San Francisco, CA – The Japan–U.S. Innovation Awards Program proudly announces the winners of the SunBridge Emerging Leader Award for 2023. The 2023 SunBridge Emerging Leader Award – U.S. winner is Figma, a web-based platform for teams that brainstorm, design and build digital products together, while the SunBridge Emerging Leader Award – Japan goes to Treasure Data, a data cloud with powerful and user-friendly tools that unite data, analytics, and business users to improve efficiency and drive growth.
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San Francisco, CA – The Japan–U.S. Innovation Awards Program is excited to announce the five 2023 Innovation Showcase honorees which will be featured at the 13th Annual Japan–U.S. Innovation Awards Symposium on July 20, 2023 at Stanford University. The 2023 Innovation Showcase companies are: Final Aim, Elephantech, LegalOn Technologies, RECOTECH, and SkyDrive.
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San Francisco, CA – The Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Program is proud to announce five exciting Japanese startup companies that will be featured in the Innovation Showcase of the annual Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Symposium on July 14, 2022: CureApp, GITAI, Kyoto Fusioneering, Telexistence, and WARPSPACE.
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San Francisco, CA – The Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Program proudly announces Slack Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Cal Henderson as the keynote speaker at the Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Symposium on July 14, 2022.
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San Francisco, CA – The Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Program proudly announces the winners of the SunBridge Emerging Leader Award for 2022. The 2022 SunBridge Emerging Leader Award – U.S. winner is Databricks, the data and AI company and pioneer of the data lakehouse program, while the SunBridge Emerging Leader Award – Japan goes to TIER IV, creator of Autoware, the world’s first open-source software for autonomous driving.
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San Francisco, CA – The Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Program is proud to announce five exciting Japanese startup companies that will be featured in the Innovation Showcase of the annual Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Symposium on July 15, 2021.
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2021 Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Innovation Showcase Press Release
San Francisco, CA – The Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Program is proud to announce five exciting Japanese startup companies that will be featured in the Innovation Showcase of the annual Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Symposium on July 15, 2021.
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2021 Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Innovation Showcase Press Release
San Francisco, CA – The Japan – US Innovation Awards Program proudly announces the winners of the SunBridge Emerging Leader Award for 2021. Each year, this award recognizes one high-growth company from Japan and one from the U.S. that are already beginning to transform a major industry or value chain.
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2021 Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Emerging Leaders Press Release
San Francisco, CA – The Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Program proudly announces that prominent entrepreneur and pioneering Japanese businesswoman Tomoko Namba is the keynote speaker at the Japan-U.S. Innovation Awards Symposium on July 15, 2021. Now in its 11th year, the annual Symposium is the largest event in the year-round Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Program, which is produced by the Japan Society of Northern California in cooperation with the Stanford University US-Asia Technology Management Center.
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(UPDATED 2021.06.02) 2021 Japan U.S. Innovation Awards Innovation Showcase Press Release
San Francisco, CA – The Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Program proudly announces five Japanese startup companies to be featured in the 2019 Innovation Showcase, as part of the Japan-U.S. Innovation Awards Symposium at Stanford University on Friday, July 26, 2019. The Innovation Showcase recognizes young, rapidly growing companies with founders in Japan developing exciting technologies and highly innovative business ideas that have the potential for major worldwide impact. These companies were selected from a highly competitive field of candidates demonstrating outstanding promise and success in gaining international traction. This year’s five companies will be: Atonarp, Cinnamon, Kyulux, Inc., Triple W, and VALUENEX.
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(UPDATED 2019.07.08) 2019 Japan U.S. Innovation Awards Innovation Showcase Press Release
San Francisco, CA – The Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Program proudly announces the winners of the 2019 SunBridge Emerging Leader Awards, Zoom Video Communications of the U.S. and WHILL of Japan. These Awards, one to a U.S. firm and one to a Japanese firm, recognize later-stage dynamically growing companies that have begun to transform an industry or value chain. They will be presented at the ninth annual Japan-US Innovation Awards Symposium at Stanford University on July 26, 2019. The Awards Program is produced by the Japan Society of Northern California in cooperation with the Stanford University US-Asia Technology Management Center.
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