| Representative |
Daisuke Kawai
Large company x venture company, manufacturing x creating things, hardware x software. He worked at DENSO and Toyota for a total of seven years, in charge of designing and developing ceramic products that clean up exhaust gases from cars around the world while contributing to the conservation of limited precious metal resources. He has consistent experience from elemental technology development to detailed design and the transition to mass production.
He worked at a seed-stage startup for one year, where he was responsible for a wide range of tasks, including building open innovation alliances with large companies, new business development, enterprise sales, marketing, public relations, and system requirement definition and development. |
| Main Achievements |
September 2023: Selected for the Gotanda Valley Acceleration Program 2023. August 2023: Selected as a finalist for the Aichi-Startup Business Plan Contest 2023. |
| Childhood Dream |
The family business of manufacturing roof tiles and protecting roofs |
| Influential People, Things, and Events |
People: Mahatma Gandhi, Yoshida Shoin
Things: Ceramics
Events: Water electrolysis, travel experience in 20 countries around the world |
| Motivation, Goals, and Ideal World |
There were two reasons why I wanted to start a business, both of which were because I left a large company to become a startup. The first was because I realized that there was no SaaS that could be used from start to finish in the development field. I was in charge of sales for BtoB intangible products and first came into contact with an SFA tool. In the world of sales and marketing, many SaaS such as SFA, CRM, and MA have been introduced to improve efficiency, while in the manufacturing development field, I felt a great sense of discomfort in the environment where on-premise legacy systems are rampant. I have a strong sense of crisis that large-scale language models cannot be effectively utilized as the current situation where data is stored in pieces. The second was because I belonged to a seed-stage startup and was exposed to the passion of the CEO and the startup ecosystem, and I began to strongly want to further increase this passion as a person who creates a business. I want to set a big vision to change society and go all out to work on my business (things).
My goal is to revitalize the manufacturing field in Japan and become a presence that promotes the growth of the manufacturing industry that solves social issues. Furthermore, I would like to restore the presence of Japanese manufacturing in the world and increase the number of companies that are ranked within the top 100 in terms of market capitalization.
The world I want to create is one where people and information are organically and smoothly connected, allowing people to concentrate on creative activities. I want to change the manufacturing workplace, which is analog, has a lot of tacit knowledge, and tends to be fragmented. |
