JR East Start Up

JR East Start Up is a corporate venture capital firm established in February 2018 and located in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Operated by East Japan Railway, the firm focuses on providing incubator and accelerator services to support the growth of local startups. By fostering innovation and entrepreneurship within the region, JR East Start Up aims to enhance the startup ecosystem and drive economic development in Japan.

Yutaka Shibata

President and CEO

33 past transactions

Photosynth

Series A in 2021
Photosynth is an information technology company that designs and operates cloud based entrance and exit management systems.

GOOD AID

Venture Round in 2021
GOOD AID is developing businesses such as pharmacies, home-visit nursing, and pharmaceutical e-commerce with new functions such as retail sales in order to create new medical options. Given the societal impact of the new coronavirus, the company will develop new medical options in the with/after corona era and contribute to society. The headquarters of the company are in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

SQUEEZE

Venture Round in 2021
SQUEEZE is a hospitality Tech industry company specializing in web development, hospitality, IT, smart hotel, and SaaS.

TENT Japan

Venture Round in 2021
TENT Japan is an online marketplace for renting camping tents and other outdoor gear. The company's offering product management and distribution mechanisms, as well as a rental-only inventory management tool that offers inventory management systems that use RFID tags, allowing businesses to lower purchase barriers, accelerate global consumption, and help reduce waste of goods and resources.

Sonas

Venture Round in 2021
In Sonas, "UNISONet" is being developed from the viewpoint that "In order to truly become a cornerstone of society, IoT needs to realize high quality wireless sensing." By adopting the latest technology which is totally different from the currently popular mesh network technology called simultaneous transmission flooding, power saving, multihop, time synchronization, lossless data collection, high speed acquisition, low delay Bidirectional communication, etc., "all at the same time" are realized.

Fermenstation

Venture Round in 2021
Fermen Station provides consulting services on the utilization of local resources, adding value, and creating new products. In addition, develop product development business by utilizing fermentation technology. We also provide education and information on brewing and fermentation technology.

Connected Robotics

Venture Round in 2020
Connected Robotics is an information technology company that designs and manufactures robotic arms for enterprises. The company's product, OctoChef, provides cooking services. It caters to individual restaurants, shopping malls, stations, service areas, amusement centers, and large-scale events. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Koganei-shi, Japan.

Photosynth

Grant in 2020
Photosynth is an information technology company that designs and operates cloud based entrance and exit management systems.

DennoKotsu

Venture Round in 2020
Denno Kotsu is a Taxi dispatch system development and provision, taxi company contract dispatch service.

CoCooking

Venture Round in 2020
CoCooking uses food and cooking to create ample opportunity for dialogue and thought, fostering creativity, diversity, and well-being of individuals and communities.

VILLAGE

Venture Round in 2020
VILLAGE offers outdoor experiential learning training programs to businesses and organizations. They are holding various classes and events in the field of nature. It operates and produces private campsites.

Asulabo

Venture Round in 2020
Asulabo is a property management company that creates new mechanisms and places. The company offering human resources development share house, moto azabu arboretum, regional central city revitalization, commercial facility business, golfer's residence, and collective residence. It also the line of business includes renting, buying, selling and appraising real estate. They also develop an eating and drinking establishment "called Yokocho" which offer attractive ingredients, food of the area gather, and send out the charm of the area to the whole country. Asulabo was founded in June 2010 and is headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

Hmcomm

Venture Round in 2019
Hmcomm is a provider of AI technology-based voice recognition and abnormal sound detection services for business applications. The company offers speech recognition / natural language processing solutions such as cloud-based voice recognition, text recognization in voice calls, bone conduction, automatic answering machine and meeting minutes creation, thereby enabling businesses to improve efficiency through technology.

Timee

Venture Round in 2019
Timee is Japan's leading gig working platform.

Address Japan

Venture Round in 2019
ADDress is a provider of co-living spaces in both urban and rural areas, enabling people to live in a range of luxurious residences at fixed prices.

CBcloud

Corporate Round in 2019
CBcloud transforms logistics with tech, solving delivery challenges, optimizing operations, and boosting driver career opportunities.

Al Travel

Venture Round in 2019
Al Travel is a next-generation cloud-type business travel arrangement and management system (BTM). AI Travel reduces business travel arrangements by up to 90% and simplifies application and reporting operations and significantly cuts operations that do not generate profits in the batch settlement.

Pixie Dust Technologies

Venture Round in 2019
Pixie Dust Technologies is a developer of computational technologies, including its ultrasonic phased array system with which one can generate force in mid-air; transport things in mid-air without touching anything; target and deliver different sounds from person to person in a crowd; direct guide-dogs; and even apply this in agricultural farming.

Nature Innovation Group

Venture Round in 2019
Nature Innovation Group is the operator of i-kasa, a mobile-based umbrella sharing platform that enables users to search and rent umbrellas via the app.

Tripla

Series C in 2019
Tripla provides IT services for various industries such as hotels, railways, travel-related, restaurants, real estate, and apparel. It is one of the fastest-growing startups in Japan that aims to provide a platform where any tourists can make any reservations they want to make in their language through any chat and voice platforms. It provides the service to hundreds of customers like hotels, rent- a- car companies, transportation companies that provide services to tourists. Tripla chatbot, a BPO service that solves daily inquiry cost reduction and multilingual support at once, has been well received by customers due to its learning AI and double support from operators who are familiar with the industry. Also, the new hotel reservation engine equipped with the OTA price comparison of each company and the automatic best rate adjustment function has significantly increased the ratio of in-house reservations and contributed to the improvement of profitability.

VACAN

Venture Round in 2019
VACAN is a vacant seat information platform such as restaurants, cafes and parking lots. Its technology uses sensors to monitor open seats at places like restaurants and change displays to advertisements, coupons, and announcements at any time, enabling customers to save time and check the real-time vacancies of restaurants and cafés

Wamazing

Series B in 2019
WAmazing provides free subscriber identification module (SIM) cards that allow foreign travelers to register before their arrival in Japan. Through an app, WAmazing also provides tourists with free internet services of up to 500MB. The service aims to prevent visitors from being locked out of free wifi because of sign-up pages in Japanese that demand a local phone number. WAmazing was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Foodison

Venture Round in 2019
Operation of fishery distribution platform utilizing IT, operation of fresh fish specialty store sakana bacca, and operation of wholesale service fish poti for restaurants

Pocket Change

Venture Round in 2019
Pocket Change provides epoch-making service that allows to exchange foreign currency from overseas travel for desired electronic money.

Wamazing

Venture Round in 2019
WAmazing provides free subscriber identification module (SIM) cards that allow foreign travelers to register before their arrival in Japan. Through an app, WAmazing also provides tourists with free internet services of up to 500MB. The service aims to prevent visitors from being locked out of free wifi because of sign-up pages in Japanese that demand a local phone number. WAmazing was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

TBM

Venture Round in 2019
TBM is a company that develops, manufactures and sells paper and plastic alternative products made from a limestone-based material known as “LIMEX”.

Wamazing

Venture Round in 2019
WAmazing provides free subscriber identification module (SIM) cards that allow foreign travelers to register before their arrival in Japan. Through an app, WAmazing also provides tourists with free internet services of up to 500MB. The service aims to prevent visitors from being locked out of free wifi because of sign-up pages in Japanese that demand a local phone number. WAmazing was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Sirc

Venture Round in 2019
SIRC is a company that uses multiplication function devices (SIRC devices) to provide new functions. SIRC provides new functions using multiplication function devices (SIRC devices)

PicoCELA

Corporate Round in 2018
PicoCELA has strived to develop and implement world best wireless backhaul technology. Our backhaul technology is realized in a unique protocol suite which utilized a dynamic tree routing algorithm and a wireless frame transfer technology to suppress radio wave interference. The technology is protected by more than 20 registered patents worldwide. For 10 or more multi-hop wireless relay set ups, our backhaul delivers stable broadband transmission with low latency. PicoCELA systems have been installed in over 100 sites in Japan and more than 3,000 units are operating every day. We have reduced the LAN cabling by more than 70% at most installation sites resulting in massive installation cost savings. We recently released PCWL-0400, an edge computer with backhaul WLAN and enterprise wireless access points to reduce not only cabling but amount of Big Data to be uploaded.

Showcase Gig

Venture Round in 2018
Showcase Gig is a developer of a mobile platform designed for planning and development of digital services. The company's platform provides smartphone applications for next-generation IoT stores and a customer relationship management suite for small sized retailers, enabling users to use mobile wallet feature for credit card payment before picking up a product at shops.

Metro Engines

Venture Round in 2018
Metro Engines is a remote sensing company that offers LIDAR tech, with atmospheric measurement devices, meteorological information and IoT.

Akippa

Venture Round in 2018
Akippa is a parking lot sharing service that connects individuals and businesses with available parking spaces.

BackTech

Seed Round in 2018
BackTech offers information on health management and collaboration health, and health issues for working people. The company operates and provides comprehensive support from visualization of organizational productivity to solutions. Backtech's "Pocket Therapist" application for shoulder stiffness and low back pain measures aimed at reducing medical expenses and improving productivity in order to solve the problems of "working performance decline" and "stiff neck and low back pain difficult to solve with existing solutions".
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