Food Tech, AI, and Culture: Female-founded Japanese Startups You Need to Know

From Tokyo boot camp to the streets of San Francisco—meet the next generation of Japanese innovation. 🌟

In this episode, I’m giving you a front-row seat to the J-StarX Women’s Entrepreneurship Program. As the official Director of Japan Operations at Gener8tor, I had the absolute privilege of mentoring 17 incredible female founders for three and a half months as they prepared to expand their businesses internationally and scale into the US market.

These women represent both ends of Japan—from the snowy peaks of Sapporo, Hokkaido to the tropical shores of Okinawa—and a massive variety of industries. We’re talking cutting-edge Medical Tech, AI Pet Care, Plant-Based Food Tech, Global Art Platforms, and customized flavor engineering.

Stick around until the end to watch 11 of these brilliant founders give their short pitches directly from our final week together in San Francisco!