OUI Inc., the Japanese Startup of a Smartphone-based Ophthalmic Diagnostic Medical Machine, Wins First Prize at AEA2022 Innovation Awards

CHIBA, Japan–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Asian Entrepreneurship Award 2022 event (AEA2022) was held absolutely on-line from Wednesday, October 26^th to Thursday, October 27^th with the participation of 24 tech startups chosen from Asian nations and areas. Among the many competing members, Japan’s OUI Inc., which develops the Good Eye Digital camera (SEC), a smartphone-based medical gadget that allows ophthalmic prognosis anytime, anyplace, and by anybody, was chosen because the winner.

AEA is a worldwide innovation award for rising Asian entrepreneurs and startups which might be using superior expertise to supply options to social points. The AEA2022 introduced collectively 24 chosen startups from throughout Asia offering options within the three areas of healthcare, work & way of life reform, and sustainability, all of that are international key points going ahead.

Every firm was chosen on the premise of a variety of standards, together with innovativeness, the social influence of their services and products, their business viability, the potential for collaboration with Japanese corporations, the chance for enterprise growth in Japan, and OUI Inc. (Japan) was chosen because the winner.

This yr, the Social Enterprise Session during which members competitively share enterprise concepts for fixing social issues was additionally held on the similar time. Among the many 4 members of the session, SocialTech Japan (Japan), a supplier of inexpensive medical companies for reaching common well being protection, received first prize.

AEA2022 Winners
[Winner]
OUI Inc. (Japan)
Good Eye Digital camera (SEC), a smartphone-based medical gadget that allows ophthalmic prognosis anytime, anyplace, and by anybody

• Factors evaluated by the judges: The excellent resolution which spans from prognosis to remedy was extremely evaluated.

[Runner-up]
Nervotec (Singapore)
Distant well being administration cellular platform for contactless measurement and evaluation of physiological biomarkers utilizing video evaluation expertise

• Factors evaluated by the judges: The answer utilizing solely a smartphone, has the potential for it is enterprise scalability by collaborating with nice companions.

[3^rd place]
Liquium (New Zealand)
Clear ammonia manufacturing expertise for fuels utilizing a brand new catalyst that reduces capital and working prices for industrial vegetation

• Factors evaluated by the judges: The social influence made by clear power may be vital.

[Special Award-AEA Social Business Award]
SocialTech Japan (Japan)
Reasonably priced well being companies for common well being protection

[Special Award-Fujitsu Accelerator Award]
Nervotec (Singapore)

• Feedback from the judges: “Fujitsu has launched a brand new enterprise model referred to as Fujitsu Uvance to handle cross-industry points. Fujitsu Uvance focuses on seven areas, one in every of which is ‘Wholesome Residing.’ As a DX firm, we felt that Nervotec’s expertise may assist staff swap between life and work and handle their well being to advertise particular person well-being. We hope to discover the opportunity of collaboration by leveraging our mutual synergies.”

[Special Award-IP Bridge Award]
OUI Inc. (Japan)

• Feedback from the judges: “It is a quite simple gadget that’s straightforward to take to the sphere, and we felt it was a possible resolution in addressing the problems of blindness and low imaginative and prescient. We’d like to see them obtain their purpose of decreasing the blindness and low imaginative and prescient inhabitants by 50%. To that finish, we hope they may make the most of our mentoring workforce to strengthen their IP.”

[Special Award-The Japan Academic Society for Ventures and Entrepreneurs Award]
Liquium (New Zealand)

• Feedback from the judges: “The brand new technique proposed by Liquium for mass manufacturing of ammonia and CO2-free power sources can cut back prices by greater than 50% and is extra promising than the Haber-Bosch course of. Though supposed to be used within the space of heavy {industry}, if ammonia gasoline cells may be developed on the similar time, ammonia may also be used for mobility, and the market would develop even additional. Now we have excessive expectations {that a} new unicorn will emerge from New Zealand.”

[Special Award-Life Science Award]
OUI Inc. (Japan)

• Feedback from the judges: “OUI Inc. has nice expertise and merchandise, in addition to a superb imaginative and prescient. Moreover, we see nice potential for distant medical care and AI-based surgical procedure. We hope OUI Inc. can assist sufferers everywhere in the world. Congratulations.”

[Special Award-Microsoft Award]
ARAV Inc. (Japan)
An actual-time distant management system that may be retrofitted to current development gear and linked through the Web

• Feedback from the judges: “ARAV Inc. is the corporate that thinks essentially the most about IoT knowledge utilization, and we thought they might make the best influence by collaborating with us on account of their reproducibility and scalability. We additionally consider they’ll collaborate with giant Japanese corporations within the development and agriculture industries due to their market influence, ease of implementation, and relevance to IoT enterprise. By doing so, they may be capable of obtain social influence and sustainability.”

[Special Award-Audience Award]
Nervotec (Singapore)

For an inventory of startup entrants and their companies, go to https://aea.events/e/startup-entrants/

About AEA2022
Official web site: https://aea.events/e/ (English) / https://aea.events/j/ (Japanese)
Host: Asian Entrepreneurship Award steering committee
Co-hosts:
Division of College Company Relations – The College of Tokyo https://www.ducr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. (Kashiwa-no-ha Good Metropolis) https://www.kashiwanoha-smartcity.com/en/
TX Entrepreneur Companions Normal Included Affiliation (TEP) https://www.tepweb.jp/english/
The Japan Educational Society for Ventures and Entrepreneurs (JASVE) https://www.venture-ac.ne.jp/en/
Japan Exterior Commerce Group (JETRO) https://www.jetro.go.jp/en/