We were selected for the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications’ program supporting seed-stage R&D for startup creation

IndooAR, the indoor AR cloud service we are building, has been selected for the “seed-stage R&D support program for startup creation” run by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and is now formally supported under it.

The program is run by Kadokawa ASCII Research Laboratories, Inc. for the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and supports everything from research and development through to commercialization. This year 41 research projects were selected from 347 applications.

Alongside it, Kadokawa ASCII Research Laboratories runs the ICT Startup League, where experts with startup experience offer support. We will draw on that too as we grow the business.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications’ announcement is here

The ICT Startup League announcement is here

■ About Nefront

Nefront uses AI and AR to make the information in a building easy to see and use.
IndooAR, our spatial information management system, uses image recognition to work out where you are — even indoors, where GPS barely reaches. From there it can guide you, show you AR content, and keep track of information and equipment.
We also offer Filefront, an AI drawing search service. It finds the sheet you need out of a large set of PDF drawings, by drawing type or by keyword.

■ Company profile

· Company name: Nefront, Inc.

· Address: Shibuya Dogenzaka Tokyu Building 2F-C, 1-10-8 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

· Representative: Shota Imamura

· Founded: June 2021