Atsushi Hirakawa

Organization for Promoting Urban Development (MINTO), a non-profit body supervised by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, was established in 1987 in order to promote the formation of urban areas through urban development projects and the use of low-interest funds. The organization provides long-term and low-interest loans to private sectors that implements urban development projects. MINTO is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. engages in the provision of financial services centered on banking. It operates through the following business segments: Wholesale, Retail, International, Market Sales, and Headquarters Management. The Wholesale segment covers business for customers of large and medium-sized companies in Japan. The Retail segment handles business for domestic individuals and SME customers. The International segment comprises of business for overseas Japanese and non-Japanese companies. The Market Sales segment corresponds to financial market business. The Headquarters Management segment includes all other businesses not covered by other segments. The company was founded in April 2001 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Concur Japan Ltd. operates as a provider of cloud-based spend management solutions and services. It develops business travel and expense management tools that enable users to organize, plan, and control costs. The firm’s products include expense, travel booking, invoice, insight, messaging, and TripIt management platforms. The company serves the federal government, education, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices, professional services, hospitals, and healthcare industries. Concur Japan was founded in February 2011 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

FAOPEN, Inc. provides remote engineering services to the resource industries such as semiconductor, robot, automobile, factory machine, medical equipment, food, medicine, heavy industries, vending machine and others. The company was founded on July 1, 2001 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

The New Media Group KK operates as a digital media platform developer and community media operator. The company was in 2005 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Mido Holdings SA provides cloud networking technology solutions. It offers network infrastructure through network virtualization. The firm develops MidoNet, a software-based network virtualization system that allows enterprises and service providers to build, run, and manage virtual networks with control. Its MidoNet platform eliminates physical network limitations and brings the capabilities of server and storage virtualization to the network; centralizes the control of an entire network; and consolidates the size of data centers. The company was founded by Dan Mihai Dumitriu and Tatsuya Kato in January 2010 and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Part of Sony Group Corp., Midokura Co., Ltd. is a technology company based in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese company develops and programs smart software using cutting-edge technology to create solutions for the future. The company's work with artificial intelligence has a wide range of applications, including driving. The company aims to make life easier for people and brands by utilizing the best talent and emerging technologies. The company's first success was the development of Midonet. Midokura Co. was founded in 2010 by Tatsuya Kato, and the CEO is Dan Mihai Dumitriu.

salesforce.com Co., Ltd. engages in the provision of cloud application and cloud platform utilization for social, cloud and mobile technology industry. The company was founded in April 2000 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

QON, Inc. engages in the development, operation and consulting services for consumer communities. It provides solutions to realize sales growth and innovation while consisting of a huge network that links client companies to consumers participating in the community. The company was founded by Takashi Takeda and Ikuko Takahashi in 1996 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Solera Investment Ltd. (Solera Investment) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Yuki Nakagawa. The firm is headquartered in Wan Chai, Hong Kong with additional offices in Beijing and Tokyo.

Insight Technology, Inc. provides IT solutions for database design, construction, management, operation, and security. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan, with headquarters located at Ebisu Business Tower. The Japanese company's flagship product, Insight Governor, is a DX infrastructure development solution that integrates and visualizes scattered data to support prompt decision-making. Equipped with Japanese AI, the solution incorporates a security mechanism into all functions. Insight Technology was founded in 1995 by Masaya Ishikawa, and Toshiya Morita has been the CEO of the company since 2013.

SecureAuth Corp. engages in the provision of security software services. It designs, develops, and delivers identity enforcement solutions for corporations, government agencies and service providers. The firm offers SecureAuth Identity Provider platform that integrates authentication, single sign on, and access control services in a single solution for mobile, cloud, web, and VPN resources. It also offers SecureAuth Cloud Access which is an Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) that enables securely manage Software-as-a-service (SaaS) adoption while having the agility to adapt to organization?s dynamic demands. The company was founded by Craig J. Lund and Garrett Grajek in 2005 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

SunBridge Partners Inc (SunBridge Partners) is a venture capital subsidiary of SunBridge Corp founded in 2004 by Ken Ehrhart, John Gannon, Paul Grim and Allen Miner. The firm is headquartered in Beachwood, Ohio.

Tradfit Co., Ltd. develops and operates an audio data platform for hotels. The Japanese company was founded in 2017 by Yoshiki Toda, who has been the CEO since 2017.

Nippon Life Insurance Co. engages in the provision of life insurance services, agency or administration services to other insurance companies and financial institutions. It also provides the guarantees for liabilities, sale and purchase of government bonds and local government bonds, and sales of investment trust beneficiary securities. The company was founded by Sukesaburo Hirose on July 4, 1889 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.

Nippon Life Insurance Co. (Investment Portfolio) (Nippon Life-IP) is the investment portfolio management division of Nippon Life Insurance Co. in Japan. Founded in 1889, the firm is headquartered in Tokyo with another main office in Osaka, as well as branches throughout Japan. The commercial name of Nippon Life is Nissay. Nippon Life-IP handles corporate pension plan, investment advisory services, trust services, venture capital, real estate investment, credit and financing services for individual and institutional clients.

The Geneva Association provides international think tank of the insurance industry. It offers research programs such as financial stability and regulation, extreme events and climate risk, global ageing, cyber and innovation, and the protection gap. The company was founded by Fabio Padoa Schioppa, Raymond Barre, and Orio Giarini in 1973 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Japan Cloud Computing KK develops a SaaS platform. The private company is based in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese company was founded in 2000 by Allen Miner and Aruna Basnayake. Aruna Basnayake has been the CEO since 2000.