Friday, March 22, 2019

Japanese start-ups exhibit innovative technologies at SXSW 2019

KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 (Bernama) -- Ten Japanese start-ups have demonstrated their innovative technologies to solve societal challenges and make life easier at SXSW 2019.

The start-ups are ArchiTek, Empath Inc., LOAD&ROAD, AI SILK, DFree, Life is Tech, Spiber, ALE Co., Ltd., Unipos and Yume Cloud Inc.


They demonstrated their products and services during the Japan Innovation Hour on March 12 in the International Innovation Platform.

The demonstrations drew high attendance and audience was able to view solutions that included applications spanning artificial intelligence, wearable technologies, smart home solutions and others.

These companies are part of the government’s J-Startup programme to incubate globally-competitive start-ups, the face of the new business environment in Japan as a global innovation hub.

The programme produces start-ups that use human imagination to bring greater joy, better environmental stewardship and groundbreaking innovation to industry and everyday life.

The exhibition is a part of the J-Startup Program, a pioneering government initiative launched in June 2018, designed to create optimal environmental conditions to foster 20 unicorns by 2023.

The Japanese Government has focused on strengthening innovation ecosystems to incorporate external dynamism beyond its borders and developed a more effective regulatory environment through the business-friendly Abenomics policy initiative.

More details at https://www.j-startup.go.jp/en/

-- BERNAMA

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