ABOUT TMIP

TMIP, a new business
creation platform

TMIP (Tokyo Marunouchi Innovation Platform) is an open innovation platform that aims to create high-impact businesses by combining the power of the city with the power of the players, mainly large corporations clustered in the Marunouchi area(Otemachi, Marunouchi, and Yurakucho) from a public standpoint. By providing an environment that maximizes the use of Marunouchi's urban assets, we support the creation of innovation by "serious large corporations".

FEATURE

How TMIP supports business creation

  • Open innovation community that gathers the knowledge of 300 organizations

    Face to face community of over 300 entities,with open innovation minded pro-active members from large corporations, startups,academias and governments. For example,every member can speak at TMIP lunch meeting, to show their current business and capability to other players. Information sharing and collaborative new business creation is easily attainable, through many face to face events.

    About TMIP Community
  • Professional mentoring for new business creation

    TMIP will assign professional mentors, based on standard corporate member requests.

    More about TMIP mentors
  • TMIP supports PoC projects with hands on manner

    TMIP accelerates PoC (Proof of Concept) cycle from initial stage of standard members’ new business projects planning, using Marunouchi area workers web information and assets.

    Features of the TMIP area

What TMIP can do

Driving new business creation,
verification, and social implementation

TMIP secretariat members will work with you as a member of the team to meet your goals and challenges. We will drive the creation, verification, and social implementation of new businesses by utilizing the community and verification opportunities.

  • 出会う
    Meet Up

    New match making using pro-active face to face events.

    • Participation in seminars and events
    • Participation in online communities
    • Matching support between members
    • PR support for information dissemination
  • 育む
    Brush Up

    Form specific theme based new business creation circles.

    • Organizing seminars and events
    • Providing members-only content
    • Innovation Circle Planning Support
    • Mentoring support by business creation professionals

    ※1Innovation Circle

    Members take the initiative in bringing together like-minded people to form projects on specific themes, such as social issues or new technologies. We provide continuous support from team formation to accelerate your theme, from setting the goal of the activity to designing the place.

  • 挑む
    Team Up

    Hands on support for verification and social implementation of new PoC teams.

    • Accelerated Commercialization Navigation
    • Demonstration Field Support
イノベーションサークル

※1Innovation Circle

Members take the initiative in bringing together like-minded people to form projects on specific themes, such as social issues or new technologies. We provide continuous support from team formation to accelerate your theme, from setting the goal of the activity to designing the place.

About TMIP Community

Open innovation community that gathers the knowledge of 300 organizations

TMIP enables innovation through a variety of community-building initiatives in collaboration with advisors, partners, and member companies to promote interaction and knowledge sharing among members.
Corp.-Gov't-Academia-
City Collaborative,
Open Innovation Projects
  • Academia

  • Government

  • City
    Management

  • Large
    Corporations

  • Startups

  • VC /
    Investors

  • Advisory
    Board

  • External
    Community

  • Large Corporations
    140companies
  • Startups
    60companies
  • Partners
    100companies

TMIP is a membership community offering five plans.

TMIP Membership
For those who want to create business
in their companies
  • RecommendationAiming to create business
    Standard Membership
    600Kyen / year
    • Join community Slack
    • New business creation support by mentors
    • Participation in members-only social events (free of charge)
    • Matching support
    • Event archives viewing
    • Member only contents
    • PoC support

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  • For beginners
    Light Membership
    0yen / year
    • Join community Slack
    • Participation in open seminars
    • Participation in members-only social events (for a fee)

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  • For Startups, who needs co-creation of new business with large corps
    Startup Membership
    0yen / year
    • Join community slack
    • Participation in open seminars
    • Participation in members-only social events (for a fee)
    • Large corpotation partner navigation
    • PoC support, once standard members ask joint PoC

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TMIP Partner
Aiming to support business creation
  • RecommendationAiming to support business creation
    Gold Partner
    600Kyen / year
    • Join community Slack
    • Participation in members-only social events (free of charge)
    • Matching support
    • Event archives viewing
    • Member only contents
    • Co-sponsored event with TMIP (4 times / year)

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  • For beginners
    Partner
    0yen / year
    • Join community slack
    • Participation in open seminars
    • Participation in members-only social events (free of charge)
    • Co-sponsored event with TMIP (Once a year)

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Features of the TMIP area

Daimaru-Yu, a city of
350,000 workers

The Otemachi, Marunouchi, and Yurakucho (Daimaru-Yu area), where TMIP operates,
is one of the world's leading business centers with approximately 5,000 offices
and 350,000 employees, including global corporations and listed companies.

The number of FORTUNE GLOBAL 500 companies

Number of headquarters and offices of major companies Comparison with other cities in Tokyo

  • Number of corporate offices
    in the area

    5,000offices

  • Number of employees
    in the area

    350,000people

  • Number of listed company
    headquarters

    135companies

    equivalent to about 9.12% of Japan's total

  • Number of companies within
    10 years of establishment

    983companies

  • Consolidated sales of
    listed companies

    155trillion yen

OUR TEAM

Eiko Shimada

Eiko Shimada

Representative Director

Yoshio Sakai

Yoshio Sakai

Director

Kazuya Minami

Kazuya Minami

Managing Partner

Hiroyuki Okuyama

Hiroyuki Okuyama

Management Member

Ayuri Ofuchi

Ayuri Ofuchi

Management Member

Yasuhiko Azegami

Yasuhiko Azegami

Management Member

Aya Kamata

Aya Kamata

Management Member

Kana Nakagawa

Kana Nakagawa

Management Member

Eiko Shimada

Eiko Shimada

Representative Director

Yoshio Sakai

Yoshio Sakai

Director

Kazuya Minami

Kazuya Minami

Managing Partner

Hiroyuki Okuyama

Hiroyuki Okuyama

Management Member

Ayuri Ofuchi

Ayuri Ofuchi

Management Member

Yasuhiko Azegami

Yasuhiko Azegami

Management Member

Aya Kamata

Aya Kamata

Management Member

Kana Nakagawa

Kana Nakagawa

Management Member

Eiko Shimada

Eiko Shimada

Representative Director

Yoshio Sakai

Yoshio Sakai

Director

Kazuya Minami

Kazuya Minami

Managing Partner

Hiroyuki Okuyama

Hiroyuki Okuyama

Management Member

Ayuri Ofuchi

Ayuri Ofuchi

Management Member

Yasuhiko Azegami

Yasuhiko Azegami

Management Member

Aya Kamata

Aya Kamata

Management Member

Kana Nakagawa

Kana Nakagawa

Management Member