6/28: SF New Tech Japan Night! A Catalyst for Revival
See the talent of Japan's emerging startups help the Japanese economy by going global
Nulab Inc.
Masanori Hashimoto, CEO
Cacoo is a drawing tool that enables the creation, sharing, and publication of drawings. It provides an interface in 17 different languages. It is used by 130,000 people as of May 2011 with 2/3 of the user base from 120 different countries. http://cacoo.com/@cacooapp
Kyac Inc.
Daisuke Yanasawa, CEO
Renengo is a numberless calling smartphone application where you can talk to friends for free with a Facebook account. Future plans are to release an Android version, which will provide free calls between iPhones and Androids. http://reengo.me/en/@Reengo_me
MoSo, inc.
Shinji Murakoshi, CEO
Moso is a new application that makes editing and sharing videos, easy and fun. It’s free to download at MacAppStore. http://www.mosoapp.com
L is B Corp
Taisuke Yokoi, CEO
Feel on analyzes your Twitter timeline with its unique Social Emotion Engine(SEE) and shows each tweet with a emotionally matched comic character and color. http://www.feel-on.com @cimmonkun_ja
EC studio
Toshiyuki Yamamoto, CEO
ChatWork is a cloud-based business chat tool that addresses the communication problem caused by traditional email and chat services. ChatWork replaces inefficient email and chat services with built-in group task management and group file sharing. Since ChatWork lives in the cloud, your data remains perfectly in sync whether you login from a desktop PC, a laptop, or your smartphone.
http://www.chat-work.com/en@ec_studio
CVC for NTT, Japanese Telco. Investing in IT or regarding areas, not just for growth, but also for expected synergy with NTT businesses. http://www.nttip.co.jp/english/index.html
JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization) is a semi-governmental organization, whose aim is to promote mutual flow of trade and investment between Japan and foreign countries. As a part of JETRO’s activities, JETRO has been running an incubation facility for Japanese venture companies, namely, U.S.-Japan Business Innovation Center (BIC), in San Jose since 2001. So far, JETRO has supported more than 70 Japanese venture companies.http://www.jetro.go.jp/Fukuoka Center for Overseas Commerce in America
Growing business between Fukuoka and North America. http://www.myfukuoka.com/
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