Koki Shimada, CEO of SyntheticGestalt, has received the "Director general of small and medium enterprise agency" award (“中小企業庁長官賞” in Japanese) at the Japan Venture Awards (hereinafter “JVA”) ceremony, held at Toranomon-hills, Tokyo, in recognition of the outstanding work done at SyntheticGestalt.
JVA is an annual award that is organized by Japan’s Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, and sponsored by the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, the Japan Finance Corporation, and the Nikkei, amongst others. It awards outstanding managers of companies that are expected to achieve high growth, or companies that conduct distinctive local businesses, as role models for startups and ventures. Companies recognized through the JVA are widely introduced through various media outlets, awards ceremonies and seminar events.
SyntheticGestalt, a London and Tokyo based AI R&D Company, has the mission of developing an automatic system to make valuable discoveries en masse. Receiving support from UK and Japanese government organizations and academia, it focuses on the life science sector, developing machine learning models that make transformative discoveries such as novel drug candidate compounds, enzymes, and novel pathways to produce valuable molecules.