Leap Over, a startup accelerator owned by Japan-based financial services firm Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), has selected six companies for its fourth cohort.
MUFG formed the initiative in 2017 through its research arm, Mitsubishi UFJ Research & Consulting, partnering other group companies MUFG Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital and Japan Digital Design.
The group’s corporate venturing unit, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, is one of the accelerator’s collaborators, alongside marketing agency Archetype, Anri, Full Commit Partners, Gazelle Capital, Genesia Ventures, Incubate Fund and Kibow.
The startups were chosen from 16 candidates that had passed the initial screening. They included data security technology developer Acompany, cloud-based loan request document generator Dynave and TransRecog, a manual PDF editing tool creator spun out of Tokyo Metropolitan University.
The batch was filled out by Mory, developer of a wearable security camera especially catering to women, children and the elderly; RadarLab, the operator of user-based inappropriate behaviour detection and logging service Radar-Z and donation platform Kifutta; and Laura, which is working on technology that will turn car windows into displays that deliver video content and measure viewing data.
Image courtesy of MURC Leap Over.
