JP

2020

Foreign companies attracted to Tokyo in fiscal year 2020 are as follows.

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1. Foreign Companies related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution

  • Unabiz Holdings

    Type
    R&D center
    Location
    Central Tokyo / Waterfront Area
    Scheduled Date of Establishment
    April, 2021 (scheduled)
    Business Description
    Unabiz provides end-to-end IoT solutions working on LPWA enabling affordable and scalable data collection and real-time asset management. Unabiz plans to develop IoT sensor usecases specific to Japan.
    URL
    https://www.unabiz.com/

  • OmniBot

    Type
    R&D center
    Location
    Shibuya Station Area
    Scheduled Date of Establishment
    Q3, 2021 (scheduled)
    Business Description
    OmniBot provides customised AI conversational platform using proprietary voice recognition and natural language understanding technology. OmniBot plans to develop a natural language understanding domain specializing in Japanese and business requirements unique to Japan.
    URL
    https://omnibot.ai/

  • SpeQtral

    Type
    R&D center
    Location
    Shinjuku Station Area
    Scheduled Date of Establishment
    March, 2022 (scheduled)
    Business Description
    SpeQtral designs and manufactures satellite-based quantum communication systems for secure communication applications. SpeQtral plans to collaborate with partners to conduct R&D and implement quantum communication solutions in Japan.
    URL
    https://speqtral.space/

  • Dorabot

    Type
    R&D center
    Location
    Central Tokyo / Waterfront Area
    Scheduled Date of Establishment
    Q2, 2021 (scheduled)
    Business Description
    Dorabot develops automated warehouse solutions covering induction, sorting, transportation, palletizing, loading and overall process planning. Dorabot plans to conduct R&D on cutting-edge AI and robotics, including computer vision, motion planning, mobility and deep learning.
    URL
    https://www.dorabot.com/

  • Niramai Health Analytix

    Type
    R&D center
    Location
    Central Tokyo / Waterfront Area
    Scheduled Date of Establishment
    Q1, 2022 (scheduled)
    Business Description
    Niramai provides AI breast cancer diagnosis support solutions analyzing the metabolic activity of breast tissue from thermographic images. Niramai plans to conduct clinical trials and PoC collaborating with universities and hospitals.
    URL
    https://www.niramai.com/

  • CropIn Technology Solutions

    Type
    R&D center
    Location
    Tokyo Station Area
    Scheduled Date of Establishment
    October, 2021 (scheduled)
    Business Description
    Using IoT data and satellite images, CropIn provides AI agri tech solutions for production forecasting, quality control, and risk management. CropIn plans to develop services and AI specific to the Japanese agricultural environment.
    URL
    https://www.cropin.com/

  • Uncountable

    Type
    R&D center
    Location
    Shibuya Station Area
    Scheduled Date of Establishment
    March, 2022 (scheduled)
    Business Description
    Uncountable provides a material informatics platform for chemical and material R&D teams to store, visualize, and analyze all of their critical experimental data in one place. Uncountable helps scientists save time and experiments in their development of new products.
    URL
    https://www.uncountable.com/

  • Shyld AI

    Type
    R&D center
    Location
    Shibuya Station Area
    Scheduled Date of Establishment
    December, 2021 (scheduled)
    Business Description
    Shyld provides an AI-powered disinfection solution that sterilizes indoor spaces real time by a device emiting ultraviolet rays. Shyld plans to develop solutions for facilities and behavior patterns peculiar to Japan.
    URL
    https://shyld.ai/

  • Q-Bot Ltd

    Type
    R&D center
    Location
    Central Tokyo / Waterfront Area
    Scheduled Date of Establishment
    Q1, 2022 (scheduled)
    Business Description
    Q-Bot provides a robotics platform to assess and maintain the health of buildings, utilizing 3D scanning and AI. Q-Bot plans to develop new use cases for automated coating focusing on Japan's unique housing and construction needs.
    URL
    https://q-bot.co/

  • Infuse Location ltd.

    Type
    R&D center
    Location
    Central Tokyo / Waterfront Area
    Scheduled Date of Establishment
    Q1, 2022 (scheduled)
    Business Description
    Infuse Location provides a software-only localization platform that enables the real-time indoor location of smartphones and other IoT devices. Infuse Location plans to develop Tokyo specific smart city solutions such as indoor-to-outdoor navigation, barrier-free solutions for the elderly and visually impaired, and asset-tracking solutions.
    URL
    https://infuse-location.com/

2. Foreign Financial Companies

  • Actelligent Capital Management Ltd

    Type of office
    Research / Sales base
    Office location area
    Special zone for Asian Headquarters in Central Tokyo
    Office setup timing
    December 2021 (scheduled)
    Business Overview
    Actelligent manages a hedge fund with the absolute return strategy specializing in Asian, European, and U.S. equities.
    Actelligent incorporates Artificial Intelligence models which were jointly developed with research institutions (EIT, University of Edinburgh, University of Chicago, Scottish Enterprise, Hong Kong government, etc.) into their investment target selection process. By combining fundamental analysis and AI (natural language processing), the fund is able to detect changes in stock prices earlier and has achieved high investment performance.
    Headquartered in Hong Kong, Actelligent plans to establish a sales and research base in Tokyo to distribute their funds to Japanese qualified institutional investors and conduct joint research (Neuro-Linguistic Programming Project, etc.) with Japanese university research institutions.
    CompanyURL
    https://www.actelligent-capital.com/

  • AIP Asset Management Inc.

    Type of office
    Sales base
    Office location area
    Center of Tokyo (especially within the Special Zone for Asian Headquarters)
    Office setup timing
    June 2021 (scheduled)
    Business Overview
    AIP Asset Management Inc. is a hedge fund specialized in private debt investments.
    AIP Asset Management Inc. has been a top performing Fund over the past 7 years, as a result of connections with small cap listed companies and its unique investment know-how accumulated from the fund and start-up industries. In 2017, the United Nations honored the AIP Convertible Private Debt Fund for the work towards supporting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In 2020, it was awarded 5 awards including "Best 3-Year Return," and "Best 5-Year Sharp Ratio (a measure of investment efficiency)" in the Canadian Hedge Fund Awards program.
    Headquartered in Canada, AIP Asset Management Inc. plans to establish a sales base in Tokyo to distribute their funds to Japanese investors, and is considering investing capital in Japan in the future.
    CompanyURL
    https://aipassetmanagement.com/

  • Akur8 SAS

    Type of office
    Sales base
    Office location area
    Special zone for Asian Headquarters in Central Tokyo (ex. Nihonbashi)
    Office setup timing
    March 2022 (scheduled)
    Business Overview
    Operating globally, Akur8 offers a solution combining machine learning (AI) capabilities into actuarial work in insurance product development. Akur8's solution uses data analysis and model construction to perform the complicated calculations required to compute insurance premium rates, insurance contract reserves (payment reserves), etc., while responding to the transparency and management strengthening of the calculation model required by international regulations.
    This solution enables insurance companies to build highly transparent models using AI. In addition, productivity will be improved by shortening development time of insurance products. Headquartered in France, Akur8 plans to establish a sales base in Tokyo to explore new customers in Japan market.
    CompanyURL
    https://akur8-tech.com

  • Amberdata Inc.

    Type of office
    Sales base
    Office location area
    Special zone for Asian Headquarters in Central Tokyo (ex. Nihonbashi)
    Office setup timing
    June 2021（scheduled）
    Business Overview
    Amberdata is a crypto assets data infrastructure company which acquires, analyzes, and visualizes crypto asset (e.g. Bitcoin) price, historical transaction, and fundamental data from exchanges and blockchain networks around the world. Amberdata's unified API and data services provide a single integration point for anyone looking to accelerate their time to market with the crypto asset offerings.
    Amberdata focuses on helping financial institutions embrace this emerging asset class and create crypto asset businesses.
    Headquartered in the United States, Amberdata plans to establish a sales base in Tokyo to provide its crypto asset data to companies engaged in related businesses in Japan (e.g. institutional investors and crypto asset exchanges).
    CompanyURL
    https://www.amberdata.io/

  • Ameriprise Asset Management Holdings Singapore (Pte.) Ltd.

    Type of office
    Sales / Distribution base
    Office location area
    Special zone for Asian Headquarters in Central Tokyo
    Office setup timing
    May～Jun 2021 (scheduled)
    Business Overview
    Ameriprise Asset Management Holdings Singapore is the APAC regional headquarters of Ameriprise Financial Inc., a global asset management company under the brand name of Columbia Threadneedle Investments.
    Columbia Threadneedle Investments is a leading global asset manager that manages assets across developed and emerging market equities, fixed income, asset allocation solutions and alternatives for individual, institutional, and corporate clients around the world. Their investment teams around the world work together to uncover investment insights. They aim to deliver strong and repeatable risk-adjusted returns through an active and consistent investment approach that is team-based, risk-aware and performance-driven.
    Headquartered in Singapore, Ameriprise Asset Management Holdings Singapore plans to establish a sales/distribution office in Tokyo to provide investment advisory services in Japan under the brand name of Columbia Threadneedle Investments.
    CompanyURL
    https://www.columbiathreadneedle.sg/en/

  • Blocksure Holdings Limited

    Type of office
    Sales base
    Office location area
    Special zone for Asian Headquarters in Central Tokyo
    Office setup timing
    April 2021 (scheduled)
    Business Overview
    Blocksure offers insurers (insurance companies, insurance agents, etc.) with a solution that utilizes blockchain technology to automate operations such as underwriting assessment, policy administration, and financial settlement. Blocksure's Blockchain technology enables decentralized real-time sharing of insurance contract information among policyholders, insurance agents, insurance companies, and reinsurance companies in a form that is extremely difficult to invalidate. Therefore, automation of operations regarding underwriting assessment, policy administration, and financial settlement that was previously done manually can be realized. As a result, operation costs can be reduced by up to 90%.
    Headquartered in the United Kingdom, Blocksure plans to establish a sales base in Tokyo to explore new customers in the Japan market.
    CompanyURL
    https://www.blocksure.com/

  • InsureVite Pte Ltd

    Type of office
    Sales base
    Office location area
    Area around Shibuya Station
    Office setup timing
    March 2021（scheduled）
    Business Overview
    InsureVite provides insurance companies with chatbot-based business automation solutions. The solution automates client facing and insurer back office operations at the same time, by reading the necessary document images and analyze the contents. Procedures can be completed within application or web page.
    Headquartered in Singapore, InsureVite plans to establish a sales base in Tokyo to expand into the Japanese market.
    CompanyURL
    https://insurevite.com/

  • Mayar Capital Ltd.

    Type of office
    Sales base
    Office location area
    Special zone for Asian Headquarters in Central Tokyo
    Office setup timing
    December 2021 (scheduled)
    Business Overview
    Mayar Capital is a value responsible investment focused Asset Manager targeting Medium-cap and large-cap stock. Mayar Capital developed an investment selection process that combines ESG and value investments based on the long-term investment track record and experience from investment team. This investment process enables a high level of accuracy in calculating the current value of companies and achieves stable, high investment returns.
    The fund managed by Mayar Capital Ltd. is recognized as the five-star fund (top 10% of all funds worldwide) by Morningstar's proprietary point system from 2018 to 2020.
    Headquartered in United Kingdom, Mayar Capital plans to establish a sales base in Tokyo to distribute their funds to Japanese qualified institutional investors.
    CompanyURL
    https://www.mayarcapital.com/

  • Omniscience Corporation

    Type of office
    Sales base
    Office location area
    Central Tokyo area (TBD)
    Office setup timing
    January 2021（scheduled）
    Business Overview
    Omniscience provides a platform that automates underwriting and other operations at life insurance companies. The platform is capable of extracting data from paper documents (ex. PDF of health check sheets), automating underwriting process, capital management, etc.
    Omniscience's services enable life insurance companies automate the analysis and processing of vast amounts of highly specialized information using AI. In addition, the patented distributed processing technology improves the calculation speed compared to the conventional one, enabling highly accurate analysis.
    Headquartered in the United States, Omniscience plans to establish a sales base in Tokyo to support existing Japanese customer, as well as explore new customers in Japan market.
    CompanyURL
    https://omniscience.jp/

  • ORI Capital Limited

    Type of office
    Research / Sales base
    Office location area
    Central Tokyo area (TBD)
    Office setup timing
    December 2021 (scheduled)
    Business Overview
    ORI Capital is a fund manager specialized in the healthcare and biotechnology industry.
    ORI Capital incorporates their self-developed AI enhanced research platform "ORIzon" into their operations. "ORIzon" automatically analyzes large amount of scientific and industry data to keep ORI Capital abreast of scientific and industry developments, allowing accurate investment decisions in selection of investee companies and investment management.
    Headquartered in Hong Kong, ORI Capital plans to establish a sales and research base in Tokyo to distribute their funds to Japanese investors and invest in Japanese companies.
    CompanyURL
    https://ori-capital.com/

  • Serrala Group GmbH

    Type of office
    Sales base
    Office location area
    Central Tokyo area (TBD)
    Office setup timing
    December 2021 (scheduled)
    Business Overview
    Serrala develops and provides solutions that automate the full universe of financial processes (order-to-cash & procure-to-pay) for corporations across a wide range of industries.
    The automation solutions are a key vehicle to improve efficiency for accounting and financial operations. Functions such as AI based matching of ordering/receiving/shipping data with invoices, enables internal fraud prevention and reduces compliance risk significantly.
    Serrala has developed a strong partnership with SAP SE for more than 30 years since its establishment in 1984 and is increasing its footprint as the innovation leader in the cloud space. Headquartered in Germany, Serrala operates internationally in more than 10 countries and plans to establish a sales base in Tokyo to expand into the Japanese market.
    CompanyURL
    https://www.serrala.com/

  • Sureify Labs, Inc

    Type of office
    Sales base
    Office location area
    Central Tokyo area (TBD)
    Office setup timing
    September 2021（scheduled）
    Business Overview
    Sureify provides a platform for insurance companies that delivers omnichannel sales, policyholder engagement, and policyholder servicing solutions. The solution powers omnichannel sales capabilities that drive increased placement rates via quoting, e-application and automated underwriting. It also uses insights to foster a lifelong digital relationship with policyholders through multiple forms of engagement and analytics, leading to greater value for each policyholder. With the platform, insurance companies can provide their in-force customers expected comprehensive self-service portals and applications.
    Headquartered in the United States, Sureify plans to establish a sales base in Tokyo to expand into the Japanese market.
    CompanyURL
    https://www.sureify.com/

  • Uprise Technologies Limited

    Type of office
    Sales base
    Office location area
    Special zone for Asian Headquarters in Central Tokyo (ex. Nihonbashi)
    Office setup timing
    June 2021 (scheduled)
    Business Overview
    Uprise Technologies provides financing and payment solutions to SMEs. The company's UprisePay service enables buyers to use credit cards to make payments that normally don't accept cards, such as invoices, rent and salaries, improving convenience. Timing and amount of payment can be flexibly changed, helping businesses avoid seasonal cash flow issues. Sellers can register a free account on the platform to start accepting credit card payments, and can monetize accounts receivable quickly, freeing up cash flow for investment in business growth.
    Headquartered in Hong Kong, Uprise Technologies plans to set up sales offices for many SMEs after expanding into Japan.
    CompanyURL
    https://uprisepay.com/

  • Vertex Venture Management Pte Ltd

    Type of office
    Sales base
    Office location area
    Center of Tokyo（Special zone for Asian Headquarters in Central Tokyo）
    Office setup timing
    December 2021
    Business Overview
    Vertex Venture Management Pte Ltd is principally engaged in fund management for the Vertex family of funds. The Vertex funds invest in technology and healthcare opportunities in the early and growth stages globally with a track record of growing disruptive, transformational companies into global champions. The Vertex funds are venture capital funds, to which Vertex Venture Holding Ltd ("Vertex Holdings"), the parent company of Vertex Venture Management Pte Ltd, provides anchor funding and operational support.
    Headquartered in Singapore, Vertex Venture Management Pte Ltd may establish a presence in Tokyo to attract new institutional investors and support invested companies.
    CompanyURL
    https://www.vertexholdings.com/

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