AtoJ Takes 2nd Place Overall in ICC Kyoto 2026 Guardian Award
A pitch built around ODR as a social mechanism, not product features, drew the Differentiation/Originality category win from roughly 90 judges, which is a measure of how the room reads positioning over demo in an 8-minute slot.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
AtoJ Inc. placed 2nd overall in the Guardian Award, an inter-company presentation competition at the Industry Co-Creation Summit KYOTO 2026, held in Kyoto City on September 1 and 2. Money Forward took 1st overall with 29.929 points; AtoJ scored 28.581. AtoJ also won 1st in the Differentiation/Originality category and placed 2nd in Adoption Benefits/ROI and Best Impression.
AtoJ competed as one of seven exhibiting sponsor companies, alongside Money Forward, PIVOT, Uzabase, UPSIDER, Rib Consulting, and Spir. Each company gave an 8-minute presentation at its own booth to about 90 visiting judges, including past Catapult speakers and executives, and the overall ranking came from the total of average scores across four categories.
AtoJ holds a Minister of Justice certification as an alternative dispute resolution business operator, number 176, and runs the ODR service OneNegotiation. Its entry for the Guardian Award came from a 2nd-place finish in the Startup Catapult at ICC FUKUOKA 2026 in March 2026, which carried the participation slot as a supplementary prize.
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