An Event to Debut Japanese Web/Mobile Startups SF Japan Night Announcement of 1st Round Nominees

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On June 28, 2011, btrax will be holding the 2nd SF Japan Night in conjunction with SF New Tech. The theme of this event is “Catalyzing the Revival” where we are encouraging our local SF Bay Area tech community to help the Japanese economy in disaster relief by jump starting six lucky Japanese startups onto the global stage.

Since May 1, we have been soliciting Japanese web start-ups for six spots at Japan Night and the response has been great. Bolstered by the success of companies like myGengo, who got local VC funding after Japan Night, 30 companies have applied and 19 of them have passed into the next round of selection.

1st Round Nominees

	Kayac Corporation Unique Web Service for the US Market		Cacoo Drawing Tool that Enables the Creation, Sharing, and Publication of Drawing on the Cloud
	ChatWork Cloud Business Chat Tool		Compath.me New Sensational Mobile GPS Service
	Conyac Social Translation Platform		DrCrop Social Photomontage Service through Smartphones
	Feel on! iPhone Application that Shows Twitter-motions		J-Grab Cross-border Language Auction Platform
	JobTiger Social Recruiting Service		MidoNet Virtual Networking Platform
	Moso Fun Accessible Video Editing Software		myhada iPhone Skin Condition Checker
	Nameans World’s First Name Translation Service		potofoto Photo Sharing and Group Chat Application
	scigineer Unique Web Service for the US Market		trippiece Platform that Plans, Shares, and Creates a Original Vacation Experience
	Ubiregi World’s First iPad Cash Register Application for POS		youRoom Cloud Based Online Chat System
	6×6.cm Photo Album Sharing Application		(Alphabetically Listed)

 

With the revival theme in mind, the selection criteria for the first phase was creativity and ability to communicate in English. The second round selection criteria will be more stringent as companies will have to create a YouTube product demo video in English and will be selected based on the quality of the demo in English, the usefulness of the application (app) to the everyday user, and the possibility of overseas expansion among others. We hope to finalize the SF Japan Night presenter list by June 1.

Our hope is to provide an on-going platform for start-up companies in Japan to participate on the global stage with the first stop in San Francisco- the ground zero for high tech web /mobile start-ups. We appreciate the current support from the local community for disaster relief and we hope to get media and sponsors who want to help these start-ups by promoting our final presenters.

For media inquiries to acquire a media pass or to learn more about becoming a sponsor, please contact sfjapannight@btrax.com

 

EVENT INFORMATION
Date: June 28th , 2011 (Tue) 17:00 – 23:00
Location: Mighty San Francisco / 119 Utah Street San Francisco, 94103
Website: http://sfjapannight.com/en

EVENT ORGANIZER INFORMATION
btrax, Inc.
Address: 665 Third Street, Suite 505, San Francisco, California 94107
Services: Cross-cultural Website Design, Marketing, Research. Branding
URL: http://www.btrax.com

JAPAN NIGHT CONTACT INFORMATION
btrax, Inc.
Teru Takizawa
TEL: (415)-344-0907
E-mail:mailto:japannight@btrax.com

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