Zak Murase

Peerspace is the leading marketplace for hourly venue rentals for meetings, productions, and events. The company opens doors to the most inspiring spaces around the world, from lofts and mansions to storefronts and studios. Peerspace welcomes guests to over 40,000 spaces where they can bring their creative ideas to life, and empowers hosts to earn additional income simply by opening their doors.

CrediFi delivers the most powerful financial data and analytics for CRE professionals and portfolio managers. To date, CrediFi has raised $29 million from investors including Battery Ventures, Viola Ventures (formerly know as Carmel Ventures), OurCrowd, Stax, Liberty Interactive’s Liberty Israel Venture Fund, Maverick Ventures and 31 VENTURES Global Innovation Fund, a CVC fund managed by Global Brain for Tokyo-based real estate developer Mitsui Fudosan.

business-to-business (B2B) software

Maker is the fastest way to create and deliver engaging marketing content. We’ve combined the best of design, web-publishing and analytics tools in a single platform that can enhance any existing site with 10x richer marketing content with zero code, development cost or risk. Marketers and designers use our software to create, publish & optimize content for their landing pages, product pages, blog posts, user-generated stories and more. Customers like Sony, Square, Diesel, Ghurka and many others use Maker to enrich their sites, increasing engagement, conversion and revenue growth. We'd love to work with you. See Maker.co for a curated showcase of product and brand stories, created by 2000+ brands using our platform.

Jibo, Inc., creator of the world’s first Social Robot for the home, is a character-driven company dedicated to creating unforgettable experiences through advanced social robotics technology. Jibo, Inc. was founded by Cynthia Breazeal, a pioneer of social robotics and human robot interaction from the MIT Media Lab, and is staffed by robotics and consumer electronics leaders in both the Boston and San Francisco areas.

Our mission at Awair is to empower you with the knowledge, motivation, and confidence to be healthy and thrive in your environment. We design products that complement you and your home or office, while equipping you with insights and personalized solutions. Though we build technology, our products shouldn’t feel like technology. Our products enable you to have pride in all aspects of your environment. Our suite of connected air-related products provides full-stack solution to know, conquer, and breathe easy in your environments. The goal is to completely change how we design and build our homes and offices, empowering all of us to make healthier and smarter decisions everyday.

"You yourself said that the engineers in the Bespoke department — the very best — had led interesting lives, rather than coming from the straight and narrow. Which implies a correlation, does it not?" — Neal Stephenson ...much more to unveil.

Ossia® is challenging peoples core assumptions about what is possible with wireless power. Ossias flagship product, Cota®, redefines wireless power by safely delivering remote, targeted energy to devices at a distance. Cota, Ossias patented smart antenna technology automatically keeps multiple devices charged without any user intervention, enabling an efficient and truly wire-free, powered-up world, that is always on and always connected.

Yale and August Home are leaders in the smart lock and smart home security space. We create products and services that add everyday simplicity and convenience to our users’ lives by letting them control access to their front door, while providing peace of mind through visibility into who is coming and going. The August and Yale Access apps support our products in the U.S. and Canada, and we’re constantly adding partner integrations to our platform. We collaborate with industry leaders to seamlessly fit our locks into the smart home, making it possible for our users to come home to find a clean house, the dog walked, and those pesky repairs taken care of. What sets us apart from others? Our small but talented team takes ownership of everything we do, from start to finish. We are driven by a collective passion to create innovative products and services that make people’s lives easier and safer.

Founded in 2006, VentureBeat is the leading source for transformative tech news and events that provide deep context to help business leaders make smart decisions and stay on top of breaking news. VB is recognized as the leading media authority in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data. It also offers the most incisive coverage of the game industry. Whether you come for the articles, read our newsletters, or attend our events, you will emerge from VentureBeat with new knowledge, perspective, influences, and connections. News: We live, breathe, and cover transformative technology — from AI to gaming, small business to enterprise, AR/VR to 5G, and more. Newsletters: Want to stay on top of the latest without leaving your inbox? We send you all the news and analysis you need — and nothing more — with our daily and weekly newsletters. Events: Whether it’s one of our large flagship events, or an intimate private gathering, our events are always authentic, unique, in-person experiences formed around innovative technology, discussions, and ideas.

Edmodo is a blended learning and distance learning platform for schools and districts, educators, and learners, providing flexible tools for classroom instruction, professional collaboration, communication, and community building—all in one platform.

Pogoseat builds innovative ticketing technologies on behalf of sports teams, ticketing systems, live-entertainment venues, artists and promoters. Its purpose built solutions, proven methodologies, and best practices are designed to drive incremental revenue, fan experience and provide more flexibility to fans. Our white-labelled solution enables fans to purchase last-minute tickets, upgrade seats, purchase unique VIP experiences, both before and during events. Pogoseat’s mobile application allows fans to improve their live entertainment experience and provides teams & venues a platform to increase fan engagement, monetize unused inventory and gather data that can be used to enhance the fan experience and sell additional tickets. Pogoseat is partnered with professional & collegiate sports teams as well as select concert & theatre venues. Pogoseat is also integrated with back-end ticketing systems, creating a turnkey solution that automates the ticket-buying process.

For open positions please visit: https://issuu.com/careers Issuu is where the worlds most innovative and growth-oriented content creators publish digitally. As the industry’s leading digital publishing platform, we give publishers the tools to deliver over 5 billion page views each month to the 80+ million readers who care most about their content. We help publishers find, understand, monetize and grow a massive global audience on any device — while helping readers all over the world discover, enjoy and share new content. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Issuu is backed by Sunstone Capital and KDDI.

A human-computer interaction research lab at Santa Clara University. We use human-centered methods to research, design, and develop technologies with social impact. Our lab is directed by Professor Kai Lukoff, whose work has been published in top-tier academic venues such as CHI, CSCW, IMWUT, DIS, and Mindfulness Journal, and recognized with the 2023 Outstanding Dissertation Award from ACM SIGCHI.

JETRO is a Japanese government-supported organization that promotes mutually beneficial trade and investment relation between Japan and other nations. JETRO has a network of 46 offices in Japan and 74 offices worldwide. With the support of JETROs dedicated staff, clients can incorporate their business; receive visa, immigration, and HR support; find dedicated office space; identify local government subsidies; get tailored market studies; and more. Contact your local JETRO office to learn about how we can support your business goals in Japan.

Founded in 1985 by Masazumi Ishii, AZCA is a management consulting and investment banking firm that assists companies as they expand their businesses between North America and Asia (Japan in particular). AZCA serves as a catalyst - advising clients in the development of effective international strategies. More importantly, we play an active role through every step of the corporate development process to ensure and expedite their successful implementation.

Zeon Ventures invests in early stage startups across materials, sustainability, climate and health. In addition to capital, we serve as a catalyst for startups by providing R&D support, channel access and industry connections. Zeon Ventures is the venture capital arm of Zeon Corporation.

Plug and Play is the worlds leading accelerator/venture capital. Plug and Play is founded in 2006 in Silicon Valley, our mission is to globally accelerate innovation by connecting startups, corporate partners, investors and governments. As a global innovation platform, our programs have expanded worldwide in over 50 locations. We have 1,700+ cases of startup investment and have worked with over 2,000 startups through accelerator programs, corporate innovation services. Plug and Play Japan was founded in 2017 as a subsidiary of Plug and Play and 45+ leading companies participating in our programs as official corporate partners. Plug and Plays major expertises are "support corporate partners creating innovation", "cross-industrial accelerator programs" and "startup investment", making best use of our extensive global network. Plug and Play Japan supports the co-creation and collaboration between Japanese/international startups with cutting-edge technologies and industry-leading corporations to generate innovation.