This participation falls below the strategic partnership between ITIDA and JICA throughout the framework of Undertaking NINJA (Subsequent Innovation with Japan), which targets to strengthen startups in increasing into global markets through connecting them with world innovation networks and enabling get right of entry to to high quality funding alternatives.
Egypt is collaborating for the primary time with a devoted pavilion that includes 10 generation startups at SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026, held in Tokyo, Japan, from April 27 to 29, 2026.
The participation comes as a part of an respectable delegation led through the Data Era Business Construction Company (ITIDA), in collaboration with the Japan Global Cooperation Company (JICA), reflecting the rising world presence of Egypt’s generation startups.
The Egyptian pavilion gained an respectable consult with from H.E. Ambassador Ragui ElEtreby, Egypt’s Ambassador to Japan, and Ms. Yuriko Koike, Governor of Tokyo, highlighting the significance of Egypt’s participation on the tournament.
This participation falls below the strategic partnership between ITIDA and JICA throughout the framework of Undertaking NINJA (Subsequent Innovation with Japan), which targets to strengthen startups in increasing into global markets through connecting them with world innovation networks and enabling get right of entry to to high quality funding alternatives. The initiative contributes to positioning Egypt as a key hub for generation, virtual products and services and innovation-driven entrepreneurship.
Egyptian startups are collaborating within the exhibition’s respectable program, attractive in B2B conferences and funding classes with Eastern and global buyers, challenge capital corporations, and fiscal establishments. Those engagements are anticipated to foster long-term strategic partnerships and give a boost to financial and technological collaboration between Egypt and Japan.
“Egypt’s first-ever participation with a dedicated tech startup pavilion at SusHi Tech Tokyo marks a significant step in expanding Egyptian startups’ access to Asian markets—particularly Japan, one of the world’s most advanced and high-value markets. Through this initiative, we aim to directly connect innovative Egyptian tech startups with global investors and partners, enabling them to showcase their solutions, unlock new growth opportunities, and accelerate their global expansion, while reinforcing Egypt’s position as a global hub for digital innovation and technology exports.”
– Eng. Ahmed Elzaher, CEO, ITIDA
Taking part Egyptian Tech Startups Throughout Key Prime-Expansion Sectors
The collaborating startups constitute a various vary of high-impact sectors, together with e-commerce, healthcare, logistics, production, power, and cybersecurity, and come with:
Breadfast: A handy guide a rough-commerce platform turning in on a regular basis necessities thru a tech-enabled retail and provide chain community.
Chefaa: An AI-powered platform connecting sufferers with pharmacies and healthcare suppliers to reinforce get right of entry to to drugs.
Rology: A teleradiology platform turning in AI-enabled radiology products and services and experiences.
Trella: A knowledge-driven logistics platform connecting shippers with truck homeowners thru a virtual market.
NoorNation: A cleantech corporate providing solar power and water control answers for sustainable agriculture.
SURGiA / DentaCarts: A virtual platform for clinical provide chain control, bettering traceability and fighting counterfeit merchandise.
Pharmacy Marts: A platform connecting pharmacies with vendors and producers, providing built-in operational and fiscal answers.
Buguard: A cybersecurity corporate offering complex danger detection and vulnerability evaluation answers.
MTOR: A virtual platform connecting customers with relied on automotive upkeep carrier suppliers.
INDOS: An AI-powered production platform optimizing operations and productiveness.
The startups have been decided on thru a specialised committee comprising representatives from ITIDA and JICA, at the side of Eastern challenge capital corporations, in response to standards together with scalability, innovation, funding readiness, and alignment with Eastern marketplace wishes.
World Promotion of Egypt’s Startup Ecosystem
At the sidelines of the development, Startup Genome, in collaboration with JICA and ITIDA, launched the “Egypt Startup Ecosystem Report”, aimed toward showcasing Egypt’s entrepreneurial panorama globally, highlighting its aggressive benefits, and supporting overseas funding enchantment.
The document highlights Egypt’s all of a sudden rising startup ecosystem, with over 1,500 lively startups, greater than 15 Project Capital (VC) and Company Project Capital (CVC) finances, and over $2.1 billion raised in VC investment between 2020 and 2025. It additionally notes general startup go out values attaining $7.4 billion, and greater than 50 exits between 2020–2025, reflecting the ecosystem’s expanding adulthood.
The reported emphasised that Egypt is continuously rising as a hub for complex generation innovation, with rising strengths in deep tech, fintech, semiconductors, and Arabic-language synthetic intelligence. This momentum is underpinned through a big and extremely professional STEM ability base, along expanding passion from regional and world buyers, positioning the rustic to play a number one position in growing next-generation virtual answers.
On the similar time, Egypt continues to place itself as a regional gateway ecosystem for startups increasing into the Gulf and African markets, supported through a aggressive ability pool and cost-efficient operational functions.
A Main Innovation Platform in Asia
SusHi Tech Tokyo (Sustainable Prime Town Tech) is one in every of Asia’s main innovation and generation occasions, bringing in combination startups, buyers, world firms, policymakers, and executive representatives to foster global collaboration and broaden answers for sustainable and effective towns. The 2026 version options the participation of roughly 700 startups from world wide.
