India×Japan DeepTech & AI Venture Challenge
Gives one Japan-based founder up to $30,000 in engineering credits to build their product.
15 founders are selected from a rolling-review application, each gets a private strategic session with the program curator, then pitches live at a Tokyo Demo Day. The Grand Prize winner receives up to $30,000 in WEBMOB engineering credits — a dedicated engineering team that builds their MVP over 10-12 weeks with full code ownership transferred at the end — while every cohort founder gets WEBMOB de…
This challenge is for Japanese founders, or founders based in Japan building for the Japanese market, working on DeepTech and AI broadly (Healthcare AI, BioTech, Robotics, Enterprise AI, Industrial AI, Climate Tech, FinTech, Edtech, MedTech). It targets seed to early Series A founders, with funded pre-seed welcome.
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