GRIC PITCH

A pitch contest to raise Japan's ecosystem to global perspective

HOW IT WORKS

  • Startups will be evaluated by over 100 Japanese and international judges to receive PRIZES from various sponsor companies and GO GLOBAL PRIZES to challenge the world.

    This stage will be simultaneously interpreted into English and broadcasted worldwide.
  • Startups recognized by more than 100 judges from both Japan and abroad will receive various prizes from sponsoring companies, as well as an attractive 'Go Global Prize' to support their efforts in expanding internationally. All pitches will be simultaneously interpreted into English and broadcast online to a global audience.

    To take on the GRIC PITCH stage, click here to apply.
    *Application Deadline: Oct 4 (Fri)
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PRIZE

GRAND AWARD PRIZE

Worldwide Supporters to Go Global
GRIC
Support to network with GRIC Spekaers, Judges and Partners
Global Corporate Venturing

Tickets to the international congress in Tokyo, where enterprises with a focus on CVC (Corporate Venture Capital), gather from all over the world.

Crunchbase
Crunchbase Pro  One Year of One Free Account Access
Bunka Hoso
Appearance on Professor Akie Iriyama's radio program "Hamamatsucho Innovation Culture Cafe"
SPINEAR
Appearance in the Radio Show "Global News DAILY BRIEF"

GO GLOBAL PRIZE

Worldwide Supporters to Go Global
CANADA
DMZ

One free slot for one company in a two-week acceleration program in Toronto (worth 10,000 CAD)

CANADA
Invest Ottawa

Global Runway Award: 1-week stay in the Global Runway space at Invest Ottawa to explore the local technology ecosystem in Canada and options to expand business network in North America for the winning company (in-kind prize, which is worth $3000 CAD in value)

FINLAND
Business Finland

Introduction of local players through local networks

France
VIVA TECHNOLOGY

VIVA TECHNOLOGY Ticket and Exhibition Booth

HONG KONG
HKSTP

Fast Track to 1-year Hong Kong soft-landing programme (worth up to 100K HKD), co-working space access in Hong Kong, exclusive invitation to Elevator Pitch Competition (EPiC) 2025 Semi-Final.

About Program
INDONESIA
Indogen Capital

Support to expand in East Asia

aUSTRIA
GIN (Global Incubation Network)

Golden Ticket for one company for the Acceleration Program in Vienna (participation, travel, and hotel expenses covered)

PROGRAM

11:55AM - 12:50PM JST
Theme1

GREEN

Japanese / English (Simultaneous Interpretation)

#CleanEnergy #CarbonNeutral #RenewableEnergy #NewEnergy #EnergyManagement #ElectricityStorage #WasteManagement #Water #Environment #FoodTech #Agri-tech...

JUDGES

Tokuhisa Akihiko

Hakuhodo DY Ventures Ltd

CEO

Michiko Kato

Woven Capital

Partner

Satoko Murata

Global Brain

Investment Group Director

Fumiko Uraki

Mitsubishi Chemical Group

Frontier & Open Innovation Division Director

Shunsuke Uchikawa

Keyrock Capital Management

Senior Advisor

Koichi Maruo

Add11th Inc.

Representative Director

Hiroaki Yoshida

Tokyu Corporation

Future Design Lab Manager

Sota Koyama

Tokyu Fudosan Holdings Corporation

Group CX & Innovation Department Innovation Strategy Group Manager

Toshitsugu Yamamoto

Nomura Securities Co.,Ltd.

Corporate Finance Dept.Ⅸ/IB Private Business Development Dept. Managing Director

Prabhakar Karri

Nymbl Ventures

Investment Management Managing Partner

Daniel Laboe

Nymbl Ventures

Founding Principal

Praba Gopalan

Indika Energy Group – EV Ecosystem

Chief Strategy Officer

Xiaoguang SUN

Bosch (Shanghai) Venture Capital Co.,Ltd

Investment Partner & Head of Venture Capital China

Christian Mecker

Bosch Corporation

President and representative director / Bosch Mobility South and East Asia President and responsible for engineering 

Shinichi Tsuda

Nikkei CNBC

Sales Bureau GM

Minoru Fukuda

A.T.Kearney

Senior Partner

Sophia Nadur

bp Ventures

Managing Director - Asia Pacific & MENA

Peter Oszkó

OXO Ventures

Managing Partner

Murayama Louis

Antares Ventures

General Partner

Karthik Chandrasekar

Synapses Venture Capital Fund

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Ishida Tomomi

Energy & Environment Investment

Capitalist/ Impact Officer

Mark Tan

GEOPOST

GEOPOST Southeast Asia Head GEOPOST Southeast Asia

Bailey Chad

NewBuild Venture Capital

Co-Founder and Partner

Julien Mialaret

Eurazeo

Operating Partner

Michael Feldman

Vision Asia

Partner

Naoji Nomura

Keio Innovation Initiative, Inc.

Principal

Sano Takashi

MUFG Innovation Partners.,Co., Ltd.

Strategic Investment Dept. Chief Investment Officer

Yuichi Katayori

Tokyo University of Science Innovation Capital

Co-founder / Managing Partner

Kenji Baba

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

General Manager

Yui Fujii

Minami Incubate

CEO

Hideki Fukudome

Spurcle Inc.

CEO

Yuichiro Tsuchi

MCPアセット・マネジメント株式会社

Vice President

Tomohiro Uchida

Translink Capital

Partner

Daisuke Suzuki

Sony Ventures

Senior Investment Director

Tomokazu Okuno

Spiral Capital, Inc.

General partner

Yusuke Murata

Incubate Fund

Representative partner

13:20PM - 14:15PM JST
Theme2

HEALTHCARE

Japanese / English (Simultaneous Interpretation)

#DrugDevelopment #Biotechnology #DigitalHealthcare #PrecisionMedicine #MedicalDevices #RemoteMedicine #Wellness #Wellbeing #Beauty #QOLImprovement #MentalHealthcare #NursingCare...

JUDGES

Yuma Shirane

Hakuhodo DY Ventures Ltd. / Ventures Capitalist

TEKO LEVERAGE Inc./Growth Partner

Masataka Matsumoto

General Partner & Co-Founder

WiL

Yuko Nakanishi

R&D Strategy Dept. Group manager

SHISEIDO

Takuma Kobayashi

CEO

ORBIS, Inc.

Chunmei Huang

Representative Director

Impact Capital Limited

Todd Perman

President & CEO

Seed Healthcare, LLC

Annabel Lee

Investment Manager

Tokyo University of Science Innovation Capital

Bill Liao

General Partner

SOSV

Shigehiro Sawara

IB Private Business Development Dept. Vice President

Nomura Securities Co.,Ltd.

Thomas Fraessle

Representative Director

ITK Engineering Japan

Ichitaro Akita

Co-Head of Investment for Next-generation Growth

SPARX Asset Management Co., Ltd.

Erik Mooren

Principal

A.T. Kearney K.K.

Jeffrey Volinski

パートナー

A.T.カーニー株式会社

Terence Tan

Healthcare Life Sciences Startups Business Development, Asia Pacific and Japan

AWS

Isaka Ruri

Vice President

Smitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Apurva Kedia

Investment Analyst & EA

Synapses Venture Capital Fund

Ruchira Shukla

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Synapses Venture Capital Fund

Kato Yukiko

Corporate Venture Capital Department

SBI Investment Co., Ltd.

Aleksandra Hesselroth

angel investor

Andrew Sanden

Managing Director / Founder

Intrinsic Venture Capital

Sayuri Okamoto

Venture Capitalist

Nippon Venture Capital Co., Ltd.

Xia Guo

Venture Growth Investments Principal

Japan Post Investment Corporation

Tomokatsu Hongo

Corporate Officer

Keio Innovation Initiative, Inc.

Yukako Yokota

Healthcare Partner

One Capital

Kay Mok

Senior Partner

Gobi Ventures

Yoko Fukata

Investment Director

Sony Ventures

Nicole Jang

Partner

Rakuten Ventures

Sun Dongxue

Investment Department I Associate Director

Daiwa Corporate Investment

Shigeo Tsukamoto

partner

i-nest capital, inc..

Shun Ito

Managing Partner

Dual Bridge Capital

Kazuyuki Kondo

CVC team team leader

M3, Inc.

Nakajima Jun

Managing Partner

Archetype Ventures

14:45PM - 15:40PM JST
Theme3

UPRISING DIGITAL

日本語/英語(通訳配信)

#SaaS  #DX  #5G  #BigData  #CustomData  #Security  #Blockchain  #VR  #AR  #Metaverse  #AdTech  #Fintech  #AI  #Web3.0  #Hardware  #Robotics  #Semiconductors  #QuantumTechnology  #SmartFactory  #IoT  #SmartCity  #SharedLogistics  #Mobility  #AutonomousDriving  #Space...

JUDGES

Hiroshi Nakamura

AGS Consulting Co., Ltd.

Director of the IPO Department

Daisuke Urushiyama

Hakuhodo DY Ventures Co., Ltd.

Managing Partner, Director & COO

Thomas Prunel

LVMH

IT Digital Director

Takeshi Matsushita

Nomura Securities Co.,Ltd.

IB Private Business Development Dept. Executive Director

Yuya Sakai

TOKYU CORPORATION

Future Design Lab TAP/SOIL Operations Supervisor

Atsushi Kitagawa

Sony Ventures Corporation

Managing Director Japan

Yuta Torisu

Sumitomo Mitsui Bankin Corporation

Digital Strategy Dept. Senior Vice President

Hidekazu Emre Yuasa

Globis Capital Partners

General Partner

Yuki Akiyama

Globe Advisors Ventures LLP

Partner

Alan Du

PayPal Ventures

Investment Partner

Katsutoshi Matsushita

SMBC Venture Capital Co., Ltd.

Executive Officers

Mitsuharu Goto

INTEC Inc.

Senior High-end Specialist

Shunsuke Uchikawa

Keyrock Capital Management

Senior Advisor

Shun Nagao

White Star Capital

Venture Partner

Chandra Firmanto

Indogen Capital

Managing Partner

Simon Lancaster

Omni Ventures

General Partner

Xiaoguang SUN

Bosch (Shanghai) Venture Capital Co.,Ltd

Investment Partner & Head of Venture Capital China

Naoshi Nishimura

Bosch Corporation

Executive vice president and director / Bosch Mobility South and East Asia Responsible for sales and customers 

Takayuki Odawara

GIP Corporation

Founding Partner

Yoshi Okubo

East Ventures

Principal/Founding Member

Suguru Yamaryo

ITOCHU Technology Ventures

President & CEO

Kenneth Li

MDI ventures

Managing Partner

David CHEN

TGVest Capital

Vice President

Rebecca Chai

Plug and Play Japan

Ventures Associate

Jeffrey Abbott

Blitzscaling Ventures

General Partner

Justin Turkat

SIP Capital

Managing Partner

Berthold Baurek-Karlic

Venionaire Capital AG

Chief Executive Officer

Rohini Chakravarthy

NewBuild Venture Capital

Early Stage Enterprise and Supply Chain Software Managing Partner

Inoue Masahiro

NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Inc

Silicon Valley Branch Investment & Business Development

Sumiyo Tsuchikawa

Hearst International

Japan Country Manager

Kanako Sato

MUFG Innovation Partners

Strategic Investment Division Associate

Pamela Chiang

YF Capital Japan Co., Ltd.

Senior Associate

Jordan Fisher

Zehitomo Inc. / Antler Japan

Co-Founder & Chairman / Venture Partner

Neil Fong

Burda Principal Investments

Managing Director, Head of APAC

Yuri Nakayama

Animal Spirits

Director

Nami Yamamoto

Kyoto University of Advanced Science

Institute for International Academic Research Professor

Kentaro Taki

A.T. Kearney

Senior partner

Inoue Takahiro

Shochiku Ventures, inc.

Representative Director, President and CEO

Masataka Wakamatsu

Dentsu Ventures

Venture Partners

Kengo Tanaka

Japan Post Insurance NEXT Partners Co.,Ltd.

General Partner

Inoue Ryo

UNITED,inc

Head of Business Division

Hideki Fukudome

Spurcle Inc.

CEO

Fuyuki Yamaguchi

Abies Ventures, Inc.

Investment Department Managing Partner

Takafumi Murakami

Signifiant Inc.

Co-Founder

Takeaki Kokubu

Lotte Ventures Japan

CEO

Yuki Watanabe

KUSABI

General Partner

Kengo Horiuchi

Carbide Ventures

General Partner

Takamitsu Miyaso

DIMENSION, Inc.

President / General Partner

Junichi Murata

Eight Roads Ventures Japan

Partner

16:50PM - 18:50PM JST

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