IP Bridge, Inc. located in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, (“IP Bridge”) cosponsored ASIAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARD (“AEA2020”), at Kashiwanoha conference center (“KCC”) in Kashiwanoha Campus, Chiba held from October 27 to 29, 2020. In this AEA, 30 tech ventures selected from 13 countries and areas mostly from Asia gathered and gave pitch presentations for their passion and future of their technology. Among those, IP Bridge selected “Chronoptics Limited” in New Zealand, a start-up company of 3D imaging solutions using a high level Time-of-Flight depth sensing technology, and “Mantra Inc.” in Japan, a start-up company of Manga translation tool using Visual & Context-aware Translation, for IP Bridge Award. (https://aea.events/e/aea2020_winners/)

IP bridge selected these two companies for the reason of that, Chronoptics made continuous effort to obtain patent rights with the university, and made a new PCT, world wide patent application recently, and Mantra’s mission is very close to IP Bridge’s mission, which is to protect IP rights and monetize them for IP rights owners.

Chronoptics Limited

Mantra Inc.

 

【About IP Bridge】

At IP Bridge, our focus is on promoting technological innovation and cooperation within Japan and around the world. We have worked with investors worldwide, from 26 major global corporations to the Japanese Government, to establish the first and largest fund in Japan (approximately $300M) aimed at global innovation and IP-related investments. Our mission is to discover, activate and leverage high-quality, under-utilized intellectual property assets to the benefit of a variety of IP owners based in and outside of Japan. Our vision is that these activities will stimulate economic development and a healthy growth of industries worldwide.

We actively engage leading technology companies, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and universities to build large and high quality portfolios of 3,500 worldwide patents that are growing. These portfolios are in the fields of wireless communications, semiconductors, video codecs, display technologies, automotive technologies, robotics, home appliances, electric devices, healthcare, environment and energy, food technologies, and medical engineering.

Our world class team includes experienced professionals from IP and corporate management of major technology companies, investment funds, financial institutions, and law firms. We have the global experience and relationships to provide comprehensive IP services, including IP-based business incubation, monetization, licensing and financing to generate revenue and fuel innovation and business expansion, syndicated transactions to remove potential IP risks to our clients, and IP consulting services to build IP strategies, maximize IP value, and best position our clients for success.