Commissioned by the City of Sendai, LEVANES Corporation promotes the Sendai-Tohoku Expansion Program (STEP), which supports startups that take on the challenge of solving global issues from Sendai and Tohoku.

Release:https://gbp.lne.st/1410/

As part of this initiative, we will hold a global business seminar for startups and local companies seeking to expand their business overseas from Sendai and Tohoku.(Learning from Pioneers of Global Expansion! series) will be held approximately five times from August to December.

As the first session, we have invited Mr. Kengo Suzuki, co-founder and executive fellow of Euglena Co. In addition, Mr. Yukihiro Maru, Representative Director and Group CEO of LIVERNESS, will discuss "How startups and regional companies should expand their business overseas now.

1st: Global Business Seminar

Date: Thursday, August 7, 2025, 15:00-17:00
Location:L-Park Sendai (4-11-1 Ichibancho, Aoba-ku, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture)
Title: How to make the first step for overseas expansion
Special Lecture: Mr. Kengo Suzuki, Co-Founder and Executive Fellow, Euglena Co.
Moderator: Yukihiro Maru, Group CEO, Liverness Corporation

*Non-startup companies entering this program are also welcome to participate. If you wish to participate, please register by clicking on the application button or on the linked page.
https://id.lne.st/project/sendai_gbp/regist/basic_info/1

Euglena Co.
Co-founder and Executive Fellow
Mr. Kengo Suzuki

D. (Agriculture)/Ph.D. (Medicine), was involved in the establishment of Euglena Co., Ltd. in 2005 while a student at the University of Tokyo, where he was one of the co-founders and responsible for research and development up to the present. He is mainly involved in the development of technologies related to the mass cultivation of Euglena, a type of microalgae, and received his PhD (Agriculture) from the University of Tokyo in 2016 and his PhD (Medicine) from Kitasato University in 2019. Currently, he is the Principal Investigator of the Algae Resource Upcycling Research Team at RIKEN, a Visiting Professor at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, and a Specially Appointed Professor (Visiting) at Tohoku University.

Representative Director and Group CEO, Liverness Inc.
Yukihiro Maru

D. in Agriculture, founded LIVERNESS Co., Ltd. in 2002 while still in graduate school. Ltd. in 2002. He has developed Japan's first "delivery laboratory class of cutting-edge science" into a business. He operates a "knowledge manufacturing business" that creates new knowledge by combining management resources and technologies that lie dormant in universities and local communities, and has facilitated more than 200 projects through his "knowledge platform. As the instigator of one of Asia's largest venture ecosystems in collaboration with local factories and major companies, etc., he works to solve global-scale social issues by discovering deep tech from around the world. He has also been involved in the launch of numerous venture companies, including Euglena Co.