How to Turn Social Issues Into Business: Hearing Founders Directly, JAM MEETUP #1
A student meetup where four social-issue startup founders share how they read structural problems and turned them into businesses.
- When
- Where
- Chiyoda City, Japan·In person
- Region
- Kanto (Tokyo)
- Organizer
- Tokyo Innovation Base
- Language
- JA
- Source
- Luma
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Summary
JAM MEETUP #1 brings four founders of social-issue startups to talk about how they read the structure of a problem and found a business opening. The session runs 18:30 to 20:30 at Tokyo Innovation Base 1F in Yurakucho, with reception from 18:00. It is free, capped at about 30 students, and includes group networking before and after the talks.
Guests are Kazuki Okada (NAGARA, voice-first AI care-record software for nursing staff), Tatsuro Hoshino (NIJIN, an education entrepreneur running an alternative K-12 school and a 500-teacher community), Maiko Matsuoka (Medited), and Marika Seki (MamaWell, a midwife-led digital health service for pregnancy and work). Eldercare tech, education reform, healthcare, and maternal health are very different domains, but each case shares a focus on changing structural inefficiencies through product and business model.
The meetup targets students who want to attack social issues as a startup rather than through NPOs or volunteering, especially those stuck on how to turn a concern into a workable idea.
About the community
TIB JAM is a community based at Tokyo Innovation Base in Yurakucho that connects students with startup-ecosystem players, running idea-generation sessions (IDEA FLASH Session), founder meetups (JAM MEETUP), and a weekly Wednesday TIB Student day for student builders.
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