Startup City Fukuoka is a Fukuoka City Government initiative to develop the local Startup ecosystem.

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Enjoy this month’s insights into Startup City Fukuoka’s seasonal attractions. Today, David Przybilla, a data engineer working on Machine Learning from Colombia shares about New Itokoku.

April: "New Itokoku"
This April was my first Hanami season in Fukuok

Calling for participants for the global event "Meet Taipei 2021" in Taipei City!

The Global event called "Meet Taipei 2021" will be held in Taipei City (Taiwan) who is a partner of Fukuoka City. [Event perio] “Online” November 18th (Thursday) to 24th (Wednesday), “Offline” Nove...

Introducing Startup City Fukuoka to the world! ASCENSION 2021 will start!

- Discussion between COO of the SF unicorn company “Notion Labs Inc.” and Mayor Takashima will be streamed- Fukuoka city has been presenting global business matching events through utilizing the st...

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Global Challenge! Startup Team Fukuoka 2021

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"Global Challenge! STARTUP TEAM FUKUOKA" is a globally-oriented entrepreneurship development program by Fukuoka City for entrepreneurs and potential entrepreneurs in the city. It aims to promote th...

ASCENSION2021 continues in Fukuoka City!

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At the ASCENSION 2021, an international business matching event held in Fukuoka City, we held an online pitch event by startups with which Fukuoka City has overseas partnerships, and the second onl...

ASCENSION2021

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Fukuoka City has been holding ASCENSION, a global event to expand Fukuoka as a startup city to the world. This year, the mayor of Fukuoka City and guests are having a passionate discussion about th...

Techstars and other top accelerators will be running an acceleration program!

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In July 2020, the Japanese government selected "Global Hub Cities" as the base cities for creating globally competitive startup cities. While the selected consortiums were formed by multiple local...

Fukuoka City x Auckland City – 4th Anniversary

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Thirty years after becoming sister cities, the mayor of Fukuoka City proposed to the mayor of Auckland City to collaborate on startups, and in July 2017, the two cities signed a MoU on startups, wh...

Japanese government supports startup ecosystems in Fukuoka!

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On July 14, 2020, the Fukuoka Startup Consortium was selected as one of the four Global Hub Cities (hereinafter referred to as "Hub Cities") among a large number of candidates.

Matchup Fukuoka 2.0 has launched!

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After visiting Seattle in 2011, Fukuoka City declared itself "Startup City Fukuoka" in 2012, and has been implementing various initiatives to support startups with the aim of creating a city where ...

Support for existing and future startups in Fukuoka

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Introducing Fukuoka City's initiatives for overseas startups, Support for existing and future startups in Fukuoka.

Fukuoka City's founding support for foreign entrepreneurs

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we would like to introduce to our readers what kind of startup support is currently being implemented for foreign entrepreneurs in Fukuoka City, which is attracting attention as an attractive city ...

Fukuoka Hosts Hybrid Pitch Event at Latitude59

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For years now, Fukuoka has been an active member of the global startup community. While travel is not advisable at the moment, that hasn’t lessened our commitment to this community.