\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch2>Strategic Initiative of Global Brain\nYasuhiko Yurimoto, President and CEO, Global Brain Corporation\u003C/h2>\nYasuhiko spoke about the achievements of Global Brain (“\u003Cstrong>GB\u003C/strong>”) in 2014, as well as \u003Cstrong>GB\u003C/strong>’s strategic initiatives including the launch of an acceleration program for kids business startups and the “\u003Cstrong>Monozukuri\u003C/strong>” platform.\n\nIn addition, Yasuhiko announced that \u003Cstrong>GB\u003C/strong> will establish a regional office in Seoul, South Korea and appoint Chester Jungseok Roh, a prominent angel investor and CSO at Korean startup \u003Cstrong>5Rocks\u003C/strong>, as chief representative for the Seoul office.\n\nYasuhiko also announced that \u003Cstrong>GB\u003C/strong> will relocate its office to Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya in this Spring to begin the EIR (Entrepreneurs in Residence) program and foster the startup community.\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_17.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-170 aligncenter\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_17.jpg\" alt=\"20141219_17\" width=\"260\" height=\"195\" />\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch2>“Monozukuri” startup’s challenge\u003C/h2>\nOn one of major focuse of Global Brain, Zak Murase, \u003Cstrong>GB\u003C/strong>’s Silicon Valley office representative, presented “\u003Cstrong>Monozukuri\u003C/strong> trend from the Silicon Valley perspective”, followed by a panel discussion on the business environment and KSF (key success factor) around “\u003Cstrong>Monozukuri\u003C/strong>.” The panel was moderated by Kazuhiko Miyama of GB Tokyo, with Noburo Ijuin at \u003Cstrong>Alps Electric\u003C/strong>, Ko Kijima at \u003Cstrong>16Lab\u003C/strong>, and Zak Murase.\n\nPanelists:\n\u003Cul>\n \u003Cli>Noburo Ijuin, 1st Sales Department at Alps Electric Co., Ltd.\u003C/li>\n \u003Cli>Ko Kijima, CEO at 16Lab Inc\u003C/li>\n \u003Cli>Zak Murase, Global Brain Corporation (Silicon Valley representative)\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\nModerator\n\u003Cul>\n \u003Cli>Kazuhiko Miyama, Global Brain Corporation\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n \n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_02.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-173 aligncenter\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_02.jpg\" alt=\"20141219_02\" width=\"260\" height=\"195\" />\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch2>Growth strategy of global startups\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cstrong>GB\u003C/strong> has been facilitating strategic alliances between startups and major companies in both capital and business alliance.\n\u003Cstrong>5Rocks\u003C/strong>backed by \u003Cstrong>GB\u003C/strong> has built more than 700 global customer base within 1 year after the massive fund raise and has merged with \u003Cstrong>Tapjoy\u003C/strong> operating more than 10 countries across the world.\nThe stakeholders of \u003Cstrong>5Rocks\u003C/strong> discussed the specific action and results, moderated by Jiro Kumakura who supported the success story of \u003Cstrong>5Rocks\u003C/strong>.\n\nPanelists:\n\u003Cul>\n \u003Cli>Changsu Lee, VP of Publisher Analytics and Insights at Tapjoy, Inc. (ex-CEO and founder of \u003Cstrong>5Rocks\u003C/strong>)\u003C/li>\n \u003Cli>Paul Longhenry, VP & GM Business and Corporate Development at Tapjoy, Inc.\u003C/li>\n \u003Cli>Nobuyoshi Noda, Senior Vice President at Adways Inc.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\nModerator\n\u003Cul>\n \u003Cli>Jiro Kumakura, Global Brain Corporation\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_03.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-175 aligncenter\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_03.jpg\" alt=\"20141219_03\" width=\"260\" height=\"195\" />\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2>Creating a fast growing startup\u003C/h2>\nThe 3 top executives of fast growing startups backed by GB discussed the key strategy and issues. This session was moderated by Yuhei Iwamoto of TechCrunch Japan. The importance of creating organization, product fine tuning and sustainable process have been discussed.\n\nPanelists:\n\u003Cul>\n \u003Cli>Soichiro Swimmy Minami, Director at LUXA, Inc.\u003C/li>\n \u003Cli>Shintaro Yamada, CEO at Mercari, Inc.\u003C/li>\n \u003Cli>Yasukane Matsumoto, CEO & Founder at raksul.inc\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\nModerator\n\u003Cul>\n \u003Cli>Yuhei Iwamoto, TechCrunch Japan\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_04.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-176 aligncenter\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_04.jpg\" alt=\"20141219_04\" width=\"510\" height=\"195\" />\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2>World Venture Pitch Battle 2014\u003C/h2>\n10 Startups, winners of international pitch event in 2014, have participated in the pitch battle. They came from many different countries and all the way from Singapore, Vietnam and Malaysia to the United States, South Korea and Japan.\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_15.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-177 aligncenter\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_15.jpg\" alt=\"20141219_15\" width=\"366\" height=\"250\" />\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>\u003C/h3>\n\u003Ch3>\u003Ca href=\"http://www.catchthatbus.com/\" target=\"_blank\">CatchThatBus(Malaysia)\u003C/a>\u003C/h3>\n\u003Ch4>Ashwin Jeyapalasingam, CEO\u003C/h4>\nCatchThatBus is an online travel agent (OTA) specializing in bus travel in Asia. The bus route information is available on the smartphone App. People can purchase the bus ticket through the App.\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_05.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-178 aligncenter\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_05.jpg\" alt=\"20141219_05\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" />\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch3>\u003Ca href=\"http://vmfive.com/\" target=\"_blank\">VMFIVE (Taiwan)\u003C/a>\u003C/h3>\n\u003Ch4>Dominique Tu, Co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer\u003C/h4>\nVMFive is building the world's largest Virtual Smartphone Cloud Platform. People can experience \"one click demo\" on their selected Smartphone App with no pre-install software. They have already secured the alliance with Adways.\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_14.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-179 aligncenter\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_14.jpg\" alt=\"20141219_14\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" />\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch3>\u003Ca href=\"http://photosynth.co.jp/\" target=\"_blank\">PhotoSynth (Japan)\u003C/a>\u003C/h3>\n\u003Ch4>Susumu Kobayashi, Co-founder\u003C/h4>\nSmart lock robot \"Akerun\" automatically opens the door through the smartphone without using physical keys. The door lock is unlocked through the bluetooth certification between the smartphone and Akerun.\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_06.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-180 aligncenter\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_06.jpg\" alt=\"20141219_06\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" />\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch3>\u003Ca href=\"http://www.drivebot.io/en/\" target=\"_blank\">Drivebot (Thailand)\u003C/a>\u003C/h3>\n\u003Ch4>Atthaphong Limsupanark, CEO\u003C/h4>\nDrivebot is a device and mobile App to health check the car. It is super easy to set up and compatible with every car sold since 1996. Car owner can monitor the car, know the car trouble in advance and improve the driving behavior.\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_07.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-181 aligncenter\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_07.jpg\" alt=\"20141219_07\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" />\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch3>\u003Ca href=\"http://www.rehabfun.com/\" target=\"_blank\">LongGood (Taiwan)\u003C/a>\u003C/h3>\n\u003Ch4>Ray Chen, Founder\u003C/h4>\nLongGood develops an interactive rehabilitation system by using motion sensing depth camera to create fun, effective, and challenging applications to encourage patients from different conditions to rehabilitate at home.\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_08.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-182\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_08.jpg\" alt=\"20141219_08\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" />\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n \n\u003Ch3>\u003Ca href=\"http://facerecog.asia/\" target=\"_blank\">FaceRecog (Singapore)\u003C/a>\u003C/h3>\n\u003Ch4>Muhd Amrullah, CEO\u003C/h4>\nFaceRecog scans the eyes of customers to determine age, gender or custom features, and then runs tailored advertisements. It can count and manage the number of people whether people look or not at the outside advertising.\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_09.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-183 aligncenter\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_09.jpg\" alt=\"20141219_09\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" />\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3>\u003C/h3>\n\u003Ch3>\u003Ca href=\"https://appota.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Appota (Vietnam)\u003C/a>\u003C/h3>\n\u003Ch4>Do Tuan Anh, Founder and CEO\u003C/h4>\nAppota is the Vietnam’s No.1 mobile content distribution platform. It allows developers and game publishers to effectively distribute their content to the largest smartphone communities in South-East Asia.\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_10.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-184 aligncenter\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_10.jpg\" alt=\"20141219_10\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" />\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\n\n\u003Ch3>\u003Ca href=\"http://www.ichef.tw/\" target=\"_blank\">iChef (Taiwan)\u003C/a>\u003C/h3>\n\u003Ch4>Ken Chen, Co-founder and CMO\u003C/h4>\niCHEF POS App is designed by restaurant and for restaurants. Serving more than 400 restaurants and 1 million customer every month, iCHEF is the No.1 mobile POS in Taiwan and Hong Kong.\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_11.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-185 aligncenter\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_11.jpg\" alt=\"20141219_11\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" />\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\n\n\u003Ch3>\u003Ca href=\"http://www.mangoplate.com/\" target=\"_blank\">MangoPlate (South Korea)\u003C/a>\u003C/h3>\n\u003Ch4>Bernard Kim, CEO\u003C/h4>\nMangoPlate is your go-to app for discovering the best restaurants in South Korea. MangoPlate helps you resolve your daily problem of where to go eat by connecting you with trustworthy people as well as the best restaurants in South Korea.\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_12.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-186 aligncenter\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_12.jpg\" alt=\"20141219_12\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" />\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\n\n\u003Ch3>\u003Ca href=\"http://www.mypodo.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Podo Labs (United States)\u003C/a>\u003C/h3>\n\u003Ch4>Jae Hoon Choi, Co-founder and CEO\u003C/h4>\nPodo is the first app-controlled, “stick-and-shoot” camera. Podo sticks on surfaces like glass, painted walls, wood, concrete—even trees, poles, and fences. It connects to the Podo smartphone App to show you a live preview of the shot.\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_13.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-187 aligncenter\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_13.jpg\" alt=\"20141219_13\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" />\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\n\n\u003Ch2>Networking Event\u003C/h2>\nIn addition to the startups who participated in the pitch battle, 28 prominent startups across the world setup demo booths during the networking event.\n\nThe winners of the World Venture Pitch Battle 2014 have been announced during the networking time.\u003Cstrong> iChef \u003C/strong>won the 1st place award, \u003Cstrong>VMFIVE\u003C/strong> won the audience award, and \u003Cstrong>Podo Labs\u003C/strong> won the GB award.\n\n\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003Ca href=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_16.jpg\">\u003Cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-188 aligncenter\" src=\"/strapi/uploads/162/20141219_16.jpg\" alt=\"20141219_16\" width=\"510\" height=\"520\" />\u003C/a></P\n","2014-12-19T00:00:43.000Z",{"id":13,"url":14},514,"/uploads/162/gbaf.png",{"pagination":16},{"page":17,"pageSize":18,"pageCount":17,"total":17},1,25,["Reactive",20],{"$slocale":21,"$sloggedIn":22},"en",false,["Set"],["ShallowReactive",25],{"/strapi/api/posts?locale=en&pagination[page]=1&pagination[pageSize]=25&filters[slug][$eq]=162--en":-1},true,"/en/posts/162",{"sefirot-http-config":29,"sefirot-snackbars":30},{},{"items":31},["Ref",32],["Reactive",33],[]]