J-Startup — 5th selection
Supports Japanese startups through public-private matching for global market exposure and business development.
J-Startup is Japan's flagship public-private startup support programme, launched in June 2018 by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and operated jointly with the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). The programme identifies and intensively supports startups with the highest potential to develop new t…
All sectors with global growth potential — 5th round added space (ArkEdge, ElevationSpace, Pale Blue, Letara, Helical Fusion), AI (Sakana AI), biotech (Toregem BioPharma, Logomix, xForest Therapeutics), climate (Pirika), agritech (HarvestX) and robotics (ugo).
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