Dr Tomy Kamada, Serial DeepTech Entrepreneur
CEO and President, LPIXEL Inc.
CEO and Founder of TomyK Ltd.
Co-Founder, ACCESS Co., Ltd.
Profile
Dr. Kamada is co-founder of ACCESS Co., Ltd. (listed in Tokyo Stock Exchange: 4813),
a global software company for mobile devices and various information appliances. Dr. Kamada received a Doctorate in
Computer Science from the University of Tokyo. He is also renowned as the inventor of “Compact HTML”
for mobile phones, enabling successful mobile Internet services in the early days of the Internet.
ACCESS went to IPO in 2001. Then, he extended their business globally with acquiring PalmSource Inc. (PalmOS company) and some other startups. After retiring from ACCESS, in 2012, Dr. Kamada founded “TomyK Ltd.” – Startup Booster, which actively supports young innovative
startups, especially in the areas of Robotics and AI, Human Augmentation, Biotechnology, Medical & Life Science, Space, and other frontier technologies. He is the author of the book “Tech Startups and Entrepreneurs Create the Future” (in Japanese, University Tokyo Press, 2017) and gives many lectures on entrepreneurship. Kamada has been serving as the representative director of LPIXEL since 2020.
“An algorithm for drawing general undirected graphs”, Information processing letters, 1989
(Kamada-Kawai Algorithm)
Publication of Doctoral Thesis
“Visualizing Abstract Objects and Relations”, World Scientific, 1989
“Compact HTML for Small Information Appliances”, W3C, 1998
“Development of the World’s First Web Browser for Mobile Phones”,
IEICE Communication Society – Global Newsletter, Vol.43, No.4, pp.2-7, Dec. 2019
TomyK supporting startups
Interviews and Articles
Enough already! Why Japan needs no more venture capital…
Beacon Reports (2016. 11. 14)
- Large Enterprises Need to Jump on Startup Bandwagon and Create Innovation
(VEC YEARBOOK 2018, Annual Report on Japanese Startup Businesses,
I. Analysis: pp. 58-64, Venture Enterprise Center, Japan, April 2019)
