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Top 13 AI startups in Japan
Updated: May 10, 2024 | Editor: Siddhant Patel |
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Funding: $236M
SoftBank Robotics develops robots and offers robot-related products and services, including “Pepper”.
SoftBank Robotics develops robots and offers robot-related products and services, including “Pepper”.
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Funding: $159.5M
Mujin develops automation solutions for industrial robots to simplify factory and logistics automation and increase worldwide productivity.
Mujin develops automation solutions for industrial robots to simplify factory and logistics automation and increase worldwide productivity.
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Funding: ¥16.5B
Preferred Networks develops technologies related to autonomous driving and connected cars. They also apply machine learning and deep learning to robotics and machine tools, and conduct research and development of object recognition, control, anomaly detection, and optimization technology, medical images such as CT and MRI, and develop systems to allow early diagnosis of cancer using blood samples.
Preferred Networks develops technologies related to autonomous driving and connected cars. They also apply machine learning and deep learning to robotics and machine tools, and conduct research and development of object recognition, control, anomaly detection, and optimization technology, medical images such as CT and MRI, and develop systems to allow early diagnosis of cancer using blood samples.
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Funding: ¥13.6B
AI Medical Service is developing AI software to help detect gastric cancer
AI Medical Service is developing AI software to help detect gastric cancer
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Funding: $77.7M
Ubie, a Tokyo based health-tech startup, provides AI-based healthcare products. Hospital SaaS product and AI symptom checker.
Ubie, a Tokyo based health-tech startup, provides AI-based healthcare products. Hospital SaaS product and AI symptom checker.
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Funding: ¥5B
LeapMind is carrying out research on original chip architectures in order to implement Neural Networks on a circuit with low power.
LeapMind is carrying out research on original chip architectures in order to implement Neural Networks on a circuit with low power.
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Funding: $42.4M
Cinnamon is an AI startup that develops products aimed at reducing the amount of time people spend on mundane tasks. Its Flax Scanner takes lengthy documents and extracts only the most pertinent information, while Lapis Engine is an natural language processing (NLP) based search engine designed to give recommendations for applications such as e-commerce or a recruiting platform, and Scuro Bot is a chatbot which can also process natural languages.
Cinnamon is an AI startup that develops products aimed at reducing the amount of time people spend on mundane tasks. Its Flax Scanner takes lengthy documents and extracts only the most pertinent information, while Lapis Engine is an natural language processing (NLP) based search engine designed to give recommendations for applications such as e-commerce or a recruiting platform, and Scuro Bot is a chatbot which can also process natural languages.
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Funding: ¥1.5B
RevComm is the startup company developing Voice x AI-enabled cloud services .
RevComm is the startup company developing Voice x AI-enabled cloud services .
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Funding: $3.7M
Studio Ousia develops artificial intelligence question answering system that understands questions and returns answers in seconds allows to automate customer helpdesks and work FAQs.
Studio Ousia develops artificial intelligence question answering system that understands questions and returns answers in seconds allows to automate customer helpdesks and work FAQs.
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Funding: ¥450M
Heroz develops mobile media, mobile marketing and SNS-related services. It has developed the most cutting edge artificial intelligence, “Ponanza” programme to play Japanese chess 'Shogi', which defeated an active professional player in a public match for the first time ever,
Heroz develops mobile media, mobile marketing and SNS-related services. It has developed the most cutting edge artificial intelligence, “Ponanza” programme to play Japanese chess 'Shogi', which defeated an active professional player in a public match for the first time ever,
