What’s next for Physical AI in Japan? - Disrupting Japan I have a short in-between edition for you today. Last month at Venture Cafe's big global gathering in Tokyo, I had a chance to sit down on stage with two old friends of the podcast, and we talked abou...

Japan’s unique strength in Physical AI

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Why its so hard for startups to solve important problems

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Why its hard for startups to use technology for good - Disrupting Japan New technology is always introduced with the promise of the good it can do for humanity. Most of the time the promised good never come to be. This is largely a structural problem ib how startups are f...

Why its hard for startups to solve important problems

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What happens when large Japanese companies try to create startups

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Corporate venturing as a path to innovation in Japan - Disrupting Japan You might think that large Japanese companies have trouble innovating. Unfortunately if you believe that, you would be correct. Recently, however, there are a few reasons for hope. The first step to r...

What happens when large Japanese companies try to make startups

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How to sell vegan food to carnivores

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How to sell vegan foods to meat lovers - Disrupting Japan It's tough to be a vegetarian in a world full of carnivores. It's even tougher to be a startup selling a vegan egg-substitute into a world full of carnivore-dominated market, but that's exactly what U...

How Japan become the perfect Food Tech market

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The biggest myths people believe about Japan market entry

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What everyone gets wrong about branding in Japan - Disrupting Japan Japan market entry is hard. Consumer tastes are different, business culture is different, and market needs can be radically different from those anywhere else. Entering the Japanese market is a challe...

The biggest myths people believe about Japan market entry

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Business models that work for age-tech and longevity startups

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What role can startups really play in human longevity? - Disrupting Japan Japan has one of the longest lived and healthiest populations in the world, and let Japanese startups are playing a relatively small role in the recent longevity-tech boom. The longevity market includ...

Business models that work for age-tech and longevity startups

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Can Japan regain its lead in robotics?

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Will Japan ever regain its lead in robotics? - Disrupting Japan In the popular imagination, Japan is almost synonymous with robots. While Japan once dominated cutting-edge robotics, over the past decade she has fallen further and further behind the US and China. T...

What Japan is doing differently with Physical AI

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Why too many Japanese VCs won’t invest in Japan

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Why so many Japanese VCs won’t invest in Japan - Disrupting Japan Japanese startups is hot right now, and more and more foreign money is flowing in. But many Japanese VCs remain stubbornly outward-looking. Today we sit down with Shri Dodani, who after a series of hi...

Why too many Japanese VCs won’t invest in Japan

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Why Japanese logistics is on the brink of collapse

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Is your AI startup even worth building anymore?

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How to start an AI Startup in late 2025 - Disrupting Japan Last month I gave lecture at Globis University on what it takes to build an AI startup today. It's no longer early days for AI, and most founders don't have the connections and resources that drive to...

Is your AI startup even worth building anymore?

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What stops Japan from commercializing BioTech research

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Japanese technology to supercharge human fertility - Disrupting Japan Japan's declining birth rate makes global headlines, but most of the developed world will soon be facing the same problem. The real solution involves a lot of social and economic changes, but as you'l...

Why some future babies will have three parents

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The future of climate tech innovation in Japan

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What’s next for climate tech startups & innovation - Disrupting Japan Last month I spoke on a panel about the future of climate tech. I was joined by Emi Naganuma, the founder and General Partner of Apprecia Capital and Richard Youngman, the CEO Cleantech Group, with Mi...

The future of climate tech innovation

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Challenges foreign founders still face in Japan
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Foreign founders are changing how Japanese start startups - Disrupting Japan For the last 150 years Japan has made a science of borrowing the best ideas from the West and transforming them into her own. The startup world is no exception. Japanese startup culture is heavily sha...

The challenges foreign founders still face in Japan
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Women are shaping VC in Japan in ways you might not expect
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What it’s really like to be a female VC in Japan - Disrupting Japan Progress is not only slower in Japan, it is often different. Looking at the numbers, it's clear that venture capital is even more male-dominated in Japan than it is in the West. Our guest today explai...

Why so many new Japanese VC funds are founded by women

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Startups need the enterprise far more than they care to admit

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And make damn sure it's on-site. People keep telling me the era of remote work is over.

Startup success hinges on enterprise innovation - Disrupting Japan American startups dominate the current innovation cycle not as a result of startup innovation, but of enterprise innovation. Today we sit down with Dai Watanabe and dive into the dynamics of industry ...

Startups need the enterprise far more than they care to admit

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How senpai culture is holding Japan back

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