The "Star★AtPitch Japan" event, hosted by Nikkei Inc., was held recently.

Standage has won the "Startup Category Award"! ✨
Furthermore, they also won the "Excellence Award" and the "Audience Award" at the regional competition✨
Thank you again to everyone who supported me.

[List of Award-Winning Companies]
https://staatpitch.nikkei.co.jp/pdf/award.pdf

With many excellent startups and successor venture companies from all over the country participating,
None of us at the company ever dreamed that we would receive such an award!

Unfortunately, due to the impact of the coronavirus, the final tournament was held without spectators.
I was relieved to be able to deliver some good news to everyone who has been supporting us all this time.

"We appreciated the scale of the market, which is targeting the world and Africa."
I particularly liked their answer during the Q&A session: "We chose blockchain and crypto assets not from the perspective of 'how to utilize blockchain,' but as a means to make trade better."

Our CEO, Adachi, was deeply moved by these words, which were given to him by Mr. Konno of Globis Capital Partners when he received the award.

Blockchain and AI, and other cutting-edge technologies themselves,
"It looks like something amazing."
"It's new technology, so we have to make sure we don't fall behind."
As such, technology tends to be the first thing that gets attention,
We need to carefully examine whether this technology is truly necessary to solve the problem, and whether it's the best solution.

Well, this has gotten quite long...

If you want to see Adachi's heroic performance in the final tournament, the archive is available on the website below (*^^*)
https://channel.nikkei.co.jp/e/20200228staatpitch
The event is divided into an opening ceremony, individual sessions, a special lecture, and an awards ceremony.
Our company will appear in Block 2, starting at "34:10".

Please take a look!

Thank you for your hard work, Adachi-san!

[Contact Information]
Shiba NA Building 4F, 3-6-10 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0014
STANDAGE Co., Ltd.
President and CEO: Akinori Adachi
Executive Vice President/COO: Kenta Omori
Press Contact Email: info@standage.org