HACARUS challenging the healthcare industry with the unique AI

Kenshin Fujiwara, CEO, Hacarus Inc.

Hacarus develops applications designed to help companies to manage their employees' health, covering diet, blood-sugar levels, blood pressure, exercise, and other health-related information. The company's name "Hacarus" is derived from the Japanese word "hakaru" meaning "to measure." This application uses artificial intelligence (AI) to provide health-related information and propose recipes that help improve the user's health based on information obtained from the user on his/her diet, exercise and other lifestyle factors. The gathered information is stored in the cloud so that staff in charge of administrative and other relevant duties at Hacarus's customer companies can access it to check the health conditions of employees online. This kind of service has already been provided around the world.
The major feature of our service lies in AI. Although, this type of service usually uses "deep learning technology", ours does not. Unlike deep learning technology, which requires large amounts of data and calculation, the "sparse modeling technology" we use needs only a small amount of data and calculation to help the algorithm to choose a solution. With this remarkable technology, calculation can be performed even with an ordinary laptop computer.
We have formed a global team to develop products in the Philippines. Our target customers are fitness clubs, insurance companies and other sorts of companies. We have alliances with welfare services providers for major companies and are seeking new partnerships with organizations in Japan and abroad.

[Mentors' comments]
"There are already 10 to 20 competitive applications. It is therefore important to find a way to differentiate yours from others." Dong Wu, Johnson & Johnson INNOVATION

"While your business is going well in Japan, cultural differences may pose obstacles in foreign countries. I find it a good idea to develop partnerships with health-conscious membership organizations." Craig Garner, SPARK Berlin

[Speaker Profile]
Kenshin is the CEO at Hacarus, a healthcare technology startup based in Kyoto, Japan. Previously he worked on the Playstation for Sony Computer Entertainment and was part of a startup derived from the Israeli Military. In the past 15 years, Kenshin co-founded several tech startups with two successful exits. The fist startup was acquired by a Japanese public company, and the second startup was sold to a US company. Since 2010, Kenshin has been living in Kyoto rediscovering the strengths of intellectual property owned by local universities and the richness of food culture that Kyoto has to offer. Born in Shiga in 1976, Kenshin holds a Computer Science degree from California State University.
Hacarus Inc. website: https://hacarus.com/

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