See the original story in Japanese. HackOsaka 2015, held earlier this month in Osaka, featured a pitch contest where 10 startups pitched their services and products. The event was hosted by Osaka Innovation Hub (OIH) and Osaka Economic Strategy Bureau. I would like to introduce prize winners and other presenting startups. Judges for the competition are: Don Burton (Managing director, Techstars) Tim Romero (Entrepreneur, Investor, Podcaster, and Writer) Airi Horie (CEO, Women’s Startup Lab) Khailee Ng (Managing Partner, 500 Startups) Allen Miner (Chairman, SunBridge Global Ventures) See also: Translation app Waygo wins HackOsaka pitch contest Gold Prize winner (Hack Osaka Award winner): mClinica (Manila, the Philippines) Supplementary prizes: 500,000 yen in cash, 50,000 Bonus Miles for each of 3 persons (presented by by Japan Airlines), Amazon Kindle (presented by Amazon Web Services) mClinica CEO Frouk Meralli is originally from Canada but now based out of Manila, the Philippines. Conventional independent drugstores in the Philippines are not organized with each others, and have neither POS facility nor internet connectivity. So pharmaceutical companies have no access to drugstores for marketing purposes or obtaining sales statistics. mClinica gives users a discount when buying drugs at a drugstore, in exchange for giving their contact … Continue reading Philippine health startup mClinica wins this year’s HackOsaka Award