Outreach

The RIKEN Venture System

The RIKEN Venture system enables researchers to put their own world-class scientific achievements to commercial use. It contributes to industrial technology and people's everyday lives by using the new knowledge and new technologies that arise in the course of research at RIKEN on basic natural science. RIKEN Ventures aim to put scientific achievements to practical use and disseminate the fruits of research at RIKEN as quickly as possible.

List of RIKEN Ventures

Company Name Date of approval
as a RIKEN Venture
Nature of Business Field
Megaopto Co., Ltd. March 1998 Research and development, manufacture, and sales of all-solid-state lasers Engineering
The NEXSYS Corporation June 1998 R&D and sales for precision machinery for mirror-surface grinding and other fabrication systems Engineering
Wyckoff Co., Ltd. June 2003 Technology for classifying and measuring nano-particles; DMA (Differential Mobility Analyzer) Engineering
Medical Ion Technology Corporation February 2005 Medical materials for surgery Engineering
NanoMembrane Technologies, Inc. September 2007 Research, development and production of fuel cell components Engineering
PHLUX-i Inc. September 2010 Development and production of THz devices Engineering
Integration Technology Co., Ltd. August 2011 Integrated services for manufacturers in optics Engineering
Japan Neutron Optics September 2005 Manufacture and consulting on neutron optics, and measuring equipment Physics
ASTOM R&D April 1999 Development and sales of CAE software for manufacturing IT
VCAD Solutions Co., Ltd. January 2006 Development, support and distribution of VCAD software IT
Trial Park Co., Ltd. January 2007 Digital Simulation Service for Prototype Manufacturing IT
K.K.Dnaform September 1998 Full-length cDNA library and cloning technology Biology
Cell-Medicine, Inc. July 2001 Autologous Fixed Tumor Vaccine (AFTVac) Biology
Inplanta Innovations Inc. April 2003 Plant gene mapping technology using SNPs Biology
Chiome Bioscience, Inc. February 2005 In vitro monoclonal antibody generating system Biology
TagCyx Biotechnologies March 2007 Research and medical tools and nanomaterials based on unnatural base pairtechnologies Biology
Animal Allergy Clinical Laboratories April 2007 Laboratory testing service for diagnosis and treatment of allergy and immune diseases in animals Biology
REGiMMUNE Corporation March 2007 Development of novel medicines with immune regulating technology Biology
RIKEN Genesis Co., Ltd. October 2007 1.SNP Analysis Service
2.SNP Analysis Sytem
Biology
Consonal Biotechnologies Co., Ltd. October 2008 Product Lines: Biochip materials, instruments and diaganostic systems Biology
Retina Institute Japan, K.K. August 2011 Global Clinical Trials to cure blindness with implantation of iPS cell derived RPE cell sheet/suspension. Biology
TransSINE Technologies Co., Ltd. December 2011 SINEUPs, non-coding RNAs to enhance translation of any protein at will Biology
FLOX Corporation October 2005 Development and manufacture of fullerene derivatives and related products Chemistry