Startups
‘Commitment to success is crucial,’ Kicker Ventures managing partner says
SoftBank’s Pepper robot greets patients at a hospital in Tokyo. © Reuters
TOKYO — Japanese medical startups are well regarded in the U.S. for their technology, but they need to understand the differences between the countries’ healthcare systems to succeed, said Masashi Kiyomine, managing partner at U.S. venture capital firm Kicker Ventures.
