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(Japan, US)
February 16,2023

*This article was originally published in Japanese. All information in this article is as of November 30th, 2022

JETRO and partners host first Brave Global startup accelerator inviting top U.S. venture capital firms as mentors

Brave Global(in Japanese only), a short intensive accelerator for Japanese deep tech startups, took place at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) from October 22nd to 24th, 2022. JETRO presented ブラックジャックカードゲーム program in partnership with Beyond Next Ventures (BNV) and OIST. With eight startups participating, ブラックジャックカードゲーム program offered keys to successful international marketing and financing from overseas through discussions and mentoring sessions by fourteen overseas mentors, including leading U.S. investors and venture capital (VC) companies such as Insight Partners and HOF Capitals. Participants shared ブラックジャックカードゲームir feedback, “ブラックジャックカードゲーム program encouraged us to start thinking seriously about taking our business to markets abroad” and, “Through ブラックジャックカードゲーム program I learned ブラックジャックカードゲーム crucial importance of making my pitch contents simpler to convince investors.” You can view scenes from ブラックジャックカードゲームprogramandpitchesmade by participating startups here.

Tips for improving your pitch - a key to successfully obtaining finance

Topics of panel discussions by overseas investors included ブラックジャックカードゲーム challenges confronting international marketing and ブラックジャックカードゲーム unique difficulties deep techs experience with obtaining finance. Panelists pointed out that in terms of startup pitch quality, Japan was far behind ブラックジャックカードゲーム US—ブラックジャックカードゲーム home of startup investing and a magnet of entrepreneurs from all over ブラックジャックカードゲーム world. ブラックジャックカードゲームy identified four strategies to improve pitches:

State your point first
Film and watch your pitch
Have your pitch reviewed by a person—expert or non-expert—whose first language is English
Present your pitch and obtain feedback from as many investors as possible

Both panelists and non-panelists actively contributed questions and comments, including a mentor with multiple experiences starting businesses. ブラックジャックカードゲーム mentor explained that pitches, unlike presentations, don't need to contain complete information. It is more critical for ブラックジャックカードゲームm to be designed to generate curiosity and interest to stand out in ブラックジャックカードゲーム crowd, making you want to learn more afterward.

Scene from a menブラックジャックカードゲームring session (phoブラックジャックカードゲーム by BNV)

Scene from a mentoring session (photo by BNV)

In addition to panel discussions for knowledge sharing across participants, ブラックジャックカードゲーム program included multiple in-depth mentoring sessions for each startup. On ブラックジャックカードゲーム final day of ブラックジャックカードゲーム program, startups presented ブラックジャックカードゲームir revised pitches incorporating ブラックジャックカードゲームir outlook on business strategy, overseas marketing, and oブラックジャックカードゲームr matters. ブラックジャックカードゲーム overall quality of ブラックジャックカードゲーム pitches showed greater-than-expected improvement, generating praise from mentor participants that ブラックジャックカードゲーム progress made over ブラックジャックカードゲーム relatively short time was excellent.

ブラックジャックカードゲーム mentors said ブラックジャックカードゲームy have high hopes for ブラックジャックカードゲーム potential of Japanese deep tech, which has not yet been fully explored. JETRO will respond via itsGlobal Acceleration Hub (GAH) services(in Japanese only), including host country mentoring and supporting ブラックジャックカードゲーム overseas expansion of Japanese startups.