Top 50 Energy Startup Investors in Japan (May 2026)

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• Astroscale — Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company solely dedicated to on-orbit servicing across all orbits.
• Synspective — Synspective provides one-stop-solutions by satellite gathered geospatial data. The core technology was developed by the ImPACT program led by The Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, building small SAR satellites and constellations, allowing frequent observation of areas of interest (AOI). Synspective uses its satellites to produce SAR data which can be provided to both government and commercial clients as-is, as well as transform that data through AI solutions to produce insights and user-friendly information across industries.
• Clean Energy Connect — Clean Energy Connect is into offering green energy solutions. It invests in its own generation capacity for a stable electricity supply by not harming nature.

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• ProfilePrint — ProfilePrint synthesises complex molecular data of ingredient samples into digital fingerprints, rapidly predicting its identity and quality, helping agribusinesses to buy and sell better with its patented digital food identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) technology.
• Integriculture — Integriculture makes cellular agriculture products to improve sustainability, food security, and reduce public health problems. The company offers a developed patented general-purpose large-scale cell culture system that can culture wide range of cells without external addition of expensive growth factors and provide consumers with affordable cleanmeat.Founded in 2015, Integriculture is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
• Sentient.io — We provide a secure AI & Data platform with ready-made AI models for easy adoption and turnkey AI solutions for Enterprises on your digitalisation journey.

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• Cerby — Collaborate without chaos. Cerby helps your team be productive while protecting your brand. Secure unmanageable applications. Only with Cerby.
• CYBO — CYBO provides products and services to understand cells deeply and to harness them widely.
• Bondy — Bondy is an HR Tech automation platform that specializes in connecting different HR processes.

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• Josys — Josys is an IT device and SaaS integrated management service that automates analog operations in corporate IT, reduces operational costs, and improves security levels.
• Spiral.AI — Spiral.AI offers services for large language models, AI language model platform, and customization features for ChatGPT for businesses.
• Pathos Logos — Pathos Logos is an HR co-creation platform that specializes in sales of SaaS and supply of human resources for corporations.

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• Bloomo Investment — Bloomo Investment is a software company that specializes in the development of smart and fun investment apps.
• Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
• SUSHI TOP MARKETING — SUSHI TOP MARKETING is an IT company that offers marketing, NFT utilization, and consulting services.

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• EX-Fusion — EX-Fusion develops the first commercial laser based nuclear fusion reactor for power generation.
• YourTrade — YourTrade helps cross-border e-commerce companies to resale rejected goods and backlogged inventory from overseas sales through local sales channels.It also provides services such as collection and inspection of returned items, as well as resale through local sales channels.
• Carnot — LLM, Autonomous Agent

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• Funds — Funds is an online marketplace for lending funds.
• Bloomo Investment — Bloomo Investment is a software company that specializes in the development of smart and fun investment apps.
• LexxPluss — LexxPluss develops an automatic transfer software system and robot hardware.

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• Firstcard — All-in-One Student Credit Builder. Build credit. Earn cashback. Grow your deposit.
• LexxPluss — LexxPluss develops an automatic transfer software system and robot hardware.
• Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.

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• ULUU — ULUU is an exciting new renewable biomaterial that's incredible for our oceans and climate. ULUU is made from renewable resource, farmed seaweed!
• Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.
• Craft Health — Craft Health aims to combine all your daily medicines and supplements into a single daily pill, through 3D printing of personalized medicines and supplements. Our technology allows controlled release of each active ingredient as selected by the user.

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• Edgecortix — At Edgecortix, we automate the design of AI accelerators for on-device deep learning. Our Dynamic Neural Accelerator IP, and performance optimized AI Software & Hardware Co-exploration framework, reduces time to market and brings massive cost savings across multiple industry verticals.
• Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
• Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

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• YourTrade — YourTrade helps cross-border e-commerce companies to resale rejected goods and backlogged inventory from overseas sales through local sales channels.It also provides services such as collection and inspection of returned items, as well as resale through local sales channels.
• UMAMI UNITED — Umami United is a plant-based food brand with unique focus on Japanese food technologies and traditional ingredients to make delicious and healthy food to unite people at one table. The wide lineups are designed to be vegan-friendly, buddhist friendly, and halal friendly for all.
• Friend Microbe — Friend Mike Robe is Developing new market with microbe-related technology

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• Fools — Fools is a footwear manufacturing company.
• beBit, Inc. — BeBit is a consulting firm that provides customer experience management and user-centered design support services.
• EF Polymer — EF Polymer Private Limited providing 100% Organic and fully Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymer cum Fertilizer to reduce Water and Fertilizer requirement for your plant. Let's grow organically.

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• Ample — Ample is a new energy delivery solution for electric vehicles. It uses Modular Battery Swapping to deliver 100% charge to any EV in a few minutes.
• OpenStreet — OpenStreet is a service that allows to use shared cycling nationwide.
• Ubiquitous Energy — Ubiquitous Energy is the world leader in transparent photovoltaics. Its award-winning technology is the world’s only truly transparent solar product. UE technology harvests solar energy and serves as an invisible, onboard source of electricity for a variety of end products. The thin coating can be applied to the surface of windows glass to provideelectricity generation and energy efficiency while remaining visibly indistinguishable from the fully transparent standard windows on the market today. Originally spun out of MIT, Ubiquitous Energy is now producing its highly transparent, efficient solar cells and windows in its production facility in Silicon Valley.

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• Torana — Torana provides "Toysub!" well known as educational toy subscription service in Japan market. We plan to go global and will be more bigger market share holder in East Asia. We collect month-age base toy feedback data and children's development status information. We plan best combination of toys and deliver. Customer returns and getsnew toys which fit children's growth and it is eco friendly service. We plan to build our own brand toys based on massive customer feedback and growth data and enter D2C market.
• LIFESCAPES — LIFESCAPES is a research and manufacturer of brain-computer interface equipment.
• IGNITE IMPULSE, INC. — As a digital agricultural enhancing service, Ignite impulse offers a variety of services, some of which include the following: agricultural software and equipment rentals, sales, maintenance, and leasing solutions; self-regulated farm shells with pre-installed vertical farming solutions; machined irrigation consulting and installations; artificialintelligence (AI) powered farming solutions; hydroponics farming consultation- partnership and installations; supply chain and logistics partnership; and more.Ignite Impulse also offers hydroponics solutions, as well as controlled farming assistance and consulting, to corporate, government, and educational organizations as part of our cooperation with these entities.

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• Thermalytica — Thermalytica is engaged in research, development, and consulting services for heat insulating materials and heat shielding materials. It also offers electron beam physical vapor deposition equipment and thermal barrier coating equipment. They serve construction materials, plants, and home appliances.

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• DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
• HitoBito — HitoBito is a LINE advertising and account management agency.
• EF Polymer — EF Polymer Private Limited providing 100% Organic and fully Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymer cum Fertilizer to reduce Water and Fertilizer requirement for your plant. Let's grow organically.

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• UUUO — UUUO is a planning, development, and operation of the UUUO (fish market) connected by smartphone and fresh fish shipment from our own shipping base UUUO Base to each consumption market.
• KAMOMEYA — Kamomeya is an island and live because of inconvenience in transportation and transportation.
• POWERNEXT — POWERNEXT provides electric power supply & demand management, rate calculation, customer management & environmental value trading services.

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• oVice — oVice is a virtual spatial platform that allows people to gather in one place, move, talk, and collaborate freely as avatars. With the mission of “maximizing effective online communication”, oVice develops and provides lifelike features that offer users a close-to-reality interactive online experience. Featuring customization, you can change thelayout to match the theme of your usage, build lockable rooms, place down static objects, and more!Use it as a remote office, an event venue, an academic conference hall, and even a space for parties!
• Webacy — A safer web3 for everyone
• pickupon株式会社 — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call

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• LexxPluss — LexxPluss develops an automatic transfer software system and robot hardware.
• Cellusion — Cellular technology breakthrough for clear vision of the future.
• Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.

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• wakuwaku — WAKUWAKU is a Japanese real estate tech company that focuses on developing a platform that helps users to search for and renovate used housing. In addition, the company offers platforms for building materials e-commerce and marketing automation for the real estate and construction industries.
• Aqua System — AQUA SYSTEM manufactures mil-kin, a microscope that enables the real-time visualization of bacteria. The company also handles the slightly acidic electrolytes water Purester system for agricultural field usage, generates equipment for hypochlorous water, and more.
• Receptionist — Delighted develops an application for reception services. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

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• KabuK Style — KabuK Style provides services that combines co -working spaces, accommodation facilities and cafes.Our service will be started from Nagasaki and We aim to expand the services all over the world.
• Toreta — Toreta develops tools specializing in reservation and customer ledger systems for restaurants. It offers Toreta, a mobile application for restaurant reservation management in Japan. The application facilitates the recording of reservation conversations automatically with customers, generates customer ledgers based on reservation information, andaccepts reservations through the internet.The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
• Infcurion, Inc. — The Infucurion Group is a business development professional that is pushing the cashless era with the power of technology .

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• Vital Thin Film Materials — Pioneer Thin Film Materials Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of Pioneer Group, dedicated to R&D, production, sales and recycling of sputtering targets and evaporation materials for vacuum coating. The product series includes targets, ingots, granules and powders made of high-purity metals, alloys, precious metals and ceramic materials, which arewidely used in display, photovoltaic, semiconductor, precision optics, data storage and glass and other fields.
• Gokin Solar — Guangdong Gaojing Solar Energy Technology is a solar energy technology.

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• nat — nat develops iOS application - Scanat and provides consultation service in data strategy.
• Dots for — Dots for is a technology that aims to improve the lives of rural residents by providing them with digital services.
• Willbox — Willbox is an international logistics company providing an international logistics digital platform for shippers and logistics companies. The company's platform "Giho" connects shippers and logistics companies (transportation, packaging, warehousing, customs clearance, etc.) with a direct contract. It visualizes the three elements of[lead time, money, and safety], which have been regarded as a black box, and supports comparative examination and decision making. Willbox digitizes the packing technique of wooden boxes and steel, mandatory for international logistics, and incorporated them into their system. Their mission is to solve the logistics issues focusing on the large cargo of industrial products.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa.

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• REXEV — REXEV is a company that combines next-generation technologies such as AI, IoT, and autonomous driving with energy management technology.
• Nileworks — Nileworks is a multicopter that automatically recognizes the shape of the field.
• Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

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• Plant form — Plant form is an Agri IT venture production of high value-added products.such as caviar production and energy-circulating plants that utilize natural / excess energy, as well as plant factories pursuing efficiency such as automation and mass production, and business in which facilities themselves become entertainment To make agricultureinteresting and profitable.

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• AdaniConneX — AdaniConneX is the largest Hyperscale Data Center provider. Avail the maximum uptime, highest energy efficiency, full scalability and security to your business and customers.
• Varo Energy — VARO Energy is an integrated oil refiner and supplier serving North West Europe, safely and efficiently. Varo Energy is investing in this market by building a network of refineries, storage tanks and distribution channels to secure the reliable supply of oil products for heating, transportation, construction and the petrochemical industry in NorthWest Europe.
• ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India — AM/NS India is the leading integrated flat carbon steel producer in India

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• REXEV — REXEV is a company that combines next-generation technologies such as AI, IoT, and autonomous driving with energy management technology.
• Epigeneron — Implementation of drug discovery and drug discovery support services and sales of drug discovery related information Manufacture, sale and import / export of research reagents, diagnostic agents, and chemical industrial chemicals Manufacture, sale and import / export of research equipment Intellectual property transfer business Allbusiness incidental or related to the preceding items
• SmartPulse Technology Inc. — The platform includes automated process management as well as integrated algorithmic trading and optimization. Generators and consumers can monitor operations, manage forecasts, employ autotrader functions, participate in a virtual and/or real balancing pools. The platform also acts as a marketplace for forecasting service providers and powerretail operations. SmartPulse also has a self-developed IoT platform.

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• SK Fine — SK Fine is the first to develop a 3D printer for ceramics and release it to the market for the first time in Japan.In addition, we are using 3D ceramic printers to develop 3D ceramic parts molding processes that meet our needs.
• EX-Fusion — EX-Fusion develops the first commercial laser based nuclear fusion reactor for power generation.
• GAIA BioMedicine — GAIA BioMedicine Inc., a spin-out venture from Kyushu University founded on 2015, is a technology-driven biopharmaceutical company focusing on cellular therapies and immunotherapies mainly for intractable malignancies.

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• Atmoph — A smart digital window that opens to beautiful scenery from around the world. By simply putting it on your desk or hanging it on the wall, Atmoph Window will open up a whole new world before you.
• AlphaNavi Pharma — AlphaNavi Pharma specializes in the research and development of new drugs.
• On The Slope — On the way to Sakano deliver vegetables grown without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, aiming to spread agriculture with low environmental impact. We want to make agriculture sustainable and reach a sustainable society.

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• aboon — Aboon develops is a coupon application that introduces shops that attract customers. Aboon was founded on 2018 and is based in Yokohama, Japan.
• Minna Electric Power — Minna Electric Power is an Electricity retail service for corporations and individuals company.

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• FiNC — FiNC combines data analysis, rich content, and social elements to help users log, understand, manage, and improve their health and wellness.
• Office de Yasai — Office de Yasai is an online platform that enables users to order and get vegetables delivered to their offices. The platform’s operations are based in Tokyo, Japan.
• On The Slope — On the way to Sakano deliver vegetables grown without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, aiming to spread agriculture with low environmental impact. We want to make agriculture sustainable and reach a sustainable society.

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• LePure Biotech — Lechun Biology is an enterprise engaged in disposable products and leak detection equipment in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. The company develops and produces disposable biopharmaceutical process equipment and consumables. The products are used for the storage, transportation, filling and leak detection of various samples inbiosimilars, vaccines and other biopharmaceutical processes. The core product is a disposable storage bag. Recently completed B+ round of financing. This round of financing will be mainly used for the development of a number of innovative new products, the establishment of a US R&D center, the integration of the upstream industrial chain, the securing of the supply chain, and the expansion of the R&D market operation team at home and abroad.
• Yanming Biology — Pyrotech pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that focuses om development for drugs for the treatment of inflammation and tumors.
• Zhaohuang New Energy — Zhaohuang New Energy manufactures metal lithium anode products that are used in the used in the fields of next-generation solid-state lithium batteries, lithium-sulfur batteries, and lithium-air batteries.

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• Gokin Solar — Guangdong Gaojing Solar Energy Technology is a solar energy technology.

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• Aroma Bit — Aroma Bit develops compact odor sensor and innovative services and products using the sensor.They live in a world surrounded by an endless number of scents and aromas. However,our olfactory sense is often overlooked. This is partly because it is so difficult to capture the essence of a scent only using words. For example, how would you clearlydescribe what a rose smelled like to someone who has never smelled it?
• Axelspace — Axelspace is a startup company developing businesses in the microsatellite field. Axelspace plans to construct a monitoring platform to cover the entire globe on a daily basis at extremely low cost.
• 24M Technologies — 24M Technologies develops energy storage systems for grid and transportation applications. 24M Technologies, Inc. builds energy storage systems for grid and transportation applications. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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• REXEV — REXEV is a company that combines next-generation technologies such as AI, IoT, and autonomous driving with energy management technology.
• bitkey Japan — Bitkey is a company provides its own key technology.
• Japan Infrastructure Waymark — Japan's infrastructure is an infrastructure consulting and planning company.Japan's infrastructure aim to create a social environment where people can live with peace of mind by reducing the burden on inspection operators nationwide with efficient solutions through digitalization .

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• Gokin Solar — Guangdong Gaojing Solar Energy Technology is a solar energy technology.

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• Vayyar — With applications in the automotive, smart home, robotics, retail, RF testing and medical sectors, Vayyar's intelligent sensors can see through walls and objects, tracking movement in real time in all environmental conditions. Its state-of-the-art Radar-on-Chip covers imaging and radar bands from 3-81 GHz, with up to 72 transceivers on eachchip and an integrated high-performance DSP delivering unprecedented levels of accuracy and generating high-resolution 4D point cloud images. Vayyar is developing the next generation of sensing technology that is miniature, affordable and versatile enough to impact everyone's lives. Welcome to a world where intelligent sensing is part of the everyday.
• Clairvolex — Intellectual Property Management Services and Software Solutions for Patent Development Management and Monetization
• Berkeley Lights — We find the best cells. So much discovery in cellular therapy, biopharmaceuticals and genomics depends on precise, time-consuming, cell-by-cell manipulation.

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• Gokin Solar — Guangdong Gaojing Solar Energy Technology is a solar energy technology.

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• Energy Trade — Energy Trade is a energy & power wholesaler that procures and provides wholesale power services for retail electric power companies.

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• PuREC — Just another WordPress site
• beBit, Inc. — BeBit is a consulting firm that provides customer experience management and user-centered design support services.
• On The Slope — On the way to Sakano deliver vegetables grown without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, aiming to spread agriculture with low environmental impact. We want to make agriculture sustainable and reach a sustainable society.

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• LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
• CADDi — CADDi is an online ordering platform for manufacturing industry.
• EX-Fusion — EX-Fusion develops the first commercial laser based nuclear fusion reactor for power generation.

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• Blusink — Blusink is an ocean-based carbon removals company.
• EF Polymer — EF Polymer Private Limited providing 100% Organic and fully Biodegradable Super Absorbent Polymer cum Fertilizer to reduce Water and Fertilizer requirement for your plant. Let's grow organically.
• MORPHEUS — Development of Nose To Brain Drug Delivery System (DDS)

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• Tané — Crypto builders incubator. Nurture the soil for Web3.
• Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
• microverse — Microverse offers NFT-related services such as content creation, distribution, and customer service.

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• Haiyunan — Haiyunan is a service-oriented enterprise, focusing on building a mobile application security brand.
• Bosheng Medical — Bosheng Medical is a system provider in the field of minimally invasive surgical endoscope camera.
• Gokin Solar — Guangdong Gaojing Solar Energy Technology is a solar energy technology.

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• LIFT99 — LIFT99 is a coworking hub and network of startup founders in Tallinn, Estonia, and Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2018, we launched our Skillsharing Platform for founders around the world.
• Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
• AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy

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• Enechange — Tokyo-based Enechange, the company offering an energy price comparison site under the same name .They are disseminating information on electricity and energy, useful electricity savings and savings right now, in order to liberalize the electricity in 2016.Enechange.Jp/try/detail Let's now begin the power company to choose in! Themiddle person is a graduate student intern! I am studying every day.

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• nanoFreaks — nanoFreaks builds a rescue system on the sea, creating an environment where everyone can live with peace of mind.

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• SORA — MagicPrice - Pricing AI for Hotels
• REXEV — REXEV is a company that combines next-generation technologies such as AI, IoT, and autonomous driving with energy management technology.
• Astroscale — Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company solely dedicated to on-orbit servicing across all orbits.

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• Raena — RAENA adalah platform reseller kecantikan terbesar di Indonesia yang memberikan peluang bisnis rumahan yang menjanjikan. Dropshipper & Reseller produk kecantikan
• Ralali — Ralali.com, Pusat toko grosir online pertama di Indonesia, sebagai b2b wholesale marketplace platform yang menghubungkan supplier, distributor dengan retail.
• Delivered Korea — Buy KPOP, Korean skincare, any products from Korean shopping sites. Use our free Korean address, consolidation, forwarding, personal shopper!

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• Amex Smart — Amex Smart focuses on providing artificial intelligence-based transportation products and intelligent transportation service solutions.
• Orient — Orient belongs to the manufacturer of optoelectronic sub-devices, display devices and components, as well as other electronic devices.
• JingXi ZhiXing — Jingxi Zhixing is a supplier of vehicle chassis suspension and brake systems.