First Round's inaugural cohort includes a manga comic translation tool developer and a company working on synthetic options for creating salmon.
University of Tokyo Innovation Platform (UTokyo IPC) has unveiled the inaugural six startups participating in a new accelerator focused on the robotics and artificial intelligence spaces.
The program, dubbed First Round, is backed by a slate of corporate partners: rail operator JR East’s startup subsidiary, insurance firm Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance, real estate developer Mitsui Fudosan, engineering firm Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and architecture, engineering and construction firm Takenaka Corporation.
First Round’s initial participants were identified as manga comic translation tool…
