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WARAKU Pitching〜for start-ups to domestic VCs〜
The List of Participant Companies
Myojowaraku 2018 Summer will have three different pitching event.
Start-ups in Fukuoka are pitching to VCs in Japan.
Company①「chaintope Inc.」
chaintope Inc. is a blockchain technology company, expanding from Iizuka to the world. Day and night, we research demonstaration experiment related to blockchain in various field, core technology, called layer 2, and basic technology, specialized in blockchain technology.
Company②「MUSCA.Inc」
Insect-Tech is a start-up, changing organic waste such as livestock excreta and garbage to high-value added feed and fertilizer for just a week, by larva of Musca domestica, breeded after 11 hundred generations for 45 years.
Company③「HA-PPY Co., Ltd」*“HA” means teeth in Japanese
We bring more value to brushing teeth with realization. Plaque is visualized while brushing teeth without the use of any special chemicals. Bringing value of realization brushing teeth, we can see the future system.
Company④「TrueBizon,ltd.」
sora:share is a new business, a website of air rights trading for flying drones. With this service, space for flying drones can be secured, and land owners can monetize their “sky”, underutilized assets.
Company⑤「BLUE STYLE .inc」
We offer “Lynks”, the service of exhanging used baby clothes and other baby clothes they want. The clothesthat don’t fit anymore can be exchanged with other ones, up to 20 clothes at once. It isa B2C sharing economy.
Company⑥「Pear inc.」
Pear inc. is a young start-up, worker’s avarage age is 25. One year has just passed since its establishment, however, its member exceeded 20 people. Pear develops Robo-advisor, called “OMNI-CORE”, specialized in EC, making the best use of statistics and AI. OMNI-CORE anylises the amount of access, users, and targets, and gives you feedbacks, using web scraping. It is a consulting service for EC site for next genertaion.
Judges
・NOW: Ieiri
・ABBALab: Ogasawara
・DOGAN beta: Hayashi
・NISSAY CAPITAL: Minamoto
・F Venture: Morozumi
Kazuma Ieiri
NOW, Inc. CEO & Co-founder, CAMPFIRE CEO & co-founder
Kazuma Ieiri established paperboy&co. (current: GMO PEPABO Inc.), and was listed on JASDAQ, at the same time, he was the youngest ever on it. He founded other companies such as CAMPFIRE Inc. and BASE, Inc., and launched NOW, Inc. As an angel investor, he invested more than 50 start-ups, such as BASE, Inc. and dely, Inc.
https://now.vc/
Kenji Minamoto
Investment sector of NISSAY CAPITAL Co., Ltd.
Kenji Minamoto works in the area of business finance, management strategy, and investment management. He has seen the management strategy/ equity finance of venture to global companies inside and outside of them. Currently, he has been investing IT and high-tech companies.
http://www.nissay-cap.co.jp/
Osamu Ogasawara
CEO of ABBALab Inc./ Fellow of SAKURA internet Inc./ Professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design
Osamu Ogasawara is CEO of ABBALab Inc., fellow of SAKURA internet Inc., and professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design. He co-founded SAKURA internet Inc. and became director of Web-based company. In 2011, founded NOMAD Inc. and started supporting start-ups. In 2013, ABBALab launched investment business, specializing in prototyping of IoT start-up. Meanwhile, he became fellow of mercari R4D, aiming to deployment of R&D, and he is currently doing METI IoT implusion lab examination committee, investigative commission regarding to data portability, and director of Fukuoka city start-up supporters.
http://abbalab.com/
Ryuhei Hayashi
CEO of DOGAN, Inc./ Director of OnRAMP general incorporated association/ Regional Revitalization Committee of Japan Venture Capital Association
Ryuhei Hayashi is CEO of DOGAN, Inc., director of OnRAMP general incorporated association, and regional revitalization committee of Japan Venture Capital association. He joined The Sumitomo Bank Ltd. In 1999, Citibank, N.A. in 2001, and DOGAN Inc. in 2005 respectively. He mostly work for support of ventures, and has implemented venture fund, the amount of 31 billion yen, and invested about 30 destinations. In 2012, he opened a co-working space, for entrpreneurship support, in Fukuoka city, and working on building community for those people. In 2014, he participated in the project of “start-up cafe”, working with Fukuoka municipal office and Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd.
http://www.dogan.jp/
Shota Morozumi
Manager of F Ventures /Organizer of TORYUMON
Shota Morozumi is founder of F Ventures, which is venture capital based in Fukuoka. In 2012, he graduated from Waseda University. While he was a student, he launched interview media specialized in IT entrepreneur, and afterwards, he joined Samurai Incubate Inc. and appointed to manager of the largest co-working space in Japan, “SSI”. In 2015, he succeeded in allying with major enterprise, making million-dollar revenue. After establishing F Ventures, it invested more than 20 companies, and hosts start-up events called “TORYUMON” every half year in five major cities in Japan, and the event is growing large scale.
https://f-ventures.vc/
