Echo AI Incubator Cohort 1 applications　·　2026.9.25 – 10.31　·　30 places Incubator: apply by 10.31 Application guidelines
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Cohort 1 application

Log in with your email address, then tell us about your team, business, progress and more. What you enter is saved automatically as a draft. The deadline is Sat, October 31, 2026, 23:59 JST, and we'll let you know the result by [Date].

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Applications 2026.9.25 – 10.31

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Echo AI Incubator Cohort 1

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Echo AI Incubator · Cohort 1

Application form

Deadline: Sat 2026.10.31, 23:59 JST

Applications 2026.9.25 – 10.31

One page, 10 sections. What you enter is saved automatically as a draft, so you can come back and continue later.

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01/09

Current stage

The stage closest to where you are nowRequired

What Echo helps you with depends on your stage.

No business yet?

02/09

About you

Email address

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Current roleRequired

ProfileRequired

Enter at least one of X, GitHub or LinkedIn.

x.com/
github.com/
linkedin.com/in/

03/09

Team

You can submit once every team member's profile is complete.

Members

[Full name]You (team lead)

Profile incompleteComplete your profile

0 / 500 characters

Are you looking for co-founders or teammates?Optional

Cohort 1 has 30 places.

04/09

Your track record

Up to 1,000 characters. Include concrete numbers or results if you have them.

For example: how many people used something you built, a hackathon or contest result, or what you changed at work using AI. It doesn't have to be related to your business.

0 / 1,000 characters

05/09

About your business

If you're applying as an FDE, tell us what you've built so far and what you want to be able to do a year from now.

Whose problem, what problem, and how you solve it.
e.g. An AI agent that automates invoice processing for small businesses

0 / 200 characters

0 / 750 characters

It doesn't need to be precise. Give us your current estimate.

0 / 750 characters

Bullet points are fine.

0 / 750 characters

Describe where you want to be a year from now in concrete terms: users, revenue, fundraising and so on.

0 / 500 characters

06/09

Progress and tech

Tell us what you've built, who has tried it, and what you've learned.

0 / 750 characters

e.g. Lead: 6 months (3 months full time); engineer: 2 months (part time)

0 / 500 characters

Languages and frameworks, the models you use, AI coding tools, and so on.

0 / 500 characters

Do you have users?Required
Do you have revenue?Required

07/09

Company and funding

Echo takes no equity. We ask only to decide what support fits you.

Have you incorporated a company?Required

Any country counts, including companies set up outside Japan.

Have you ever received investment?Required
Are you raising money now?Required

08/09

Support you want and how you found us

Support you want (choose any)Optional
How you heard about Echo (choose any)Optional

09/09

Consent

We ask about the two items separately.

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