February 16, 2021
Steps for Startup Success
By Ryoko Hirano, Director of Market and Business Acceleration At NEC X, we’re always looking for new ways to improve our processes. Working with new startups provides exciting challenges and opportunities that help us grow and adapt our corporate accelerator program (CAP). We understand that the customer always comes first—a value that every entrepreneur, business […]
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December 9, 2020
NEC X Named Most Innovative Company...
It’s official! NEC X has been named the most “Innovative Company of the Year” by Best in Biz, with a silver award for the small company size category. With the corporate accelerator program as a core component of our innovative business, we can’t thank Best in Biz enough for this honor. We would also like to recognize our […]
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November 11, 2020
5 Things You Need To Know...
Our very own Robbert Emery, director of technology marketing and business development, was interviewed in Authority Magazine. Click here for Robbert’s insights on data privacy and cybersecurity.
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October 19, 2020
What’s Happening Now in Technology
By Shige Ihara, President and CEO of NEC X Recently, I was interviewed by Joe McKendrick, of Forbes Magazine, for his article entitled “The Next Boom: How The Post-Covid Future Is Unfolding For Technology Ventures.” In this post, I’ll expand on some of the points I made in that article. A vast amount of exciting technologies […]
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October 6, 2020
NEC and NEC X Announce First...
TOKYO and PALO ALTO, Calif. – Oct. 6, 2020 – NEC Corporation, a leader in IT and network technologies, and NEC X, the innovation accelerator for NEC’s emerging technologies, today announced that Inguo.io is the first graduating company from NEC X’s Corporate Accelerator Program (CAP). NEC X guided Inguo.io’s entrepreneur-in-residence (EIR) participants through the steps of customer discovery and […]
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August 23, 2020
The Next Boom: How The Post-Covid...
Our CEO Shige Ihara was interviewed by Joe McKendrick at Forbes, where he shared his insights on the current digital technology boom. Read the article here.
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July 27, 2020
Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) Profile Series #2
Meet Sukhi Lamba At a time when there is so much uncertainty, what we do know is that people can change the world. At NEC X, the technologies we accelerate into viable businesses through our incubator program are hand-picked by top NEC Laboratory researchers. Our Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIRs) partner with researchers early on, seeking to unveil the extraordinary […]
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July 14, 2020
21 Entrepreneurs Share Their Thoughts on...
Our EIR Massi Genta was featured in CEO Blog Nation’s roundup on the future of entrepreneurship. Massi describes the impact of decentralization and the importance of trust among teams. View his response here, answer #10.
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June 8, 2020
Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) Profile Series #1
Meet Massi Genta At NEC X, driving innovation forward is our mission. We realize that to accomplish such a significant goal, we must rely on our people. Our entrepreneurs are some of the most dynamic, tech-savvy and self-motivated individuals you will find, not just in Silicon Valley, but in the world. Together, we combine the […]
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