AiSalon Tokyo - September 2024
NOTE: if you want to demo now or at a future monthly AiSalon event, check with Ilya Kulyatin (ilya@tokyoai.jp or on LinkedIn)!
Join us for the September AiSalon event in Tokyo! AiSalon is a global community by and for AI-focused founders, builders, investors, and enterprise partners.
The format is a monthly in-person event with lightning talks from startups with a presence in Japan, showing the products they are working on to other builders, partners, and investors.
Let us know if you want to demo when you submit your application!
Every event features AI startup demos, where founders get valuable feedback and build relationships. Investors and VCs visit AiSalon to see the latest Tokyo AI and ML startup ecosystem innovations.
AiSalon has been launched by Jeffrey Abbott, GP at Blitzscaling Ventures, who decided to partner with Tokyo AI (TAI) through a JETRO patronage for the Tokyo chapter. DEEPCORE supports us with food and beverages, and is also an integral part of the Tokyo AI ecosystem.
September 18, 2024 Agenda
18:00 Doors open
18:25 Jeffrey Abbott (Founding Partner at Blitzscaling Ventures) presents the global AI Salon project (of which he is the Co-Founder and Chief Organizer).
18:30 Yusuke Kaga presents JETRO and Blitzscaling Academy.
18:35 Hiroshi Nemoto presents our sponsor DEEPCORE.
18:40 Yuto Saeki presents DG GenLab and DG Camp Akiya.
18:45 Introductions by the US guest investors
Ben Narasin, Tenacity Capital
Lorenzo Donati, Bootstrap Labs
Ricardo Celaya, Kolab Ventures
Etienne Gillard, Mana Tech Ventures
19:55 Talk by Chris Yeh (Founding Partner at Blitzscaling Ventures).
19:05 Startup demo speakers (5 minutes each):
Almata (Eddy Almand, Founder & CEO): Eagle is a predictive vulnerability management platform that proactively identifies, prioritizes, and addresses cyber risks. Companies use Eagle to continuously monitor their digital environment and strengthen their defenses against emerging threats.
Jenova (Boris Wang, Founder): JENOVA is your personal AI that combines the best AI models, web search, and tools to amplify your productivity and empower knowledge.
Legal AI Inc (Kaoru Watanabe, Co-founder & CEO): Multilingual voice generation AI that outperforms Big Tech, focusing on the Japanese language. Reproduces a voice that sounds exactly like the user's voice from a 10-second audio source.
Nihin Media (Manjunatha C, Founder & CEO): a Gen-AI platform exclusively customized for Japanese doctors. It brings trustable and relevant medical sources and answers their queries quickly.
Kotae AI (Duc Doba, Founder & CEO): Kotae AI is a lightweight AI chatbot builder for SMEs that can instantly generate an AI chatbot for your business to save the cost of handling customer inquiries in any language. It was ranked #1 Product Of The Day on Product Hunt and attracted multiple customization requests for large enterprises.
Braid Technologies (Ivo Timoteo, Co-founder & CEO): Braid develops software for the automation of advanced engineering design. They work with their clients to automate and optimize their engineering workflow.
Aokumo (Younes Hairej, Founder & CEO): Navigate cloud complexities easily, powered by Aokumo AI orchestration, a smart solution for seamless cloud infrastructure management.
Integral AI (Jad Tarifi, Co-founder & CEO): Integral AI is pioneering fundamentally new algorithmic approaches and foundation model architectures. Their emphasis on real-world data and multimodal training sets them apart, enhancing efficiency and robustness across various industries. They are addressing the escalating costs and limitations of current AI models, developing Foundation World Models as the next big wave in AI, and scaling towards achieving Superintelligence.
TBSJ Leveraged AI (Matthew Heaton, Co-founder & CEO): Leveraged AI is a bespoke translation solution, that combines AI with the expertise of sector-specialized (financial and legal) translators to deliver faster, more accurate, and more cost-effective translations.
Out Loud Inc. (Hayato Asazawa, Co-founder & CEO): Out Loud offers B2B sales support services Pocta AI and Pocta BPaaS. Pocta AI can handle everything from searching for knowledge and internal documents used in sales activities to creating proposal scenarios and preparing proposal materials. Regarding BPaaS, they provide AI implementation, systematization towards automation by and with agents, establishment, and adaptation of processes, and rapid AI service development.
Until 21:00 there will be startup demo stands and open networking.
Location
Japan, 〒107-6006 Tokyo, Minato City, Akasaka, 1-chōme−12−３２, Ark Mori Building, 総合案内7階
Take the elevator to Floor 7!
Global AiSalon information
AiSalon is a global community by and for AI-focused founders, builders, investors, and enterprise partners.
AiSalon Luma calendar: www.lu.ma/aisalon
AiSalon LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aisalon-ai/
JETRO information
JETRO is a government-related organization promoting FDI in Japan and business partnerships between Japan and the world.
JETRO website: https://www.jetro.go.jp/en/invest/
JETRO LinkedIn pages:
Tokyo AI (TAI) information
TAI is a community of builders, engineers, and investors on a mission to foster a vibrant and cohesive AI ecosystem in Tokyo.
TAI Discord: https://discord.gg/a7UUvZpvvj
TAI LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tokyoai/
DEEPCORE information
DEEPCORE is a Tokyo-based AI-focused incubator and VC firm supporting entrepreneurs who aspire to change the world with technology. DEEPCORE invests in Pre-Seed to Series A.
DEEPCORE website: https://deepcore.jp/en-home
KERNEL by DEEPCORE is a community for people who want to use technology to change the world. Support is provided even if you are a pre-entrepreneur (before you are involved in a start-up).
For individuals: https://kernel.deepcore.jp/en/
For teams/companies: https://bit.ly/kernel-plus