Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Tokyo.
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
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/
Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer and Engineer of @sassor. He has been working on Interaction designer.
@babelverse Co-Founder.
Glomad. Ideator. Hacker. Maker.
Winner @ LeWeb, TheNextWeb, TechCrunch Disrupt.
Alumni @500startups, @startupchile, @startupweekend
http://blog.deborniol.com/
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.
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
UCSC Comp Sci B.S., web (backend mostly, Ruby, Python, PHP), desktop development (Qt/C++). Loves music, natural languages, traveling. Working in Tokyo.
Management Sensei ◦ Infrastructure Samurai ◦ Analytics Otaku ◦ Architecture Ninja. 1st programming job at 14. Effective in teams of 4 to 10,000.
Founder @fullcourt • Worked at @amazon, @yahoo-japan, @peatix, @six-apart • @500startups Mentor
http://angrymoose.org
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/
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/
Hacker • Founder @wazanova • Worked at @dena, @ntt
CTO of @language-cloud
Founder @vinetrade • Worked at @marono-media-k-k, @peatix • Studied at @university-of-sussex, @university-of-brighton
http://www.tacchistudios.com
Co-founder of @simplehoney, shopping simplified.
Founder of @icanhascheezburger. Millions of lols.
http://ericnakagawa.com
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.
junior developer
Engineer with a strong focus on UX. Trilingual, native level proficiency in English/Chinese/Japanese. Worked at Zynga and various Japanese IT firms.
C#.NET, MSSQL Web & Desktop Developer / Consultant
Manager - Client Engineering @cinemacraft, Partner and CTO at BluSoft Inc., Strong background in UI/UX & Backend design and implementation. Never sleeps.
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
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
Researcher, Security Auditor, Developer, Software Architect, Enterpreteneur, ...
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
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)
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
Berkeley MFE, Waterloo Comp Eng, International Experience Designing and Developing World Class Software Systems, Working with Large Data Sets
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
Founder @j-grab-inc • Worked at @ebay, @yahoo-japan
http://www.facebook.com/jgraben
Founder @little-arrows & @valet-1, previously founder @poke-new-york and @winedirect.
http://aaronrutledge.com/#/blog
Currently Nodejs, Rails, iOS. Love coding, making things, running and rockclimbing
http://dyashkir.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/
Hacker @edsurge
http://medium.com/@chibicode
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
CEO of Increments, the top prize company of Open Network Lab 4th batch. Worked at @google, @hatena.
http://yaotti.hatenablog.com
Front End Engineer, UXD
http://www.bucchi.me
Codes. Dreams. @Penn @Brown @salesforce MVP. Founder @swarm
http://www.fractastical.com
(complete later)
http://blog.julien.cayzac.name/
Designer, UI Engineer, UX Advocate, Digital Illustrator, Sketchnoter.
http://www.calvin-c.com
MS from Todai, BS from Berkeley. Studied IT management and photoelectrochemical water splitting. Speaks Japanese, Spanish, and Pirate be me native tongue.
Assistant Professor (Machine Learning)
@university-of-electro-communications
Tokyo, Japan
Ruby on Rails contributor, Kaminari maintainer(watched by +2600 on Github). experience in programming for +10 years.
http://yukinishijima.net
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
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.
Chief Architect at Recruit Co., Ltd
http://kawanet.blogspot.com/
CTO at @frafty
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
Software Developer, Engineer, Founder. Worked at @business-objects. Worked in Japan, Canada, Romania, India.
Owner, Software engineer of @LittleApps Inc.
http://ngsdev.org/
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/
Former Principal of Japanese VC firm. Strong and unique background in venture financing and software engineering.
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
EPITECH CS, full-stack web nerd with a focus on front-end development and UI/UX design. Co-founded LocalRepublic.
http://roadtocairns.com/
Owner & CIO of @skyavy, INC.
http://iketani.skyavy.com
NUS School of Computing, Interface Redesign @ TripAdvisor, Best Project (E-Business Capstone), human language maestro, failed first startup @ 20
http://db.tt/HTl8G7gK
Mid to expert level Rails programmer.
CTO of Postmore. Lifelong programmer. Dev experience from teamLab inc. (4 years). Studied at Kyushu Institute of Technology(2007).
Founder NZBCX • Worked at @hsbc, @nomura • Studied at @victoria-university-of-wellington, @deakin-university
http://blog.jimijackson.com
Founder @coffeebreak • Worked at @stumbleupon, @microsoft • Studied at @carnegie-mellon-university
Co-Founder and CEO of 10SEC
see my profile in linkedin
Founder of Otsumu Inc.
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.
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
Statistician/Data mining specialist with Ph.D. in econometrics and computational macroeconomics. Also, full stack Rails developer.
14 years of programming experience in many languages, on many platforms, from mobile apps to scalable backend systems. Significant infrastructure & sysops exp.
5 years realtime trading systems in C++, 3 years development platforms and algorithmic trading in Python. Excellent communicator, enthusiastic learner.
Banker
Developer of Increments, ex-Kamado CTO(acquired by mixi)
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/camelmasa/
Worked at @rakuten, @metaps • Studied at @indian-institute-of-technology-delhi
http://blog.rishabhmhjn.me
Software engineer who has speciality in machine learning.
CEO, Founder
Expert software engineer who is also good at designing high-end yet simple clean easy-to-use software. Worked in Silicon Valley and Japan.
Working at I&G Partners, Inc.
Working on @appsocially. Love Arc.
http://mgiken.com/blog
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
iOS + node.js/golang + Ops, launched http://getirkit.com/ http://jsdo.it/ http://photobag.in/
http://maaash.jp/
Founder/Engineer @tadaku • Studied at @university-of-massachusetts-amherst • Bostonian abroad
Founder @tier5 • Worked at @google, @microsoft • B.S./M.S @johns-hopkins-university
Experienced Ruby on Rails programmer. Business, analytics and finance background. Previously worked at @pnc-capital-markets.
http://www.diasks2.com
Software engineer with experience writing Python, Node.js, and Go as well as functional programming languages such as Racket.
http://shawnps.net
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.
PhD student at University of Tokyo; Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning; Worked at IBM and Portugal Telecom
A full-stack software engineer, currently located in Tokyo.
Founder and CTO of @liine • Worked at @vantrix • Studied at @university-of-montreal • Maker of things
Founder @mystar-japan-business-solutions-1 • Worked at @gembiosoft • Studied at @universidad-politecnica-de-valencia
Founder POYNTER
Artist, programmer, columnist, translator etc. Worked at @ibm, @sun-microsystems • Studied at @kyoto-university
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/akipponn3
Rails programmer, Sales, New bussiness developer, Launched 2 facebook app
Founder Cumiki
CEO & Co-Founder at co-meeing Inc.
MS in Computer engineering, launched a webapp called Goodmoove, published in an international journal, looking for a challenge!
Veteran software engineer with a BS in Physics. Experience with building and managing teams of engineers, setting up efficient workflows and processes.
CEO of @beartail. Student at @tsukuba-university university. Worked at big computer magazine companies as a technical writer and founded smartphone news web media.
Founder of @thinkx-inc
http://kazukiotsuka.wordpress.com/
Developed a distributed telephony/voice-trading platform at IFS. Strong C++ and linux background.
http://nishantjr.github.io
Full stack enthusiast, with experiences into low level Kernel hacking and efficient API development, motivated to lead Startups to success.
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
Web developer extraordinaire, Scrum master, Telecommute consultant (US Citizen)
Web Developer
ex-startup founder & CEO: AHO Corporation(former @netaten-inc
Launched 4 successful Android apps and 3 successful iOS apps. Worked at aitia.
Interested in business in VietNam
Software engineer, Founder of Init, Lover of puzzles and challenges.
Master student at SJTU; now research intern of NII, Japan.
http://engcube.com
Entrepreneur & software developer. Founded Bell Standard, Inc. Created over 750 apps for the iTunes Store.
A Software Engineering professional with 15 years experience of both Software Engineering teams, and customer-facing Consultancy Services
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/
BS in CSE, Generalist with back-end as main, Launch 5 online social game including one iOS/Android Native app, Work at GREE Japan.
Founder Byus
Working at IDC Frontier as Engineer.
http://nushu123.blogspot.jp/
Project Manager and Computer Engineer
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!
Generalist; Has passion on R&D; Mix creative and engineering skills;
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
Studied at @tsukuba-university
Kyoto-U CS Master degree. Works at GS.
Software Engineer, advanced knowledge in Java and various web technologies, also competent in front-end development
http://www.marounbaydoun.com/
Skilled infra engineer and architect. UNIX and web development.
More 14 years of experience developing solutions in telephony and web.
Ruby Developer at @quipper, worked at @paperboy-co and @livedoor-com.
http://blog.kyanny.me/
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
Worked at Capgemini
Founder @localgraph • Worked at @recruit
research software engineer and system administrator
JS, go, Clojure
World class engineer with 20 years of experience.
Worked at CERN, UBS, Walt Disney, Colt, Agency.com amongst others.
https://dazdaztech.wordpress.com/
General manager and R&D engineer at SiliconStudio, Tokyo, Japan. Worked at a Startup in the Silicon Valley now bought by Microsoft.
Freelance Ruby on rails developer.
worked at Domikado, Kiranatama
http://rifkifauzi.wordpress.com
Experience with range of technologies. Proficient in C++, PHP, SQL, Shell, JavaScript, Python and quick to learn. Creator of Linux distribution 'noop linux'.
Software Engineer
Founder @lelele
Launched 2 android applications, made Linux Device Driver at Sony Mobile.
Web designer since middle school, primarily work on independent gaming sites
http://retrylevel.com
lead front-end engineer. I launched 7 seccessfull social games.
Senior Java developer. 2 Msc. IT degrees. Spring certified developer. Worked across multiple industries; Proficient with DBs and HTML5 & CSS3.
Developer / UX Designer.
Founder of @myndpage. Fond of programming, linguistics and neurology. 1st freelance programming job at 18 for @novonordisk Laboratories. Graduated from Epitech.