TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Tokyo-based SODA , which runs sneaker reselling platform SNKRDUNK , has raised a $22 million Series B led by SoftBank Ventures Asia. Most of SNKRDUNK’s transactions are within Japan now, but it plans to become a cross-border marketplace. million monthly users, which it says makes it the largest C2C sneaker marketplace in Japan.

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The Verge

JANUARY 15, 2021

Amazon is giving car companies the unprecedented privilege of accessing the core artificial intelligence underpinning its Alexa digital assistant, a first for the company’s AI platform. But only the latter two tech giants have their own mobile operating systems that allow for plug-in platforms like Apple’s CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Aldagram , a startup out of Japan developing project management software for construction companies, has picked up a new strategic backer to help it build out its footprint across Asia and the Middle East. As with that earlier Series A, Aldagram is not disclosing details of its valuation. It currently employs 60 people.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

CADDi, a Tokyo-based B2B ordering and supply platform in the manufacturing and procurement industry, helps both procurement (demand side) and manufacturing facilities (supply side) by aggregating and rebalancing supply and demand via its automated calculation system for manufacturing costs and databases of fabrication facilities across Japan.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Age-tech startups at this year’s CES demonstrated the potential breadth of the sector. If tech can help an older person live more comfortably, it can also help out a lot of other people. After all, the usefulness of things like mobility aids, health monitoring platforms and long-term financial planning aren’t limited to the elderly.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Breaking into Japan is often one of the biggest challenges a growing tech company will encounter. For the startups that cater to these companies, “cracking Japan” is inevitably part of their growth and expansion roadmaps. Japan is not a testing ground for MVP products. Share on Twitter. Follow the first user(s).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

In this case, Barnabas Birmacher, CEO of Platform as a Service company Bitrise, shared the lessons he learned as his team attempted to enter Japan. Instead of relying solely on strategic partners, his team visited Japan before ramping up to host events and engage directly with early adopters. More valuable, in other words.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2021

The capital will be used to expand ELSA’s operations in Latin America and build a scalable B2B platform, allowing companies and educational organizations to offers the app’s coaching services to employees or students. Van said one of ELSA’s main advantages is its proprietary voice recognition AI tech.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Launched in South Korea five years ago, content discovery platform Dable now serves a total of six markets in Asia. Dable (the name is a combination of “data” and “able”) currently serves more than 2,500 media outlets in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia. Taboola and Outbrain call off their $850M merger.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Glean , for example, puts cutting-edge AI search capabilities in the hands of employees so that they can tap into various apps and platforms to find documents and corporate intelligence. In June 2024, the company transformed its existing enterprise AI assistant and search engine into a platform called Work AI platform.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The US was joined in the effort by officials representing the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, and Japan. In 2018, five of the seven participating countries expressed similar misgivings in an open memo to tech companies, although the memo resulted in little to no progress on the issue from the industry.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

The company is headquartered in Japan, with operations in Malaysia, and plans to expand into Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. million USD) in pre-Series A funding from Rakuten Ventures and Beyond Next Ventures to build a B2B logistics platform for farmers that sell to restaurants, hotels and other F&B (food and beverage) businesses.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Separately, Hybe Japan will announce a boy band in Japan, Hyunrock Han, CEO of Hybe Japan, said. South Korea’s four biggest entertainment companies, Hybe, JYP, SM, and YG, have been competing to tap into the new tech. BTS label Big Hit Entertainment inks broad partnership with streaming tech company Kiswe.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Speak , an English language learning platform with AI-powered features, today announced that it raised $27 million in a Series B funding round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund , with participation from Lachy Groom, Josh Buckley, Justin Mateen, Gokul Rajaram and Founders Fund. But Zwick insists that Speak’s AI tech is superior to most.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

In Japan, where the real estate market is fragmented, homeowners have faced uncertain selling prices riddled with brokerage fees and an average selling period of between four and eight months, Ito said. Sumutasu says its platform enables users to access a fair house valuation in an hour. . and the U.K., While the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

That’s when the duo pivoted from their first startup — a sustainable architecture crowdfunding platform, called Xquare. Procore, a construction tech unicorn, went public in 2021 , and Aconex, an Australia-based construction platform, was acquired by Oracle for $1.2 billion in 2017.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

When travel platform KKday raised the first part of its Series C in September 2020 , the travel landscape was very different. We plan to use the new funding to double down on expanding our footprint in key markets, including Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea and Asia,” founder and CEO Ming Chen told TechCrunch. “In million travelers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

In truth, Salesforce has had a busy day at its annual TrailheadDX developer conference, announcing a generative AI pilot they’re calling Einstein GPT,’ which brings ChatGPT-like features to the broader Salesforce platform.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Few areas in tech today are as polarized as the blockchain gaming space. Los Angeles-based Stacked , co-founded by serial entrepreneur Alex Lin , is making a video streaming platform for gaming content — basically Twitch for web3 users, the founder and CEO told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Founded in 2018, Coherent’s platform, called Product Factory, allows insurance providers to digitize their backend operations by uploading Excel pricing models, which means their IT departments don’t need to write new code or re-haul their IT infrastructure. Coherent will focus on China and emerging markets in Asia.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Coding education platform co-founders Tung Nguyen and Ha Nguyen. Many kids want to study coding, but school curriculums are limited, said Tung Nguyen, the co-founder of MindX , an online/offline education platform that focuses on preparing students for tech careers. Some of the companies also serve as educational partners.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Railsbank , the London-headquartered Banking-as-a-Service platform, has raised $37 million in new growth funding. and expand its product in APAC, including the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia and Japan. Railsbank raises $10M Series A for its open banking and compliance platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The company empowers hives with IoT tech, making it possible to track the movements and health of their bees practically in real time and catch things like mite infestations before they go too far. The result is huge improvements to crop yields, healthier hives, and less trips in the tractor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2021

Urbanbase , a Seoul-based company that develops a 3D spatial data platform for interior planning and design, announced today it has raised $11.1 Big tech corporations, ranging from Facebook, Intel to Microsoft, are targeting to move in the area. million (13 billion won) in a Series B+ round as it scales up.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Jakarta-based fintech Akulaku has raised $200 million from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the largest bank in Japan. Akulaku, which operates in the Philippines and Malaysia in addition to Indoensia, offers a virtual credit card and installment shopping platform, as well as an investment platform and neobank.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The BZ4X will be built on a flexible platform that it developed in partnership with fellow Japanese automaker Subaru. The e-TNGA platform will enable several characteristics, including a steer-by-wire system, all-wheel drive, improved visibility, and a regenerative braking system that is common among electric vehicles.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

The fund was launched with Pegasus Tech Ventures, the “venture capital as a service” firm that has also worked with corporations like Sega Sammy Holdings, Asus and Aisin Seiki to launch venture funds. Japan’s Uncovered Fund launches $15M fund to back early-stage startups in Africa.

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The Verge

MAY 11, 2021

Coming to the US, Canada, Europe, and Japan in 2022, it will be powered by the electric vehicle platform that Subaru has been co-developing with fellow Japanese automaker Toyota. Solterra is certainly more pleasing to the eyes than “BZ4X,” which is the name of the first SUV Toyota will build on this shared platform with Subaru.

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APRIL 10, 2025

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

The round also included participation from returning backers food tech venture firm AgFunder and Decacorn Capital, and new investor Anthill Ventures. Its customer base started in Southeast Asia, before expanding into China, Japan, the United States and Europe. The present and future of food tech investment opportunity.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

To start with, Miyavi’s need to work in both Japan and the US complicates matters. “To Usually I have my team in Japan in Tokyo, and a team in America, so we all talk. Usually I have my team in Japan in Tokyo, and a team in America, so we all talk. Outside Japan, you can start viewing from 6PM ET today.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Tailor , a Japan-based back-end enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, said today it has raised $4.3 The company says approximately 70% of the software industry spend in Japan goes to building customized products. million in seed funding from Y Combinator and Global Brain.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Persefoni , a Climate Management & Accounting Platform (CMAP) for enterprises and financial institutions, is the latest to benefit from this rising tide, with the news today that it has raised $101 million in its Series B financing round. Thus, we’ve seen the rise of the likes of Plan A, South Pole and Watershed.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

As autonomous driving technology and regulations advance rapidly in China, ride-hailing platforms start looking for solutions to cut labor costs. For Pony, piggy-backing off a major carmaker can potentially bring a steady stream of business and push for the adoption of its tech. ”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Online education has been one of the hotspots in the tech world this year, as people turn to e-learning tools to fill in the gaps variously arising from closed schools, closed offices, social distancing and more time on our hands at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Oftentimes these events are filled with traditional seed-stage tech companies based in Silicon Valley. It provides “liquidity-as-a-service” so users can integrate DeFi protocols with global lending platforms. What it does: Decentralized lending platform without oracles. Company name: LiquiFi. Stage: Seed round. Stage: Pre-seed.

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