Yesterday with Tokyo AI (TAI), JETRO, and DEEPCORE we ran our 6th monthly AiSalon Tokyo (AIST), with 9 new startups joining our community network, now totaling 54. If we have the same odds as Angel List startups (2.5% become unicorns), we should have found at least 1 unicorn (though with the big visions I've heard about, I'm sure we'll manage to get more than 1)!
We had 6 Techstars Japan cohort #1 startups (with Yuki Shirato introducing the AI founders of their program), 2 teams visiting from the EU (brought by our friends from the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation / Stijn Lambrecht), and an early Tokyo AI member with the most promising Japanese AI Agents startup. Here's the list again, and the decks will be available on our Discord community.
Big thanks to Rimon PC for their info on the US VC status and on "patent or not to patent?", and for providing us with nutrition!
➡️ Xpress AI (Eduardo Gonzalez): a design and development platform for AI-powered workflows/agents.
➡️ 🐝 InfraHive (Kunal Verma): a data intelligence platform for enterprise sales, finance, and analytics teams.
➡️ Samaria (Techstars '24) (Keerat Sandhu): a manga content platform democratizing manga production with a suite of AI tools.
➡️ Dondon Animation Technologies, Inc. (Shuhong Chen): AI tools to help animators focus on the creative parts while automating the boring parts of anime production.
➡️ Saner.AI (Techstars ‘24) (Giap Vo (Galvin)): helping busy professionals who struggle to remember and use their scattered information, so they can stay informed and focus on what truly matters.
➡️ AssetHub(Techstars '24) (Takuya Goto): a 3D creation tool for game creators empowered by AI.
➡️ Cequence (Martin Ragan): an end-to-end Contract Lifecycle Management platform that automates the entire contracting process.
➡️ AviSense.AI (Gerasimos Arvanitis): AI-based products transforming how vehicles communicate with drivers, with advanced perception and interaction technologies to elevate awareness through Extended Reality (XR).
➡️ AMATAMA Co. (堀内雄一): an integration platform for humanoid robots, based on a hierarchical computer architecture that utilizes neuroscience and AI, as well as a biomechanics simulation of the human body.
The session is organized by Tokyo AI (TAI) (Sana T. and myself), hosted at JETRO - Japan External Trade Organization (Momoka Ueda, Ryoma Kanie, Yusuke Kaga, Noriya Tarutani) and kindly sponsored by Rimon PC (thanks, Eric D. Kirsch and David Case) and DEEPCORE (Hiroshi Nemoto).
