JETRO Silicon Valley Pitch Night

10x Innovation Lab is a cross-border innovation agency offering tailored entrepreneurial and innovation programs for Governments, Corporates, and Entrepreneurs. Based out of Silicon Valley, the agency provides unique access to this ecosystem, opening doors to investment opportunities, partnership opportunities, and the wealth of knowledge that exists in the valley.Our programs and events are uniquely designed to optimize the learnings and connections for all participants. To ensure successful outcomes for our clients, we provide hands-on guidance and support to achieve specific goals whether that is US commercialization, raising capital, and/or high-value partnerships. Moreover, we offer extensive executive training for founders and CEOs grounded in future-forward leadership thinking which includes digital optimization, leveraging emerging technologies and adapting to an ever-changing workforce

10x Innovation Lab

Come and join as 9 of Japan’s most promising startups pitch to Silicon Valley’s most respected investors, ecosystem match-makers, and more

SRI International

<p>We are excited to invite you to the 2022 JETRO Silicon Valley Pitch Night! It's an in-person, interactive, and fun pitch event for Japanese entrepreneurs to showcase their business solutions and get valuable feedback, gain visibility, and build strategic connections.</p><p>Each of the 9 participating startups will have 4 minutes to pitch their ideas to the audience and a panel of Silicon Valley-based investors and ecosystem match-makers.</p><p>As an attendee, you will be able to watch pitches IRL (in real life) at the corporate HQ of SRI International at the Bay Area. This onsite event is organized by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) and 10X Innovation Lab in cooperation with SRI.</p><p>This is also a great chance to get together in-person, catch up with the community, and hear great ideas from Japan’s startup ecosystem. This event is free, and seats are limited – get tickets now!</p><p>#JETROSiliconValley10X</p><p>WHEN: Thursday, January 26, 2023, at 5:30-9:00 PM (PDT)</p><p>WHERE: SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025</p><p>WHAT: Drinks and food will be provided along with amazing pitches!</p>

<h1>Agenda</h1><h3>5:30PM - 6:00PM (PST) Registration</h3><h3>6:00PM - 6:10PM (PST) Opening Remarks</h3><ul><li>JETRO Representative</li><li>Aaron McDaniel - Co-founder of 10X &amp; Co-author of Global Class</li><li>Klaus Wehage - Co-founder of 10X &amp; Co-author of Global Class</li></ul><h3>6:10PM - 6:15PM (PST) Introduction of judges</h3><ul><li>Tiffine Wang - Partner - Investments @ MS&AD Ventures</li><li>Jordan Wahbeh - Managing Partner @ SV Venture Group</li><li>Mitchell Weinstock - Venture Partner @ HP Tech Ventures</li></ul><h3>6:15PM - 8:00PM (PST) Startup Pitches</h3><ul><li> 9 teams, 4-minute pitch + 2 min Q&A</li></ul><h3>8:00PM - 8:10PM (PST) Winner Announcements</h3><ul><li>Investor Favorite</li><li>Audience Favorite</li></ul><h3>8:10PM - 9:00 PM (PST) Reception and Networking</h3><h3></h3><h3>Meet the Startups</h3>

<p><strong>1﻿. Abel</strong></p><aside>EQUTUM, IoT device for race horses, work like a Apple watch. Make horse training more data-driven, and we improve win rate and training efficiency, also help horse from injuring.</aside><aside>Our product is used by No.1 farm in Japan, Northern Farm. They replace competitor to our product.</aside><aside>We will provide our product not only in Japan, but also in USA, Australia, UAE etc…</aside><aside>We will be a global company with providing innovative product for animals.</aside><aside>Website: <a href="https://www.abel-inc.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.abel-inc.com</a></aside>

<p><strong>2﻿. AC-Planta</strong></p><aside>Ac-Planta tackles climate change disasters, in particular food and water crises. Our radical solution, based on “Epigenetic approach”, unlocks and enhances plants’ resilience against drought and heat, without genetic modifications. Ac-Planta therefore drastically improves agricultural productivity about 20% of yields, with massive water savings on a global scale. We now aim to introduce our product to the US agricultural and forestry sectors, such as big vegetables/grains growers, wholesale nurseries etc.</aside><aside>Website:  <a href="https://ac-planta.com/en/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://ac-planta.com/en/</a></aside>

<p><strong>3. B﻿itgrit</strong></p><aside>bitgrit helps organizations identify the most potent AI use cases in their situation and overcome their business obstacles through AI. This ecosystem expands with the power of web3, by providing an AI marketplace that gives its community shared access to these outstanding AI algorithms.</aside><aside>Website: <a href="https://bitgrit.net/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://bitgrit.net/ </a></aside>

<p><strong>4﻿. Gigalogy</strong></p><aside>Gigalogy provides an AI SaaS Platform for SMEs in the E-Commerce, Travel, and Digital Marketing industry. Gigalogy AI Platform (GAIP) offers ready-to-use AI solutions that are affordable, easy to integrate into web/mobile applications and generate immediate results.</aside><aside>Website: <a href="https://gigalogy.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://gigalogy.com/</a></aside>

<p><strong>5﻿. Greenroom</strong></p><aside>Greenroom provides a platform to connect ethical consumers and companies. The platform helps client companies to capture a clear picture of the ethical market by providing the latest news and market report, as well as conducting surveys to ethical consumers.</aside><aside>Website: <a href="https://greenroom.eco/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://greenroom.eco/</a></aside>

<p><strong>6﻿. Miletos</strong></p><aside>Miletos aims to "transform business processes through AI", transforming "legacy processes" built on "people and paper" into "modern processes" born from "AI and data". As a product we provide “SAPPHIRE”; an AI-based Expense system aiming to minimize human interaction through the expense reimbursement process by leveraging AI technology. Its AI audit engine enables applicants, reviewers and accountants to focus on their core business, increase the integrity of the process, and strengthen corporate governance.</aside><aside>Website: <a href="https://miletos.tech/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://miletos.tech/</a></aside>

<p><strong>7﻿. Plusman</strong></p><aside>Plusman is a specialist team of actuaries and other professionals. We are focusing on medical imaging AI, such as pulmonary nodule AI, which has the best performance among existing research and detects the nodule 10 months earlier than certified radiologists, and CXR AI, as well as AI drug discovery, automated surgical robots, and dolphin language translators. We are able to manipulate and control mathematical models of 100 million dimensions at will, and provide the most suitable model according to the issues and needs.</aside><aside>Website: <a href="https://plusmanllc.co.jp/en/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://plusmanllc.co.jp/en/</a></aside>

<p><strong>8﻿. Temari</strong></p><aside>Did you know tooth brushing is the No.1 problem for mom and kids? Our products support them to learn proper oral care with fun.</aside><aside>For that, we've built a product with an App. It is called Wakupika. It solves the dental dilemma of teaching your kids to brush &amp; educate properly with fun.</aside><aside>The future is supervised contents from dental authorities, University algorithms, recording dental situation and offering online consultation.</aside><aside>Do your kids not like tooth brushing,  or aren’t doing it well? Wakupika is the answer! </aside><aside>We have sold out our first shot.</aside><aside>Website: <a href="https://www.temarii.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.temarii.com/</a></aside>

<p><strong>9. VitaNet</strong></p><aside>Our next generation VitaNet BLE Auth user authentication service authenticates both your mobile membership app user inside a brick-and-mortar store is logged in to her mobile app account and she is actually in the store, in less than a second.  It only requires a small authenticator attached to a wall in the store, replacing POS/CAT terminals and code readers as well as labor to operate them.  Your mobile app will be enabled for ticketless entry, self-checkout, in-store order and net payment, melding E-commerce purchase UX with in-store purchase experience.</aside><aside>Website: <a href="https://www.vita.net/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.vita.net/ </a></aside>

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