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Tokyo Fabhub

Connects foreign entrepreneurs and companies with a network of over 100 small factories in Tokyo.

🇯🇵 Katsushika-ku, Tokyo

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Tokyo Fabhub helps foreign companies, institutions and entrepreneurs develop business in Tokyo through a network of more than 100 small factories. It offers manufacturing in Tokyo, help finding business partners in Japan, and educational programs and seminars. Its stated aim is to show the value of Tokyo's small factories and create new collaboration between them and foreign entrepreneurs and small companies. It was founded and is organized by Taku Furukawa, a former banker and social entrepreneur.

Open to

  • Customers & pilots

The site says it offers opportunities for foreign companies, institutions and entrepreneurs to work with the partners in its network.

Services

Service

Manufacturing

Manufacture products in Tokyo with small local factories.

Who it's for: Foreign entrepreneurs, hardware startups and small companies

  • Network of more than 100 small factories in Tokyo
  • Focus on Tokyo's light engineering clusters
Service

Consultancy

Helps foreign companies find business partners in Japan.

Who it's for: Foreign companies, institutions and entrepreneurs

  • Tokyo Factory Discovery Program for foreign entrepreneurs, launched in 2018
  • Matching between overseas entrepreneurs and Tokyo factories
Service

Education

Educational programs and seminars about Tokyo's small factories.

Who it's for: Universities, business schools and visiting delegations

  • Maker's Junction factory visit program for university students
  • Programs and seminars for visiting MBA students and academics
  • Factory tours for overseas delegations

Customers

Foreign companies, institutions and entrepreneurs who want to manufacture or find partners in Tokyo, plus universities, business schools and overseas delegations that join its programs and factory visits.

Traction

100+small Tokyo factories in its network
26participants in the 2nd Maker's Junction program (2017)
30Indian academics at a 2019 seminar