Eligibility
- SEED , Early and Middle stage
- Carve-outs of a company or person/team that plans spin-off a business
- Academic researchers and university students who intend to start their business in near future
Industry
All Industries
- Sports-tech
- Medical care/Healthcare
- Health Promotion
- Lifestyle-related disease prevention
- Insure Tech
- Mindfulness
- Social health
- Robotics and element technologies
- AI
- IoT/Sensors
- Big Data
- Sensing
- Quantum computer
- Security/Safety
- Sharing Business
- Retail-tech
- Fintech
- Block chain/ DAO
- Regulation-tech
- Legal-tech
- Drone
- Telematics/ Connected Automobiles
- Cool Japan
- VR/AR/MR
- Media and entertainment
- Agri-tech
- Food-tech
- Energy
- New materials
- Aerospace
- Satellite data
- 5G/Infrastructure
- Recycling society
- Social Business
- Resilience (Disaster Prevention/Loss of Damage) etc
Benefits/Rewards
MIRAI2021 provides the following benefits/Rewards
- Business plan development and mentoring support by VCs and experts
- Business networking and Meet-up support with MIRAI consortium member corporations
- Participation to Japan’s No.1 Business Pitch and Exhibition that larger corporations and VCs participates
- "MIRAI" support member corporation
- Grant for supporting business commercialization
Screening Criteria
【Essential Criteria】
- Having high possibility of commercialization in near future
- Identifying market needs
- Promising and viable business ideas and plan
- Highly passionate and motivated to commercialize the ideas, and having appropriate team members (with high potential) to realize the ideas
- Addressing social issues and high potential of strong positive social impact
【Additions】
- "MIRAI" support member corporation
High possibility of utilization for new nomal society after/with covid-19
How to apply
1
Download two application forms.
2
Complete both applications.
All applications have to be filled in Japanese or English.
3
Send the applications to the following mail address(within 8MB).
E-mail address：
E-mail title：【your company/team name】 MIRAI2021 application forms
Close of application：August 23th 17:00(JST)
Schedule
| Close of application | August 23th 17:00(JST) |
|---|---|
| Notification of Acceptance | September 11th |
| Orientation Workshop | Late-September |
| Mentoring by VCs/Experts | October to November |
| Presentation training program | Late-November to Early-December |
| Semi final Pitch session | Early-December |
| Mentoring by VCs/Experts | January to February |
| Final pitch session | February |
* Schedule would be changed.
Contact
For more information of MIRAI2021：