Acceleration program “SCAP” starts from mid-September ブラック ジャック ディーラー ルールeries to intensively assist startups in expanding business overseas

Sep 15, 2022

Under the support of the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), JETRO has started the Startup City Acceleration Program (SCAP), ブラック ジャック ディーラー ルールequential order, from mid-September, which helps domestic startups to expand business overseas. Initially targeting startups active in eight startup ecosystem hub cities across the country, it has expanded the coverage nationwide and selected 126 startups which will participate in all five courses of the program.

In this program, world-class accelerators affiliated with JETRO will provide specialized courses by leveraging their strengths and provide individual support for Japanese startups to expand business overseas while closely working with them. It will end in March 2023 and participation is free of charge.

This fiscal year, the third for the program, a portion will be conducted in a hybrid format combining real and online sessions. It will include face-to-face mentoring, tours of local ecosystems and interviews with potential business partners at the US bases of accelerators, leading to more realistic networking and contact with international investors and business partners.

In all five courses, participant companies will aim at overseas market expansion and network building through receiving support for business plan development and promotion activities, as well as having Demo Days geared toward international investors and visiting local ecosystems.