NEWS

UTokyo IPC’s Academic Startup Acceleration Fund (“ASA Fund”) Welcomes New Limited Partners and Announces Final Closing

UTokyo IPC Decides to Make an LP Investment in the “Red 1 Healthcare Limited Partnership”

UTokyo IPC and Cyber Valley Launch “Valley and Sunrise” to Support European Startups Expanding into the Japanese Market

UTokyo IPC Announces Follow-on Investment in OptQC Inc.

UTokyo IPC Hosts Seminars at BioJapan 2025 on Global Startup Creation and the Future of Japan–U.S. Drug Discovery Ecosystems

UTokyo IPC Announces Investment in Beren Therapeutics, P.B.C.

UTokyo IPC Selected as a Prospective Awardee for “Partner Entities” in Pilot Activities of the Cabinet Office’s Global Startup Campus Initiative — Partnering with Leading Global Incubators to Create Japan’s Next Generation of Global Startups —

UTokyo IPC Announces the 13th Cohort of “1stRound” and Welcomes JERA as New Corporate Partner

Cross-academia Accelerator “1stRound” Adds AIST Group and Shibaura Institute of Technology as Co-hosts, Expanding to 22 Universities and 5 Research Institutes

UTokyo IPC Selected as a Partner Organization for the “Deep Tech Course” under the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Startup Support Expansion Program ‘TOKYO SUTEAM’ (FY2025)

UTokyo IPC President & CEO Kosuke Ueda and 1stRound Director Hideki Nagasaka Appointed as “Ambassadors for Entrepreneurship Promotion” by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)

UTokyo IPC Launches “Launch1000,” a Commercialization Program for Researchers’ Technology Seeds
— Selected for MEXT’s “Project for Formation of Next-Generation Open Innovation Model”

UTokyo IPC Announces Investment in Legalscape Inc.

UTokyo IPC Presents “Special Innovative Prize” at the Teenage Business Contest Japan – Empowering high school students to tackle local challenges across Japan –

Axelspace Holdings Corporation, a UTokyo IPC Portfolio Company, Successfully Lists on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market

BlueWX Selected for NEDO’s Deep-Tech Startups Support Program

UTokyo IPC Makes Follow-On Investment in Logomix Inc.

UTokyo IPC Exercises Stock Options to Make Additional Investment in Robotruck

UTokyo IPC Invests as an LP in the “UTEC 6 Limited Partnership”

UrbanX Technologies, a UTokyo IPC Portfolio Company, Becomes a Subsidiary of ZENRIN