How Japan is healing from its overwork crisis through innovation
Japan has long suffered from a culture of overwork. The word 'karoshi' means 'death by overwork.' Now the country is taking critical steps to change this.
Grace Chang is the Founder/CEO of Kintsugi. Grace was previously in technical leadership roles at several Bay Area startups including a machine learning company specialized in signal processing for authentication. Grace has been interviewed by the New York Times, MIT Tech in Review, Techcrunch, Forbes, Gartner, The Hill, Financial Times, Crunchbase, Inc., Fierce Healthcare, and more on Kintsugi and its breakthrough technology in voice biomarkers. In addition to receiving multiple National Science Foundation Phase I and II awards for the development of novel AI technology, Kintsugi has been awarded Fierce Healthcare's Fierce 15 of 2023, Forbes AI 50 for North America and named Gartner's Cool Vendor for Responsible AI. Grace has raised $28M in funding, with the latest as a $20M Series A led by Insight Partners.