News -CureApp, Inc.

Japan’s digital health startup  CureApp  announced on Monday that it has fundraised 1.5 billion yen (about $14 million) in the latest round. This follows their  previous $3.4 million funding  from Beyond Next Ventures (BNV), Keio Innovation Initiative (KII), and SBI Investment back in February last year. In addition to existing investors BNV and KII, participating investors in this round are Itochu Corporation (TSE:8001), Itochu Technology Ventures, Cyberdine (TSE:7779), Dai-ichi Life (TSE:8750), Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Iwagin Jigyo Souzou Capital, Saison Ventures, Chibagin Capital, and Mizuho Capital. Read here in Detail :  The Bridge

【 Our 2 nd Day at Startup Grind 】 On our 2 nd day at Startup Grind, we had an opportunity to have a booth that we could represent what CureApp do and meet with other startups, sponsors, and 14 investors . Many of them stopped by our booth, for our Series C round, and exchanged our business cards so that we can help each other.  【Quick fire  Pitch 】 As Top 50 , Our pitch was scheduled to be at 16 ： 20 PM on February 13. The quickfire pitches took place in small groups of about 6 or 7 companies and were scheduled between speakers. We would be allowed 1 minute to effectively introduce our company and why we're such hot stuff. Our mighty COO Miyata san gave two pitches to audience today, and we realized how important to show them the Efforts to create an evidence based App and our achievements we have made in three years. After his pitch, some  people told us that they came to our booth because they became interested in our “smoking cessation” program after listening to ou

As a Top 50 company at Startup Grind's Global Conference 2018, today we had the opportunity to pitch CureApp on the main stage to an audience amassed of attendees, investors, entrepreneurs, media, and tech enthusiasts. It was streamed live globally so anyone could watch. But before we could go and tell the world about CureApp, we were invited to Pitch Boot camp, a long session on come up with the perfect pitch. Now obviously, we thought our pitch was exultant already and were ready to take the spotlight. Opening Greeting & Bootcamp : Opening TD Lowe, Managing Director and overall Startup Grind rock star, started with opening comments and introductions, however time was short so things had to move quickly. We were put into groups of about 6 or 7 startups and paired with 2 amazing coaches. Our Coach listened to our history, our customer's pain points and how we're solving these points. This helped take our speech from pompous to fabulous. We

As you may already know, CureApp made it into the Top 50 at Startup Grind's Global Conference 2018. To kick off our posts about our journey, we thought we might touch on the "Preparation day” First and foremost if you don't know anything about Startup Grind's Global Conference, check it out Here . As part of this conference, Startup Grind accepted globally applications from startups who are doing Av-ant grind things in overall tech. Before we could apply, there were a few questions we felt we should to answer and a comprehensive research we needed to do. What type of company we are : CureApp is a leading digital health company in the vertical of “medical apps exhibiting therapeutic effects against diseases”, and in Feb 2015 launched “Ascure”, a nicotine addiction treatment app jointly developed with Keio University’s Schools of Medicine.  Currently conducting the first official medical app clinical trial on the same indication in Japan o

CureApp is officially named to the 2018 Class of Startup Exhibitors by Startup Grind, handpicked from the pool of 7,000+ startups in 115 countries worldwide. As part of the elite group of 50 selected startup companies, CureApp will be featured at the 2018 Startup Grind Global Conference, powered by Google for Entrepreneurs, taking place on February 12-14, in Silicon Valley, CA. *Our mission is to create a medically proved and disease specific multi digital therapeutics platform along with mental and chronic diseases. So we are proud to be part of this world renowned event and excited to talk to others about CureApp while enjoying two days of being in the presence of amazing entrepreneurs, mentors and founders from all around the globe  - says Kohta Satake,CEO & Founder of CureApp. With 7,000 founders and investors and more than 50 keynote speakers, Startup Grind Global Conference 2018 is bound to cluster key players in the global startup community, the likes of Li