The Tokyo Consortium is working to promote the formation of a startup ecosystem and encourage the creation and growth of startups through collaboration between industry, academia, and government.The Tokyo Consortium aims to select and intensively support startups that are expected to grow rapidly in the future through a "deep ecosystem." This will strongly support your growth to unicorn level.
We would like to inform you that we have selected companies (startups) to support in the deep ecosystem in FY2020.
1. Overview of deep ecosystem
Deep Ecosystem is a unique initiative of the Tokyo Consortium that selects and intensively supports startups that are expected to grow rapidly in the future, with an eye toward overseas expansion, and supports their growth to unicorn status.
The companies selected by the screening committee will be supported by a diverse group of members, including domestic and international venture capital and institutional investors, and senior startups, taking advantage of the Tokyo Consortium's accumulation and network, with an eye toward expansion not only domestically but also overseas. We will carry out the following.
2. Overview of supported companies
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[Development and sales of nursing care equipment and industrial special equipment]
・With the mission of "realizing an independent life as long as one is alive," we developed and sold the "Muscle Suit" series of wearable work support robots that assist movement with the action of artificial muscles operated by air pressure.
・ Contribute to solving social problems such as a shortage of frontline workers and an increased burden of nursing care in an aging society with a declining birthrate
https://innophys.jp/
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[Development and sales of nursing care equipment and industrial special equipment]
・ A cooking robot that combines hardware and software creates a database of the tastes and tasks of skilled chefs and reproduces cooking.
・ Coordinating orders from tablets, etc. with cooking robots and automating a series of cooking processes
・ Work associated with cooking, such as food plating and sorting dishes in the cleaning room, will be performed autonomously by machine-learning business robots, resolving the labor shortage.
3. Examination committee structure
Names will be written in alphabetical order with titles omitted.
Judge
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Archibald Ciganer
T. Rowe Price Japan K.K. Director, Head of Joint Investment Division, Head of Japan Equity Investment Department, Portfolio Manager
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Shohei Onishi
Miura Law Office Partner Lawyer
