| Representative |
Kenta Fukushima
After graduating from the Department of Resource Biology and Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University, he worked at a city bank, a systems development company, and as a researcher at a national university before founding a startup specializing in R&D of cryptocurrencies and blockchain and moving to Europe.
After selling all of the company's shares to a listed company at the end of 2018, he worked on new business development within the company.
After leaving the company, he began PoC for a parts demand forecasting and sales support system for marine equipment manufacturers in 2021, and incorporated the company as MarineSL Co., Ltd. in February 2022. He became its representative director. |
| Motivation, Goals, and Ideal World |
I had a vague admiration and awe for the ocean since I was in high school, and studied marine life in college, but I witnessed the reality that everything I did was bound by budgets from the government and the university, and I became interested in the opposite world, the business world. At that time, I didn't have a concrete image of starting a business, so I joined a private company as a new graduate, but after changing jobs several times, I felt strongly that I had to create my ideal workplace myself, and I ended up starting my first business. At that time, I had no knowledge or experience, and my only assets were my youth and energy, so I think I was obsessed with "what kind of impact we can make," but then we were acquired by a large company, and my perception changed. During the merger and acquisition process, I became an employee again and began to be involved with various departments, and at that time I once again felt the magnitude of the resources and potential that large companies have, and I began to think deeply about the significance and importance of bringing them to fruition. In a good sense, it can be said that I no longer have the preconceived notion that "innovation = zero to one."
Therefore, in starting this business, I want to focus on how to involve as many companies as possible, empower the human resources within them, and how to maintain that environment sustainably.
Specifically, I hope to take the initiative in creating products myself, and through the exchange of ideas and human resources between startups and existing companies, contribute to creating an environment in which companies in the maritime cluster can proactively create businesses in the digital field. |
