[Digital Today reporter Chi-gyu Hwang (황치규)] Startup growth partner D.Camp said on May 13 it will cooperate with East Japan Railway Co. (JR East), a Japanese rail and urban development company, to support Korean startups entering Japan and pursuing global commercialisation.

D.Camp ran the “Startup OI Tokyo #SmartCity” programme with JR East on May 12 at LiSH (Link Scholars’ Hub), a startup hub in TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY in Tokyo.

Takanawa Gateway City is an urban development project being promoted by JR East. It focuses on building a next-generation urban innovation hub combining transport, commerce, residential and cultural functions.

LiSH, a base for business cooperation, is an open innovation hub. It serves to link collaboration among various parties, demonstration projects and commercialisation so that ideas based on technology and research can lead to real businesses.

Participants in the programme included EVAR, an electric vehicle charging solution company with intelligent distributed energy technology; Studio Lab, an AI-based commerce content automation company; Seven Point One, an AI-based company specialising in dementia diagnosis; Newrizon, a next-generation converged filter materials company; Hugect, an energy harvesting technology company; Huinno, an AI-based digital healthcare company; and Uniuni, an AI-based spatial safety solutions company.

At the event, D.Camp and JR East also signed a memorandum of understanding. Under the agreement, D.Camp will identify startups with high growth potential and connect them with collaboration opportunities with JR East. JR East plans to provide a testing environment where startups can verify real services, centred on Takanawa Gateway City, and to support business expansion by using its Japan and global networks.