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- Published
- Oct 23, 2025
- Last updated
- Oct 23, 2025
- Latest funding signal: Counsel Health · Series A · $25M · Oct 16, 2025.
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- We PixelX comprises esteemed experts in Generative AI, Robotics, recognized by institutions like WIRED and Nikkei. With backgrounds spanning University of Tokyo, Amazon, and Google’s Wing, the team bridges fundamental research and real-world innovation—advancing technologies at the intersection of GenAI and robotics.
Funding Signals Snapshot
Healthcare AI / Virtual Care
HRTech / Conversational AI
AI Data Integration / No-code Agentic Database
AI for Nonprofits / Fundraising Automation
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- 日本語coming soon
Focus Area
AI
Team Bio
We PixelX comprises esteemed experts in Generative AI, Robotics, recognized by institutions like WIRED and Nikkei. With backgrounds spanning University of Tokyo, Amazon, and Google’s Wing, the team bridges fundamental research and real-world innovation—advancing technologies at the intersection of GenAI and robotics.
Target Region
Japan
Featured Copycats (Oct 13, 2025 ~ Oct 23, 2025)
The U.S. leads in business models and tech innovation. If you're starting or investing, referencing an American startup is ideal. Seed round is unproven; Series B is too late. Series A is prime for study and replication. Our scope is global, with priority on U.S. startups fresh from Series A — or exceptional Seed rounds — for you.
6 companies with recent funding announcements
| Company | Location | Industry Sector | Business | Date | Funding Amount | Funding Round | Ref Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Counsel Health | United States | Healthcare AI / Virtual Care | Counsel Health combines medical-grade AI chat with licensed physicians to create a physician-supervised AI front door that resolves the majority of routine medical issues and just closed a $25M Series A to scale that model. | Oct 16, 2025 | $25M | Series A | High |
| Jack & Jill | United Kingdom | HRTech / Conversational AI | Jack & Jill uses two conversational AI agents, one to interview candidates and one to profile employers, replacing rote job applications with 20-minute AI-driven interviews and raised a $20M seed to scale that agentic recruiting model. | Oct 16, 2025 | $20M | seed | High |
| Boost.space | Czech Republic | AI Data Integration / No-code Agentic Database | Boost.space offers an AI-ready, no-code data layer and agentic database that connects thousands of business tools to LLMs so teams can control systems with natural language, and it announced a $6.5M seed to push US expansion. | Oct 21, 2025 | $6.5M | seed | Medium |
| Avid | United States | AI for Nonprofits / Fundraising Automation | Avid builds an AI-powered fundraising operating system that unifies data, insights, and execution for nonprofits and announced a $6.5M seed led by Silverton Partners to accelerate AI and go-to-market. | Oct 16, 2025 | $6.5M | seed | Medium |
| Space Quarters | Japan | Space Robotics / AI-enabled Robotics | Space Quarters, a Tohoku University spinout, develops AI-driven robotic welding and modular assembly systems for in-orbit and lunar construction and closed a $5M seed to accelerate ground testing and demo missions. | Oct 16, 2025 | $5M | seed | Medium |
| Graph AI | United States | Life Sciences AI / Pharmacovigilance | Graph AI automates pharmacovigilance workflows with AI-driven case processing, signal detection, and regulatory reporting and announced a $3M seed led by Bessemer to scale its Graph Safety SaaS. | Oct 16, 2025 | $3M | seed | Low |
Detailed Company Profiles
Counsel Health
HighBusiness Overview
Counsel Health combines medical-grade AI chat with licensed physicians to create a physician-supervised AI front door that resolves the majority of routine medical issues and just closed a $25M Series A to scale that model.
Comparable Companies in Target Region
Japan has telemedicine players and pilot AI triage projects, but nobody has launched a clinical, physician-in-the-loop AI front door with top-tier VC validation and scale — this is raw territory begging for a decisive local champion; the incumbents will be flattened when a trustworthy, compliant service proves unit economics.
Opportunity Inspiration in Target Region
Japan is structurally primed: an aging population, constrained physician supply, and large corporate health budgets create an insatiable demand for a safe AI+physician access layer — copy, adapt, and weaponize the model with Japanese clinical governance and you own the front door to Japanese healthcare.
Opportunity Inspiration for the Team
We PixelX comprises esteemed experts in Generative AI, Robotics, recognized by institutions like WIRED and Nikkei. With backgrounds spanning University of Tokyo, Amazon, and Google’s Wing, the team bridges fundamental research and real-world innovation—advancing technologies at the intersection of GenAI and robotics. Use that pedigree like a battering ram: prototype a Japan-compliant physician-supervised agent, partner with a major payer or hospital, build ironclad safety and governance, and scale fast — this is the exact play where PixelX can leapfrog incumbents and capture enterprise contracts.
Jack & Jill
HighBusiness Overview
Jack & Jill uses two conversational AI agents, one to interview candidates and one to profile employers, replacing rote job applications with 20-minute AI-driven interviews and raised a $20M seed to scale that agentic recruiting model.
Comparable Companies in Target Region
Japan has HR portals and platforms, but the market has not seen an agentic AI recruiter that conducts culturally fluent, interview-grade conversations at scale — this gap is a siren call; local HR giants will copy, but they move like battleships while a nimble entrant can sprint.
Opportunity Inspiration in Target Region
Translate the Jack & Jill playbook into Japanese with cultural nuance and enterprise integrations; train agents in Japanese workplace norms and partner with Recruit or Pasona to drop a product into corporate hiring funnels — the adoption levers are huge and the first-mover who masters local nuance wins.
Opportunity Inspiration for the Team
We PixelX comprises esteemed experts in Generative AI, Robotics, recognized by institutions like WIRED and Nikkei. With backgrounds spanning University of Tokyo, Amazon, and Google’s Wing, the team bridges fundamental research and real-world innovation—advancing technologies at the intersection of GenAI and robotics. PixelX should build a Japanese-first conversational recruiting agent, fuse GenAI with deep localization, and co-sell with local HR incumbents — this is a land-grab where your linguistic, research, and product chops convert directly into market leadership.
Boost.space
MediumBusiness Overview
Boost.space offers an AI-ready, no-code data layer and agentic database that connects thousands of business tools to LLMs so teams can control systems with natural language, and it announced a $6.5M seed to push US expansion.
Comparable Companies in Target Region
Japan's enterprise tooling landscape is splintered and dominated by system integrators and siloed SaaS, not by a single AI-ready data nervous system — that absence screams opportunity; local players will copy, but none have the plug-and-play, agentic promise neatly executed yet.
Opportunity Inspiration in Target Region
Bring an agentic database to Japan, connect to LINE, SmartHR, Money Forward and local ERPs, and sell productivity as a horizontal platform — Japanese mid-market adoption cycles are long but lucrative; localize connectors and privacy-first controls and you have a defensible, sticky product.
Opportunity Inspiration for the Team
We PixelX comprises esteemed experts in Generative AI, Robotics, recognized by institutions like WIRED and Nikkei. With backgrounds spanning University of Tokyo, Amazon, and Google’s Wing, the team bridges fundamental research and real-world innovation—advancing technologies at the intersection of GenAI and robotics. PixelX can engineer a privacy-first Japanese Agentic Database, ship premium connectors to major enterprise suites, and monetize via white-label and platform fees — this is the infrastructure bet that turns into recurring enterprise anchor deals.
Avid
MediumBusiness Overview
Avid builds an AI-powered fundraising operating system that unifies data, insights, and execution for nonprofits and announced a $6.5M seed led by Silverton Partners to accelerate AI and go-to-market.
Comparable Companies in Target Region
Japan's nonprofit and CSR tech stack is under-automated; there are fundraising platforms but no AI-first operating system that truly closes the loop from insight to deployment — this is a vacuum begging for a specialized entrant that understands Japanese legal and giving norms.
Opportunity Inspiration in Target Region
Localize an AI fundraising OS for Japan, embed tax-compliant receipts, integrate corporate CSR platforms, and sell to large foundations and university endowments — the ROI story is simple and the path to paid pilots is clear if you can prove uplift quickly.
Opportunity Inspiration for the Team
We PixelX comprises esteemed experts in Generative AI, Robotics, recognized by institutions like WIRED and Nikkei. With backgrounds spanning University of Tokyo, Amazon, and Google’s Wing, the team bridges fundamental research and real-world innovation—advancing technologies at the intersection of GenAI and robotics. PixelX should build a Japanese-optimized fundraising OS, validate with flagship NGOs, and benchmark ROI publicly — rapid, clinical case studies will turn skeptical charities into evangelists.
Space Quarters
MediumBusiness Overview
Space Quarters, a Tohoku University spinout, develops AI-driven robotic welding and modular assembly systems for in-orbit and lunar construction and closed a $5M seed to accelerate ground testing and demo missions.
Comparable Companies in Target Region
Japan has space startups and heavyweight industrial partners, but few are focused on autonomous in-orbit welding and assembly at the same depth — Space Quarters is a rare, native deep-tech contender with direct ties to national labs and construction giants.
Opportunity Inspiration in Target Region
This is Japan's deep-tech moonshot moment; domestic demand from satellite operators, JAXA partnerships, and construction firms hungry for new paradigms means the technology can find immediate strategic partners — build demos, secure JAXA validation, and commercialization follows.
Opportunity Inspiration for the Team
We PixelX comprises esteemed experts in Generative AI, Robotics, recognized by institutions like WIRED and Nikkei. With backgrounds spanning University of Tokyo, Amazon, and Google’s Wing, the team bridges fundamental research and real-world innovation—advancing technologies at the intersection of GenAI and robotics. PixelX can plug in with autonomy stacks, perception modules, and AI scheduling for on-orbit assembly; partner with Space Quarters on perception and motion planning and watch the partnership become the standard for commercial orbital construction.
Graph AI
LowBusiness Overview
Graph AI automates pharmacovigilance workflows with AI-driven case processing, signal detection, and regulatory reporting and announced a $3M seed led by Bessemer to scale its Graph Safety SaaS.
Comparable Companies in Target Region
Japan's pharma and CRO ecosystem depends heavily on manual PV work and legacy vendors; while some local analytics exist, a modern AI-first pharmacovigilance platform is scarce — that scarcity is an opening for specialized automation.
Opportunity Inspiration in Target Region
Bring AI PV automation to Japan by partnering with domestic CROs and regulatory consultants, localize reporting outputs for Japanese authority formats, and offer pilot programs with clear time and cost savings — the first practical wins will build unstoppable momentum.
Opportunity Inspiration for the Team
We PixelX comprises esteemed experts in Generative AI, Robotics, recognized by institutions like WIRED and Nikkei. With backgrounds spanning University of Tokyo, Amazon, and Google’s Wing, the team bridges fundamental research and real-world innovation—advancing technologies at the intersection of GenAI and robotics. PixelX should develop regulatory-aligned models, run transparent validation studies with university hospitals, and convert clinical credibility into enterprise contracts in pharma and CROs.
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