| Representative |
Naoto Tomita
While enrolled in the graduate school at Tokyo Institute of Technology, she serves as a visiting faculty member at Fujita Health University. She co-founded the company with her current CTO, whom she met while managing a café in New Delhi, India. In 2022, after receiving a request from the Aichi Prefectural Police asking, “Is there a way to reduce sexual abuse stemming from children’s use of social media?” she developed “Kodomamo,” an AI app for parents and children, through a public-private-academic partnership involving the Aichi Prefectural Police and Fujita Health University.
In 2023, she founded Adora and is working to implement security AI in society to protect everyone from children to seniors from crime. She holds a certification as a child counselor. |
| Main Achievements |
September 2026: Selected for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Recommended Mobile Phone Devices Program
March 2026: 3rd Place Winner at ICC FUKUOKA 2026 Startup Catapult
March 2026: OKAYAMA STARTUP AWARD 2026, 5th MomoSta Business Plan Contest—OSA (Overall MomoSta) Grand Prix
February 2026: Miyagi Pitch Contest 2026—Google Cloud Japan Award
August 2024: 18th Kids Design Award—Chairperson’s Special Award (Design Category: Contributing to Children’s Safety and Security)
November 2023: Cabinet Secretariat “IchiBiz Award 2023” Business Idea Contest Utilizing Geospatial Information—Winner in the Public Safety Category
June 2023: IVS LAUNCHPAD SEED Corporate Award (Notion Award) |
| Childhood Dream |
I wanted to become an origami expert, but since I wasn't allowed to be a member of both the baseball team and the origami club, I couldn't join the origami club... |
| Motivation, Goals, and Ideal World |
It all began in 2022, when the Aichi Prefectural Police approached Fujita Health University—where I was serving as a visiting professor—with a request: “Is there a way to reduce sexual abuse stemming from children’s use of social media?” At the time, Aichi Prefecture was experiencing a series of incidents in which young people connected with unknown adults on social media, leading to sexual abuse. Messages on social media and similar platforms are like a “black box”; neither the police nor parents can detect dangerous exchanges before abuse occurs. On the other hand, having parents monitor every aspect of their children’s smartphone use undermines children’s privacy and the trust between parents and children. I wanted to use technology to address the conflict parents face—the desire to “protect their children, but not want to monitor them.” So, together with our current CTO, whom I met in New Delhi, India, I developed “Kodomamo,” an app that uses AI to detect only dangerous situations and alert parents, and we founded Adora in 2023. Currently, through adoption in KDDI’s rate plans and implementation in educational devices provided by local governments, our solution is reaching many households and schools. Our goal is to create a society where safety measures are “a given” when children are given smartphones. We also aim to use AI to address the challenge that only about 40 percent of young people use content filtering. Furthermore, this technology can be applied to protect seniors from social media-based investment scams and romance scams. From children to seniors, we will create a “social safety infrastructure” in Japan—one that protects people from the malicious threats lurking behind smartphones—and spread it throughout the world. |
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