We were selected for Support 2 of the ICT Startup League, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications’ program for seed-stage R&D for startup creation

IndooAR, the indoor AR cloud service we are building, has been selected for FY2024 of the ICT Startup League, and is now formally supported under it. The League grew out of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications’ “seed-stage R&D support program for startup creation”.

The ICT Startup League is a program aimed at growing the next generation of industry that creates and applies advanced ICT. Alongside grants toward research and development costs, it offers hands-on support through a network of support organizations across Japan and across fields, so that everything from research and development through to commercialization is covered. This year 26 research projects were selected from 383 applications.

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