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LIGHTz

2-1-6 Kiyoken, Tsukuba Research Support Center, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, 305-0047, Japan

Overview

LIGHTz provides an AI platform that visualizes and digitizes skilled engineers' thinking using its proprietary “汎知化” and BrainModel technologies. Its core product, blooplinter, links 3D CAD models with expert knowledge and past-case data so users can retrieve knowledge visually and textually and perform automated checks. The company emphasizes shifting firms from labor‑intensive operations to knowledge‑stocked workflows to improve quality, cost and speed. LIGHTz plans to standardize and scale its汎知化 and BrainModel technologies and further develop and generalize blooplinter for wider adoption across Japan’s manufacturing sector. The company completed a Series A and reported total funding of ¥860 million to accelerate product development and commercialization. It intends to expand regional partnerships, strengthen marketing, and support local manufacturers in addressing skills transfer and productivity challenges.

Total raised
$6M
Funding rounds
1
Latest round
Series A
Latest activity
Mar 2024

Industries

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Medical
  • Robotics
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Recent funding

  1. Series A

    Mar 2024

    $6M

Team

  • Shingo Otobe

    Representative Director