company

MissionSustainable industry Sustainable life

Lexpluss aims to solve problems by creating sustainability through the use of automation and other technologies.
As a first step, we will support the creation of new added value for industry by reducing the workload and improving the safety of essential workers onsite in the logistics and manufacturing industries.

History

2020

Founded in Kawasaki, Kanagawa in March 2020

2021

March
- Fundrasing from Incubate Fund, SOSV, and others
- Awarded Special Jury Prize at "HiKYAKU LABO" sponsored by Sagawa Express Co.

May
- Selected for HAX Shenzhen, the world's largest hardware accelerator program

Novemember
- Pre-Series A financing from Logistics Innovation Fund, Incubate Fund and others

2022

May
- Open Source Industrial Robotics Program launched
- Official release of "Hybrid-AMR" autonomous transfer robot

AND MORE...

Managers

CEO

Masaya Aso

After graduating from the university of Manchester in England, he worked for Bosch Corporation in Japan and Germany on projects related to automated driving. As the Japanese technical director of the world's first Level 4 automated driving system, "Automated Valet Parking System", he was involved in the introduction of the system to the Japanese market and the development of unmanned trucks for logistics. He had been the president of Deep4Drive, the largest voluntary mobility development organization in Japan, and founded LexxPluss in March 2020.

BOD

Rizo Itakura

Responsible for business strategy in South America and North America at Nippon Express Co. While leading M&A to launch a pharmaceutical logistics business and PMI to strengthen logistics functions in the U.S., he was also involved in promoting open innovation with U.S. startups. Later, he wanted to revolutionize logistics with technology, and led operations of automated dispatch services at Amazon Japan, Delivery Hero Japan, and DiDi Food Japan. He joined LexxPluss in July 2022.