Thinka, a social club for entrepreneurs, run by UB Ventures in Japan interviewed our CEO Fumiyuki Ota, as an entrepreneur for a vertical SaaS in global supply chain management.
Thinka：https://thinka-tokyo.webflow.io/
Please find the interview article from below, and get to know about Fumi and Zenport’s story.
Zenport joined the trade consortium established by Trade Waltz Inc., a blockchain-based trading platform, and a subsidiary of NTT Data, Mitsubishi Corporation, and others.
The consortium aims to promote digitalization of international trade, carrying out activities for legal revision on digitizing Bills of Lading and Certificates of Origin with governments, customs, and global platforms of international trading.
Forty Japanese companies across industries have joined the consortium. They include leading enterprises, such as trade and investment conglomerates and mega-banks, to supply chain management startups, including Shippio, Japan’s first digital forwarder; STANDAGE, a blockchain-based trade finance service company; and us, Zenport, a B2B communication platform for global supply chain management.
Through the trade consortium’s activity, Zenport will contribute to promote digitalization of international trade.
Zenport Inc. provides “Zenport,” an open platform for agile global supply chain management that bridges business operations across borders. Out of all the complex flows of the global supply chain, Zenport uniquely focuses on international, inter-company communications. This is an insight that provides a simple, standardized open platform for industry. A patent has been granted. Currently, our service is halving communications for cross-border businesses, especially those with a large number of SKUs, such as apparel and lifestyle products.
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Zenport will join Collision 2021, North America’s technology conference for startups.
Collision is known as North America’s fastest-growing technology conference, as well as the North American version of Web Summit, which holds the largest annual technology conference for startups. A total of 25,000 people, including 850 investors, attended the event in 2019. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s conference will be held online under the name of Collision from Home, from April 20th to 22nd. The event will welcome more than 1,250 startups and 40,000 attendees, including 1,000 investors, from over 100 countries.
We seize this opportunity to network with investors and potential partners abroad, as well as to further expand our business overseas.
Zenport Inc.
The service “Zenport” provided by Zenport is an open platform that reduces the cumbersome communication work that occurs in the trade supply chain by 50%. In the trade supply chain, Excel, email, and phone calls between various parties, such as importers, exporters, and logistics companies, are a daily and high-volume occurrence. But until now, this has been primarily solved only by expensive and closed consolidation systems between a limited number of companies. Zenport has developed a cloud app with a unique standard data structure and interface that is open and flexible enough to be used by a wide variety of parties. This allows more companies to operate their trade supply chain faster and more agilely to optimize inventory and production.