{"id":866,"date":"2008-09-09T08:37:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T23:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=866"},"modified":"2008-09-09T08:37:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T23:37:45","slug":"two-japanese-startup-launches-at-techcrunch50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/two-japanese-startup-launches-at-techcrunch50\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Japanese startups launch at TechCrunch50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opentrace.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-869\" title=\"opentrace\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/opentrace.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/opentrace.org\/\">OpenTrace <\/a>is a service that &#8220;Traces items through the supply chain and adds them together to show the impact of products on the environment&#8221; (from TechCrunch). OpenTrace is run by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinen.cc\/index.html\">Rinen Inc<\/a>, which is owned by <span class=\"style2\">Hirofumi Manganji and <\/span><span class=\"style2\">Hiroaki Shimachi.<\/span><br \/>\nRinen has received a Japanese government grant called Exploratory Software Project which is given to independent software developers who creates an original product or technology.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazopa.com\/login\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-867\" title=\"gazopa\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/gazopa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"89\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/\">GazoPa<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/company\/gazopa\">Crunchbase<\/a>), a site operated by Hitachi Ltd, is &#8220;an image search engine by Hitachi that uses features from an image to search for and identify similar images&#8221; (from CrunchBase). <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hitachi,_Ltd.\">Hitachi<\/a> (<a title=\"Tokyo Stock Exchange\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tokyo_Stock_Exchange\">TYO<\/a>: <a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/quote?ticker=6501:JP\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/quote?ticker=6501:JP\">6501<\/a>, <a title=\"New York Stock Exchange\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_Stock_Exchange\">NYSE<\/a>:\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.nyse.com\/about\/listed\/hit.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nyse.com\/about\/listed\/hit.html\">HIT<\/a>) is a large multi-national IT company group headquatered in Japan.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve met two Hitachi senior management guys at TechCrunch 40 last year. We (Akky and Arai) have decided to start Asiajin at TC40, and probably they&#8217;ve decided to launch their product at TC50.<br \/>\nSee Also:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalleywatcher.com\/mt\/archives\/2008\/06\/tokyo_diary_day_3.php\">SiliconValleyWatcher: Tokyo Diary Day 2 &#8211; A Japanese Garage Startup . . .<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenTrace is a service that &#8220;Traces items through the supply chain and adds them together to show the impact of products on the environment&#8221; (from TechCrunch). OpenTrace is run by Rinen Inc, which is owned by Hirofumi Manganji and Hiroaki Shimachi. Rinen has received a Japanese government grant called Exploratory Software Project which is given&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/two-japanese-startup-launches-at-techcrunch50\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Japanese startups launch at TechCrunch50<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,17,23,29,33],"tags":[1092,1327,1554,2754,3136,3626,3632,3634],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company","category-japan","category-new-service","category-service","category-software","tag-esp","tag-gazopa","tag-hitachi","tag-opentrace","tag-rinen","tag-tc50","tag-techcrunch","tag-techcrunch50","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}