“Startups are a key driver for breakthrough innovation,” as OECD explains.
Apart from investment, Along with investment, UTokyo IPC supports the startup journeys
through Startup Building Support, providing hands-on assistance to founders, and 1stRound,
accelerating the growth of teams before and after incorporation.
We work hard to commercialize the promising seeds of innovation academia continues to cultivate academia continues to cultivate.
Startup Incubation nurtures the seeds of business by providing hands-on support to entrepreneurs and researchers before and after company formation.
1stRound offers six months of proactive support to teams with outstanding vision and technology at the pre- and post-incorporation stages, helping them accelerate fundraising, recruitment, and business partnerships.
By collaborating with academia, venture capital firms, and corporations, and through an end-to-end support framework covering everything from founding to growth, we strive to accelerate the social implementation of innovations born from academia and to drive the creation of new industries.
In our Startup Building Support, experienced entrepreneurs and business managers offer free, practical assistance to commercialize promising technologies from the preparation stage. We also carefully select and appoint prospective CEOs who aim to launch startups leveraging innovations from academia as UTokyo IPC’s Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIRs). These EIRs receive comprehensive, pro bono support—including introductions to researchers—to help them establish startups with the goal of bringing academic technologies to market.
Startup Building Program
Applications are open to teams that have not yet received external investment from sources such as venture capital firms, as well as startups established within the last three years.
Teams selected for the program receive operational funding, support from specialists, and access to various resources—including offices, laboratories, and cloud services—to help them achieve their first round of fundraising in the most effective way possible.
