Four Gifu University student teams belonging to the Startup Club won the awards including the award of excellence (second-best) at the Tongali Business Plan Contest 2023 held on Saturday, June 17, 2023.

Undergraduate, graduate students of universities in Tokai Region (Aichi, Gifu, Mie and Shizuoka prefectures) are eligible to apply for the contest. Its major objectives are to create business ventures from universities and promote entrepreneurship.

On Thursday, June 29, the teams' representatives visited the Office of the President and reported their wins to President YOSHIDA Kazuhiro. They gave the president the overview of their business plans and their planned registration of business plans as early as next month. President Yoshida congratulated them on their wins and gave them strong words of encouragement.

The following are the names of awards and the teams' details:

Members of the Winning Teams

Award of Excellence (second-best), Supporter Award (Daiwa Securities Award, Mitsubishi Corporation Award, JR Tokai Award, Trancom Award), Aichi Prefecture Award, Audience Award
Team's Name：Umai Japan

Theme: Building a supply chain for Umai (brand agricultural product)

Mr. SUGIMOTO Ryota (3rd year student, the Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences)

Mr. ITO Shion (3rd year student, the Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences)

Tongali Award (third-best), Supporter Award (OKB Award)
Team's Name：LiemPia

Theme: clemy - clever me - (app)

Mr. NISHIGAKI Kaishin (2nd year student, the Graduate School of Education)

Mr. SAKAI Koki (1st year student, the Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology)

Tongali Award (fifth-best)
Team's Name：TradeWind

Theme: Continuation of Japanese card game culture for the future

Mr. KOBAYASHI Kouei (3rd year student, the Faculty of Engineering)

Mr. OWADA Aoi (3rd year student, the Faculty of Engineering)

Supporter Award (BNV Award)
Team's Name：bybanana

Theme: Powdered banana revolution: maximize banana's potentials to spark social transformation

Mr. ITO Shion (3rd year student, the Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences)

Mr. SUGIMOTO Ryota (3rd year student, the Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences)

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