The first accelerator program for a Expressway company
Five companies have been selected by "DraPla Innovation Lab"!

-Scheduled to carry out demonstration experiments sequentially from December 3rd year of Reiwa-

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December 21, 3rd year of Reiwa
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.

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NEXCO EAST (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) has decided on five companies to adopt the accelerator program "DraPla Innovation Lab", which has been recruiting since September 3rd year of Reiwa.

This program aims to develop and commercialize solutions that lead to solutions to various social issues, and utilizes resources such as Expressway, service areas, and parking areas (hereinafter referred to as SA / PA) owned by the Company. , To work on co-creation and social implementation of new services and products with partner companies.
Application period From September 1st to October 31st, we received 84 applications. We received valuable suggestions such as cutting-edge, interesting, and meaningful to us, and the examination was difficult. Taking into consideration the significance, future potential, feasibility, etc. of the initiative, we decided to adopt five companies as the program for this year. Demonstration experiments will be conducted sequentially from December 3rd year of Reiwa.
The companies adopted and the content of the proposal are as follows.

Adopted companies (in order of AIUEO)

Company name Proposal content

Ultima Trust Co., Ltd.

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Flow analysis in SA / PA

AirX Inc.

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Transportation cooperation utilizing heliports

Digital Frontier Co., Ltd.

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Utilization of manned remote customer service by high-definition 3DCG avatar

Faro Star Co., Ltd.

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Delivery by drone and automatic control

Placy Co., Ltd.

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Improving the mobility of the region through the music-based map content "Play" List "

In addition, among the companies that applied for this program, although we did not adopt it in the above, we decided to proceed with the following companies with a view to future alliances.

  • Specified non-profit corporation 365 Bunnoichi
  • BONX Co., Ltd.
  • LOOVIC Co., Ltd.

We will continue to strengthen our efforts to create new value.

The NEXCO EAST Group has positioned the period from 2021 to 2025 as "a period that contributes to the achievement of the SDGs and transforms into a new future society," and is making various efforts.
We believe that this" DraPla Innovation Lab" initiative will contribute to the SDGs goals No. 8 and No. 17 as business activities that lead to co-creation and social implementation of new services and products with partner companies. ..

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