Kohei Katada

Gojo & Company, Inc. was founded in order to extend financial inclusion to everyone in the world, starting with developing countries. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan and was founded in 2014 by Taejun Shin and Sanjay Gandhi. The Japanese company encourages the formalization and growth of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises, with the long-term goal of providing high-quality affordable financial services to over 100 million unserved and underserved people in 50+ countries by 2030. The company currently works in several countries, including Cambodia, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka, with a gross loan portfolio of USD 260 million, over 3,400 employees, and more than 570,000 clients. Gojo & Company achieves financial access through partnerships with microfinance institutions. Taejun Shin has been the CEO since 2014.

SmartNews, Inc. develops news aggregation smartphone applications. It designs, develops, and operates a Japanese aggregation and reading application. Its software application curates news information from tweets on twitter and the gives user’s current articles. It enables users to download articles and read them offline. The company was founded by Kaisei Hamamoto and Ken Suzuki on June 15, 2012 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.