Japan medical startups need more than tech to break into US: VC executive

'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.

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