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235 funded startups based in Japan, newest round first. Each profile explains the product, customers, buyer, workflow and economics, with a breakdown by market.
ACIMUS's ChatBIM lets users generate building 3D models through conversation with AI, place furniture and equipment, ask building-law questions, render images and export to BIM…
WASIMIL is an all-in-one cloud hotel system for Japanese lodging: PMS, booking engine, guest portal, CRM marketing, revenue reporting and an AI guest platform.
Repla, recycled plastic pellets made from composite plastics that were previously incinerated or landfilled; also licenses the Repla process to partner companies.
Plans, produces and operates drone shows with original story-driven animation, which can be combined with live music, dance, fireworks or projection mapping.
Develops the healthcare app Glucose Flight.
Intelligent robotics software including MujinOS, offering no-code deployment of palletizing, picking and fleet automation for factories and warehouses.
JOSEN device turns vegetable waste to powder
Cancer radiation therapy drug, Kyoto University spin-off
CPU developer (pre-product).
AI evaluation platform.
Nola is an editor tool dedicated to writers (creation platform for novel writing).
Brings bank-grade privacy to public blockchains / regulated on-chain money (per headlines).
Helical Fusion is developing a helical-type fusion power plant for commercial electricity generation.
AI agent for contact-center operations.
Every WiLL installs unmanned parcel pickup points in small unused spaces in commercial facilities, stations and public buildings.
Nola is a writing platform that helps writers plan and draft stories and matches their works with companies seeking original IP.
unito is an AI-driven ERP for mid-sized companies that unifies HR, payroll, attendance, sales, expenses and approvals, and uses AI to read company rules documents and generate…
Kodomo Furusato Bin is a donation platform where donors pick return gifts while their money buys regional products for children's cafeterias and single-parent households.
WithDrive puts digital signage on vehicle roofs and uses location and foot-traffic data to measure ad effectiveness; the company also develops infrared leak detection for water…
Farmnote provides IoT and AI tools for dairy and livestock farms, including herd management software, wearable cattle sensors and genomic testing.
Signature-data startup.
MOT manages manga artists' schedules, business inquiries and social media, and runs the online manga school Kakikomi.
Deep-learning turbulence and wind prediction.
AI medical-receipt processing (Reze).
Receipt-buying app ONE and a Performance Media Network that uses AI receipt analysis to run and measure CPG ads through to verified purchase.
AI layer on top of a hotel's existing property-management system.
AI agent plus BPO that turns emailed, faxed and PDF orders into structured data.
Develops the LOMBY autonomous delivery robot.
An installation-focused BPO platform with AI dispatching that handles scheduling, technician assignment, quality control and customer communication for appliance, home-fixture…
REVY, an AI agent for mechanical design teams that turns requirements into specs, finds reusable designs, runs failure analysis and checks drawings for errors.
Mobile app that digitizes shop-floor improvement activities and issue tracking on factory layout diagrams, replacing paper and Excel.
Retrofit autonomous navigation technology for boats.
Develops modular recirculating aquaculture systems for land-based fish farming.
Generative-engine-optimization platform that continuously analyzes how a company and its products are mentioned in ChatGPT and Gemini answers and proposes fixes.
Real-estate brokerage communication cloud connecting agents and customers, plus newly launched AI CRM and inquiry agent.
nimaru, a cloud service where farm producers report shipping schedules and quantities by smartphone to streamline agricultural distribution.
V Care video AI analyzes network-camera footage in care homes to automate incident reports, records and night-check rounds.
Manufacturing AI.
No-code business automation platform pairing AI agents with rule-based flows across 750+ integrated services.
Tax-free / refund app for inbound tourists.
A platform that connects certified midwives with families for postpartum home visits and newborn care, runs postpartum-care facilities, and staffs hospitals with midwives.
A dark-store pharmacy that dispenses prescriptions online and delivers them in 30 minutes to 2 hours in Tokyo, via LINE, couriers and pickup lockers.
AI outbound phone calls.
Pharmacy inventory cloud plus a platform for trading surplus medications between pharmacies and medical institutions with GDP-compliant tracking.
MatchaaS lets food and beverage companies secure dedicated tea fields under multi-year contracts with fixed price, volume and quality, while ChaaS sells corporate subscriptions…
Ex Junior, an AI-personalized English classroom combining in-class and home tablet learning that adapts next content, repetition timing and feedback.
Ignite0, an AI 3D CAD tool that designs and edits 3D models from natural-language and image prompts in chat.
Next-generation geothermal power startup.
Develops adsorption heat pumps and AQSOA zeolite material that turn low-temperature data-centre waste heat into usable cooling energy.