tokyo metropolitan government
The 2025 Tokyo Financial Award winners—Impact Circle, Clarity AI, Japan Asset Management Platform Group, Myna Wallet, EduCare, and Henry could provide functional components of a broader structural reorganization of the Japanese financial landscape. As the Tokyo Metropolitan Government intensifies its "Global Financial City: Tokyo" initiative, these six
fintech
The "Financial Innovation Category" of the Tokyo Financial Award invited financial businesses to apply for “Solutions” to “Themes to be solved” which are based on the needs and challenges related to financial services which were submitted by residents and businesses in Tokyo. The solutions submitted by applicants were
venture capital
Incubate Fund has established "IF Growth," a fund specialized in growth capital, and completed its first close. The final fund size is planned to be 30 billion yen. In parallel, the fund specialized in seed stage investments has also completed its final close at a total of 20.
carbon credit
Ginco has suplied blockchain technology to e-dash Corporation, which has been commissioned by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to develop and operate the "Carbon Credit Market of Tokyo", a carbon credit market for businesses launched by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in March 2025 to achieve its goal of halving