APT Women ACCELERATION PROGRAM IN TOKYO FOR WOMEN

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  • Introduction of the New York dispatch in the 1st Cohort Program

    Report of 1st Program

    01-02-2018

    After finishing the Acceleration Program in Japan, we went through the program in New York, U.S., with the ten women entrepreneurs. We would like to explain here the outline of the Overseas Dispatch Program. As introduced previously, the destination of the first Dispatch Program was New York. We stayed for ten days from January 21 to 31, implementing various programs including meeting with those who already started business on their own and those who work for major companies, holding pitch events, and participating in trade fairs. Because it was held in New York in the middle of winter, we were somewhat worried about the possibility of bad weather, but it […]

  • Introduction of visiting city for the 1st Cohort Program

    Report of 1st Program

    17-11-2017

    Among the 1st Cohort Program, approximately half of the acceleration programs slated to be carried out in Japan have been completed.   Once the domestic acceleration programs are completed, the overseas dispatch program will be started in New York, U.S. New York, which is one of the most famous cities in the world thanks to its tourism resources such as the night view of Manhattan, Times Square and the Statute of Liberty, is, in fact, also very famous for its developed entrepreneurial ecosystem which is an environment for venture companies to open up a business and grow it.   In particular, it’s not an exaggeration to say that it has […]

  • APT Women 1st Cohort program was started on Tuesday, October 3

    Report of 1st Program

    03-10-2017

    The long-awaited APT Women 1st Cohort program was started on Tuesday, October 3. Participants will go through 12 lecture programs, six participatory events and more than six individual mentoring programs until the end of December.   On this day, the participants gathered for the first session and received an orientation on the entire program, made self-introductions and met accelerators. Some participants are not Tokyo-based, and they participate in the session online when they are unavailable to come to Tokyo. APT Women provides one accelerator for each startup. Accelerators are dispatched by Deloitte Tomatsu Venture Support Co., Ltd. , who conduct mentoring biweekly and provide meticulous advice to individual participants on how […]