#Pitch2Tokyo 2026

Date: February 19th, 2026
Session Location: Toranomon Hills Forum Hall-B – Main Room
Session Organizer: Venture Café Tokyo
Language: English
Session Description:
18 Cities. 18 Founders. One Global Winner. The road to Tokyo has been long, but the destination is finally here. We’ve scoured the Venture Café global network to find the most audacious founders building for the future, and on February 19th, the “Final 18” take the main stage. This is #Pitch2Tokyo: where global winners from Tokyo, Cambridge, Warsaw, Phoenix, London and beyond collide for the chance to scale their business globally from Japan. No fluff, just high-growth startups pitching to a panel of distinguished judges.
Run-Order
Block 1 – ACCESSIBILITY

1. Beeva AI (Berlin)
2. LOOQ (Yokohama)
3. Morai (Seoul)
4. Nefront (Tokyo)
5. Niter Ltd (Speech Labs) (Manchester)
6. Tactus (Cambridge)

Followed by 12 minutes of Q&A
Block 2 – SUSTAINABILITY

1. AirMembrane (Tsukuba)
2. Blue Reef Algae (San Sebastian)
3. Danu Robotics Ltd (Edinburgh)
4. EcoBean (Warsaw)
5. eMotion Fleet (Fukuoka)
6. Wada Food Tech (Osaka)

Followed by 12 minutes of Q&A
Block 3 – Well-being

1. Amilis (London)
2. Earthling BioMed (Hualien)
3. Gravitrex (Phoenix)
4. iBody (Nagoya)
5. nonat (Gifu)
6. XiA'H (Monterrey)

Followed by 12 minutes of Q&A

JUDGES for Pitch2Tokyo 2026

• Takaaki Umezawa, Japan Chairperson at Cambridge Innovation Center
• Chase Changhee Seon, Co-Founder at umoh.io
• Daiki Sato, Partner at KPMG Japan
• Keiichiro Nishi, Senior Vice President at Fujitsu
• Mikiya Endo, Principal at D4V
• Ryan Nakata, General Manager at Alumni Ventures
• Schyler Alexandra Cole, Entrepreneur in Residence at Value Create Ventures
• Taisuke "Alex" Odajima, CEO at EDGEof INNOVATION LLC
• Will Horyn, Principal at Geodesic Capital
• Yu Li Shein, Director, Founders Institute Japan