Japanese telco NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM) held its latest Docomo Innovation Village demo day last week. It’s the second running of its startup incubation program after it was first established in October 2012.
After more than four months of incubation, the six graduate teams were given only six minutes to make a presentation at the finale about their progress in the program. The presentation was evaluated and voted on by the judges and the audience through their smartphones. Four prizes were dished out, including the grand prize and the Sony Select Prize that was selected by Sony, the program’s partner this year.
These are the six startups:
Me:New
Me:New serves up information about nutrition and gives an automatic, recommended menu for one week based on certain food preferences. It’s aimed at busy career women and housewives who are agonizing over healthy home cooking for their family.
This startup won both the grand prize and the audience prize.
ATLS
ATLS is an app-based version of textbooks used by high school students preparing for Japan’s university entrance exams. It’s produced in partnership with textbook publishing companies.
The unique aspect is a stopwatch that checks how much time users take to solve the problems. The team is aiming to tune into data about past ATLS questions that were solved by current, well-performing university students.
This startup was both the Sony Select winner and the ‘Best Stretch Prize’ winner.
Spotomo
Egao no hon
Pozica
WonderBee
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