Author: JapanTechDesk Editors
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Oishii’s Hiroki Koga on crossing vertical farming’s brutal unit-economics chasm
The Japanese-born founder of indoor strawberry grower Oishii explains how disciplined focus and patient capital secured a $150M…
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Oishii Farm closes first $150M tranche of Series C to scale robotic indoor farms
The Japan- and US-based vertical farming company secured the first close of a $150 million Series C led…
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Timee turns its 13-million gig workforce into an on-demand BPO service
Japanese spot-work giant Timee launched “Timee BPO,” a fully variable outsourcing service that staffs client operations from its…
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freee and Konica Minolta link systems to cut care-sector shift paperwork
Accounting-software firm freee and Konica Minolta connected their attendance and AI shift-scheduling tools, targeting duplicate data entry in…
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SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 draws 750 startups as Tokyo doubles down on global founders
Asia’s largest innovation conference functioned as a 60,000-person deal room, with a new cohort of government-backed global startups…
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Inside Brave Group, the Tokyo studio turning VTubers into a $50M-backed global business
After an ¥8 billion Series E that made GREE its largest shareholder, the VTuber powerhouse is exporting Japan-born…
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Sakana AI’s Llion Jones argues the path forward runs beyond the Transformer
The Tokyo-based co-founder and CTO — a co-author of the original Transformer paper — outlines AI’s unsolved problems…
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Japan startup funding flat at ¥761 billion as IPOs hit a decade low
Speeda’s Japan Startup Finance 2025 data shows a more selective market: funding held steady but listings collapsed and…
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OptQC’s Hiroshi Takase bets on light to build Japan’s room-temperature quantum computer
The University of Tokyo researcher-turned-founder is on Forbes Japan’s next-generation leaders list as his optical quantum startup pursues…
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Japan’s startup visa goes nationwide as Business Manager capital bar jumps sixfold
A widened Startup Visa now lets foreign founders prepare a business almost anywhere in Japan, even as the…