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CONNEXX SYSTEMS CORPORATION

Hydrogen is considered as one of the most important clean energy sources for future. However, the use of hydrogen has been hindered due to its high flammability and difficulty of storage.
We propose to use inexpensive “ferrum” (= iron) powder instead of hydrogen as an energy source. Ferrum can produce hydrogen when oxidised. By utilizing this reaction, we have developed patented novel0 “Shuttle-SOFC” device that generates electrical power from ferrum. This device can store 5 to 10 times higher energy than conventional Li-ion batteries. With this technology, humongous social investment into the infrastructure for transportation and storage of hydrogen (such as long pipeline, high-pressure gas bomb or liquid hydrogen container) can be avoided. Since ferrum is one of the most common materials on the earth, unlike fossil fuels or lithium, there will be no concern for shortage.
Our business is to manufacture Shuttle-SOFC devices for electrical cars (EVs) and various energy storage systems (ESSs). The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) expects that at least 20% of the cars sold in Japan will be electric in 2030. And the market for ESS is expected to grow to $1,750M in 2020. Our ultimate business goal is to provide stable and sustainable energy solution at global level.

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AXELSPACE Corporation

AXELSPACE Corporation is a very unique startup company, specializing in the micro-satellite field. Micro-satellite is an artificial satellite weighing less than 100kg, which has far superior characteristics to traditional large satellites in terms of cost and development time. Our micro-satellite technology has a high degree of potential to drastically change how we humans utilize space, which has been long dominated only by the governments of developed countries. Our goal is to acquire the information on “the present Earth” and share them among people all over the world, by constructing real-time Earth observation system with 30 to 50 micro-satellites distributed in low-earth orbit. This new type of infrastructure has possibilities to create new industries based on it. For example, adding a real-time feature to maps we use every day will evolve those maps into a new information platform, by newly introducing the concept of “timeliness.” Our system also greatly contributes to the public sector, such as damage control at the time of a natural disaster, safety management of maritime traffic, constant monitoring on important facilities and intelligent agriculture to fight poverty in developing countries.

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AsukaLab Inc.

AsukaLab was launched from the University of Tokyo in Japan. Based on the Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) technology of the university, we are developing Head-Mounted Display (HMD) specific virtual tour guide system. Just looking through the special goggle, you can appreciate 360-degree interactive 3D view of ancient landscape on historical site via our mobile audiovisual guide. Large screen and head-tracking function of HMD are of great advantages over existing mobile AR app on iPhone or Android. Our market is the tourism industry and customers are mainly local government at present. Though our initial source of income is customized software development, we are planning to introduce a revenue share solution to the local tourism market. We believe that our state-of-the-art mobile HMD can replace traditional audio guide service and that will be the world standard of tourist information system.

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Kyoto Materials Co., Ltd.

Kyoto Materials Co., Ltd. is directed to develop various university researches especially from the field of materials science to a more extensive field, then advancing and marketing it to applicable technology in service.
Now two pillars, Departments of Precise Materials and Environmental Materials, of Kyoto Materials have begun to work and already given an effect. DPM can supply precise mold technique for manufacturing hard materials. On the other hand, extension of life of social capital such as steel structures, bridges and energy facilities, is becoming realized by corrosion control technology of DEM. For instance, corrosion control coatings, wear resistant materials, special surface modification, are our typical high performance materials.
We hope that our further innovation and business development can continue evolving so that the richness of life is given in the global society.

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Eigooo Inc.

English Anytime
During his time abroad in Japan Founder and CEO Peter Rothenberg found that texting his friends in Japanese was great for his language learning but wished his friends corrected him and that his friends would respond more often.
As a linguistics major at UCLA Peter began to study the effects of using text to learn a language and decided to pursue the idea fully, founding Eigooo Inc. in July 2013.
Eigooo is different from traditional classroom methods for teaching English. We do not “teach” English per say, but give students the tools, motivation, and confidence needed to want to learn, use, and enjoy English.

“Empowering Communication Freedom.”
Let’s Eigooo!

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EDP Corporation

Diamond has many excellent characteristics, such as highest hardness, highest thermal conductivity, and transparency of UV to IR etc. Moreover, diamond is the ideal semiconducting material which may be applied in large power devices, promising to save energy for electric vehicle etc. Single crystal diamond can be made by “Vapor deposition methods” and AIST Japan developed the way to fabricate large crystals. EDP was established in order to utilize diamond in various applications as supplying novel single crystals.
The advantage of EDP is the capability to fabricate larger single crystals than ever commercialized. 10x10mm mono-crystal or 25x25mm mosaic crystals are characteristics of EDP and wide variation of their thickness from 0.02mm to 2.5mm may be applied in wide range application field. Facility for mass production was set three years before and the capacity of fabrication has been growing with successfully equity finance up to 5 million dollars.
The policy of EDP is “From starting in conventional market to creating novel market” and this has been kept for five years. Now, EDP is going ahead toward newly developed market with developing leading-edge technology.

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AgIC, Inc.

AgIC Inc. provides solutions to make circuit boards more accessible. We developed technology to turn off-the-shelf home inkjet printers into circuit board printers and developed conductive ink pens. Those solutions led us to raise $80,000 from 900 people in Kickstarter during March 2014. Utilizing our circuit prototyping tools, we are enabling people to make and use circuit boards in easier, faster, and affordable manner, as 3D printers have changed prototyping for 3D objects.

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Fuller, Inc.

FULLER mainly develops B2C Device Management Application Businesses and B2B Application Data Analysis Businesses. In the Device Management Application Business, we offer a free-of-charge power-saving application called “Ojisan”, in which users can save smartphone battery while raising a lovery middle aged guy. At the same time, we obtain users’ application usage data and provide an application analysis service called “App Ape” to analyze such data in order to compile it into smartphone application use trend data. This service has been used by over 3,000 customers in total, including application development companies, game companies, and advertising agencies. In this service, attribution information, such as the number of active users, users’ ages and genders on about as many as 70,000 types of applications can be analyzed to utilize it for understanding market trends, application planning and marketing, and optimization of ad placement, etc.

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