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Newly Selected Startups Announced under the Public-Private Initiative for Supporting Startups Called the J-Startup Program

31 startups newly selected under the fifth round of the program

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March 13, 2025

Economic & Industrial Policy

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) hereby announces that it has newly selected 31 startups as J-Startup companies under the J-Startup program. These selected J-Startup companies are entitled to make use of various support measures provided by the government and support measures for growth provided by private supporters.

Startups selected under the fifth round of the J-Startup program and comments by expert members who nominated the startups

Under the J-Startup program, METI selects startups with high potential from those nominated by outside experts, including well-proven venture capitalists and personnel in charge of new businesses in large companies, and then governmental organizations and private companies called J-Startup Supporters jointly provide intensive support to these selected startups.

Please see the following material for the startups newly selected this time and comments by expert members who nominated the startups.

Selected “J-Startup” Companies in the 5th Budge (in random order)

ArkEdge Space Inc.; EF Polymer K.K. xForest Therapeutics Co., Ltd.; Innoqua Inc.; INTER HOLDINGS inc.; Aeronext Inc.; Aeterlink Corp.; ElevationSpace Inc.; Ookuma Diamond Device Co., Ltd.; Orbital Lasers Co., Ltd.; Orange Inc.; Global Vascular Co., Ltd.; Commune Inc.; Sakana AI; K.K. Sun Metalon; Gellycle Co., Ltd.; Innovative Space Carrier Inc.; Splink, Inc.; SPACE ONE Co., Ltd.; Spectronix Corporation; DigitalArchi Co., Ltd.; TopoLogic Inc.; Toregem BioPharma Co.,Ltd.; HarvestX Inc.; Pirika, Inc.; Bull Co., Ltd.; Pale Blue Inc.; Helical Fusion Co., Ltd.; ugo, Inc.; Letara Ltd.; and Logomix Inc.

Overview of the program

Japan is home to around 20,000 startups taking on new challenges every day. In June 2018, METI inaugurated the J-Startup program as an initiative to incubate startups that develop new technologies and business models to provide new value to the rest of the world.

METI, the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) together organized a secretariat, and the secretariat has been operating the program. Under the program, a variety of efforts have been advancing to support startups in exhibiting displays at overseas and domestic events, expanding business overseas, conducting research and development, addressing regulatory reforms, gaining more opportunities to participate in bidding processes, collaborating with private companies that are part of J-Startup Supporters, and so on.

METI has selected 239 startups in total in a little under seven years since the inauguration of the program. Under the fifth round of the program this time, METI selected 31 startups as J-Startup companies.

METI will continue to work on uniting public and private efforts to provide intensive support to startups so that Japan can incubate internationally competitive and winning startups.

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