Top 40 Crowdfunding Startup Investors in Japan in May 2026

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• Morus — Morus is a university-based biotech startup developing functional food ingredients from silkworms to address global health and nutrition challenges.
• FunPep — FunPep is an Industry-university collaboration bioventure company.
• AI Silk — AI Silk are innovative conductive fibers produced with a dyeing technique. By using natural silk and giving conductivity to the fiber itself, They have succeeded in producing electrodes that reduce some of the risks and challenges of conventional medical electrodes, which can cause discomfort,skin and in vivo inflammation, and measurement failuredue to sweat or other elements. Their brand, AI Silk, is a new material that has strong and diverse application potential, even beyond the health / medical field.

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• AirKamuy — AirKamuy is an aviation company that designs and manufactures fixed-wing VTOL aircraft and drones with the help of modern technology.
• Haul — Haul is a human resources company that provides recruitment consulting and marketing SaaS development services.
• Sorabito — SORABITO is an eCommerce marketplace for used construction equipment and machinery.

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• ARCH — ARCH provides research, development, operation, and support systems for gynecology and fertility treatment solutions
• COMICSMART — Comic Smart is animation production business that develops exclusive manga and anime content.
• Clean Energy Connect — Clean Energy Connect is into offering green energy solutions. It invests in its own generation capacity for a stable electricity supply by not harming nature.

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• iCARE — iCARE It is the No. 1 health and labor cloud introduced in Japan, which is selected by small and medium-sized enterprises suffering from lack of manpower and large enterprises expanding their business globally .
• Zen Intelligence — SoftRoid provides a software robot that patrols and collects data for analyzing the construction site.
• Catallaxy — Catallaxy is operates Japan's easiest-to-understand manufacturing industry media and sheet metal processing media.

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• ULUU — ULUU is an ocean material that replaces plastic and actively benefits the world.
• Aquaria — Aquaria provides solutions to secure access to clean water. The organization adapts its approaches based on the needs of these communities. It addresses water-related challenges through various methods.
• Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.

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• Eko — Turning workplaces into places where all employees can thrive.
• Reject — Reject is an esports firm that focuses on management of its team REJECT, players, apparel business, and event management services.
• ReDelta — Redelta provides a technology‑enabled platform and advisory services for cross‑border mergers and acquisitions between Japan and Southeast Asia. The service operates an In‑Out marketplace that connects corporate buyers, business owners, and investors pursuing expansion or divestiture. Engagements include deal sourcing, preliminary screening,valuation viewpoints, and coordination with local professionals throughout the transaction process. Sector and country reports, market briefs, and knowledge articles support planning and investment theses. The platform centralizes mandates and opportunities and facilitates communication between counterparties to accelerate initial discussions. Consulting support also addresses partner introductions and market entry considerations linked to post‑transaction growth.

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• CoreWeave — CoreWeave provides flexible compute services and products to empower innovators. The company provides GPU accelerated compute solutions to the CGI and machine learning industries. Backed by quality hardware and systems management infrastructure, CoreWeave is built to help clients scale and adapt to evolving compute requirements at industry leadingeconomics.
• Zap Energy — Zap Energy's fusion reactor stabilizes plasma using sheared flows rather than magnetic fields. Driving electric current through the flow creates the magnetic field, which confines and compresses the plasma. The higher the current, the greater the pressure and density in the plasma. Zap Energy's reactor is the least expensive, mostcompact, most scalable solution with the shortest path to commercially viable fusion.
• MARELLI — Be part of innovation of automotive industry co-creating technological solution with an experienced partner as Marelli enpowering automakers.

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• Fivot — Fivot is a financial company that provides venture capital, financing, credit, money lending, and prepaid payment services.
• MODE — With offices in both San Mateo, California, and Tokyo, Japan. The company is rapidly growing with now over fifty employees and is in business to provide end-to-end semi-custom IoT and AI solutions for organizations to improve their operations by connecting them to their data, giving them “real-time” insights, so they can turn innovative ideas intosustainable solutions that address a wide range of challenges.Simple, yet powerful, our latest "next generation" BizStack IoT and BizStack AI solutions are comprised of a continuous improvement technology stack that collects real-time data from any sensor, device, product, equipment, or legacy system. The data is then sanitized, uniquely structured, and provided to highly customizable, intuitive dashboards with powerful insights, along with proper security in the cloud for ongoing IoT and AI applications.BizStack can be deployed 4X faster and 75% less expensively than in-house developers or outside consultants.
• OPTEMO — OPTEMO develops and supplies sales technology that allows businesses and customers to connect through a website.

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• iYell — iYell Mortgage Platform consists of three pillars, Media that can be used for marketing, Technology to make the procedure more efficient.
• T2 — T2 Co offers services like automatic driving of huge trucks to provide a trunk transportation service.
• BeBit — BeBit is a consulting firm that provides customer experience management and user-centered design support services.

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• ROXX — ROXX is a planning, development, operation and sales of agent bank and back check.
• GenSight Biologics — GenSight Biologics develops gene therapy-based treatments for retinal degenerative diseases. GenSight Biologics is a privately owned biopharmaceutical company, dedicated to the development and commercialization of gene therapy-based treatments of retinal degenerative diseases.Based on recent results obtained by the teams of its scientificfounders, the company develops innovative approaches to prevent retinal degeneration in selected pathological conditions and to restore vision in patients suffering from very low vision or blindness.
• Lomond Therapeutics — Targeting escape mutations in hematological cancers with first and best in class medicines.

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• YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
• Henry — Henry develops and provides a cloud-based electronic medical record and receipt system for small and medium-sized hospitals.
• Logomix — Logomix Inc is a mammalian cellular genome architect startup. Logomix proprietary platform, Geno-Writing™, technology integrates large-scale (Mb) human genome-writing technologies and providing genetically architected versatile human cells and/or downsized cells and microbes for drug development and cell & gene therapy area.Majority ofthe cell engineering companies are currently focused on optimization of gene clusters by automatic high throughput system however, Logomix’s Geno-Writing™ provides the required tools for dealing with mammalian or complex genomes. Logomix works with partners by providing new biology-based solutions to co-create business and social values on Geno-Writing™ platform Current Focus Area includes: 1. Human Health & Therapeutics 2. Biomaterials & Chemicals 3. Agriculture & EnvironmentLogomix has 11 ongoing collaborative research partnerships. Currently Logomix is specifically looking for industry partners to address unmet needs in neurodegenerative disease areas.

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• FiT — FiT encourages the use of information technology in fitness to address industrial concerns. We will build a highly sustainable fitness facility using a business model that allows consumers to easily use the gym without being burdened by price or procedures, while also allowing owners to build a very successful business with low running costs.
• Aoyama Arts — Aoyama Arts is an architecture and consulting company that develops design offices and supports land search and financing plans.
• Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.

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• KKday — KKday is an e-commerce travel platform that offers 10,000+ experiences around the world. It provides a wide breadth of experiences, including theme park tickets, cooking classes, multi-day tours, airport transfers, sim cards, and hidden sights off the beaten path. KKday was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in T'ai-pei, Taiwan.
• Ball Wave — Ballwave uses the ball SAW sensor based on a new principle as the core of the differentiating factor, and becomes the human eye and the nervous system, and invites it to the horizon of technology.
• EMobi — EMoBi is a transportation company that provides freight transport, and electric vehicle services with reservation facilities.

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• FSX — FSX is a rental hand towel company
• NOW ROOM — NOW ROOM is real estate tech company.
• Living Tech — Living Tech provides unmanned solutions for the accommodation business.

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• Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
• WorkIndia — With WorkIndia.in a Job seeker can search the best jobs throughout India and schedule the Interview at their convenience. And an employer can post the vacancy and get calls directly from the prospective candidate.
• Piece to Peace — Piece to Peace is Operating a platform where individuals who want to learn and experience in all fields

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• GooPass — GooPass is a subscription-based camera equipment rental platform that offers users cameras, interchangeable lenses, and drones. It also allows users to buy or rent photography equipment by reserving it online.
• NABLA Mobility — Solving the complexities involved in the "Operation of Fleets" of Mobility and support its evolution and decarbonization
• Reborna Biosciences — Reborna Biosciences provides research and development in the field of genetic diseases. The company develops therapeutic options for area of unmet medical needs in genetic rare disease. The company's technology enables low-molecular compounds to target ribonucleic acid. The company provides new disease-modifying drugs for patients sufferingfrom rare genetic diseases including spinal muscular atrophy.

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• Axiata — As one of Asia's leading telecommunications groups, Axiata has grown into a Triple Core Business centred on digital telco, businesses and infrastructure.
• BitFlyer — BitFlyer is a bitcoin exchange and marketplace that enables its customers to buy, sell, and spend bitcoins.
• Kyash — Kyash is a fintech platform providing mobile banking services with full-stack banking technology currently offering digital wallet app. It has built proprietary full-stack banking infrastructure from the ground up to offer mobile-first consumer-facing digital wallets in Japan.The platform offers online payment and personal remittance apps underthe Kyash service name, and issues prepaid cards that can be used at Visa merchants. It also provides a new card that is available in three colors, navy, silver, and pink and adopts a simple design with card numbers and card names placed on the back. The first Visa card in Japan with an IC chip and contactless payment function that has no card number on the front side.Kyash was founded on January 23, 2015, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

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• Sazo — Sazo specializes in constructing a global e-commerce and logistics network with AI.
• Commune — Commune is a developer of a platform that supports connections, community building, and customers between organizations and people.
• IRIS Data Lab — IRIS Data Lab offers online marketing solutions, in-house product development, database management, sales support, and consulting services.

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• iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
• Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
• Neighbor — Neighbor is a metaverse game developer that specializes in Fortnite.

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• Superworm — Superworm is a producer of environmentally friendly and long-term solutions to societal challenges. The company undertakes genome editing research and sells protein powders, biofuels, and organic fertilizers made from superworms, allowing customers to consume insect-derived proteins and biofuels.
• Japan Agriculture — Exportation of Japanese agricultural products is currently small in volume. While Japanese farmers aspire to export their products to foreign countries for more people to enjoy and local consumers universally share the positive perception of the quality of Japanese agricultural products, issues such as price, communication, and logistics hinder theexpansion of exportation.They aim to solve these issues and satisfy the needs of both Japanese farmers and global consumers which are so clearly evident but devastatingly unmet.
• Bluefield Energy — Bluefield Energy redefines Japan's electricity sector through technology-driven renewable energy solutions. Its mission centers on liberating people and society from energy constraints by tackling high costs, environmental impact, and supply instability.

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• Compass — Compass offering services in the tourism and inbound sector, including accommodation support, optional tour planning and management, kimono rentals, and tourism consulting services
• 12 Pharmacy — 12 Pharmacy is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in manufacturing and providing medicines and services for veterinary hospitals.
• FUNDiT — FUNDiT is an IT-focused M&A and business consolidation company that specializes in acquiring, managing, and scaling IT companies.

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• Robot Fund — Robot Fund is a provider of RPA (Robotic Process Automation) solutions for asset management businesses.
• Crowd Realty — Crowd Realty (Cloud Realty) is an investment-type crowdfunding marketplace specializing in real estate. With the age-changing city as the era, businesses and investors will be able to realize their ideas, offering an unprecedented investment place.
• Xenodata lab — xenodata lab., In the mission "Technology proposal suggests naturally after five years", in order to make the shape of the future financial industry with novel technology, ideas February 2016 It was founded in. xenodata is a coined word that spells the idea of ​​creating heterogeneous creatures according to data, and by means of thee intelligence created by the data, the meaning to pursue the substitution of human actions to the utmost is put in the meaning.

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• ROXX — ROXX is a planning, development, operation and sales of agent bank and back check.

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• IVRy — Ivry offers cloud based telephonic answering service.
• YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
• Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.

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• Fivot — Fivot is a financial company that provides venture capital, financing, credit, money lending, and prepaid payment services.
• Leading Mark — Leading Mark, a rising human resources startup in Japan. Leading Mark is branching out into mid-career and international hiring. It currently has a one-man team in China working to bring the top Japanese-speaking Chinese students to domestic companies. He also touts his startup’s focus on the average job seeker. “We want to make sure that the usersget the info that he or she needs the most,” he says. Large scale, legacy players can sometimes prioritize the needs of the hiring company, and their commission, over the needs of applicants themselves. This leads to frustration and short-circuited careers.
• Tokyo Artisan Intelligence — Tokyo Artisan Intelligence develops od purely domestic AI high-speed code generation tools as part of deep learning and hardware research. Their objectives are to contribute to the development of new computational technology and its application in society, particularly by providing experts through the training of doctoral students.

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• Anaguma — Anaguma handles business development based on the philosophy of helping people with a sustainable structure. The company's business objective is to eliminate concerns about purchases and reservations, and it delivers before-sales social networks. It also provides matching services exclusively for housekeepers' personal contracts. Thecompany also offers influencer marketing services with a focus on removing waste completely from advertising and realizing a world in which good products can be sold regardless of advertising costs.Anaguma was founded in January 2016 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
• Riham — Gabung di HALO189 sekarang dan nikmati slot online paling gacor 2026 dengan rekomendasi terpercaya, fitur lengkap, dan akses mudah setiap hari.
• Cardio Intelligence — Cardio Intelligence develops an AI automated diagnostic system.

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• Taxnap — Taxnap develops tax management software for freelancers.
• Sumutasu — sumutasu is an online real estate marketplace that enables users to quickly buy and sell their properties.
• UnlimiTech — UnlimiTech provides an industrial workflow tool that simplifies and automates complicated spreadsheets processes that get stuck among systems.

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• Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
• Monochrome — Monochrome is creating a home operating system in order to power the next generation of energy-producing homes and roofs. The company is based in Chuo Ward, Tokyo.
• Bluefield Energy — Bluefield Energy redefines Japan's electricity sector through technology-driven renewable energy solutions. Its mission centers on liberating people and society from energy constraints by tackling high costs, environmental impact, and supply instability.

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• bythen — bythen enables the production of autonomous 3D avatar bots powered by AI.
• Pick You — Pick You offers a marketplace that facilitates seamless purchase of items directly from popular Instagram users.
• CareLink — CareLink is an app that connects people looking for one-time part-time work in nursing and welfare.

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• CREO Bioscience — Cleo Bioscience is a Biotechnology company.
• Global Trust Networks — Global Trust Networks is a company that helps foreigners to live in Japan
• Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.

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• Tryeting — TRYETING provides an AI platform that integrates various types of software. One of the strengths of the company is materials informatics, a field that applies the techniques of informatics, such as AI and big data, to materials. This approach can significantly speed the development of new materials.
• HelloWorld — EdTech, International Exchange between Schools
• Japan Culture and Technology — Japan Culture and Technology assists artists and craftspeople in expanding their activities by providing IT support.

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• Oyster — Hire, pay, manage, and take care of your globally distributed team with confidence. Try Oyster for free today!
• You.com — you.com is a search engine that helps users find what they're looking for by prioritizing real results. It aims to take on Google and other search engines dependent on advertising. It offers privacy controls to let users customize their browsing experience. It raises the bar on privacy, offering a zero trace incognito mode. It never tracksusers on the internet.You.com was developed by former Salesforce chief scientist Richard Socher.
• Convergence Labs — At Convergence Labs, we are pioneering the future of AI with Large Meta Learning Models (LMLMs)—a new class of intelligent agents that continuously learn, adapt, and improve through real-time feedback.Founded in April 2024 and led by CEO David Lott, our mission is to unlock a future of abundance by enabling seamless human-AI collaboration. Unliketraditional AI models, our agents evolve beyond static training to acquire new skills on the fly—working alongside humans as dynamic collaborators, not just tools.Our team of world-class machine learning experts and engineers—from companies like Google DeepMind, Meta, Shopify, Uber, and Cohere—is redefining what’s possible with AI.We’re not just building smarter models—we’re building agents that learn like us, work with us, and grow with us.

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• Crowd Realty — Crowd Realty (Cloud Realty) is an investment-type crowdfunding marketplace specializing in real estate. With the age-changing city as the era, businesses and investors will be able to realize their ideas, offering an unprecedented investment place.

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• Fivot — Fivot is a financial company that provides venture capital, financing, credit, money lending, and prepaid payment services.
• Zen Intelligence — SoftRoid provides a software robot that patrols and collects data for analyzing the construction site.
• Mechano Cross — Mechano Cross is a mechanical company that offers mechanochemical organic synthesis technology for solution reactions.

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• Crowd Credit — Crowdcredit is cross-border marketplace lending platform operator.We provide risk capital to individuals and SMEs in financial deficit countries while we offer attractive lending opportunities to investors in financial surplus countries.Currently, we are providing Japanese personal and SMEs investors with opportunities to lend toindividuals and SMEs in Peru, Cameroon, Estonia, Finland, Spain and in Italy.In 2016, Crowdcredit is aiming to start raising funds and also to start lending in Asian region outside of Japan.

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• neuet — neuet develops and operates a smartphone application that offers bike-sharing services.
• HMS — HMS develops AI smart camera that integrates image input and processing.
• Sorano Me — Sorano Me is a content creation and media company that provides space related content, space data and consulting services.

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• Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
• IndiaMART InterMESH — IndiaMART InterMESH is an online B2B marketplace, connecting buyers with suppliers across various industries.
• Reliance Industries — Reliance Industries Limited is committed to innovation-led, exponential growth in the areas of hydrocarbon exploration and production, petroleum refining and marketing, petrochemicals, retail and telecommunications.

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• TAQA — TAQA is a utilities and energy company that engages in power, water, and oil and gas operations. It is an international company listed in Abu Dhabi and operates in 11 countries across four continents.The company's interests lie in conventional and alternative power generation, water desalination, oil and gas exploration and production,pipelines, and gas storage. TAQA was founded in 2005 and operates in Canada, Ghana, India, Iraq, Morocco, the Netherlands, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
• PeaceTecLab — PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business.
• Mirfa International Power & Water Company — Mirfa International Power & Water Company is a renewable energy startup that delivers power and water solutions. A combined-cycle gas turbine power plant, a modular reverse osmosis plant, and three multi-stage flash desalination units comprise the company's power and water plant. It has a gross installed power capacity of 1.7 gigatonnes(GW) and a gross water desalination capacity of 53 million imperial gallons per day (MIGD). It aims to deliver a futuristic power generating plant with a net power capacity of 1600 megawatts to address the country's power issues.

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• Kaimak — Kaymak is a recruitment platform that focuses on creating a recruitment website, planning a recruitment strategy, and managing candidates.
• Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
• Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.

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• iBody — iBody is a venture from Nagoya University Graduate School of Life and Agriculture.We will contribute to the improvement of treatment and diagnostic technology and the development of life science by using monoclonal antibody excavation technology from a small amount of blood, and contribute to the improvement of human health and quality of life.
• FiberCraze — FiberCraze is a manufacturing company that specializes in the development and sales of thread materials.
• Photo Electron Soul — Photo electron Soul mission is to innovate the world of "seeing (fine observation)" and "creating (fine processing)" through the development of photocathode electron beam technology.　The photocathode electron beam technology developed by our company will produce next generation electron beams with high performance andversatility (pulse structure, low dispersion, large current). By renewing the electron beam, which is a key device for industrial equipment such as electron microscopes, semiconductor device manufacturing / inspection equipment, and metal 3D printers, it is possible to realize fine observation, fine processing, high throughput, etc. Breakthroughs in a wide range of fields such as science, materials, and electronics.