100BANCH
Selection for the accelerator program and our activities there
- Selected for the 100BANCH accelerator program
Overview
Cocoreach Inc. was selected for the support program at 100BANCH, the hub for future creation in Shibuya (operated by the general incorporated association Hyakubanchi).
Activity log
We applied with the concept for LUMION and were accepted.
Our project page on the 100BANCH site100BANCH houses young people’s projects from all sorts of fields, not just technology but design, food, and city-making. As we made it one of our bases and kept iterating on LUMION’s development and testing, opinions began arriving from angles we never meet in everyday development. Feedback on the wearing experience and on running the device at live events, the kind you cannot get from fellow engineers, was especially valuable.
Then, at Nanananasai, the festival 100BANCH hosts, we ran LUMION’s first field trial. Being resident at this hub is what let us push the project through from acceptance to that trial without a break.
An environment with neighbors from other disciplines sharpens a product all by itself, because you get daily feedback that people close to your own specialty would never produce. For LUMION, it became less a place for development than a place that widened our field of view.