Aligned with its mission to support entrepreneurs who want to make a positive impact to our society using digital technologies, encognize has been supporting Reconnai in shaping its solution and underlying business concept that focuses on addressing plastic recycling contamination. 

Due to poor sorting processes at the source (meaning from us, consumers) and through the waste chain, it is hard to get clean waste streams where recyclable plastics are segregated from the non-recyclable ones.
As a result, most of our plastic wastes do not get recycled but get burnt or sent to landfill instead...
Data shows that, in Japan, about 73% of the collected waste gets burnt instead of recycled!

Reconnai's mission evolves around developing a platform for consumers, producers and governments that will help address recycling contamination together.

​If you are interested in getting involved in this project, please visit Reconnai's webpage here or contact the Reconnai team here.

Under his role of Corporate × Startup Engagement Director at Rainmaking, Bruno Abrioux, co-founder and CEO of encognize G.K. has shared his views and insights on what to consider to think strategically and prepare for market expansion.

You can read the full article here.
This interview is part of the activities run by 「Rainmaking Expand」, a suite of programs that aims at supporting startups and scale-ups grow successfully their business outside of their home market.

While several projects have shown some strong progress in Q1, we have decided to feature two of them in this brief post, as a representation of the breadth and depth of services our encognize X-Tech Force provides to our business partners.

First, ELLA, the EdTech Adaptive Learning-as-a-Service API tool co-sponsored by encognize through its digital service launchpad, 「lab4-203」, has successfully graduated from the incubator Social Change Maker 5, a program sponsored by the Nippon Foundation and powered by ImpacTech. This would not have been possible without the support and hard work of ELLA's global Ambassador, Nhi Duong, and ELLA's co-founder, Eric Wiel. As a next step, leveraging the learning from the incubator program and inputs from the various mentors, ELLA's team will engage further with elearning and mobile learning solution providers.

Second, as part of its 「wisdomseed」 service line, encognize has continued their effort supporting innovative companies grow their business by providing custom upskilling sessions to a successful Japanese startup in the consumer electronics sector. The goal of the sessions is to help the company CEO prepare the scaling-up of his company in terms of business and organization and maximize his chance of success by equipping him with the right management and leadership tools and practices.

As far as Q2 is concerned, the encognize X-Tech Force will of course keep all its focus on delivering quality results to its business partners for the various missions it has been entrusted with.