AGRI TECH

Agritech Grand Prix 2023

Standing up for solutions to society's problems
Food, agriculture, environment, water resources, biomass, etc.
We implement the technologies and thoughts of entrepreneurs and researchers in the agri-tech field into society together.

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ABOUT

Outline of the event

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Scientific and technological "seeds" are being created in universities, research institutes, and corporate laboratories, but it takes a lot of effort before they sprout into practical applications. The "Tech Planter," organized by LIVERNESS and its partners, is an ecosystem that aims to serve as a planter to discover these seeds and help them sprout into business. The Agri-Tech Grand Prix is a program aimed at discovering and fostering technological seeds and entrepreneurs in the real tech field (food, agriculture, environment, water resources, biomass, etc.).

Related Grand Prix :. Agritech Grand Prix List

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Those who have a vision to change the world or improve the world based on the technological seeds in the real tech field and have a will to establish or develop a new business.
Individuals and teams are both welcome to participate, even before incorporation.
No limitation on the number of years of establishment, even if you are already a corporation. Even if you are close to mass production or PMF establishment, if you are planning to collaborate with partner companies, etc., it is acceptable.

Application Theme

Food production for 5 billion people in Asia

Application period

Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - Friday, July 7, 2023

Screening Criteria

A panel of judges composed of LIVERNESS and its partners will review the following items

01novelty (patentability)
02feasibility
03Overseas Expansion Capabilities
04Are you going to change the world?
05passion

commendation

Grand Prize: (300,000 yen cash prize + right to receive 5 million yen business investment) 1
Corporate Prize: (200,000 yen) Approximately 10 prizes will be awarded.

SCHEDULE

Schedule

3/1[WED]: Entry Start

this way (direction close to the speaker or towards the speaker)Please register as a member and fill out the web form to apply. We also hold information sessions at universities and on an individual basis to encourage determination to enter and to teach tips on how to prepare documents. Please feel free to contact us for more information.

6/17[SAT]: kickoff

RIVANES and its partners, as well as entered teams, will meet and mingle.
Business consultation and partnership development with each other will be available. Participation or lack of participation on the day of the event will not be considered.

7/10[MON]: 1st round: Application Screening

A panel of judges composed of LIVERNESS and its partners will review the documents.
You will be asked to submit information about your team, skills, passions, and vision for the future via web form and video.
All applicants will be notified of the screening results and provided with feedback on their applications.
In addition, individual interviews (also online) for presentation review will be conducted for those who wish to participate.

8monthfirst 10 days of month: Finalists determined

Interviews will be held for applicants who pass the document screening to brush up their presentations for the final round.
In addition, meetings can be set up with partner companies for the purpose of business consultation and developing partnerships.

9/16[SAT]: Agritech Grand Prix

The 12 finalist teams that pass the document screening will be screened for presentation.

10Month～: Matching Support Period

After the Demo Day, the contact point between the venture and LIBANES will continue to be open for discussions on commercialization.
We handle a wide range of start-up issues, from incorporation to prototype development, financing, R&D, and more.
In addition, collaborative matching between ventures and partner companies has become more active to support business development.

PARTNER

ASSET

asset

ASSET01Riverness Communicator
ASSET02Partners
ASSET03Professional Supporter
ASSET04superfactory group

SUPPORT

Support

SUPPORT01Organize the purpose and vision of starting a business
SUPPORT02Brush up on your presentation
SUPPORT03Providing opportunities for business company collaboration
SUPPORT04Support for R&D and prototype development
SUPPORT05Support for knowledge and IP strategies
SUPPORT06finance

DEMO DAY

Grand Prix Outline

Grand Prix Name

Agritech Grand Prix 2023

Location

Center of Garage (1-16-3 Yokogawa, Sumida-ku, Tokyo)

Date & Time

Saturday, September 16, 2023, 13:00-19:00

Application period

Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - Friday, July 7, 2023

Participation Target

Held on a closed, pre-registration basis (finalists, partner companies, professional supporters, Super Factory Group)

organizing

LIVERNESS Corporation

timeline

12:30-13:00: inauguration
13:00-13:30: Greetings from the Organizer
13:30-17:00: Presentation (Presenter①～⑫)
17:00-18:00: Review Time
18:00-19:00: Announcement of Judging Results and Award Ceremony

JUDGE

judge

head judge
Representative Director, President and COO, Liverness, Inc.
Shuichiro Takahashi

D. (Life Sciences), Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo. Founding member of RIVANESS. He established the RIVANES research institute and built the foundation for research support and R&D projects. He has devised unique business models such as "RIVANESS Research Fund" and "L-RAD," a platform for unused research ideas, and has led many projects involving industry, academia, and education.
General Manager, Sales Planning Department, FC Planning Division, Aqua Clara Co.
Nobuhiro Fujio

After graduating from high school in Japan, he moved to the U.S. to study in California, U.S.A. After returning to Japan in 2000, he joined a domestic marketing support company and was involved in developing product sales strategies for domestic manufacturers. 2008, he joined Aqua Clara. He joined Aqua Clara in 2008 and worked in the direct sales and management strategy divisions before assuming his current position in 2020. Currently, in addition to advertising and sales promotion planning work as the Aqua Clara franchise headquarters, he is also engaged in new business utilizing the company's own infrastructure.
Representative Director, Senior Managing Director and General Manager, Executive Office, Environmental Management Center Co.
Shigeo Shimizu

After joining the company in 1989, he developed the environmental concierge business, focusing on environmental surveys, analysis, and consulting services; he was appointed Executive Officer and General Manager of the Metropolitan Area Branch Office in 2011, Director and General Manager of the Project Business Division in 2013, and Representative Director and Senior Managing Director in 2017. After working in corporate planning and as the head of the business planning office, he is currently the head of the executive office, promoting new business development such as agribusiness, and also serves as the chairman and representative director of Sanei Technics, Inc.
Executive Officer, Corporate Management Division, KOBASHI HOLDINGS Co.
CSO, KOBASHI ROBOTICS Co.
Shogo Sakashita

After graduating from university, he joined Mikimoto Co., Ltd. and worked as a diamond buyer, procuring diamonds for royalty and royal families. Later, she experienced setting up reconstruction projects after the Great East Japan Earthquake, and joined MISUMI Corporation in 2015. He has experience in development, production, and sales, and is familiar with marketing and promotion in e-commerce. He has also been involved in business strategy planning. Responsible for planning and executing business strategies for the entire group. In order to embody the management philosophy "Cultivate the Earth," in addition to the core agricultural machinery business, he is also involved in the manufacturing support business for startups and the creation of new regional industries.
Principal, Sigmaxis Inc.
Tomoyuki Sumi

Part-time lecturer at the University of Tokyo Graduate School. He has been involved in new business creation and smart kitchen related businesses at Cookpad for 6 years. He has supported SKS JAPAN (2017-) and Foodtech Venture Day (2019-) by Sigmaxis since their inception, and after working as an advisor for Sigmaxis, he will officially join in 2022. As a foodtech specialist, he is well versed in domestic and international startups and provides industry insights such as chaos maps. He also serves as a part-time lecturer at the University of Tokyo Graduate School, where he designs and implements curriculum for startup-style new business creation. He has experience in supporting startups and large corporations in their new business creation.
General Manager, Research Planning Center, Central Research Institute, Nipun Corporation
Rumiko Miyashita

Born in Kanagawa Prefecture. Since joining the company, he has worked in the research and development department, focusing on the health effects of food ingredients on humans, and has been involved in the search for seeds, development of methods for analyzing active ingredients, production of actual equipment from the laboratory, materialization, commercialization, product management, and sales.
President and Representative Director, Focus Systems, Inc.
Keiichi Mori

After graduating from the Faculty of Commerce at Keio University in 1989, he joined Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Co. After working at a tax accounting firm, he joined Focus Systems Inc. in 1998. He utilized his previous experience to support the company from the accounting side, and was appointed as a director in 2006 and as a managing director in 2009. He served as Managing Director, General Manager of the Administration Division and General Manager of the Corporate Planning Office, and was appointed President and Representative Director of the Company in April 2011.
General Manager, Plant Biotechnology Division, Musashi Seimitsu Kogyo Co.
Koji Tsugikuni

M.S., Graduate School of Agriculture, Kobe University. D. in Life Science and Functional Biology, Graduate School of Bioresource and Environmental Studies, Kyushu University. Joined Kao Corporation (Bioscience Research Laboratories) and engaged in research and development of household products, cosmetics, and food products. After more than 20 years of service, he started his own cosmetics R&D/manufacturing and sales company, and has provided R&D consulting services to many companies, including major corporations. (He has received many awards at VISICON.) After participating in the launch of "Waphyto", a cosmetics brand using plants produced in Higashimikawa, he was asked to start a new business at Musashi Seimitsu Kogyo Co. He has been in charge of the Plant Biotechnology Business Department since its establishment in September last year.
D. (Agriculture), Laboratory Director, Wellness Science Lab, Meiji Holdings Co.
Masashi Nagata

After joining Meiji Dairies Corporation (currently Meiji Co., Ltd.) in 1995, he was in charge of fundamental research and product development research related to infant formulas and other nutritions, a visiting researcher at the University of California, Davis, and the general manager of product development for domestic and overseas businesses. Wellness Science Lab). He has also served as a part-time lecturer at Iwate University and as an expert committee member of Codex, the international standard for food products, at the Food Industry Center and other organizations.
Chairman and Representative Director, Rebox Corporation
Hidehiro Kamata

In 1996, he joined a trading company as a new graduate. After working at a trading company in 1996, he joined a trading company, where he gained experience in developing new customers, setting up a joint venture with a manufacturer, and selling plant equipment. In 2001, he started his own company to deal with commercial products that solve environmental problems. Six months later, he commercialized LEDs. Attracted by the potential of light, which still has many unexplored areas of science, we have grown the company into a manufacturer of "light as a tool" and continue to this day.

FINALIST

finalist

Grand Prize / Musashi Seimitsu Kogyo Award / Real Tech Fund Award

End Fight Inc.

Representative] Toshiki Kazeoka

Realization of recycling-oriented agriculture through the use of endophytes
Introduce cultivation methods using endophyte technology to farmers, enabling them to grow better than usual in environments where it is normally difficult to grow, thereby solving the world's food crisis, regenerating soil, and decarbonizing agriculture.
Rafikieri Corporation

Representative] Takashi Sugimoto

New agricultural systems with tropical crops and semi-domesticated insects
Cassava can be grown in wastelands and is resistant to environmental degradation. Elisan pupae have excellent eating quality, and its fiber has excellent functionality. This composite production system will be established by utilizing abandoned lands, and a new agricultural system will be built through the development of production efficiency, labor saving, and processing technologies.
Life Labolatory, Inc.

Representative] Kazuhiro Suzuki

Drone-based grazing cattle management system
The drone is equipped with a location detector that can detect the position of cattle up to a radius of 200 meters in 360 degrees around the drone, and the drone flies autonomously within a range of several kilometers.
Environmental Management Center Award

e-Combu

Representative] Momoe Osuna

e-Combu - Saving the Earth with Mottainai Kombu
Making earth-friendly livestock feed from mottainai kelp. In recent years, global warming has become a serious problem, and one of the causes is methane gas contained in cow burps. We are trying to save the earth by making feed that can reduce it from unused kelp.
Rebox Award

younger woman (usu. 20-30 years old) who is physically attracted to mature older men (usu. 50-60 years old)

Representative] Daishi Nogami

Wearable sensor to visualize animal stress
The greater the stress in industrial animals, the more it adversely affects their productivity. However, there is no on-farm stress measurement method, and individual monitoring is impossible. Therefore, we developed a wearable stress sensor terminal for cows using pulse waves to prevent the occurrence of mastitis.
Aqua Clara Award / KOBASHI Award

OH Lab

Representative] Yoshihiro Oka

Development of disinfection water as an alternative to chemical pesticides
Utilizing cavitation plasma technology, we have developed a fungicidal water for agricultural use that has a high fungicidal effect even though it is made only from water. The new water with "high fungicidal effect" and "safety and security" will provide a new technology to control plant pathogens that does not depend on chemical pesticides.
Nipun Award

Delicious Feed

Representative] Yuta Yoshida

Animal taste biosensors
Animals other than humans cannot express their sense of taste in words. Therefore, by expressing taste receptors that directly interact with taste components in feed in cultured cells to simulate animal taste cells, we can visualize and quantify taste in animals.
Focus Systems Award

cherry tree with edible fruit (esp. sweet cherry or Nanking cherry)

Representative] Munehiro Ebito

Finding acupuncture points to improve drainage by sticking needles into agricultural land
Guerrilla rainstorms and linear precipitation zones are wreaking havoc on agricultural production. Poor drainage can wipe out crops in an instant. Therefore, soil hardness measuring robots are used to evaluate the drainage properties of agricultural land, contributing to a resilient agricultural production system.
Japanese horse botfly (Gasterophilus intestinalis)

Representative] Satoshi Sato

Space-saving, highly efficient resource conversion and comprehensive utilization of food waste
Strongly recycle and recycle local food residues and other resources. The food waste is fed to the larvae of the American watermilfoil fly, and the larvae (fodder) and feces (fertilizer) are separated, collected, and utilized. The difference from existing research is that it is space-saving, highly efficient, and has a wide variety of social applications, regardless of the type of food waste.
Meiji Holdings Award

Livestock Japan, LLC

Representative] Hisashi Nabanishi

Development of a measurement system to accelerate methane reduction in livestock production
Livestock farms have not been able to easily measure methane gas due to the barrier of installing expensive analyzers. The measurement system we have developed will accelerate the reduction of methane emissions from livestock production and realize livestock production that is both productive and sustainable.
SIGMAXIS Award

cacao fermentation lab

Representative] Akihiro Onishi

Making Setagaya Chocolate
Cacao beans, the raw material for chocolate and other products, are almost 100% imported from overseas. The company aims to produce high-quality chocolate by integrating the entire process of cacao bean cultivation, fermentation, drying, and processing in Japan.
LipiDream

Representative] Masato Abe

Development of lipid-type biodegradable materials for smart agriculture
Lipids have excellent biodegradability and have potential for use as soil conditioners, chemical sprays, and pesticides. However, their use is currently limited. Therefore, we aim to utilize the lipid synthesis technology obtained from our research results and apply it to the agricultural field.