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City-Tech Challenge

The City-Tech Challenge, a global pitch contest where selected domestic and international startups take the stage to show their cutting-edge "City-Tech" for a sustainable society.

Simultaneous Japanese-English
interpretation services available.

*Seating is limited.

Date and Time, Venue

Semi-Finals

Monday, February 27, 2023, 13:00-17:00 at E Stage

Finals

Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 15:30-17:00 at B7-a Stage

Prize Winners

Grand Prize

First prize / 10,000,000 yen

Special Prize

Voucher for use of incubation facilities, Offering proposal opportunities, Provide support programs for expansion into Tokyo, etc.

Pitch Semi-finalists

Chiemi Kamakura President/CEO Agatha Inc.
Alan Phua CEO/Co-Founder Alchemy Foodtech Pte. Ltd
Karen Cheah Founder/CEO Alterpacks Pte. Ltd
Christine Moon Co-Founder/ COO/President BlueSpace.ai Inc.
Naohiro Yoshikawa CSO DATAFLUCT,INC.
Suji Lee CEO Deeply Inc.
TBA TBA Enapter S.r.I.
Lina Sakai CEO Fermenstation Co., Ltd.
Shozo Kamiya Founder/CEO I’mbesideyou Inc.
Kiyoshi Seko Executive Officer/Head of Business and PR&Marketing Kyoto Fusioneering Ltd.
Nero Lee Product Manager Panelsemi Corp.
TBA TBA PHION Technologies Corp.
Anna Walkowska CTO/Co-founder ProperGate Inc.
TBA TBA SEPPURE Pte. Ltd.
TBA TBA Synspective Inc.
Koji Sakamoto COO TBM Co., Ltd.
Andrea Lee Customer Success (APAC) Tractable
Jeff Hu CEO Turing Chain Ltd.
Yoshiyuki Sakuraba CEO Varinos Inc.
Kush Agarwal CEO/Founder WaveScan Technologies Pte. Ltd.

Judges

Judge for final

Ee Ling Lim Executive Director, Market Launch at 500 Global
Kathy Matsui General Partner at MPower Partners
Murat Aktihanoglu Co-Founder/Managing Partner at Remarkable Ventures
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Judge for semi-final

Masaya Kubota WiL Partner
Yuko Sasahara NTT DOCOMO Ventures CEO
Yamato Watanabe DG Daiwa Ventures Managing Director
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Agatha Inc.

We develop and provide “Agatha,” a service that allows medical institutions and pharmaceutical companies to share, store, and manage clinical trial and clinical research documents on the cloud. By digitizing various paper documents created and used by various stakeholders, we contribute to improving the productivity and quality of operations. In Japan, 80% of clinical research core hospitals have used our service, and we have already expanded our service to more than 30 companies in the world, and we have more than 15 partners in Japan and overseas.

Alchemy Foodtech Pte. Ltd

Alchemy Foodtech is a Singapore-based food innovation company with a mission to “Make Carbs Good” so people can enjoy food & health. Our patented Alchemy Fibre™ technology helps with Carb & Sugar Control by lowering sugar levels and glycemic index in carb staples, desserts and dairy while maintaining great taste.
Alchemy serves leading QSRs, FMCG and Food Service brands across the region and is invested by public listed food companies. Alchemy Fibre™ is clinically proven with 18 patents and counting.

Alterpacks Pte. Ltd

Alterpacks, a Singapore based start-up, upcycles food disposed by manufacturers to create a replacement to plastic food containers. Their proprietary technology, uses brewers spent grains, made up of malt and cereals, that is disposed after processing milo or beer, to create bio-pellets and bio-sheet products. Alterpacks pellets may be used in standard manufacturing machines replacing petroleum-based resins. The spent grains products made from bio-sheets have received US FDA and Singapore Food Agency certification and will be home compostable. Alterpacks has collaborated with the United Nations Development Programme in Indonesia to combat plastic pollution and are piloting their containers across APAC.

BlueSpace.ai Inc.

Founded in 2019 by industry veterans, BlueSpace provides a math and physics based real time optimization approach to autonomy through our product, BLISS (BlueSpace Independent Safety System). This is an entirely new and alternative path to autonomy utilizing the latest generation of 4D sensors. What this enables is a safer and scalable autonomy solution. Lastly, it has robust performance that outperforms the industry in perception accuracy and reaction time and removes external dependencies such as cost-prohibitive HD Mapping which can be a hurdle to a scalable solution.

DATAFLUCT,INC.

“DATAFLUCT Inc. is a data business partner that creates new value from buried data and solves social issues under the vision of “”making data into commerce. Our strength lies in the utilization of multimodal data, including unstructured data, regardless of the format of the data, and we realize the collection, accumulation, processing, and analysis of data in a single integrated process.

We also develop our services focusing on global standard issues such as loss reduction through demand forecasting, sustainable urban planning, and behavior change toward decarbonization, aiming to realize a world where everyone can make sustainable decisions through the effective use of data. In 2019, JAXA Venture certified company.”

Deeply Inc.

Deeply is a deep-tech startup using sound AI to innovate the unmanned surveillance industry. It detects dangers in the smart city and analyzes engine abnormalities of military weapons or large facilities by sound. Deeply’s ListenAI is the most used sound AI engine worldwide, and its partners and customers include Google, Meta, Sony, LG, and KB Group. Join Deeply’s journey to innovate the world with state-of-the-art audio technology.

Enapter S.r.I.

Enapter designs and manufactures highly efficient hydrogen generators (electrolyser) and energy management software (EMS). The core technology is our standardized and scalable Anion Exchange Membrane (AEM) electrolyser. It produces hydrogen for any application that needs hydrogen, e.g. energy storage or refuelling. The modular approach allows us to offer systems from kW to multi MW size. Our goal is to make green hydrogen cheaper than fossil fuels to contribute to decarbonization. Our EMS, besides remotely controlling & monitoring our devices, is open for third-party devices (e.g. fuel cells).

Fermenstation Co., Ltd.

Fermenstation upcycles unused resources such as off-spec agricultural products and by-products from beverage and food factories into fermented raw materials such as ethanol leveraging its proprietary fermentation technology. The upcycled raw materials are used for cosmetics and daily necessities, and we plan to expand partnerships with companies that emit unused resources and companies that utilize upcycled raw materials in their businesses. Fermenstation is B Corp certified.

I’mbesideyou Inc.

“I’mbesideyou” helps you and your team managers provide personalized support to each member. Our patented AI-backed technology visualizes status of teams and members and provides managers a set of recommendations to fill gaps between high performers and not-so-good ones. Our customers, particularly manager of managers, see the value of quantitative data in having 1on1 or coaching conversations with their direct reports. We are a strong team with Enterprise IT background, have 192 patents globally and SXSW 2021 finalist.

Kyoto Fusioneering Ltd.

“Kyoto Fusioneering is a privately funded technology start-up founded in 2019.
Focuses on developing advanced technologies for commercial fusion reactors, including gyrotron systems, tritium fuel cycle technologies, and breeding blankets for tritium production and power generation. Developing innovative solutions that are simultaneously high-performance and commercially viable.
Supporting both public and private fusion developers around the world, the company is accelerating the realisation of fusion as the ultimate energy source for humankind.”

Panelsemi Corp.

“Panel Semi provides the world’s first flexible AM mini-led display that is highly flexible, and ultra-thin lightweight. It can be flexed to concave, convex, s-curve, cylinder, and rollable shapes and four displays. It reduces 50% installation time and 70% power, our brand-new product can combine AI, 5G, and Edge Computing that is optimized for DOOH to engage and delight their users and enhance customer experiences.

1 Build Product:
Art, 3D, Immersive Experience, Brand, virtual human
2 Explore Applications:
Museum, Yacht, Cars, Planes, Channel, SI”

PHION Technologies Corp.

“At PHION Technologies, we are united by a shared belief in wireless charging, leading the way to unparalleled wireless experiences, truly flexible and spatially independent environments, and elegant designs made possible by our technical know-how.

We dream of a world where entire cities can be powered wirelessly. Buildings would be intelligent and clutter-free, and businesses could operate smoothly and autonomously without being physically connected to a power source. By enabling the freedom of long-distance charging, we are paving the way for the smart cities and smart homes of the future.”

ProperGate Inc.

“ProperGate is an online collaboration tool for big urban projects that streamlines construction logistics by automating material delivery and management on-site. It helps to:
a) effectively reduce waste of resources (time and equipment),
b) effortlessly coordinate the flow of materials from suppliers to the job site,
c) efficiently allocate on-site equipment and track usage,
d) calculate CO2 emissions from transportation to the job site,
e) reduce traffic congestion caused by construction material delivery trucks,
becoming the single source of truth for scheduled and delivered materials.”

SEPPURE Pte. Ltd.

SEPPURE’s chemical-resistant nanofiltration membrane technology enables a recycling-oriented society. Industrial distillers consume about 15% of the world’s energy and account for 10% of global CO2 emissions. Distillation with SEPPURE’s nanofiltration technology can reduce energy consumption and CO2e emissions by 90% and operating costs by 50%. SEPPURE’s technology can be applied to a variety of applications in the food, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, and energy sectors, supporting industries that act proactively against climate change.

Synspective Inc.

“Synspective established in 2018, is an end-to-end SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite data and solution provider with the mission to realize a learning world for people to expand their capabilities and make tangible progress with new data and technologies.
With a SAR satellite constellation that enables high-frequency and high-resolution Earth observation, Synspective delivers satellite data and various solutions that combine SAR and IoT data with machine learning and data science techniques.”

TBM Co., Ltd.

TBM is a company based in Japan specializing in developing, manufacturing, and distributing LIMEX, an innovative new material mainly made from limestone and inorganic materials. The basic patents of LIMEX have been registered in 40 countries and have been introduced to over 8,000 companies in Japan. LIMEX is registered in the sustainable technology dissemination platform “STePP” by UNIDO as a recyclable material that can be an alternative to paper and plastic. By supplying LIMEX globally, TBM aims to solve plastic waste, resource depletion, and various environmental issues.

Tractable

“Tractable is a London-based AI company founded in 2014. As a “”Vertical AI company”” with a vision of early recovery from car accidents and natural disasters, it continues to solve problems in specific domains.
In 2021, Tractable became the “”world’s first”” unicorn company in the image recognition AI domain for financial services.
Tractable has built the world’s most advanced AI technology as a result of processing millions of loss assessments each year.”

Turing Chain Ltd.

“Turing Certs has one mission to build a global digital identity passport. We started in June 2020 trying to link authorities’ credentials to individuals’ true identities by leveraging blockchain technology. Since our initial client, Berkeley Law Executive Education, joined us to issue their first certificates, we grew our institutional client base to more than 150 governments and associations in 9 countries & regions. Prestigious clients that adopt us to issue digitized credentials securely and instantly include WHO, APEC, LINE, and Harvard HCAP. The fast growth aligns with the fact that the educational credential markets in developed countries have reached 19.5 Billion by 2020, without regard to the other market potentials such as credentials for professional skills, healthcare, financial, and national IDs. The blue ocean market of digital identity and e-credentials have left as a massive gold mine that stays underground with few players.

Aside from human-relevant credentials, we quickly tapped into ESG certificate markets in 2022 through our alliances with international credit & audit companies such as D&B Bradstreet. Turing Certs serve as a Digital Stamp that certifies each of the Enterprise Sustainability Report and Greenhouse Gas Report to exempt them from middleman tampering and the privacy layering for confidential content. Bloomberg puts it that ESG assets might be a third of global AUM, $53 trillion, by 2025, Turing Certs’ strategy of collaborating with the right players in the market enables us to serve tens of thousands of clients’ client all at once.”

Varinos Inc.

A startup that develops and provides new clinical testing services using genome technology. In the field of fertility, we focused on the endometrial microbiome, which affects the success rate of pregnancy. In Japan, it has been introduced at more than 250 medical institutions, mainly fertility clinics. There are only a few companies in the world that are able to analyze ultra-low biomass samples of bacteria in the uterus and have put it to practical use as a clinical testing. In the future, we will promote the provision of testing in countries around the world, mainly in Asia and Europe.

WaveScan Technologies Pte. Ltd.

WaveScan is a Singapore-based A*STAR spin-off company developing next-gen non-destructive testing (NDT) technology. Our core see-through 3D imaging technology comprises radar-based scanners, which have been test-bedded and validated with multiple MNCs in relevant industries, including Japan. The end applications of this technology are for structural inspections of Built environments – such as commercial and residential buildings, tunnels, bridges, and Oil & Gas assets. Together with our scanner hardware tech, we also have our proprietary software solution for full-scale digitalization of the inspection processes – from data capturing to processing, 3D & 2D analysis, and report generation. Since our inception in 2018, WaveScan has secured multiple government grants and awards (including Japan). The technology is already being commercially used by diverse international MNC clientele after achieving CE certification through extensive regulatory testing and crossing over 1 Mil in Sales Orders for FY2022.

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