The real Luddites would have loved AI
Welcome to Disrupting Japan, straight talk from Japan’s most innovative founders and VCs. This is...
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Category: Venture Capital
Will Japan ever regain its lead in robotics?
In the popular imagination, Japan is almost synonymous with robots. While Japan once dominated...
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Why so many Japanese VCs won’t invest in Japan
Japanese startups is hot right now, and more and more foreign money is flowing in. But many...
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Foreign founders are changing how Japanese start startups
For the last 150 years Japan has made a science of borrowing the best ideas from the West and...
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Startup success hinges on enterprise innovation
American startups dominate the current innovation cycle not as a result of startup innovation, but...
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How CVCs and startups are decarbonizing energy
Most outside of the energy industry are (pleasantly) surprised to learn how aggressively startups...
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Why Japan is looking to France for startup inspiration
While the rest of the world is copying Silicon Valley, Tokyo is looking at Paris. Today we sit...
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Inside the government program to invest $1B into Japanese startups
The Japanese government is taking a very hands-on approach to funding startups. Yuka Hata, Senior...
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Why SaaS is growing so much faster in Japan
Shinji Asada – One Capital
SaaS startup valuations and growth rates have dropped sharply in most of the world, but not in...
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The hidden danger of unicorn counting in Japan
James Riney – Coral Capital
Japan has far fewer unicorns than one expects – or than venture capitalists desire. That...
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How VCs drive (and murder) global startup ambition in Japan
What keeps Japanese startups stuck in Japan? It’s not a lack of opportunity or ambition....
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