The Office of Startup and Entrepreneurship Education is one of the offices in the Division of University Corporate Relations, whose mission is to create and support startup companies at the University of Tokyo that will have a major impact on society and the economy.

A "startup" is a newly established company that aims to grow into a large business. In Japan, the term “venture company” has been widely used to describe emerging companies, but sometimes venture companies refer to all new companies including small businesses. In recent years, it has become common to call high growth new company “startup” to distinguish them from just newly established companies.

The activities of the Office of Startup Support and Entrepreneurship Education are based on two pillars. The first pillar is startup support, centered on providing incubation facilities. We operate incubation facilities for startup companies on each campus, providing a variety of support not only facilities but also legal and management support.

Another pillar of the Office’s activities is the provision of various types of educational programs for students and researchers. In addition to educational programs offered in collaboration with the Graduate School of Engineering, such as Entrepreneur Dojo and EDGE-NEXT, we also offer a variety of other programs such as Hongo Tech Garage, which supports student technology projects, and FoundX, which provides support to entrepreneurs in the very early stages of starting their own companies, mainly targeting graduates of the University of Tokyo. These programs are run in cooperation with UTokyo Innovation Platform Company, Ltd., University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners Co., Ltd., Todai TLO Ltd., and many other sponsoring companies. We are grateful to these sponsoring companies for their support to our educational programs.

We will continue to provide various support and educational programs so that the ideas of students and the research results of the University of Tokyo can be turned into startup companies that can contribute to society and the economy. We appreciate your continued support and guidance.







Katsuya Hasegawa
General Manager, Office of Startup and Entrepreneurship Education