Japan’s Q3 2021 tech news
• July, August and September of 2021
• Tech news headlines at a glance
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• Online and drawn from daily tech news
July 2021 | August 2021 | September 2021
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September 2021
- Japan: Coral Capital closes 3rd fund with $128M, looking at fields including SaaS, insurance, fintech, healthcare, deep tech and more
- Japan: SBI Holdings reportedly to launch new fund for investors, potentially reaching several hundred million dollars and providing diversification with bitcoin, ether and more
- Japan: Get In The Ring Osaka 2021 event applications close November 4th, seeking startups and solutions around the theme of Sustainable Business
- Japan: Paidy buy-now-pay-later fintech to be acquired by PayPal payments giant in $2.7BN deal, gaining 6M Paidy members
- Japan: Smartphone app to be trialed to focus on work issues experienced by the country’s 400K foreign blue-collar workers
- Japan: SoftBank to build tech startup campus in Aichi Prefecture, scheduled for completion in 2024 and spanning 23K square meters across 7 floors
- Japan: An intro look at the newly formed Digital Agency, aiming to transform the public sector with ‘government as a startup’ mindset
- Japan: Global Innovation Forum Osaka 2021 live pitch sessions and keynote speeches set for October 27-29
August 2021
- Japan: A dive into the country’s virtual YouTubers, entirely digital YouTube celebrities hitting magazine covers, sales campaigns, music performance and modeling
- Japan: Vision Fund to date has made no investments in its home country, a situation now to change with investment pro hire to focus on Japan’s startups
- e-news-latest issue: Japan’s Vision Fund, TikTok and blockchain, ISPs and ‘clean pipes’…
- Webinar: ‘Cybersecurity, critical technologies and energy – Japan and its role in the Indo-Pacific’ set for August 30th
- Japan: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in June chose 20 femtech startups to receive combined subsidy of $1.4M
- e-news, latest issue: Axie income tax, Japan’s femtechs, Indian social commerce, coworking in Taiwan…
- ICYMI: Japan’s Mobile Content Forum to partner European Games Developer Federation to investigate whether Google and Apple are pressuring smaller app providers
- e-news, latest issue: Australia’s crypto MasterCard, Japan’s virtual celebs, new Singapore startups…
- Unlocking the next frontier of data-powered threat hunting’ webinar set for August 5th, featuring speakers from Japan, Taiwan and Singapore
July 2021
- Japan: SoftBank Group’s second Vision Fund 2 boosts investment pace, adding on average one new startup target per day
- Japan: Ministry of Defense to increase staff in cybersecurity, including hiring from the private sector, due to growth in increasingly sophisticated state-backed attacks
- Google steps into financial services in Japan with acquisition of pring cashless payments and settlement company for over $180M
- Japan: Rohm chipmaker launches $45.3M venture capital fund to invest in next-generation semiconductor tech, with first investment in US startup Locix
- NFT trends in Japan – an overview of the non-fungible token space in the country, with reference to global trends and case studies, from btrax
- Japan: Gov’t increases diplomatic efforts to regulate digital currencies globally, seeking involvement in global dialogue around stricter rules on private digital currencies
- South Korea’s Coupang e-commerce giant enters Taiwan and commences delivery options testing, one month after also launching in Japan
- Japan’s SBI Holdings takes stake in Singapore’s AND Global fintech startup, providing microloans in Mongolia via smartphone app
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