Kyulux develops next-generation OLED emitter materials based on Hyperfluorescence and thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) technologies exclusively licensed from Kyushu University and Harvard University. Its Hyperfluorescence emitters are designed to deliver high color purity, high efficiency and extended lifetime while avoiding reliance on heavy rare metals, for use in displays and lighting. Kyulux commercializes material solutions and partners with display and lighting manufacturers to integrate its emitters into cost-effective, high-performance OLED products.
Science & Engineering
Advanced Materials
Displays & Panel Technology
iQPS develops high-quality synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites and related satellite technologies for frequent, all-weather Earth observation. The company plans a 36-satellite constellation to achieve revisit times of roughly ten minutes for targeted locations worldwide, enabling rapid monitoring and decision-making. By combining accumulated observation data with artificial intelligence, iQPS provides geospatial analytics and insights to optimize infrastructure, disaster response and other societal applications at global scale.
Geospatial Analytics
Satellite Manufacturing
Earth Observation
CureApp is a Tokyo-based digital therapeutics company that develops software-based prescription medical applications and related digital health platforms for clinical use. The company has created a pipeline of therapeutic smartphone apps and platforms targeting conditions including non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), hypertension, and nicotine dependence, and it advances those products through clinical trials. Founded in 2014, CureApp works with healthcare institutions and industry partners in Japan to generate clinical evidence and pursue regulatory approval and commercial deployment of its prescription digital therapies.
Health Care
Software
Digital Health
Commune operates a mobile-first, AI-powered community platform called Commune that helps brands and organizations build and manage customer communities. The company provides tools for community engagement, analytics, and customer-led growth to support marketing and customer success teams. Commune primarily serves businesses in Japan across consumer brands, media and service sectors seeking to deepen customer relationships.
Software
Sales & Marketing
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
GITAI develops robotic systems to perform physical tasks aboard spacecraft, space stations and on lunar and orbital infrastructure. The company designs and manufactures robotic manipulators, free-flying robots and autonomous hardware and software to reduce the cost and risk of human work in space. Its customers include space agencies, commercial satellite operators and companies building in-space and lunar infrastructure.
Military
Space & Aerospace
Robotics
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Kapok Japan is a Japanese fashion brand that manufactures apparel and accessories using kapok, a lightweight natural fiber harvested from the seed pods of the kapok tree native to Southeast Asia. After research and development with a major Japanese textile manufacturer the company succeeded in converting kapok into a usable sheet, enabling production of lightweight, moisture-absorbing and heat-generating garments. It targets the sustainable fashion market in Japan and seeks to reduce apparel industry waste by prioritizing close-to-source manufacturing and supply-chain transparency from producers to consumers.
Consumer Goods
Textiles
Apparel & Fashion
KAKEHASHI is a healthcare technology company focused on pharmacy operations in Japan. It develops Musubi, a SaaS platform that automates and standardizes medicine record writing, and provides affiliated products including customer relationship management, business intelligence for pharmacy management, and instock management with AI demand forecasting. Its products target community pharmacies across Japan to support digital transformation and improve operational efficiency.
Pharmaceuticals
Software
Digital Health
Cellusion develops regenerative medicine therapies using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells focused on treating corneal endothelial diseases. The company is developing a proprietary minimally invasive cell therapy composed of corneal endothelial cells derived from iPS cells to reduce reliance on donor corneas and highly skilled surgeons. Its product targets patients with corneal blindness worldwide by enabling broader access to transplantation-like treatment options.
Health Care
Cell & Gene Therapy
Regenerative Medicine
Caulis is a Japanese cybersecurity startup that provides cloud-based fraud detection for enterprise customers. Its flagship product, FraudAlert, analyzes all access to clients' web services and evaluates more than 200 parameters beyond ID and password to detect unusual or malicious login activity, delivering real-time notifications via API. It serves enterprise web and mobile services to help prevent credential stuffing, account takeover and automated attacks by identifying suspicious access and enabling rapid response.
Threat Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Fraud Detection
Optimind develops AI-powered route optimization software focused on improving last-mile transportation. Its flagship product, Loogia, is a multivehicle routing platform that uses optimization algorithms and machine learning to plan, dispatch and adapt efficient delivery routes. Loogia is used by delivery companies and customers in industries such as food wholesale, pharmaceutical wholesale, and visiting medical care to increase fleet efficiency and address driver shortages.
Delivery
Artificial Intelligence
Logistics
Ookuma Diamond Device develops diamond semiconductor devices and related manufacturing technology to commercialize diamond-based electronic components. It leverages unique expertise gained from work related to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident to produce radiation‑tolerant, high‑performance components for decommissioning, satellite communications, and next‑generation high‑speed networks. The company participates in Japan’s METI J‑Startup program and focuses on bringing diamond semiconductor solutions into real-world industrial and aerospace applications.
Science & Engineering
Hardware
Semiconductors
Orbital Lasers emerged as an independent venture spun out from SKY Perfect JSAT and collaborates with RIKEN to develop compact space-based laser systems. It develops and plans to operate laser-based systems for space debris removal and satellite-mounted LiDAR instruments to enable high-precision Earth surface measurements. The company positions its technology as highly powerful, compact, and cost-effective for orbital operations and targets commercial and government customers in space situational awareness, debris mitigation, and remote sensing markets.
Earth Observation
Lasers & Photonics
Space & Aerospace
Orange is a Japanese startup that uses proprietary generative AI to translate manga into multiple languages at scale. It operates its own distribution platform to release officially translated manga worldwide, aiming to reduce piracy and ensure creators are fairly compensated. The company participates in Japan's METI J-Startup program and targets international manga readers, publishers and rights holders as its primary market.
Translation Services
Publishing
LLM & Generative AI
FAZOM is a Japanese sales science company that applies data-driven and AI techniques to analyze sales meetings and call data to improve sales performance and talent development. Using its proprietary "Metrics Management" methodology, FAZOM visualizes winning sales patterns and identifies improvement themes, and offers the FAZOM sales improvement program and the Co:TEAM performance management tool that links one-on-one meetings, HR evaluations and goal tracking. Its products target B2B sales organizations seeking faster ramp-up of junior salespeople, higher-quality sales reviews and measurable improvements in sales effectiveness.
Software
Artificial Intelligence
Sales Enablement
EneCoat Technologies is a spin-out from Kyoto University's laboratory that develops perovskite solar cell technologies. The company develops coating-based manufacturing processes to produce low-cost, next-generation perovskite solar cells for scalable, large-area applications. EneCoat aims to realize a "Battery anywhere" society by commercializing perovskite photovoltaics as a major power source to address long-term global energy challenges.
Science & Engineering
Advanced Materials
Solar Energy
Emulsion Flow Technologies develops and commercializes a solvent-extraction process called "Emulsion Flow" to recover rare metals from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries. Spun out from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency in April 2021, the company focuses on high-purity, cost-efficient recovery that enables horizontal recycling so recovered metals can be directly reused in battery manufacturing. It targets the clean-energy supply chain by securing stable supplies of critical rare metals essential for the transition to a carbon-neutral society.
Chemical Manufacturing
Waste Management
Rare Earth Metals
Eco-Pork uses data technologies including ICT, IoT and AI to optimize pork production and reduce the environmental impact of livestock farming in Japan. The company provides a data-driven farm management platform and services that help pig farmers increase productivity and sustainability, and farmers using its technology have achieved an average annual production increase of 7% since 2018. As of July 2023, Eco-Pork's platform is used to produce approximately 10% of pork in Japan and the company aims to co-create a sustainable pork ecosystem and pass meat culture on to the next generation.
Data & Analytics
AgTech
Livestock
Empath develops emotion-recognition AI that detects emotions from voice in real time across languages. Its cloud services and SDKs are used by over 1,500 customers in more than 50 countries across sectors including call centers, robotics and mobility. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, the company has been featured in Japan’s METI J-Startup program and has won international startup awards such as Pitch Your Startup 2018 and Viva Technology Best Startup Award 2018.
Natural Language Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Speech & Audio AI
