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Yokohama City and Start2 Group, an international start-up support organization, have signed an MOU.
Last update date December 13, 2023
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December 13, 2023
Economic Affairs Bureau International Business Division
Aiko Morii
Phone number: 045-671-2576
Fax: 045-671-4867
Yokohama City is focusing on attracting and supporting startups that will play a leading role in the growth and development of the Yokohama economy.
When The Mayor of Yokohama Yamanaka met the CEO of German Entrepreneurship GmbH, a start- support organization at a corporate invitation seminar held in Berlin in July this year. Ltd. (former German Entrepreneurship Asia Pte. Ltd.), a Japanese subsidiary of Ltd. (former German Entrepreneurship Asia Pte. Ltd.), Japan
In the future, the two parties will work together to attract overseas startups to Yokohama, and to expand startups supported by both parties.
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