​This event is organized by

​・Japan Society of Northern California
・Stanford US-Asia Technology Management Center

​💡In partnership Kyosuke Togami

​This event costs $100, but I can offer complimentary tickets to 30 select founders and investors. If you are interested, please register. Preference will be given to those who have an interest in Japan tech 🇯🇵

​Recognizing the best of innovation and entrepreneurship in Japan – U.S. business

​2024 Innovation Showcase Honorees:

​AI Medical Service
(https://en.ai-ms.com/)　

​Kenji Yoshida | COO, Managing Director, AI Medical Service America, Inc. (Meditech)

​- Raised $70M (Series C)
- Awarded “EY Innovative Startup 2020”
- Awarded “Fifth JEITA Venture Award”
- Awarded Grand Prix in the Co-Creation PARK section of the “CEATEC AWARD 2020”

​AI Medical Service (AIM) is a Tokyo-based med-tech company established with the mission to “Save Lives All Over the World.” Japan leads the world in endoscopic diagnosis and treatment, providing firms and researchers with access to large amounts of high-quality data. AIM is the leading player in the field of endoscopic AI, engaging in joint research with more than 120 medical institutions such as Stanford and the University of Tokyo. By bringing endoscopic AI to the real-world clinical setting as soon as possible, we AIM to reduce the number of missed cancer diagnoses and save lives around the world.

​Citadel AI Inc.
(https://www.citadel.co.jp/en/)

​Kenny Song | Co-Founder & CTO, Citadel AI (AI Tech)

​Citadel AI builds software products to test and monitor high-risk AI systems. Our customers use our technology to develop AI systems safely across a variety of industries including healthcare, automotive, finance, and more. We also work with certification organizations, including the British Standards Institution, to ensure that AI regulations such as the EU AI Act are underpinned by effective technology for assessing AI systems. Our team has previously worked at leading US and Japanese companies such as Google, Waymo, Toyota, Apple, Stripe, and we’re honored for Citadel AI to be part of the US-Japan Innovation Awards.

​EdgeCortix (https://www.edgecortix.com/en/)

​Dr. Sakyasingha Dasgupta | CEO & Founder, EdgeCortix (AI x Energy Tech)

​- Raised $35.6M
- EdgeCortix is a fabless semiconductor company focused on energy-efficient AI processing of Generative-AI workloads at the edge

​EdgeCortix is a fabless semiconductor company focused on energy-efficient AI processing of Generative-AI workloads at the edge. Founded in 2019 with R&D headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, EdgeCortix delivers a software-first approach with its patented “hardware and software co-exploration” system, delivering an industry leading AI specific runtime reconfigurable accelerator processor. The company recently announced SAKURA-II, its next generation high performance, energy efficient edge AI accelerator to address the latest Generative AI solutions at the edge from vision to billions of parameters large language models. EdgeCortix’s products disrupt the rapidly growing edge AI hardware markets including aerospace, smart cities, industry 4.0, defense, autonomous vehicles and robotics.

​Helical Fusion Co., Ltd. (https://www.helicalfusion.com/en)

​Takaya Taguchi | Co-founder, CEO, Helical Fusion (Energy Tech)

​- Raised $13.4M
- Helical Fusion is a Japanese start-up company aiming at the social implementation of fusion energy with a magnetic confinement fusion reactor

​Helical Fusion is a Japanese start-up company aiming at the social implementation of fusion energy with a magnetic confinement fusion reactor. Various fusion methods have been developed in the world over the past 60 years as a next generation energy source. In Japan, the helical fusion method, which uses a superconducting helical coil with a double-helical structure similar to DNA to stably confine high-temperature plasma, has been developed and nurtured to a great extent. We are aiming to develop the world’s first steady-state fusion reactor by incorporating more advanced technologies into the helical-stellarator type fusion reactor.

​Synspective Inc.
(https://synspective.com/)

​Takayuki Odawara | Executive Officer & GM of Business, Synspective Inc. (Space Tech)

​- Raised $44M (Series C)
- Synspective Inc. develops and operates Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites and provides SAR data and analytics solutions

​Synspective Inc., founded in 2018, develops and operates Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites and provides SAR data and analytics solutions. We aim to develop a constellation of 30 SAR satellites by the late 2020s, allowing us to create a new system that can observe changes anywhere on Earth. With a SAR satellite constellation that enables high-frequency and high-resolution Earth observation, Synspective delivers satellite data and various analytics solutions for disaster response and management, national security, and environmental monitoring.