The Ryukyu Bank and the Okinawa Times held a demo for the Okinawa Startup Program at Okinawa Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) in Onna Village, Okinawa Prefecture.The Ryukyu Bank started operating alone two years ago, and from the second time, the organizer has joined the Okinawa Times, and this is the third time.
With a total of 13 teams participated in this third batch, with the cooperation of TAIWAN TECH ARENA (TTA), a startup support organization founded last year in the Taiwanese government's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), in addition to 9 teams in Japan.4 Taiwan startups also participated.TTA is a program that leads to professors at top universities in Taiwan, which leads to commercialization of research results born from universities.
This year, due to the overlap with Slush Tokyo, it seems that there were not many investors who participated in Tokyo, but this program also followed, and the number of new faces is increasing from around Okinawa.There seems to be.In particular, it is interesting to have the Taiwanese startup, which aims to advance to the Japanese market, to make Okinawa, which is quite geographically close, a launch pad.
Here are the contents of the announcements of all participants.
Polipoli is a Politech startup that runs an online community on the theme of politics and town development.The fee for a one -click donation from voters to politicians, monthly billing when politicians participate, and when a project to issue cryptocurrency starts, monetizes the currency issuance.
Since last month's application launch, the number of downloads has exceeded 12,000, and about 300 politicians have participated.80 % are local council members, and the remaining 20 % are occupied by parliamentarians.With Kanagawa Prefecture, we cooperated with ideas recruitment to solve plastic garbage issues, and the Okinawa Times was collaborated in a campaign for the prefectural voting on the 24th.
3Egreen Technology (exhibition green technique) develops a technology to monitor current movements using an IoT device that does not require external power, and detect signs of abnormalities to prevent electrical accidents.At present, the technology has been applied to power saving, and it is said that it is being introduced in the General (not POC) in Thai Seven -Eleven and his Advantech smart building.
In Japan, a POC for the elderly is being implemented in collaboration with Osaki Electric and Japan Systems Wear.In addition to facilities for the elderly, in the living room, kitchen, toilet, etc. in the elderly residence, it can be detected and notified to the stakeholders in the event of an emergency in the elderly.Monetization for device sales, cloud services, analysis reports, etc.It is being deployed from Taiwan to Southeast Asian countries.
FUNNOW is a reservation app just for restaurants, massage, spa, hot springs, and beauty salons.Reservations can be made up to 15 minutes ahead of nearby stores, and pre -payments can be made with credit card, LINE Pay, and Apple Pay.The user is that the user can receive a service simply by presenting the coupon code issued by FUNNOW to the store, and can be used simply by entering the minimum personal information in consideration of the user feelings.The store offers an app called Bossnow, and you can adjust the vacant seat information and price adjustment (dynamic pricing) provided to users at Funnow.It is also possible to spread and spread sale information to Funnow users.
Funnow, which started in Taiwan in 2016, has 500,000 users in Taiwan alone.The usage repeat rate within 30 days is also as high as 40 %.Hong Kong and Okinawa in 2017, Kuala Lumpur in 2018.This year, we have established a Japanese branch office and plan to enter all over Japan in Japan.The number of downloads is 700,000 and over 3,600 stores.In Taiwan, in a partnership with LINE, a store reservation via a LINE coupon (LINE turbulence) is executed via Funnow, regardless of the installation of the Funnow app.In August last year, it raised $ 5 million from Alibaba and plans to support Alipay.In addition, it has a tie -up with many large companies such as Michelin Taiwan and UOB Bank.
DIGILEAD, which is based in Okinawa, has a platform "O-CHAT" that makes it easier to develop corporate chatbots.Based on this, real stores secured a reasonable sales, and introduced chatbots to coffee shops whose sales at e -commerce are sluggish, realizing automatic and multilingual response, and used an old private house.The accommodation is realizing sales promotion using crowdfunding.Through the participation of this program, we are developing a recruitment support application and new media app, respectively, including Japan Transkin Airlines and Okinawa Times.
The company will also develop a typhoon disaster robot "Okimaru" based on O-CHAT.Although it is a problem unique to Okinawa, disaster -related information such as typhoons and earthquakes is distributed in various places, so it is assumed that it will be aggregated in one place, distributed, and automatically responds by chatbot.Procurement of initial development costs with crowdfunding, services are used for free to use and monetize with E -commerce, which is an emergency regular equipment.The beta version is planned in June this year and a full -fledged release in October, and by operating beta at the highest typhoon, it will actively recruit users' opinions and lead to improvement of services.The goal is to secure 100,000 users this year, and finally secure 500,000 users.For the time being, web scraping will collect information, but in the future, with the cooperation of local governments, we will also develop our own information acquisition routes.
OKT Communications has devised Awa Pass, a subscription service of Awamori.By paying 600 yen per month to his AWA PASS, AWA PASS participating restaurants can provide up to 2 Awamori.The shop will be able to develop new customers and revitalize regular customers without a large cost of attracting customers.Registration fee for AWA PASS affiliated stores is free.
Started from Okinawa Prefecture in May 2019, aiming to revitalize the Awamori market.The target is 200,000 downloads for the first year, 100,000 free members, and 20,000 paid members.In the future, the service will be expanded to types other than nationwide and Awamori, and monetizes will be made for local production and local consumption programs, new products marketing, and inbound customers.
Silk Renaissance is a start -up of drug discovery support systems, which was previously created by Masaaki Ito, who had previously been involved in insect culture -free protein synthesis technology at Shimadzu Seisakusho.He succeeded in developing a technology that extracts silkworm glands of silkworms and quickly producing proteins in the test tubes.In addition, it succeeded in developing a high molecular Selicine with high cell proliferation promotion, which is useful in the regenerative medicine field from silk gland cells.
In order to quickly create disease -related proteins necessary for new drug development, we are considering monetization by selling to pharmaceutical companies in accordance with drug discovery support.In addition, since regenerative medicine has developed from basic research to clinical research, the company plans to sell cell culture proliferation promotion agents and cell culture scaffolds for the period of regenerative medicine.In the long term, not only drug discovery support, but also the aim of entering the drug discovery business, such as manufacturing influenza vaccine.
Re: Build provides a service "Tadoru" that allows you to request a system development.For small and medium -sized enterprises, there are issues such as recruitment costs for hiring engineers, and for freelancers and side -by -side engineers, if they get a job via the conventional agency, there are many referral fees.On the other hand, the company's survey revealed that 43 % of freelancers and side -job engineers had worked through acquaintances.Based on these facts, we devised a mechanism to create an opportunity to be introduced to an engineer you know through a trusted person for companies that are not related to engineers.
In Tadoru, companies that want to request system development can select an agent (influence power, freelance engineer from freelance engineers and engineers) that can be relied on on the platform, and ask the agent to request development.Find a side job engineer.By doing so, the request company can find a certain level of reliability and excellent engineers without human resources in the company that can judge the level of engineers.A fee of 50,000 yen to 150,000 yen per consonation is collected from the company, 70 % of the agent is received, and 30 % is received by Re: Build.There are about 100 registered agents at the early stage of the service, and about 20 companies are expected to be registered.
Vintage is a startup formed by four people running a restaurant.When I asked a restaurant visitor, many of them were reluctant parking at the time of visiting.There are few parking lots in small stores, so they are immediately full.There were also dissatisfactions such as the fact that the store was already full and the need to line up at the cash register.The AIR DRIVE THRU, a service that Vintage invented without the need for facilities or additional staff, and can make a quick -through sales function at stores.
The user searches for member stores near the map.Complete orders from the app by advance payment and head to the store.When the user car approaches the store due to GPS linkage, the clerk comes out to the store with a product and passes it.Even if the user gets caught in traffic and arrives delayed, the store can grasp the state in real time, so the cooking start timing can be adjusted and responded.Payable with ApplyPay, credit card, debit card, and dedicated money app "Cowley".The cowley has a unique private blockchain "Shima Chain", which is optimized for settlement of food and drinks with a low unit price, and all orders made in Cowley are recorded in blocks for each store on the island chain.
AGESHIO JAPAN is a travel agency for foreigners coming to Karate Dojo in Okinawa, the birthplace of karate.Aim to revitalize inbound karate tourism.Karate competition population is 1 worldwide.It is 300 million, the sport with the largest number of martial arts.This value is further rising because it will be officially turned into the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.On the other hand, in contrast to that, among more than 400 karate dojo in Okinawa Prefecture, 6 is a full -time business..There is only 4 %, and there is a problem that it is difficult to disseminate information on the web, multilingual support, etc. because 60 % or more of the karate dojo owner are over 60 years old.
AGESHIO JAPAN is convinced that there are great potential needs through the opening of an English version of the Karate Dojo, Facebook page, and the operation of training camp events.Users have received various requests, such as pilgrimage tours, karate experiences of tourists, other travel experiences such as zazen, and hope for sightseeing in non -Okinawa areas.In the future, we aim to expand our business in martial arts other than the whole of Japan and karate, targeting not only karate houses but also all tourists.We are looking for a product development collaboration, cooperation with the government, and funding for product development.
UMBO Computer Vision develops AI for security monitoring using video cameras.In the past, people were performing in security centers in security monitoring using video cameras, but they are being automated for reasons such as overlooking problems and labor shortages.On the other hand, the environment that is subject to security monitoring is diverse, so it is inconvenient to adopt a common deep learning to detect an abnormal state from the video and make an alarm.This is because misinformation occurs frequently due to the weather, the reflection of the car headlights, and the invasion of animals.
The UMBO system sends a video from a video camera to the cloud and uses its own dataset for abnormal judgments on the cloud side, so it is possible to generate correct alarms with more than 90 % accuracy in all environments.Say.It can be used to detect it across fences, wander of suspicious individuals, and invades on -site areas.It is characterized by not only UMBO cameras, but also other companies that have already been introduced.Currently, it is introduced in 32 countries and has a track record of more than 350 companies of Fortune 500.Many of the NVIDIA GTC 2016 ECS and many awards.When entering the Japanese market, we are looking for a company that can form a partnership in Japan.
Sligrid is a SaaS that improves team productivity.Providing highly convenient templates to eliminate personalities and improve efficiency to share ideas and knowledge.The aim is to use Slack for communication within the team, Slack, Trello for task management, GitHub for code sharing, and to be called Sligrid for sharing knowledge.
It is said that it is very suitable for the process of mobilizing team knowledge, such as brainstorming, is very suitable for ideas, such as brainstorming.About 30 countries have used more than 5,000 early adapters, and more than 50 % has been confirmed to reuse within one week.
A startup is a startup that tries to maximize tourism experiences by bringing bicycles to the last one mobility to a destination that cannot be reached only by primary traffic, such as trains and buses.The company's media "Frame" is operated by 70,000 to 800,000 users every month, and the "ROADQUEST", a community application specialized in cycling spots, which was launched about six months ago, strengthened insurance and was strengthened this year.The idea is to start monetization.
Through OKINAWA STARTUP PROGRAM, we plan for Okinawan people in collaboration with bicycle influencers and events in collaboration with bicycle companies in Okinawa.In addition, for people other than Okinawa, it will work with a bicycle transport product developed by JAL.A video of the Kumejima tour, which uses bicycle YouTuber Kenta, will be released on Frame soon, and is planning to expand to other islands such as Miyako Island and Ishigaki Island.
Alpaca.Lab is a startup that optimizes the driving agency industry through joint research with the University of the Ryukyu University.There are 8,850 operating companies nationwide, especially in Japan due to traffic conditions.On the other hand, driving agency is unclear, it is difficult to find a company with a history of violation, such as having an unclear fee, having about 30 minutes to 2 hours from calling at a restaurant to arrive, or finding a company with a history of violation.There is an issue.
Alpaca.In the service planned by Lab, the user matches the optimal driver suitable for driving the car by entering the characteristics of his car in the app.For driving agents, we will develop a mechanism that allows AI to propose the best driver arrangement with AI based on when and how and how and how and how and how and how and how they are in sales.A plan to receive about 10 % of the fee as a commission when matching is established from the driving agency.In cooperation with government, police, driving agents, etc., the aim is to create a model that does not create social friction.
After a series of pitches, a social gathering was held in a good -looking OIST ball room.While tampering with the catering prepared by the "Cater4u" of the Kamimama Benten Plura store, all participants bloomed in the story of collaboration between companies, focusing on new services performed by startups.
Teams that have been produced from OKINAWA STARTUP PROGRAM so far have a number of startups that have completed the funding of the sea drown after completing the program and stepped on the next phase.Many of the ideas announced this time are aiming for launches for products and services in 2019, and will be able to achieve results again on the occasion.