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December 15, 2017 |
The date of the Challenge Cup Global Finals was changed again to March 20-23, 2018.
Also the global finalists in the final pitch was reduced from from 75 global representatives to the selected 20.
One of them is determined as the most votes in a fan voting on a short company profile and
a link to the 2 minute pitch video of the 75 startups during January 13th-20th.
The other top 19 are determined by Virtual Semifinals judges in two mentor office hours during January 8th-20th.
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December 5, 2017 |
We have increased the capital. |
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September 27, 2017 |
We won the 3rd Keihanna Venture Championship (KVeCS) which was held at Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute
International (ATR) in Keihanna Research Complex. The KVeCS is a pitch
contest in a tournament to support international activities of ventures.
The grand champion and semi-grand champion selected from 6 winners of KVeCS
at the grand finale to be held on January 19, 2018 will have a special
program of accerelation by Enterpreneur Roudtable Accerelator (ERA) and
pitch to USA investors in New York.
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July 27, 2017 |
Challenge Cup Osaka in the regional elimination round was held at the Osaka Innovation Hub
on the 26th and 27th of July. https://www.challengecup-japan.com/ The Challenge Cup is a pitch contest organized by UNION in that tournament from 75 cities in the world to find
venture companies with a future prospects. https://www.1776.vc/ We have participated in the contest with 15 competitors including an Indonesian
who have passed a document screening. As a result, our company was awarded
the Grand Prix in the West Japan round and will be invited as one of two delegates of
Japan to participate in the world contest to be held in New York on November. (PS) The world contest was changed to be held in Washington, DC. on January
22-26, 2018.
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The audience listening to a presentation |
Awarded the Grand Prix and a ticket to NY |
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All of the competitors and organizing staffs |
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March 17, 2017 |
Presentation ceremony on research and development grant was conducted at
a grand hall of the head office of Kansai Urban Banking Corporation. Our company received the grant as one of 10 companies selectef out of 41 applicants by the president of the banking. http://www.kansaiurban.co.jp/detail_pdf/20170310_2.pdf
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March 13, 2017 |
The IoT Acceleration Lab and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
support creation of advanced model businesses and improvement of business
environment through regulatory reform, etc. The 3rd IoT lab Selection (IoT Project Selection Meeting) was conducted in Tokyo and selected 8
finalists including our company out of more than 100 applicants. The IoT Lab Selection
is a short-term individual project support scheme, scouting and selecting
advanced IoT projects, to which providing 1) financing (the govt., banking
institutions and VCs), 2) mentoring and 3) deregulation and standardization.
http://iotlab.jp/en/index
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March 12, 2017 |
The 6th Hyper-Interdisciplinary Conference in Osaka was held at the Ibaraki Campus of Ritsumeikan University. The president
of our company talked about his experiences on a new career after retirement
from an university at a panel discussion on how to live and work at the next stage when researchers live until
100 years old.
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January 27, 2017 |
The TBS Television's program "Wazabito, Bridge of Dreams" interviewed us and the the progress of the technical development of our self-propelling capsule endoscopy.
The program will be broadcasted on TV during 21:54 to 21:58 on February 26 in the Kanto area. http://www.tbs.co.jp/wazabito/ |
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