NexaScience Inc Raises ¥61M in Pre-Seed Round

NexaScience Inc. is pleased to announce that it has completed a total of 61 million yen in funding to establish the foundational technology for AI business automation and implement an “Autonomous Science” platform that will automate all processes from R&D to intellectual property and commercialization. This pre-seed round was funded through J-KISS stock acquisition rights, with underwriters including a corporate venture capital (CVC) fund managed by a group company of Nagase & Co., Ltd., a company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime, as well as individual investors such as Sachio Senbon, founder of Daini Denden Co., Ltd. (now KDDI), and Hideki Takeda (now Footlight Co., Ltd.), former CTO of FRONTEO Inc., a pioneer in natural language processing AI companies.

Purpose of procurement and use of funds

The funds will be used to invest in the following areas:

Enhanced functionality of “NexaPapers,” the demonstration and production version of the AI ​​Agent-integrated Autonomous Research and Development Workflow ( AIRAS )

Accelerating development of “NexaPatents,” an autonomous intellectual property management service

Advances in orchestration AI as the foundation for industrial AI agents

Strengthening recruitment in the fields of research and development, engineering, BizDev, and sales

This will establish the foundational technology for AI to automate business processes, and advance the implementation of an “autonomous science” platform that will achieve seamless autonomy from research and development to intellectual property and commercialization.

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NexaScience’s business overview and mission

NexaScience is a startup whose mission is to accelerate the use and creation of science and technology through AI and robotics . The company is working to implement “AI robot scientists” in society based on the results of the Cabinet Office’s Moonshot Research and Development Project.

We are developing an “autonomously driven science” platform that redefines the scientific method of research and development process ,
“investigation → hypothesis → verification,”
as a workflow that can be applied to all business operations, and enables AI to autonomously execute the entire process.

This platform is aimed at a wide range of users, including researchers, intellectual property officers, business developers, and technology managers, as well as those involved in advanced knowledge-intensive work.

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