Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Tokyo.
Former DeNA full-stack engineer specialized in front-end for successful social games and credited for a popular HTML5 OSS. Co-Founded 2 companies in Tokyo.
http://chikathreesix.com/
Management Sensei ◦ Infrastructure Samurai ◦ Analytics Otaku ◦ Architecture Ninja. 1st programming job at 14. Effective in teams of 4 to 10,000.
junior developer
CTO & Co-founder of @bottlenose. Created web products, companies and development teams in Japan, Europe and US. Comp sci background. #machinelearning #bigdata
http://synaptify.com/
Full Stack Generalist, developer at Gengo
http://herman.asia
Founded Cocoon Ventures & World TaSCforce. Crossborder VC. Worked at @apple, @tellme-networks. Studied at @stanford-university, @university-of-california-berkeley, @university-of-maryland-baltimore-county
Founder @fullcourt • Worked at @amazon, @yahoo-japan, @peatix, @six-apart • @500startups Mentor
http://angrymoose.org
Founder @vinetrade • Worked at @marono-media-k-k, @peatix • Studied at @university-of-sussex, @university-of-brighton
http://www.tacchistudios.com
Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer and Engineer of @sassor. He has been working on Interaction designer.
Co-founder of @simplehoney, shopping simplified.
Founder of @icanhascheezburger. Millions of lols.
http://ericnakagawa.com
CTO of @language-cloud
Hacker • Founder @wazanova • Worked at @dena, @ntt
Co-Founder and CTO of @unda. Studied at Tokyo University. Devoted surfer and PhD of Engineering.
http://www.sonasphere.com/
Interface Developer with a passion for user experience
Co-founder at @100village
Driven to solve big social problems. Co-founded @makible, product managed LEGO.@cuusoo-com. Ex @yahoo, @microsoft.
http://cloneofsnake.posterous.com
Self-taught developer, designer, and author; consulted with companies across the world, always looking for new and interesting technology.
http://venodesigns.net/
First visited Japan in 2005. Founded MakeLeaps in 2010 to focus my 12+ years of software experience in startups and enterprise on the Japanese SME space.
UCSC Comp Sci B.S., web (backend mostly, Ruby, Python, PHP), desktop development (Qt/C++). Loves music, natural languages, traveling. Working in Tokyo.
Ph.D (Univ. of Tokyo), M. Sc (Carnegie Mellon Univ.), B.Eng (Nat. Univ. of Singapore). Worked at IBM Singapore, IBM Tokyo Research Lab, NICT Japan, Gengo.com.
@babelverse Co-Founder.
Glomad. Ideator. Hacker. Maker.
Winner @ LeWeb, TheNextWeb, TechCrunch Disrupt.
Alumni @500startups, @startupchile, @startupweekend
http://blog.deborniol.com/
Front End Engineer, UXD
http://www.bucchi.me
Mobile, web & cloud enthusiast. Webmaster at VC-funded startup with 15. Former IT Consulting + Web Ops at HP. Previous mobile startup experience. iOS developer.
http://funkfeuer.net
CEO of Increments, the top prize company of Open Network Lab 4th batch. Worked at @google, @hatena.
http://yaotti.hatenablog.com
Software engineer with 14 years’ experience as a technology leader, architect and entrepreneur in enterprise & high-volume web. Building a Google Glass startup.
http://www.superhumanlabs.com/blog
C#.NET, MSSQL Web & Desktop Developer / Consultant
Co-Founder | President | CTO of ubi interactive inc. / @ubi-interactive / Human Computer Interaction, ex-Vodafone, ex-Siemens, ex-Philips, CDTM, TUM Alumnus
http://chaozhang.com
Currently Nodejs, Rails, iOS. Love coding, making things, running and rockclimbing
http://dyashkir.com
Codes. Dreams. @Penn @Brown @salesforce MVP. Founder @swarm
http://www.fractastical.com
Hacker @edsurge
http://medium.com/@chibicode
Founder @little-arrows & @valet-1, previously founder @poke-new-york and @winedirect.
http://aaronrutledge.com/#/blog
Japan Market Entry Manager and Senior AI Developer at Skimlinks (User Intent and Text understanding),
Founder of @expressi (emotional relevance), @emotion-ai. Co Founded @zukool (machine learning / recommendation). BSc Artificial Intelligence.
http://expressi.mewww.emotionai.comwww.attentionai.comwww.neon.aiwww.zukool.com
Cambridge Univ/Cavendish Laboratory PhD in Physics.
Entrepreneur/Founder in Tokyo/Japan
worked with 100s of high-tech companies on business development and strategy in Japan
http://www.eurotechnology.com/
Working on @unda as Android developer. Have made more than 30 apps for iOS and Android devices. Founder of @goldrush-computing (Tokyo based app dev company)
Founder @j-grab-inc • Worked at @ebay, @yahoo-japan
http://www.facebook.com/jgraben
Engineer with a strong focus on UX. Trilingual, native level proficiency in English/Chinese/Japanese. Worked at Zynga and various Japanese IT firms.
My studies and strong interest in information and communications technology, computer science, social networking and the web have become my career.
http://www.bucchi.me
Berkeley MFE, Waterloo Comp Eng, International Experience Designing and Developing World Class Software Systems, Working with Large Data Sets
Researcher, Security Auditor, Developer, Software Architect, Enterpreteneur, ...
Builds stuff. CS @berkeley and @stanford-university. Likes Machine Learning, Big Data, UX Design, Lean Startups. Lived in US, Germany, Japan, Thailand.
http://dennybritz.com
Manager - Client Engineering @cinemacraft, Partner and CTO at BluSoft Inc., Strong background in UI/UX & Backend design and implementation. Never sleeps.
Interactive Developer Web/Device
Developing Second Screen experiences
Founder @yoketown, Sence • Worked at @goldman-sachs, @morgan-stanley • Studied at @stanford-university, @university-of-waterloo
https://medium.com/@fon_tran
(complete later)
http://blog.julien.cayzac.name/
EPITECH CS, full-stack web nerd with a focus on front-end development and UI/UX design. Co-founded LocalRepublic.
http://roadtocairns.com/
Former Principal of Japanese VC firm. Strong and unique background in venture financing and software engineering.
MS from Todai, BS from Berkeley. Studied IT management and photoelectrochemical water splitting. Speaks Japanese, Spanish, and Pirate be me native tongue.
Software Developer, Engineer, Founder. Worked at @business-objects. Worked in Japan, Canada, Romania, India.
CTO at @frafty
Inventor, "Med-Surg Onshoring" (pat. pend.). Project leader $50MM ILEC COs. Leading Wall St. analyst Cable-Modem 1.0. MBA, UNC-Chapel Hill. U-Mich. award.
Designer, UI Engineer, UX Advocate, Digital Illustrator, Sketchnoter.
http://www.calvin-c.com
StudyPact Founder. MSc in Big Data. Deep passion for behavioral design. Entrepreneur & full-stack dev since age 10.
I get things done.
http://www.hoenisch.at
Ruby on Rails contributor, Kaminari maintainer(watched by +2600 on Github). experience in programming for +10 years.
http://yukinishijima.net
Webdeveloper, Nerd and Idealist
http://www.serial-experiments.com
ex-Co-founder of @fluxflex.
Network/Infra Engineer, @amazon EC2/AutoScaling, iPhone Apps Dev, Internet Backbone Operation(BGP).
Worked at NTT, IRI, transcosmos
http://hirofukami.tumblr.com
I gave a lot of iPhone apps. I was ranked in the category of App Store rankings of America. I made a reward media in CyberAgent. It was a great success.
http://blog.sumyapp.com/
Owner, Software engineer of @LittleApps Inc.
http://ngsdev.org/
Assistant Professor (Machine Learning)
@university-of-electro-communications
Tokyo, Japan
Chief Architect at Recruit Co., Ltd
http://kawanet.blogspot.com/
see my profile in linkedin
14 years of programming experience in many languages, on many platforms, from mobile apps to scalable backend systems. Significant infrastructure & sysops exp.
Founder and developer of Cumiki. Ph.D student at University of Tokyo department of Economics. I'm a developer of Node, Rails, and iOS.
http://ryooopan.tumblr.com
CEO of @net8. I met the internet in 1995 at the first. In that time i worked for JustNet that was ISP of Justsytem corp. Then found own company in 1999.
Owner & CIO of @skyavy, INC.
http://iketani.skyavy.com
Founder @coffeebreak • Worked at @stumbleupon, @microsoft • Studied at @carnegie-mellon-university
NUS School of Computing, Interface Redesign @ TripAdvisor, Best Project (E-Business Capstone), human language maestro, failed first startup @ 20
http://db.tt/HTl8G7gK
CTO of Postmore. Lifelong programmer. Dev experience from teamLab inc. (4 years). Studied at Kyushu Institute of Technology(2007).
http://blog.jimijackson.com
Mid to expert level Rails programmer.
Founder NZBCX • Worked at @hsbc, @nomura • Studied at @victoria-university-of-wellington, @deakin-university
5 years realtime trading systems in C++, 3 years development platforms and algorithmic trading in Python. Excellent communicator, enthusiastic learner.
Co-Founder and CEO of 10SEC
Developer of Increments, ex-Kamado CTO(acquired by mixi)
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/camelmasa/
Founder of Otsumu Inc.
Worked at @rakuten, @metaps • Studied at @indian-institute-of-technology-delhi
http://blog.rishabhmhjn.me
Banker
Software engineer who has speciality in machine learning.
Statistician/Data mining specialist with Ph.D. in econometrics and computational macroeconomics. Also, full stack Rails developer.
Founder @mystar-japan-business-solutions-1 • Worked at @gembiosoft • Studied at @universidad-politecnica-de-valencia
Working at I&G Partners, Inc.
Founder @tier5 • Worked at @google, @microsoft • B.S./M.S @johns-hopkins-university
Artist, programmer, columnist, translator etc. Worked at @ibm, @sun-microsystems • Studied at @kyoto-university
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/akipponn3
Expert software engineer who is also good at designing high-end yet simple clean easy-to-use software. Worked in Silicon Valley and Japan.
A full-stack software engineer, currently located in Tokyo.
CEO, Founder
iOS + node.js/golang + Ops, launched http://getirkit.com/ http://jsdo.it/ http://photobag.in/
http://maaash.jp/
Rails programmer, Sales, New bussiness developer, Launched 2 facebook app
Experienced Ruby on Rails programmer. Business, analytics and finance background. Previously worked at @pnc-capital-markets.
http://www.diasks2.com
Founder/Engineer @tadaku • Studied at @university-of-massachusetts-amherst • Bostonian abroad
Founder POYNTER
Software engineer with experience writing Python, Node.js, and Go as well as functional programming languages such as Racket.
http://shawnps.net
Founder Cumiki
Founder and CTO of @liine • Worked at @vantrix • Studied at @university-of-montreal • Maker of things
Awarded the Monbukagakusho scholarship issued by the Japanese government for research in Japan. Received a master degree in Engineer form Tokyo unviersity.
http://realintelligence.net
Working on @appsocially. Love Arc.
http://mgiken.com/blog
PhD student at University of Tokyo; Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning; Worked at IBM and Portugal Telecom
iOS Developer for 2 years. I made 1 game app on AppStore. Now making 1 Parse connected app. Keio univ. CS B3 in Japan. Worked at tekunodo inc. for 1 year.
PHP/Drupal web developer; 7+ years professional experience from California to Tokyo; currently in Boise. ObjC/Ruby too. Looking for additional contract work.
Founder of Placie. Worked at GREE, Autodesk, Alias|wavefront. Developer and Product Manager. GLOBIS MBA. Computer Science BS at University of Aizu.
http://hiroyukihaga.blogspot.jp/
Master student at SJTU; now research intern of NII, Japan.
http://engcube.com
Software engineer, Founder of Init, Lover of puzzles and challenges.
Founder of @thinkx-inc
http://kazukiotsuka.wordpress.com/
Studied and worked in France, England and USA. Worked for different startups in San Francisco,London and Lyon.Now willing to discover the working world of Tokyo
Veteran software engineer with a BS in Physics. Experience with building and managing teams of engineers, setting up efficient workflows and processes.
Web developer extraordinaire, Scrum master, Telecommute consultant (US Citizen)
Launched 4 successful Android apps and 3 successful iOS apps. Worked at aitia.
Full stack enthusiast, with experiences into low level Kernel hacking and efficient API development, motivated to lead Startups to success.
MS in Computer engineering, launched a webapp called Goodmoove, published in an international journal, looking for a challenge!
Entrepreneur & software developer. Founded Bell Standard, Inc. Created over 750 apps for the iTunes Store.
CEO of @beartail. Student at @tsukuba-university university. Worked at big computer magazine companies as a technical writer and founded smartphone news web media.
Interested in business in VietNam
Web Developer
ex-startup founder & CEO: AHO Corporation(former @netaten-inc
Developed a distributed telephony/voice-trading platform at IFS. Strong C++ and linux background.
http://nishantjr.github.io
A Software Engineering professional with 15 years experience of both Software Engineering teams, and customer-facing Consultancy Services
CEO & Co-Founder at co-meeing Inc.
Kyoto-U CS Master degree. Works at GS.
BS in CSE, Generalist with back-end as main, Launch 5 online social game including one iOS/Android Native app, Work at GREE Japan.
Project Manager and Computer Engineer
Generalist; Has passion on R&D; Mix creative and engineering skills;
Founder Tokyo Incubator @luxstack; sold 1st startup to @monster-worldwide; platform & app lead for Softbank, @yahoo-japan, @fujitsu; enterprise R&D for @adidas
I want to work with "Start Up Company" because I am eager to challenge. Please contact me!
More 14 years of experience developing solutions in telephony and web.
Software Engineer, advanced knowledge in Java and various web technologies, also competent in front-end development
http://www.marounbaydoun.com/
Founder Byus
Students at Padjadjaran University, Nanza University. In learning about technologies and mobile development environment.
I graduated from Hanoi University Of Technology for a year. I am working as server side developer in a game development company. I am looking for a chance to work and touch with new and high technology with more challenge
Working at IDC Frontier as Engineer.
http://nushu123.blogspot.jp/
Skilled infra engineer and architect. UNIX and web development.
Studied at @tsukuba-university
Ruby Developer at @quipper, worked at @paperboy-co and @livedoor-com.
http://blog.kyanny.me/
I want to work with "Start Up Company" because I am eager to challenge. Please contact me! You can download my resume from here ( http://tinyurl.com/ocy48ob )
http://jeyum2.blogspot.com
Mobile Developer at Step-In with strong designer background
Founder @lelele
World class engineer with 20 years of experience.
Worked at CERN, UBS, Walt Disney, Colt, Agency.com amongst others.
https://dazdaztech.wordpress.com/
Worked at Capgemini
Launched 2 android applications, made Linux Device Driver at Sony Mobile.
research software engineer and system administrator
JS, go, Clojure
Freelance Ruby on rails developer.
worked at Domikado, Kiranatama
http://rifkifauzi.wordpress.com
General manager and R&D engineer at SiliconStudio, Tokyo, Japan. Worked at a Startup in the Silicon Valley now bought by Microsoft.
Software Engineer
Founder @localgraph • Worked at @recruit
Founder of @myndpage. Fond of programming, linguistics and neurology. 1st freelance programming job at 18 for @novonordisk Laboratories. Graduated from Epitech.
Developer / UX Designer.
Experience with range of technologies. Proficient in C++, PHP, SQL, Shell, JavaScript, Python and quick to learn. Creator of Linux distribution 'noop linux'.
Senior Java developer. 2 Msc. IT degrees. Spring certified developer. Worked across multiple industries; Proficient with DBs and HTML5 & CSS3.
lead front-end engineer. I launched 7 seccessfull social games.
Web designer since middle school, primarily work on independent gaming sites
http://retrylevel.com