From Lived Classroom Experience to a Business: A Meetup to Talk Directly with Founders (JAM MEETUP #3)
A casual startup meetup at TIB Yurakucho where students talk with four founders who turned education challenges into businesses.
- When
- Wed, July 8, 2026 · 18:30–20:30 JST
- Where
- Chiyoda City, Japan · In person
- Region
- Kanto (Tokyo)
- Organizer
- Tokyo Innovation Base
- Language
- JA
- Source
- Luma
Summary
JAM MEETUP is a casual meetup where students connect with working professionals and founders active at the front lines of the startup world. This session's theme is how to turn lived experience in the classroom into a business. Over two hours, participants explore how the doubts and questions everyone carries about education might become businesses that change society.
The guest founders include Miho Muramatsu of Edgift, maker of educational toys; Tomotsuna Inoue of Pestalozzi Technology, which provides the fitness-test app ALPHA; Nicole Kondo of EdFusion, recognized with a MEXT award for an AI education workshop; and Yuta Komori, co-founder of Life is Tech. Each has built a company while facing real education challenges, and they share how they reframed their own experiences and found opportunity.
The venue is the first floor of Tokyo Innovation Base in Yurakucho. Admission is free, attendance is for students, and capacity is about 30. Those still searching for an idea are welcome, and group networking time follows the talks.
About the community
A community for students that links them with players in the startup ecosystem to encourage new connections and bold attempts. It runs recurring idea-generation sessions and casual meetups with founders, and hosts a weekly Wednesday program supporting students from articulating ideas to validating ventures.
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