We’re heading to Tokyo for the last stop of Road to Jakarta

We’ve traveled to Jakarta, Bandung, Ho Chi Minh City, Surabaya, Yogyakarta, Manila, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur to pick out the best startup from each city so that we can bring them all to exhibit for free next month at Tech in Asia Jakarta 2015.

That’s eight cities in one month – and we’re going to round off the Tech in Asia Tour: Road to Jakarta by making our final stop at the vibrant city of Tokyo this Thursday evening, October 22. Again, there will be five startups taking the stage, each pitching for the chance to get their product and idea exposed to over 2,000 international tech fans come November 11 and 12.

They will be judged by Yasukane Matsumoto (CEO and founder, Raksul), Shinji Asada (Japan head, Salesforce Ventures), and Takahiro Shoji (managing director, DG Incubation). Another highlight you can look forward to apart from the finalist pitches is the fireside chat with Yasukane, who founded Raksul, the most funded pre-IPO firm in Japan.

There will also be food and drinks and a whole lot of networking opportunities, so grab your friends and secure your complimentary seats – it’s just a click away!

Venue

Agenda

6:00pm – 6:30pm: Registration
6:30pm – 6:40pm: Welcome by Tech in Asia
6:40pm – 7.10pm: Fireside chat with Yasukane Matsumoto
7.10pm – 7.15pm: Break
7:15pm – 8:15pm: Pitches by finalists
8.15pm – 8.20pm: Sponsors’ presentation
8:20pm – 8:30pm: Announcement and closing
8:30pm – 9:30pm: Networking

Our panel of judges

Yasukane Matsumoto, CEO and founder of Raksul

Upon graduation, Yasukane joined A.T.Kearney in Japan, where he was engaged in cost-reduction projects for clients. It was there where he realised the opportunity to promote digitization and efficiency of the legacy printing industry while the industry was worth US$6 billion in Japan.

Following that he founded Raksul in 2009 to tackle the printing ecommerce business. Raksul is one of the fastest growing startups in Japan. Since its founding, Raksul has raised a total of US$51.63 million in venture finance.

Shinji Asada, Japan head of Salesforce Ventures

Shinji Asada is the Japan head of Salesforce Ventures, the venture capital arm of Salesforce. Shinji has over 15 years of extensive business development and investment experience in high tech industries in Japan and the United States while employed at ITOCHU Corporation.

Takahiro Shoji, managing director of DG Incubation

Takahiro Shoji is the managing director of DG Incubation. He previously joined Baidu’s internationalization team based in Tokyo and was in charge of web search. Currently, he makes investments on behalf of Digital Garage and supports globalization for portfolio companies while helping run Open Network Lab, one of Japan’s leading Seed accelerator program.

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