Eligibility
- Start-ups at SEED and Early stage
- Carve-outs of a company or person/team that plans spin-off a business
- Academic researchers and university students who intend to start their business in near future
Industry
All Industries
- Medical care/Healthcare
- Robotics and element technologies
- AI
- IoT/Sensors
- Big Data
- Security/Safety
- Sharing Business
- Retail-tech
- Fintech
- Block chain/ DAO
- legal-tech
- Drone
- Telematics/ Connected Automobiles
- Cool Japan
- VR/AR/MR
- Media and entertainment
- Agri-tech
- Food-tech
- Energy
- New materials
- Aerospace
- Social Business
- Resilience (Disaster Prevention/Loss of Damage) etc
Benefits/Rewards
MIRAI2018 provides the following benefits/Rewards
- Business plan development and mentoring support by VCs and experts
- Business networking and Meet-up support with MIRAI consortium member corporations
- Participation to Japan’s No.1 Business Pitch and Exhibition that larger corporations and VCs participates
- Rewards from consortium member corporations
- Grant for supporting business commercialization
Screening Criteria
【Essential Criteria】
- Having high possibility of commercialization in near future
- Identifying market needs
- Promising and viable business ideas and plan
- Highly passionate and motivated to commercialize the ideas, and having appropriate team members (with high potential) to realize the ideas
- Addressing social issues and high potential of strong positive social impact
【Additions】
- High potential to synergize or collaborate with consortium member corporations’ businesses (Giving additional points based on the criteria of prizes given by the member corporations)
How to apply
1
Download two application forms.
2
Complete both applications.
All applications have to be filled in Japanese or English.
3
Send the applications to the following mail address(within 8MB).
E-mail address:
E-mail title:【your company/team name】 MIRAI2018 application forms
※Application for MIRAI2018 is closed.Thank you very much for your Application.
Schedule
Close of application | September 29th 17:00 (JST) |
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Notification of Acceptance | October 13th (JST) |
Orientation Workshop | Mid-October (Tokyo/Osaka) |
Mentoring by VCs/Experts | November (a whole month) |
Presentation training program | Early December |
Semi final Pitch session | December 14th and 15th at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in Tokyo |
Mentoring by VCs/Experts | January to March |
Final pitch session | March 8th at Rihga Royal Hotel Osaka |
* Schedule would be changed.
Contact
For more information of MIRAI2018: