Top 13 AI startups in Japan

Oct 20, 2024 | By Siddhant Patel

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Funding: $236M
SoftBank Robotics develops robots and offers robot-related products and services, including “Pepper”.
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Funding: ¥25.6B
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: $159.5M
Mujin develops automation solutions for industrial robots to simplify factory and logistics automation and increase worldwide productivity.
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Funding: ¥13.6B
AI Medical Service is developing AI software to help detect gastric cancer
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Funding: $104.4M
ABEJA develops AI business solutions utilizing deep learning.
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Funding: $100.6M
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.
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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.
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Funding: $26M
Autify is a software testing automation platform powered by AI.
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Funding: ¥3.1B
RevComm is the startup company developing Voice x AI-enabled cloud services .
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Funding: ¥900M
StockMark provides business decision support with text mining and AI.
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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.
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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,
Editor: Siddhant Patel
Siddhant Patel is a senior editor for AI-Startups. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. Siddhant has a special interest in artificial intelligence and has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the industry. Siddhant graduated from the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru). When he’s not writing, Siddhant is also a developer and has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. You can contact Siddhant at sidpatel(at)ai-startups(dot)org