for Startups, inc. and Slush Tokyo: A driving force in the startup ecosystem at Japan’s world-class startup-tech conference -- Slush Tokyo 2019

2018-12-20

for Startups, Inc. and Slush Tokyo : A driving force in the startup ecosystem at Japan’s world-class startup-tech conference -- Slush Tokyo 2019‍

Co-hosting and rebranding the Meeting Area plus mentoring from ex-Googler and now entrepreneur, Piotr Feliks Grzywacz, and more!for Startups, Inc. (Minato-ku, Tokyo, CEO Yuichiro Shimizu) and Slush Tokyo (Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo, CEO Haruka Furukawa) officially announced today a new partnership aimed at driving the startup ecosystem forward. In this collaboration, for Startups, Inc. will support Slush Tokyo 2019, happening on Feb 22-23 at Tokyo Big Sight as one of its key partners. for Startups has been a long time Slush Tokyo partner since 2015. The organization will co-host the meeting area as well as a mentoring program by experienced coaches and experts such as Google’s former Head of Learning Strategy, Piotr Feliks Grzywacz. The mentoring program is a new addition to the event’s program.

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‍【5 year project aimed to promote the startup ecosystem by for Startups, Inc. and Slush Tokyo 】

‍Slush is one of the world’s biggest startup conference. With roots from Finland, since 2008, Slush has provided the ground for global human resources and business models in Finland, which then eventually developed into an international movement which reached major cities in Asia, namely, Tokyo, Singapore and Shanghai.In 2015, Antti Sonninen, who co-founder of Slush Tokyo (formerly known as Slush Asia), expressed his dream of wanting to create a community where international and open-minded young individuals can be free to reach for their goals and be their own stars. Having the same beliefs, for Startups immediately agreed with his vision. They worked on providing a platform that supports business growth in different industries with their goal to support the Japanese economy by providing the best industries, companies, services, human resources, and so on. They recognized the necessity of the startup ecosystem. From then on, for Startups has been supporting Slush Tokyo as not only as a partner but also as a great supporter.In the first ever Slush event in Japan in 2015, for Startups supported the founding team of Slush Tokyo (formerly Slush Asia) including Taizo Son (CEO of Mistletoe Inc.) in the overall event planning and operation. They worked together with the Slush Helsinki team and managed to realize the event in a surprising period of 4 months. 3000 people from 37 countries were gathered together in 5 temporary tents (just built on the day itself) called the “White Rock” in Aomi, Tokyo.

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Photo Credits: Slush Asia 2015, Jussi HellstenAfter

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Slush Asia 2015, Slush Tokyo and for Startups, Inc. continued their cooperation, and co-produced not only annual Slush Tokyo events but as well as other related events such as Investor Day. These successive events contributed in building up Japan’s startup ecosystem. Slush Tokyo expanded its scale from 3,000 attendees to 6,000 attendees including those who are just in the process of finding their purpose, those trying to achieve their dreams, entrepreneurs, investors, executives, journalists, and students. In Slush Tokyo 2019, a gathering of passionate individuals who aims to challenge to change the future will get together and urge the startup community in Japan to grow even further. Slush estimates 8,000 attendees will come to Slush Tokyo 2019 - its largest event so far.

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‍【A New Project by for Startups Inc. & Slush Tokyo: Mentoring Program & Startup Platform】

‍Slush Tokyo and for Startups, Inc. will collaborate on a new project for Slush Tokyo 2019 called, “Mentoring Program (tentative)” in the Meeting Area. This will give startup attendees the chance to not only connect with investors but with mentors and coaches as well. To supplement this, the duo is also working on a platform called “STARTUP DB”(https://startup-db.com/), which will help support startups.

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‍Mentoring Program (tentative)

‍Startups will have a chance to get advice from mentors such as Mr. Piotr Feliks Grzywacz, formerly from Google and well-known for talent management and organizational development. The goal of this program is to support the entrepreneurs’ challenges under the theme of Slush Tokyo 2019 - “Call for Action”.

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Piotr Feliks Grzywacz

‍CEO at Pronoia Group / Director and Chief Scientist at MotifyBorn in Poland, raised in Germany, Netherlands, and US. Came to Japan in 2000. After working at Berlitz and Morgan Stanley, he joined Google in 2011. After being involved in people development of the Asia Pacific region, he served as a learning and organization development executive in charge of business partnering, relationship management, talent management, leadership development, innovation change management and technical & functional competency development. He established Pronoia Group in 2015, alongside with running Motify. He is currently supporting number of executive s cross-border and is the author of 『0秒リーダーシップ』『世界一速く結果を出す人は、なぜ、メールを使わないのか』『New Elite』『Google流疲れない働き方』etc.Slush Tokyo 2019 is planning many programs that “Call for Action”.Join the event and experience this movement.

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‍【Slush Tokyo 2019 Event Information】

‍Date: Feb 22-23, 2019
Venue: Tokyo Big Sight 3-11-1 Ariake Koto-ku Tokyo Japan 135-0063
Official Website: http://tokyo.slush.org

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‍【Slush Tokyo】

‍Name of organization : General Incorporated Association SLUSH TOKYO
Location : fabbit Otemachi Asahiseimei Building 2F 2-6-1 Otemachi Chiyoda-ku Tokyo Japan
CEO: Haruka Furukawa
URL: https://tokyo.slush.org/

‍About Slush TokyoSlush Tokyo is the ultimate platform for technologies and entrepreneurs. In the upcoming event, Slush Tokyo 2019 will build up a platform where accelerates both Challengers and people already stepped into darkness. It is estimated that 8,000 attendees from over 80 countries gathers in Tokyo for the exciting 2 days made up by 800 volunteers.

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‍【Outline: for Startups, Inc.】

‍Company name : for Startups, Inc.Location : 36F Izumi garden tower, 1-chome 6-1, Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Establishment : September, 1st, 2016
CEO : Yuichiro Shimizu
Capital：15 million yen
Business Industory：support business for growth industries
URL：https://forstartups.com/
‍About for Startups, Inc.for Startups, Inc. (ex-Net Jinzai Bank) founded in September 2016, as a supporter of the growth industry. With a mission to create a world-class industry, company, service and talent that will support the growth of Japan, for Startups has been focusing on staffing and incubation of industries from internet/IT, fintech, to real business. Main services are strategic financing support in collaboration with influential VCs, “STARTUP DB”: an information platform that specializes in the startup industry, “forSEED”: an inclusive support system for seed stage startups. As part of ecosystem-building, for Startups is also involved as a partner to SLUSH TOKYO, the largest startup event in Japan. We will continue contributing to the growth and development of the Japan.