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Funded in Japan last week: a conversational AI dev, a mobile pay service, a web tool for restaurants, an IT matching service, and a vegetable delivery app.

This week’s roundup of Japanese startup investments features fintech, medtech, and data analytics.

This week’s roundup of Japanese startup investments features fintech, medtech, and data analytics.

For the first time, a Prime Minister of Japan selected their favorite startup. Abe picked a good one too.

Spike started out as a side-business for Metaps and is now starting to come into its own.

A more diverse workforce will create a stronger company in the long run.

Paidy is diving into the risky side of payments by vouching for customer purchases.

Report: Japanese stealth fund ANRI announces new fund for young entrepreneurs, targets $20M. Will focus on seed and series A investments.

When CEO and founder of Coiney Naoko Samata first joined Paypal Japan in 2009, she didn’t imagine that she would one day become an entrepreneur. Three years down the road,

Japan’s first-ever smarphone-based credit card processing service Coiney has just launched today. Instead of conventional credit authorisation terminals (CAT), the company provides merchants with a small attachement that can be