Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. is a major insurance company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, which provides services in property, casualty, and life insurance as well as nursing care.
(Premium: USD25 Billion, Assets: USD119 Billion, Customer: >30 Million)
We are also in the process of expanding our business areas and are interested in meeting MIT startups to discuss collaboration and potential partnerships. We are interested in startups which offer the following services and products:
Ag Tech (Creating values / Producing things / Building systems)
・Analysis and improvement of soil ・Phenotyping ・Breeding (including grafting or genome editing) ・Increased resistance to disease and/or stress ・Higher nutritional value ・Higher yield ・Solution for a re-plant problem or successive crops problem
Energy (Distributed & Seamless / Clean Energy / Disaster Recovery)
・Renewable energy ・Energy harvesting ・Wireless charging / Power supply ・Flat charging / Power supply ・Smart IoT sensing
IoT
・Weather conditions ・Atmosphere monitoring ・Logistics management; Marine, Land ・Manufacturer matching ・Smart IoT sensing
Individual initial meetings with startups matching Sompo’s interest areas will be held via teleconference.
Note this is a meeting opportunity, meaning there may or may not be a defined project as of the meeting. The purpose of the meeting is mutual discovery: for you to learn about the company's problem and for them to learn about your products and services. If there's mutual match, that could lead to more.
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