Leap Over, an accelerator backed by Japan-based financial services firm Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), has opened the application period for a fourth batch.
The initiative was formed in 2017 by Mitsubishi UFJ Research & Consulting (MURC), the research arm of MUFG, and has support from fellow group subsidiaries MUFG Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital and Japan Digital Design.
Electronics manufacturer Mitsubishi Electric is also a partner for the programme, as are the municipal governments of the cities of Echizen, Kitakyūshū, Kurume, Kesennuma, Saijō and Sendai, and the prefectures of Takizawa and Niigata.
The fourth Leap Over cohort will target developers of services and technologies centred on life, work and community after the Covid-19 pandemic.
Selected startups will receive support from MURC and MUFG mentors for four months from December 2020 in areas including business commercialisation. Accelerator operator Startupbootcamp and Oxford University Innovation, the institution’s technology transfer subsidiary, will also collaborate with participants.
Image courtesy of MURC Leap Over.
