This Week in Startups · 2026-08-03 · 62 min · 10,438 words

How Bespoke faked AI until it actually worked (w/ Akemi Tsunagawa) | E2320

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My time in Japan is sadly coming to an end for this trip. We had an amazing founder university Uh, for three days here with our partner Getro. And that is our second uh cohort. Good news. We're gonna do a third cohort in January, if you would like to be part of Founder University in January.

We're gonna open up the applications on the first of September at founder dot university. You can apply. And then we also had Angel University here in Tokyo at Jetros special uh meeting space. And uh this time I think we have close to twenty angel investors. The angel investor community is growing here in Japan as the number of startups grow and the opportunity grows. And as part of this We have founder university here. We have Angel University here.

And uh I like to tape a couple of episodes of This Week in Startups while I'm here for the English version of This Week in Startups. But I'm considering trying to find a host and a partner. Japan. the Japanese version and maybe even to cover some of the other great startup centers around Japan. And as part of that, I asked my team to research some of the great founders. And today I'm very happy we have Akimi uh So Agula, and she is the founder of Bespoke.

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