ENA Global 2019-08-08 06:17:52 <p><strong>New Delhi, Aug 8 (KNN)</strong> Nasscom IT industry body has shortlisted 25 startups which will pitch their ideas to over 50 Japanese venture capital firms and institutions at an event in Tokyo next month.</p> <p>The pitching session is scheduled to be held at Embassy of India in Tokyo. The pitching session will be followed by a one-on-one speed dating session in which the participating startup companies will get to meet interested Japanese investors.</p> <p>The live pitching session will be on September 3-4, part of Nasscoms 10,000 startups initiative, is likely to see investments in pre-series and series A / B / C levels where the founders are looking to raise more than $2 million up to a maximum of $10 million.</p> <p>There is an unmatched synergy between India and Japan and partnerships such as these further pave the way towards helping the startup ecosystem flourish, said Debjani Ghosh, Nasscom President.</p> <p> Japanese VCs have shown particular interest in investing in Indian tech startups that are creating unique solutions specific to the domestic needs in the country, he added.</p> <p>This partnership represents the startup bridge between India and Japan, bringing two successful entrepreneurial ecosystems together to create innovative and large scale companies of the future, Ghosh said.</p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="500" id="mgiframe" src="//mg.mgid.com/mghtml/framehtml/c/k/n/knnindia.co.in.338951.html" width="100%"></iframe></p> 23394 https://knnindia.co.in/news/newsdetails/global/nasscom-shortlisted-25-startups-to-pitch-ideas-to-japanese-investors 2019-08-08 06:17:52 knnindia.co.in