# Snack & Connect Weekly: collaboration with Anna Skrypka

> Weekly Shibuya gathering for founders and operators, with a guest talk on why foreign startups stall when entering the Japanese market.

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- When: Wed, August 5, 2026 16:00–18:00 JST
- Where: Shibuya Startup Support, Japan, 〒150-0011 Tokyo, Shibuya, Higashi, 1-chōme−29−３ 渋谷Bridge B棟 · In person
- Region: Kanto (Tokyo)
- Organizer: Shibuya Startup Support
- Language: JA/EN
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## Summary

Snack & Connect is a weekly evening gathering in Shibuya for founders, operators, and others working in the startup ecosystem. The format is light snacks, relaxed conversation, and introductions. Doors open at 4:00 PM, the guest talk and Q&A run from 4:30 PM to 5:15 PM, and open networking follows until 6:00 PM.

This session features Anna Skrypka, founder of The Augmented Society and author of the forthcoming book Japan as a Stress Test (October 2026). She led Japan go-to-market at Autodesk, scaling direct SaaS business from $0.2M to over $30M ARR, worked inside Woven by Toyota's AI-native venture, and brought her own AI product (EVE.calls) into the Japanese market. She now advises Series A and later companies on why their Japan expansion is not converting.

The talk is framed as a diagnostic rather than a culture primer: the three trust layers that decide whether a foreign company succeeds in Japan, anonymized breakdowns of real cases from inside Toyota and Autodesk, and the single question founders should answer before committing capital to a Japan launch. Intended for founders, GTM leaders, senior operators at AI-native companies entering or stalled in Japan, and investors with Japan-exposed portfolios.

## About the community

A recurring weekly social built around light snacks and unstructured conversation, aimed at founders, operators, and startup community members in Tokyo, with a strong contingent of foreign entrepreneurs building or expanding in Japan. Each session pairs open networking with a short guest talk and Q&A, so regulars can drop in for the people and still get one concrete topic per week. Held in English and open to newcomers.

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