Tokyo FinTech Meetup #66 - Plug & Play Japan Showcase

We are excited to continue our collaboration with Plug & Play Japan for the current startup batch, and will present a number of companies from the Brand & Retail as well as Fintech segments, demonstrating convergence across the domains.

Saffe Payments
Do you image a world where you can pay without any belongings? What if you could pay with just a selfie? Saffe is a mobile payment app that leverages world-class facial recognition technology to make your life easier and more secure.

Applied Academics
Applied Academics is a lean and growing team of researchers, technologists, and business teams in New York, Tokyo, and London. We are leaders in predicting the performance of investment managers to help socially important institutional investors protect the financial future of their beneficiaries.

Emotion Research Lab
Emotion Research Lab use facial emotion recognition and eye tracking to understand how people feel in real life, in real time. Technology advances have promoted real-time software with automatic decoding capability, measuring face muscles and categorizing into specific emotions. This technique can currently measure overall emotional intensity, the levels of cognitive or emotional engagement, Ekman’s six basic emotions (happiness, surprise, sadness, anger, fear and disgust), moods, and secondary emotions.

Dataperformers
Dataperformers believe that Artificial Intelligence doesn't have to be reserved to the specialists. They strive to democratize access to AI by using machine learning to provide practical solutions for real-world problems.

LearningPal
LearningPal’s leading AI-based enterprise solution digitizes countless paper documents to well-structured data swiftly and accurately. To save your time right from the start, any templates and any handwriting styles are allowed for your paper documents with LearningPal’s cutting-edge handwriting recognition technology. LearningPal strongly believes repetitive office work should be automated to unleash the potential of your best assets - employees. LearningPal’s next generation enterprise software always devotes to providing maximum output at minimal cost.

Plug & Play Japan
Plug and Play is a global innovation platform. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, they have built accelerator programs, corporate innovation services, and an in-house VC to make technological advancement progress faster than ever before. Since inception in 2006, their programs have expanded worldwide to include a presence in over 20 locations globally giving startups the necessary resources to succeed in Silicon Valley and beyond. With over 6,000 startups and 280 official corporate partners, they have created the ultimate startup ecosystem in many industries. They provide active investments with 200 leading Silicon Valley VCs, and host more than 700 networking events per year. Companies in their community have raised over $7 billion in funding, with successful portfolio exits including Guardant Health, Danger, Dropbox, Lending Club, and PayPal.

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