| Representative |
Maro Gill
In 2019, he enrolled in Nagoya Institute of Technology as a government-sponsored international student and came to Japan for the first time. During high school, he liked programming, mathematics, and science, and participated in the Olympics and won awards. He will serve in the army from 2021 to 2022, and return to school in 2023. In the same year, he won the Tongali business contest, which led to him starting a company in October 2023. |
| Main Achievements |
7th e-icon World Programming Contest, 2018, Korea Ministry of Education
2nd place
Tongali Business Contest 2023, 2023.6, Tongal
Grand Prize, NICT Prize, Nomura Securities Prize, Mitsubishi UFJ Bank Prize, Aichi Prefecture Prize
StartupGo! Go! ×10th, 2023.10, Fukuoka City
AWS Prize, Toppan Printing Prize
GLOW TECH NAGOYA GLOW Pitch2023, 2023.11, Nagoya City Economic Bureau Startup Support Office
Grand Prize
20th Campus Venture Grand Prix Chubu Tournament, 2023.12, Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun
Grand Prize
Lean Launchpad National Tournament 2023, 2024.2, Startup Brain Co., Ltd.
Jury Award
20th Campus Venture Grand Prix National Convention, 2024.2, Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun
Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award
UPDATE EARTH2024 Mirai MATURI, 2024.4, UPDATE EARTH 2024 Executive Committee
Nomination, Corporate Award
ICT Startup League, 2024.06, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Selected for SUPPORT II (support grant of up to 20 million yen) |
| Childhood Dream |
I loved programming and wanted to become a world-class programmer. I also liked math and science, so I went to a science high school and aimed to become a researcher. |
| Influential People, Things, and Events |
Person: Masayoshi Son
Thing: Toss
Event: Programming |
| Motivation, Goals, and Ideal World |
The impetus for launching the service came from the fact that when purchasing PC parts and other items online, there were issues such as high shipping costs, not knowing whether they were in stock, and not receiving them immediately, and from the perspective of an EC business owner in Korea, he felt the difficulty of having inventory of products that he did not know whether they would sell or not.
In June 2023, he won the Grand Prize at the "Tongali Business Contest". He started out without much knowledge about starting a business, but after receiving mentoring when participating in the contest, he was able to supplement his missing knowledge and brush up his service, and he began to strongly want to provide a system that allows people to immediately buy what they want not only in Korea but also overseas.
The cross-border EC market is said to be worth 147 trillion yen globally, and is a highly growing market that has grown by +30% year-on-year from 2021 to 2022. We would like to compete on the world stage with the goal of creating a product that updates the experience of cross-border EC on a global scale, changes the lives of people around the world, and makes many emotions more positive. |
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