J-Startup Booth in the Austin Convention Center (Photo: Business Wire)
Japanese startups demonstrated how to solve societal challenges and make lives easier with innovative technologies at SXSW 2019. These startups, part of the government’s J-Startup program to incubate globally-competitive startups, are the face of the new business environment in Japan as a global innovation hub. Specifically tailored to encourage invention and creative problem-solving, the J-Startup program produces startups that are using human imagination to bring greater joy, better environmental stewardship, and groundbreaking innovation to industry and everyday life.
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J-Startup Booth in the Austin Convention Center (Photo: Business Wire)
SXSW Product and Service Demonstration
Ten startups exhibited at the J-Startup Booth, which was organized by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), in the Japan Pavilion in the Austin Convention Center and demonstrated their products and services during the Japan Innovation Hour on March 12 in the International Innovation Platform. The demonstrations drew high attendance and the audience was able to view solutions that included applications spanning artificial intelligence (AI), wearable technologies, smart home solutions, and more:
AI for Every Industry
Healthtech and Wearables Transforming Modern Wellness
Advancing Science Through New Approaches
Using Tech to Celebrate Culture and Entertainment
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. Around 100 J-Startup companies were recommended by the Japanese business community as the ones with the potential to achieve unicorn status. These startups receive support from successful entrepreneurs and investors so they can succeed globally and bring new value to future societies around the world. The Government of Japan 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.
For more information about J-Startup program, please see: https://www.j-startup.go.jp/en/.
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Keiko Yamamoto
Counsellor, Office of Global Communications, Prime
Minister's Office
keiko.yamamoto.r7x@kantei.go.jp
+81-3-3581-0101
J-Startup
Office (Startup and New Business Promotion Office), Tokyo
Ministry
of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan
METI_J-Startup@meti.go.jp
JETRO
San Francisco
Adam Braver
Adam_Braver@jetro.go.jp
+415-392-1333;
extension 228