We are excited to continue our collaboration with Plug & Play Japan for the current startup batch, and will present a number of companies from the Brand & Retail as well as Fintech segments, demonstrating convergence across the domains.
McLEAR
McLEAR, in Strategic Alliance with VISA Inc, is a leading wearable technology company for payments, security, and fashion globally. McLEAR prominently showcased the world’s first payment ring alongside VISA at the Rio Olympics, Super Bowl 51, Eurovision 2017, and FIFA Confederate Cup 2017. McLEAR has unveiled its exclusive executive-class smart ring to issuers world-wide. McLEAR invented the first NFC-based smart ring and is responsible for kick starting the wearable technology ring space under it’s previous brand name of NFC Ring®
Saffe Payments
Do you image a world where you can pay without any belongings? What if you could pay with just a selfie? Saffe is a mobile payment app that leverages world-class facial recognition technology to make your life easier and more secure.
WalkOut
WalkOut is developing a proprietary artificial intelligence system for highly accurate real-time product identification used as a fast checkout solution, a strong analytics tool and an onsite customer engagement platform. The WalkOut system is an end-to-end checkout solution that mounts on top of existing carts and baskets instantly transforming them into smart points of sale. Our SW allows the business to get a deep understanding of customer behavior, just as you would expect from an online analytics tool – but in a physical store. We create a platform for customer engagement allowing real-time communication with the customer – A valuable omni-channel tool bridging the gap between online and offline shopping.
LearningPal
LearningPal’s leading AI-based enterprise solution digitizes countless paper documents to well-structured data swiftly and accurately. To save your time right from the start, any templates and any handwriting styles are allowed for your paper documents with LearningPal’s cutting-edge handwriting recognition technology. LearningPal strongly believes repetitive office work should be automated to unleash the potential of your best assets – employees. LearningPal’s next generation enterprise software always devotes to providing maximum output at minimal cost.
Applied Academics
Applied Academics is a lean and growing team of researchers, technologists, and business teams in New York, Tokyo, and London. We are leaders in predicting the performance of investment managers to help socially important institutional investors protect the financial future of their beneficiaries.
Plug & Play Japan
Plug and Play is a global innovation platform. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, they have built accelerator programs, corporate innovation services, and an in-house VC to make technological advancement progress faster than ever before. Since inception in 2006, their programs have expanded worldwide to include a presence in over 20 locations globally giving startups the necessary resources to succeed in Silicon Valley and beyond. With over 6,000 startups and 280 official corporate partners, they have created the ultimate startup ecosystem in many industries. They provide active investments with 200 leading Silicon Valley VCs, and host more than 700 networking events per year. Companies in their community have raised over $7 billion in funding, with successful portfolio exits including Guardant Health, Danger, Dropbox, Lending Club, and PayPal.