Global Summit Insights – Hello tomorrow Japan

Hello Tomorrow Japan is thrilled to announce our next event on January 25th, 2022 at L’Espace, French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan.

Due to the current conditions, most of the Japanese audience was not able to join the Hello Tomorrow Global Summit 2021 in person on December 2-3, 2021. We propose to give you an insight of the Hello Tomorrow Global Summit by showcasing some of the Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge finalist startups, VCs and media who participated in the Hello Tomorrow Global Summit.

What is GLOBAL SUMMIT?

The Hello Tomorrow Global Summit, taking place every year in Paris, is the first global event dedicated to scientists and deep tech founders coming from across all industries.

The Global Summit brings together 3,500 of the most prominent leaders in emerging technology, including investors, founders, top executives, scientists & other academics, policy makers, PhD students and journalists.
The Grand Finals of the Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge happens here. Finalists pitch in front of an audience of 400 people and an expert jury as they compete to win their track and the Grand Prize.

The Global Challenge is a renowned international startup competition organized by Hello Tomorrow since 2014. It is uniquely designed to address the needs of early-stage deep tech startups across all industries.

The Challenge gives deep tech and science-based entrepreneurs around the globe a platform for their projects, providing opportunities for equity-free funding, global visibility and connections with key players in the deep tech ecosystem. To date, previous winners and finalists have already raised more than $1 billion in funding.

GLOBAL SUMMIT WINNERS

Divya SRIRAM

PhD Co-Founder & CEO

Dr Divya Sriram, CEO of D-NOME is a cancer molecular biologist from Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, a premier research institute in India. With more than 7 yrs experience in advanced molecular biology and her passion to make advanced molecular diagnostics accessible to all and co-created a plug-and-play asset lite molecular technology D-LAMP with her co-founder/CTO Sujoy Deb.

D-NOME is a leading manufacturer and provider of indigenous diagnostic reagents based on proprietary, cutting-edge, innovative reagent technologies, that make genomics applications affordable, scalable and plug-and-play.

Lorenzo CONTI

PhD Co-founder & CEO

Dr. Lorenzo Conti is Founder & Managing Director of Crover Ltd, a Scotland-based startup that developed the world’s first ‘subterranean drone’ (i.e. a CROVER).

Lorenzo is an Enterprise Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and holds a PhD in Engineering from The University of Edinburgh, where he worked on granular rheology (the study of how granular matter flows) and discovered the ‘CROVER effect’.

Crover’s proprietary technology for locomotion in granular media enabled the first robot able to ‘swim’ through bulk solids and powders and of a novel Grain Storage Management system

Fajer Mushtaq

PhD Co-founder & CEO

With a PhD on developing novel nanocatalysts for water remediation, Fajer possess a unique insight into designing commercial solutions for advanced water treatment. Fajer’s passion to protect the health of our bodies of water propelled her to co-found and lead a game changing Cleantech Start-up, Oxyle, that eliminates toxic pollutants from water in a sustainable and cost-effective manner.

Oxyle provides advanced water treatment reactors that eliminate >95% of a wide range of highly persistent, mobile, and toxic micropollutants from industrial and municipal effluents in a cost-effective, sustainable, and easy manner.

Maksym PLAKHOTNYUK

PhD Founder & CEO

Maksym Plakhotnyuk is an entrepreneur and scientist, CEO and Founder of ATLANT 3D Nanosystems, holds a PhD in Nanotechnology, Fulbright Scholar, member of Forbes Technology Council, a father of two kids.

ATLANT 3D Nanosystems is a pioneer deep tech company that developed first ever atomic layer 3D printing technology.

GLOBAL SUMMIT FINALISTS

Luisa Buinhas

PhD Co-founder

Vyoma combines observation data from space-based, debris monitoring cameras with AI to reduce in-space collision false alarms by 90% and deliver automated satellite operations.

Simon Sonntag

PhD CEO

Virtonomy has created v-patients.com, the first web-based SaaS for use by medical device developers that utilizes virtual patients for data-driven clinical trials thereby significantly reducing costs.

Lucie Mondoulet

PhD CEO

Persistent cancer cells remain viable after conventional therapies by turning on excessively iron metabolism, leading to relapse and metastasis. We are developing ironomycin, a small molecule, which specifically interferes with iron metabolism, inducing cancer cell death.

Claire Nouet

Co-founder

NavAlgo offers a technology stack, creating a structured view of processes, enabling reliable analytics and predictions, across use cases, in real time. First use cases in logistics and supply chain.

Martin Miltner

PhD CEO/CTO

Lignovations produces bio-based functional ingredients for UV protection, antixoxidation, emulsification and more enabling cosmetics and coatings manufacturers to make more sustainable products.

Maria Mikhail

PhD Technical and Scientific Directo

Founded in 2018, ENERGO is a company that is disrupting the world of chemistry by developing a technology that converts gases in a faster, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly way using an isothermal reactor that combines DBD (cold plasma) and an heterogeneous catalyst.

Bart De Jong

Commercial Director

Bart is Commercial Director of Calumino and has over 15 years of international experience in managing people, business performance & transformation, restructuring, mergers & acquisitions and integration.
Collaborative and data driven professional with strong people and negotiation skills. Excited about growth, executing strategy, deals, business development and transformation.

Calumino developed a revolutionary thermal sensor technology which is low cost, mass manufacturable and solving dozens of challenges in 20 industries – a true platform technology and the ultimate IOT sensor.

Alexander Pelov

CEO

CEO of Acklio, Alexander is co-chair of the LPWAN working group at the IETF standardisation body. Alexander was Associate Professor at Télécom Bretagne from 2010 to 2016. His research focused on energy efficiency in wireless networks and the use of Smart Grids in smart meters and electric vehicles.

Acklio innovates with a compression technology that makes the IoT safer and more interoperable while reducing its environmental impact.

PANELISTS

Ryuta Majima

Open Innovation Strategy Group / FUSE Producer

For Startup

Masataka Minami

CEO

hello tomorrow Japan Challenge Winner

hello tomorrow APAC Challenge Grand Winner

hello tomorrow Global Challenge Industrial Biotech & New Material Winner

A protein called growth factor is a prerequisite for stem-cell culture. However, its price is too high for industrialization of cultured meat. NUProtein can produce this growth factor at extremely low cost using edible wheat germ from a flour milling as a starting material.

Masaki Takeuchi

Co-founder & CEO

After graduating from university, he worked at the RIKEN Center for Language Development as a technical staff member. He won the Imagine Cup 2020 World Top 3, the James Dyson Award 2020 World Top 20, the GUGEN2020 Grand Prize, the WIRED CREATIVE HACK AWARD Sony Prize, and the Japan Healthcare Business Contest Grand Prize in the Idea Contest category. He is a member of the Sekino Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Science, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo.

hello tomorrow Japan Challenge Grand Winner

Syrinx is a hands-free wearable device for people who lost their voice due to cancer. This device vibrates the throat so that the patient can speak with their voice by moving their mouth. With this device, people who got their voice box removed due to cancer can speak with their voice again.

DEEP TECH VENTURE CAPITAL

Irfan Vissandjee

Investment associate

Irfan is an investment associate at Blue Bear Ventures and focuses on the fund’s European business development activities. Formerly a founding member of the Societe Generale Private Investment Banking launch team, advising sophisticated single-family offices. He has also supported ventures with their business model and capital raising processes in the US, Argentina and Singapore. He volunteers for Unicef with a focus on the SDGs advocacy. He holds an MSc. from King’s College London and has lived in seven countries across four continents.

Blue Bear Ventures (BBV) is a deep tech seed fund, spun out from UC Berkeley. BBV’s mission is to help deep tech founders from top tier research institutions bridge the notorious startup “valley of death” and engage founders working on the frontiers of science and technology with the ambition to solve the most pressing challenges in health and climate that we face today.

MEDIA

Masahiro Tsukao

COO

Route X unlocks the potential of all players in the Startup Ecosystem, by eliminating Information asymmetry. They are researching the startup ecosystems around the world and work to accelerate innovation both domestically and internationally. They have worked with a wide range of large corporations, government agencies, and start-ups

WHEN AND WHERE?

ACCESS :

SOBU RAPID LINE
2-minute’s walk from Shin-Nihonbashi station, exit 5

GINZA LINE / HANZOMON LINE
2-minute’s walk from Mitsukoshi-mae station,exit A9

YAMANOTE LINE
9-minute’s walk from Kanda station