A collaboration between e27 and Sony Acceleration Platform
Your bridge to Japan’s
innovation economy
e27 and Sony Acceleration Platform have joined forces to give Singapore and Southeast Asian companies a structured, credible pathway into Japan’s corporate and startup ecosystem.
About the Collaboration
About the collaboration
e27 built its AI-powered business matching tool to help founders, investors, and enterprises identify relevant counterparts through structured, data-driven discovery rather than chance encounters at events.
This collaboration extends that capability into Japan, pairing e27’s Singapore matchmaking infrastructure with Sony Acceleration Platform’s Japan-based network — for co-creation, joint R&D, and sales expansion.
Objective
What the programme sets out to do
For SEA companies
Structured, qualified introductions to Japanese corporates actively looking to solve innovation challenges.
For Japanese orgs
Reliable access to market-ready technology and agile teams across digital transformation and automation.
How it’s built
Mutual trust and reciprocal value — resources and market access on one side, agility and technology on the other.
The long game
A long-term collaboration corridor between Japan and Southeast Asia, not a one-off transactional exercise.
What This Means for SG/SEA Companies
What this means for Singapore and Southeast Asian companies
“Japanese corporations rarely approach business matching for passive technology scouting — they arrive with clearly defined operational bottlenecks.”
Engagement is worth entering with clear eyes: Japanese corporate decision-making involves extensive internal consensus-building — a structural feature, not a signal of disinterest.
Two Ways to Take Part — sequential, not parallel
Two ways to take part
The Boundary Spanning Service is the self-served foundation every company starts with. Global Startup EXPO 2026 is a separate activation layer on top of it.
Sony Boundary Spanning Service
Self-served matching against Sony Acceleration Platform’s ~1,900-organisation Japan network. Entry point for every company.
Apply to the Boundary Spanning ServiceGlobal Startup EXPO 2026, Osaka
Guaranteed, structured business meetings in Osaka, October 2026, on a separate matching track from BSS.
Register interest — GSE2026e27 × Deloitte Tohmatsu
Borderless Innovation: X-HUB Tokyo–Singapore Demo Day 2026
Borderless Innovation brings 11 Tokyo-based startups to a virtual stage for an afternoon of pitches, panel discussion, and networking with Singapore and Southeast Asia’s investor and corporate ecosystem. Spanning industrial AI and robotics, enterprise AI, supply chain tech, medical AI, and agritech, this cohort is heading to SWITCH 2026 (27–29 October) right after this session, and this is their first stop in the region.