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🙋 Exciting Announcement! Top premier accelerator named Alchemist Accelerator announces its expansion into JAPAN 🇯🇵
🗓 Today marks a significant milestone as 🥇the world-renowned 🏢 B2B-focused accelerator, Alchemist, announces its expansion into Japan!🇯🇵
This initiative, brought to fruition through collaboration between JETRO Startup, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Tokyo Metropolitan Government, has garnered support from partners like Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd. , One Capital and investors in Japan and US.
😉Key Points:
✅ #Alchemist will be the first 🥇and only accelerator 🥇 in Asia to operate its equity-based acceleration program, extending its global footprint into Japan.
✅ Startups selected for the program will not only benefit from the 🇯🇵Japanese cohort but also gain eligibility to participate in #Alchemist's 🌏global program post its completion, ensuring continued support for scaling ventures worldwide.
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✅ Participation in both the Japan🇯🇵 and global programs 🌏will provide Japanese startups🚀 with access to a network of venture capitalists💰 and investors both domestically and internationally, including investors within Alchemist's portfolio.
Today, alongside Alchemist's CEO Ravi Belani, and Laurent Rains, Ryoko Manabe, we jointly hosted a press conference and seminar. We were honored to have panelist such as Ryo Chikazawa from Autify, the very first Japanese founder to be accepted into Alchemist Accelerator, along with Shinji Asada from One Capital and Shimada Eiko from Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd.
Ryo's insights 🤔 were particularly enlightening:
✅As a product engineer, Ryo finds Alchemist's emphasis on relentlessly pursuing 🔥burning needs and conducting thorough 🦻customer hearings before refining the product 🪚 extremely valuable. He continues to prioritize listening to the voice of the customer 🔈.
✅Conducting customer hearings at the pre-Product Market Fit (PMF) stage, where there is no product and no customers, presents a 🐔chicken-and-egg 🥚problem. This is addressed by forming a Customer Advisory Board and seeking collaboration.
🙋♀️Alchemist's recruitment kicks off on June 1st.🙋
Be sure to check out the press release for further details:
https://lnkd.in/dhiAchft
Big shoutout to JETRO's team for making this happen, KEITA WATANABE, Momoka Ueda, Yusuke Kaga, SHIONO Tatsuhiko, Saki Sasagawa, Ken Yoshida, Saki Kohama, Naoco Hunter.
🙋 遂に!世界的に有名なB2Bに特化したトップアクセラレーター、Alchemist Acceleratorが日本への進出を発表しました!🇯🇵
😉以下、今回の発表のポイントです😉
✅ Alchemist Accelerator Japan は、アジアで唯一の投資付きアクセラレーションプログラムとなり、日系スタートアップのグローバル展開をサポートします。
✅ プログラムに選ばれたスタートアップは、日本のコホートだけでなく、プログラム終了後にAlchemist Acceleratorのグローバルプログラムにも参加できます。世界的にも珍しいブリッジ型のアクセラプログラムになります。
✅ 日本とグローバルの両プログラムへの参加により、日本のスタートアップは、国内外のベンチャーキャピタルや投資家ネットワークにアクセスできます!
6月1日に募集を開始します。以下、プレスリリースをご覧ください
https://lnkd.in/dhiAchft