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

CHIBA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Asian Entrepreneurship Award 2022 lawsuit (AEA2022) was held afloat online from Wednesday, October 26^th to Thursday, October 27^th with the information of 24 tech startups selected from Asian countries and regions. Among the competing participants, Japan’s OUI Inc., which develops the Smart Eye Camera (SEC), a smartphone-based aesculapian instrumentality that enables ophthalmic diagnosis anytime, anywhere, and by anyone, was chosen arsenic the winner.

AEA is simply a planetary innovation grant for emerging Asian entrepreneurs and startups that are utilizing precocious exertion to connection solutions to societal issues. The AEA2022 brought unneurotic 24 selected startups from crossed Asia providing solutions successful the 3 areas of healthcare, enactment & manner reform, and sustainability, each of which are planetary cardinal issues going forward.

Each institution was selected connected the ground of a wide scope of criteria, including innovativeness, the societal interaction of their products and services, their commercialized viability, the imaginable for collaboration with Japanese companies, the accidental for concern enlargement successful Japan, and OUI Inc. (Japan) was chosen arsenic the winner.

This year, the Social Business Session successful which participants competitively stock concern ideas for solving societal problems was besides held astatine the aforesaid time. Among the 4 participants of the session, SocialTech Japan (Japan), a supplier of affordable aesculapian services for achieving cosmopolitan wellness coverage, won archetypal prize.

AEA2022 Winners
[Winner]
OUI Inc. (Japan)
Smart Eye Camera (SEC), a smartphone-based aesculapian instrumentality that enables ophthalmic diagnosis anytime, anywhere, and by anyone

• Points evaluated by the judges: The broad solution which spans from diagnosis to attraction was highly evaluated.

[Runner-up]
Nervotec (Singapore)
Remote wellness absorption mobile level for contactless measurement and investigation of physiological biomarkers utilizing video investigation technology

• Points evaluated by the judges: The solution utilizing lone a smartphone, has the imaginable for it's concern scalability by collaborating with large partners.

[3^rd place]
Liquium (New Zealand)
Clean ammonia accumulation exertion for fuels utilizing a caller catalyst that reduces superior and operating costs for concern plants

• Points evaluated by the judges: The societal interaction made by cleanable vigor tin beryllium significant.

[Special Award-AEA Social Business Award]
SocialTech Japan (Japan)
Affordable wellness services for cosmopolitan wellness coverage

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

• Comments from the judges: “Fujitsu has launched a caller concern marque called Fujitsu Uvance to code cross-industry issues. Fujitsu Uvance focuses connected 7 areas, 1 of which is ‘Healthy Living.’ As a DX company, we felt that Nervotec's exertion could assistance employees power betwixt beingness and enactment and negociate their wellness to beforehand idiosyncratic well-being. We anticipation to research the anticipation of collaboration by leveraging our communal synergies.”

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

• Comments from the judges: “This is simply a precise elemental instrumentality that is casual to instrumentality to the field, and we felt it was a feasible solution successful addressing the issues of blindness and debased vision. We would emotion to spot them execute their extremity of reducing the blindness and debased imaginativeness colonisation by 50%. To that end, we anticipation they volition utilize our mentoring squad to fortify their IP.”

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

• Comments from the judges: “The caller method projected by Liquium for wide accumulation of ammonia and CO2-free vigor sources tin trim costs by much than 50% and is much promising than the Haber-Bosch process. Although intended for usage successful the country of dense industry, if ammonia substance cells tin beryllium developed astatine the aforesaid time, ammonia tin besides beryllium utilized for mobility, and the marketplace would grow adjacent further. We person precocious expectations that a caller unicorn volition look from New Zealand.”

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

• Comments from the judges: “OUI Inc. has large exertion and products, arsenic good arsenic an fantabulous vision. Furthermore, we spot large imaginable for distant aesculapian attraction and AI-based surgery. We anticipation OUI Inc. tin assistance patients each implicit the world. Congratulations.”

[Special Award-Microsoft Award]
ARAV Inc. (Japan)
A real-time distant power strategy that tin beryllium retrofitted to existing operation instrumentality and connected via the Internet

• Comments from the judges: “ARAV Inc. is the institution that thinks the astir astir IoT information utilization, and we thought they could marque the top interaction by collaborating with america owed to their reproducibility and scalability. We besides judge they tin collaborate with ample Japanese companies successful the operation and agriculture industries due to the fact that of their marketplace impact, easiness of implementation, and relevance to IoT business. By doing so, they volition beryllium capable to execute societal interaction and sustainability.”

[Special Award-Audience Award]
Nervotec (Singapore)

For a database of startup entrants and their businesses, sojourn https://aea.events/e/startup-entrants/

About AEA2022
Official website: https://aea.events/e/ (English) / https://aea.events/j/ (Japanese)
Host: Asian Entrepreneurship Award steering committee
Co-hosts:
Division of University Corporate Relations - The University of Tokyo https://www.ducr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. (Kashiwa-no-ha Smart City) https://www.kashiwanoha-smartcity.com/en/
TX Entrepreneur Partners General Incorporated Association (TEP) https://www.tepweb.jp/english/
The Japan Academic Society for Ventures and Entrepreneurs (JASVE) https://www.venture-ac.ne.jp/en/
Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) https://www.jetro.go.jp/en/