Wednesday, September 3, 2025 Overseas Fintech Startups × Japanese Companies Business Matching & Pitch Event to Promote Collaboration

Company Name: Protosure

Business Overview: No-code platform specialized in insurance product development and sales
Target Collaboration Partners: Insurance, Asset Management, Banking, IT Consulting
Collaboration Needs:
(1) Enhance investment strategies through data integration and AI utilization. Eliminate Excel sprawl for efficiency.
(2) Achieve low-cost insurance DX with no-code. Flexibly handle extensive requirements.
(3) Utilize no-code for financial projects. Strengthen competitiveness through rapid development.
(4) Efficiently digitize insurance sales and mortgages. Overcome complex requirements.

Speaker: Taiki Asakawa (CEO)
Profile: Graduated from Waseda University's School of Science and Engineering, Department of Mathematical Sciences in 2008. Worked in product development at Sony Life Insurance's Actuarial Department for approximately two and a half years. Earned a Master's degree in Actuarial Science from Bayes Business School (City, University of London) in 2012. After working at a UK startup, joined Protosure in June 2020 to lead business development.
Message to Japanese Companies: Protosure dramatically streamlines system development in insurance and finance using no-code solutions, achieving approximately 80% cost reduction compared to conventional methods. This enables you to give the green light to DX initiatives—which previously lacked clear ROI and made investment decisions difficult—with solid financial justification. Now is the time to start moving your company's DX projects forward with Protosure.
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Company Name: GeoX GIS Innovations

Business Overview: GeoX is an Israeli SaaS company that leverages AI and aerial image analysis technology to provide highly accurate attribute data on real estate and buildings. It enables the centralized acquisition of diverse information surrounding buildings—from roof material, shape, and deterioration status to the presence of solar panels, as well as external environments like water bodies and roads. GeoX delivers data solutions addressing diverse industry needs across Japan, Australia, the US, and European markets.
Potential Collaboration Partners: Banks (improving accuracy of mortgage loan screening and collateral valuation), Real Estate Investment Companies (streamlining property surveys and vacant property investment analysis), Trust & Asset Management Companies (digitizing asset management portfolios), Real Estate Tech Companies (enhancing functionality through external data integration), Insurance Companies (property risk assessment, underwriting support)
Collaboration Needs: Digital transformation of property surveys using aerial imagery and AI analysis; identification of investment-grade property candidates (e.g., suitable for renewable energy adoption, vacant property utilization); precise asset valuation through visualization of disaster and flood risks; automation and data-driven transformation of review and underwriting processes; visualization of roof deterioration and renovation needs

Speaker: Shizuka Ito (Operation Manager)
Profile: Responsible for business development in the Japanese market at GeoX GIS Innovations. During 8 years living overseas, drove projects across diverse fields including marketing, business development, and customer success at startups. Currently leads GeoX's expansion in the Japanese market, spearheading partner alliance building and business development. Utilizes AI and aerial image analysis to support DX in the finance and real estate sectors.
Message to Japanese Companies: Challenges surrounding real estate, such as climate change, vacant housing issues, and an aging population with declining birthrates, are becoming increasingly complex. GeoX's data, powered by aerial imagery and AI, makes these challenges "visible," supporting rapid decision-making. We aim to collaborate with banks and real estate investment companies to create new real estate value through data utilization. We invite you to visit our booth and attend our presentation session.
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Company Name: Pulse iD

Business Overview: We provide customer experience (CX) enhancement solutions to financial institutions and corporations, utilizing AI technology to personalize customer reward programs.
Target Collaboration Partners: Businesses operating customer reward programs (banks/financial institutions, card companies, retail/service providers, e-commerce operators, airlines, etc.)
Collaboration Needs: Improving loyalty and reward programs through AI-driven data analysis and hyper-personalization (enhancing customer experience (CX), user numbers, and utilization rates)

Speaker: Kevin Newman (Vice President, Partnership Strategy)
Profile: For many years, he has supported Japanese companies and government agencies in the fields of cyber resilience and data governance. In recent years, he has provided advisory services on AI-powered data platforms to the retail, e-commerce, banking, and telecommunications industries.
Over the past 15 years, he has been involved as an investor, founder, and advisor for more than seven Japanese-based startups in the fintech, greentech, and energatech fields. He also led Visa's first crypto asset product in the Asia-Pacific region and drove market development.
He also has experience serving as a member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) Digital Transformation Committee and Alternative Finance Committee.
Message to Japanese companies: Pulse iD designs programs based on customer behavior using AI-powered hyper-personalized CX and rewards strategies. We improve customer engagement for financial institutions and partner companies through real-time targeting and customization. As a partner committed to improving your long-term customer engagement, we would be delighted to discuss the details with you.
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Company Name: Unravel Carbon

Business Overview: Utilizing our proprietary AI Carbon Engine, one of the world's largest carbon databases, and insights from climate change experts, we provide a platform that rapidly and accurately visualizes and analyzes GHG emissions data for companies and their entire supply chains, along with the world's first AI Agent. What previously took months to visualize emissions across the entire supply chain can now be done in minutes. Companies can formulate decarbonization strategies and make rapid decisions based on reliable data.
Target Partners: Financial institutions, insurance, manufacturing, automotive, retail, distribution, trading companies, pharmaceuticals
Collaboration Needs: Companies seeking to measure, visualize, reduce, and report GHG emissions (including Scope 3), address Financed Emissions for investment/lending targets, and accelerate sustainability management and disclosure readiness for SSBJ compliance.

Speaker: Natsune Nomura (Country Manager)
Profile: Over 25 years of experience in Japan's cutting-edge IT industry at global IT and consulting firms including IBM, PwC, Google, McKinsey, ByteDance, and Twilio. Holds a Bachelor's in International Relations from Ritsumeikan University and a Master's in Law (International Politics) from Kyoto University Graduate School. Currently pursuing a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) specializing in AI at Golden Gate University, USA.
Message to Japanese Companies: Unravel Carbon is an AI climate tech company born from our CEO's desire to "leave a better planet for the next generation" upon welcoming a child. Selected for Forbes Asia 100, the AWS Gen AI Accelerator, and Google for Startups AI First Program, our technological prowess and innovation are internationally recognized. Our clients achieve a 100% audit pass rate. Our accuracy and practicality are proven.As climate action directly impacts corporate value, accurately measuring GHG emissions is the first step toward decarbonization. True to our name "Unravel," we simplify sustainability's complexities. Will you join us in pioneering the future?
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Company Name: KBRA (Kroll Bond Rating Agency)

Business Overview: As a global comprehensive credit rating agency, we have assigned over 80,000 ratings to more than 6,300 issuers across diverse sectors including structured finance, private credit, fund finance, corporate entities, financial institutions, sovereigns, and insurance companies, with total issuance exceeding $3.8 trillion.
Potential Collaboration Partners: Financial institutions (insurance companies, banks, etc.), funds, corporations
Collaboration Needs: Through KBRA's ratings and analysis, we seek to:
• Support companies aiming to diversify funding sources and enhance credibility
• Engage investors interested in expanding investment products and improving analytical capabilities, including in private credit and structured finance
Profile: As a founding member of KBRA Japan, led office establishment and business development in the Asia and Japan markets. Previously held roles including Head of Japan Sales at European and US securities firms and a US Fintech company. Message to Japanese Companies: KBRA has pioneered and played a central role in establishing new standards for risk assessment, particularly in ratings and assessments for the private markets and fund finance sectors.We look forward to providing Japanese companies and institutional investors with KBRA's unique consistent analysis, transparency, and deep insights.
(*KBRA Japan is currently proceeding with application procedures for registration as a credit rating agency under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act.)
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Company Name: Graphen Japan

Business Overview: Graphen Japan is a U.S.-based technology company developing an innovative, proprietary AI platform modeled on human brain function. With particular strengths in inference technology and advanced graph-based data analysis, it provides optimized, value-added solutions across diverse industries—including healthcare, finance, and automotive—through highly customizable AI solutions, unique domain knowledge, and various tools.
Potential Collaboration Partners: Finance, Insurance, SIers, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Institutions, Automotive, 2C Businesses (Retail, Transportation, Tourism, etc.)
Collaboration Needs:
(1) Finance, Insurance, SIers: Implementation of AML diagnostics and risk management solutions
(2) Pharmaceuticals, Medical Institutions: • Joint development of our in-development compounds for clinical use via one-step drug discovery solutions; joint development of novel drugs (e.g., for rare diseases) targeting specified targets. Services providing new treatment approaches and drug repositioning information based on omics/proteome analysis.
(3) Automotive: Joint development and implementation of advanced vehicle management solutions incorporating vehicle fault diagnosis × personalized agents, with an eye toward autonomous driving
(4) B2C Business (Retail, Transportation, Tourism, etc.): ・Introduction of multilingual digital humans with human-like movements through expressions, gaze, and gestures to enhance efficiency and drive innovation in existing businesses.

Speaker: Tadahito Maejima (Managing Director)
Career: After over 15 years overseas, including roles at OKI (communications infrastructure, overseas mobile phone sales, assistant to overseas subsidiary president), Sony (GM of mobile phone business strategy, member of joint venture negotiation team with Ericsson), and Panasonic (business leader for devices division, GM of new B2B business development), he assumed his current position.Supports foreign startups through Tokyo Metropolitan Government's International Business Initiative.
Message to Japanese Companies: Graphen Japan, with a mission to "contribute to human well-being and progress," provides distinctive solutions to customers across various industries in overseas markets. These solutions are based on an advanced AI platform that operates like the human brain and proprietary domain knowledge tools. We strive to work together with you to solve social issues and become your partner.
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Company Name: Securitize Japan

Business Overview: Securitize is the global leader in tokenizing Real-World Assets (RWA). We have a proven track record with over $4 billion in transaction volume (*1) and over 550,000 investors (*1).The Securitize platform supports Security Token (ST) issuance across multiple blockchains, including public and private chains. It is a world-leading platform, adopted for numerous global ST issuances and holding the No. 1 market share (*1) in the rapidly growing tokenized U.S. Treasury market.Within Japan, Securitize has supported various asset types, including corporate bond STs, book-entry corporate bonds, beneficiary certificate issuance trust STs, jointly managed designated money trust STs, GK-TK STs, and Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) funds. Its versatile and continuously evolving suite of features enables support for diverse projects, accommodating various sales schemes such as self-offering, bank-sold, and securities firm-sold models.(*1) As of the end of May 2025
Potential Collaboration Partners:
(1) Operating companies engaged in 2C business (retail, rail/air, food/healthcare, etc. consumer-related sectors), financial service providers (card companies, etc.)
(2) Banks, trust banks, securities firms, regional banks
(3) Real estate and regional revitalization entities
Collaboration Needs:
(1) Developing finance × marketing businesses through self-solicited digital corporate bond issuance (business companies operating 2C businesses, financial service providers)
(2) Deploying digital securities platform services (banks, trust banks, securities firms, regional banks)
(3) Tokenizing real estate assets and projects (real estate, regional revitalization entities)

Speaker: Mr. Eiji Kobayashi (Japan Country Head)
Profile: After earning a degree in Mathematical Economics from Brown University and an MBA from the University of Chicago, he joined Merrill Lynch Capital Markets' New York headquarters investment banking division as a new graduate. He worked on Wall Street for approximately four years, including at Goldman Sachs.After returning to Japan, he served as SVP at Lehman Brothers Investment Banking Division, Representative for Japan at Deutsche Bank and American Express Corporate Business Division, Vice President at Mastercard Japan, Representative for Japan at Western Union, and Representative for Japan at a European Insurtech startup. He joined Securitize in February 2020. In August 2022, he became a Director of the Japan Security Token Association. Executive Committee Member at Securitize, Inc. (Headquarters).
Message to Japanese Companies: Securitize revolutionizes how businesses raise capital through blockchain-based digital securities (security tokens).Beyond offering advantages in safety, convenience, and cost-effectiveness, our business model enables more direct connections between businesses and their customers, significantly contributing to enhanced customer engagement and expanding fan bases. We would be delighted to support your business advancement with this new perspective.
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