Ibex Joins JETRO Program to Push Kansai DeepTech Startups Overseas
The program treats late overseas expansion as the problem and starts global market planning at the research seed stage, with Ibex supplying the operator network that Kansai researchers have lacked.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Ibex Japan will help run the Kansai Venture Creation Program, which JETRO's Osaka office operates under a Cabinet Office startup hub initiative. Ibex joins Antler as a co-operator. The program takes research seeds from Kansai universities and institutions and builds ventures aimed at the global market, with capacity for about three teams, no participation fee, and a roughly five month schedule from seed review to fundraising preparation.
JETRO's Osaka office runs the program under the Cabinet Office Startup Ecosystem Hub City Function Enhancement Program. Applications open with recruitment of participating researchers and recommendations of research seeds. Eligible applicants are researchers and entrepreneurs based in Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, Wakayama, Nara, or Shiga who want to commercialize research seeds.
Ibex will work alongside Antler to connect those teams with global management talent, markets, and capital. Activities run in parallel over about five months: verifying commercialization potential in overseas markets, forming teams with global CxO candidates, customer development, PoC, IP and legal work, go-to-market planning, and fundraising preparation.
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