(Head Office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President and COO: Shuichiro Takahashi; hereinafter "REVANES") has been selected as the best firm in a publicly solicited proposal for the "FY2024 Hiroshima Prefecture Demonstration Project Creation Work for Overseas Startups and Other Collaborations. Continuing on from the previous year and the previous fiscal year, this project will promote understanding of the issues in Southeast Asia to companies in the prefecture that wish to expand overseas, and design and develop specifications for a demonstration project with a local company as the first step toward business realization.

● Activities in the last fiscal year:2023 Hiroshima Prefecture Project for Creating Collaborative Demonstration Projects for Overseas Start-ups, etc.
●Results of this year's adoption:Result of Publicly Invited Proposals for Creation of Demonstration Projects for Overseas Startups in Hiroshima Prefecture in FY2024

Since 2014, Rivanes has been a self-funded project to identify and nurture pre-startup researchers and deep-tech startups who are passionate about solving problems.TECH PLANTERThe company is promoting the "Kickstarter" program. In Japan and six Southeast Asian countries (Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam), we have formed the largest platform in Asia with 1,371 teams registered to participate over the past 10 years. We have been constantly pursuing the issues raised by local deep-tech startups in Southeast Asia, and have a proven track record of working with large Japanese companies, small and medium-sized companies, and local factories to promote business startups that lead to solutions to these issues.

This project is designed to provide Hiroshima Prefecture-based companies that are highly motivated to take on the challenge of overseas expansion with the opportunity to expand their business in existing areas and to develop new business opportunities.The objective is to create businesses in new areas. In order to increase the feasibility of this project, we will focus on Southeast Asia and create opportunities for collaboration with overseas startups, universities, research institutions, and other organizations that are familiar with local social issues. In the first half of the project period, seminars will be planned and implemented to help companies in the prefecture fully understand their own philosophies, technologies, and other assets, and learn about issues in Southeast Asia.

• <Main Activities
  April-June 2024: Identify and recruit companies in Hiroshima Prefecture (hold 4 recruitment seminars)
  June-September 2024: Create a hypothesis for collaboration between companies in Hiroshima Prefecture participating in the program and startups in Southeast Asia, and form teams (hold 3 seminars for creating collaboration).
  October 2024-February 2025 Accompanying support for new business creation through collaboration between companies in Hiroshima Prefecture and startups in Southeast Asia
  March 2025: Summary, report of results

Through this initiative, we aim to establish a mechanism for Japan and Southeast Asia to work as a single entity for economic development by building a track record of second-stage startups and expansion into Southeast Asia for Japanese regional companies.

Participating Companies Wanted!

We are looking for companies in Hiroshima Prefecture to participate in this project.
For more information, please click here.
https://hiroshima-greenocean.jp/startups/

Application deadline: June 7, 2024

In addition, recruitment seminars will be held in Fukuyama City (5/15), Hiroshima City (5/21) and online (5/10, 23) to introduce how to proceed with this project.
We hope you will join us here as well.

Details of the seminar offered:https://hiroshima-greenocean.jp/startups/news/news_20240422.html

Inquiries regarding this matter

Liverness Corporation Contact: Akinaga
TEL: 03-5227-4198 / Mail: [email protected]