Top Tech Startups in Japan in 2024

At Chhirolya Technologies, we’re creating something close to our hearts: Karnika - AIOS. It’s more than just software—it’s a platform designed to make women feel safer and more supported in their daily lives. We’re diving into some tough challenges, like how to address real security concerns while keeping the platform easy to use and accessible. Our hope is to bring real change, making safety something that’s simple, reliable, and available to every woman who needs it.

At PhrasIQ, we're on a mission to redefine human-computer interaction by leveraging high-quality data to propel AI applications forward. With a steadfast commitment to excellence, we specialize in customizing robust base generative models that ensure the safe and efficient extraction of AI value. Through our expertise in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), data generation, and meticulous model evaluation, we empower organizations to unleash the full potential of their AI initiatives. Our tailored solutions encompass every aspect, from data collection and curation to annotation, supported by a platform equipped with robust evaluation and optimization tools. As a leading data and AI company, PhrasIQ stands at the forefront of next-generation Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI applications. We're dedicated to democratizing data, analytics, and AI to drive transformative change. Join us in revolutionizing language engagement through cutting-edge natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques, shaping the future of AI. Follow PhrasIQ on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook to discover how we're unifying data and AI to redefine human-computer interaction.

Lokafy connects travellers with locals, providing an experience that's like having a friend show you around their home city. We are a Toronto-based startup that has organized tours in over 250 cities around the world. Our mission is to change travel, to make it more about the people we meet, not just the places we see.

Obinex is a pre-seed stage startup on a mission to develop a simple ecosystem to foster the adoption of centralized economic principles while ensuring enhanced security through a disruptive and holistic approach.

Smart AdServer is the only independent full-stack ad technology platform in programmatic and direct sales dedicated to the sell side. Our unique holistic approach gives control back to publishers allowing them to innovate and optimize all their monetization channels across all formats -- display, rich media, native and video -- and on all screens.

Portcast is a venture-backed Singapore based startup that develops predictive supply chain technology for the logistics industry. We’re focused on building the next-gen logistics operating system to predict how cargo moves across the world and enable data-driven supply chain planning. Based out of Singapore, we’ve been building together since 2018, and are backed by some of the major investors in the tech industry, we believe that the logistics industry is at the inflection point of large-scale digitization. Portcast improves supply chain profitability by accurately predicting container arrival times and forecasting cargo demand. We are excited to be a fast-growing team of software engineers, data scientists and industry experts. We are on a mission to bring end to end visibility to every supply chain globally. We are customer-obsessed and are constantly working to provide our customers access to actionable and insightful data to build resilient supply chains.

Pie Systems has created a fully digital end-to-end VAT refund solution (tax free shopping) for tourists and stores. For tourists, our platform streamlines VAT claims, eliminates airport queuing, and recovers higher refunds. For stores, our platform eliminates the tedious manual creation of refund claim forms, and empowers them with data analytics and refund process transparency. We are working to disrupt this stagnant $70B+ global industry dominated by two 20+ year old analog incumbents. Join a small and globally distributed team as we bring this industry into the modern age.

[Heterogeneous Data Center OS] Chiptip's Data Center OS manages heterogeneous resources in the data center and runs distributed applications. [IaaS Platform network-FPGA] If you have your own data center and wish to use high-performance and cost-efficient FPGAs that are attached to network, just adding this extension to your IaaS orchestration software (OpenStack is currently supported) and some FPGAs to your data center will let you do it. This IaaS Platform reduces the cost of cloud-FPGA an order of magnitude. [NFV solution] NFV is the killer application for network-attached FPGA in the cloud. While traditional hardware network appliance is fast but inflexible, software NFV is flexible but slow. Chiptip's NFV achieves both flexibility and speed.

All software contains security flaws, and there are more bad guys attacking the companies that depend on this software than there are good guys defending them. According to PBS, upwards of 209,000 cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. are unfilled, and postings are up 74 percent over the past five years. This number will rise dramatically over the next 10 years as technology trends like public clouds, enterprise mobility and IoT make our businesses and lives more vulnerable to attackers. So who will meet these security demands? Bugcrowd is the premier marketplace for security testing on web, mobile, source code and client-side applications. Taking the leads of Facebook, Paypal and Google's crowdsourced bug bounty programs, we've developed a platform and community that combines a proprietary vulnerability reporting platform with the largest crowd of security researchers on the planet.

10x Genomics (NASDAQ: TXG) is one of the fastest growing biotech companies, growing from $3M in revenue in 2015 to $240M in 2019. We create hardware, chemistry, and software that accelerates biological research. Our products are used by scientists around the world, including 96 of the top 100 global research institutions. Our mission is to build products that will be used throughout the rest of this century, to better understand, and eventually conquer disease. Behind every breakthrough is an extensive network of talented individuals contributing their unique perspectives, backgrounds, and areas of expertise. This kind of collaboration is essential to building a strong and effective workplace, and it’s our goal to create an inclusive environment that reflects the diversity of the communities and the goals that we serve. The discoveries we make now, as a team, will lead to better technologies, better treatments, and a better future.