2024年

We will be closed for the year-end and New Year holidays as follows：
Year-end and New Year holidays: December 30, 2024 (Monday) to January 3, 2025 (Friday)
We will be open for business from January 6, 2025 (Monday).
We will contact you after Monday, January 6, 2025 for any inquiries.
Thank you for your understanding.

We have received investment from “Shinkin-Yaramaika No.2 Investment Limited Liability Partnership (a.k.a. Yaramaika No.2 Fund)”, an investment fund established by Hamamatsu Iwata Shinkin Bank, and “Shinkin no Tsubasa No.2 Investment Limited Liability Partnership”, which is managed by Shinkin Capital, a subsidiary of Shinkin Central Bank.

S-Bridges　have been developing technology to extract 100% of the active ingredients contained in tea leaves, which will dramatically increase the extraction rate from the current 20% and, since it can be applied to plants other than tea leaves, has the potential to significantly improve food loss, which is considered a social problem.
It is also reported that S-Bridges was the only one in Japan to be selected for this year's subsidy project “Investment Acquisition Framework” by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).
The article also describes how the hard cell walls inside the tea leaves, which are insoluble in water, are crushed and separated repeatedly using a proprietary enzyme to extract proteins and other components.
The report also tells how the liquid component can be used to make supplements and concentrated powders, and how dietary fiber can be converted into paper products, plastic substitutes, bioethanol, and other products. This technology will provide a solution to the problem of CO2 emissions and disposal costs of tea leaves, which have been disposed of by incineration so far.
The article also includes comments from Nagato, CEO of the company, such as, “The starting point is our dream of making Shizuoka Prefecture a protein supply center,” and “We hope this will be a model for university-launched ventures to succeed in their business.

provided by Shizuoka Shimbun Company

S-Bridges was featured on the Yomiuri Shiｍbun（Shizuoka area）on Sunday, August 18,2024.
The article reported that S-Bridges has developed a technology to extract unused fiber and protein from used tea leaves and tea hulls, and is working on its practical application from next year. We paid a courtesy visit to Shizuoka Prefectural Government and Governor Suzuki on August 7, following our selection for the development support project (Go-Tech) by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. The article also includes comments from our CBO, Takashi Ikka (Associate Professor at Shizuoka University).

S-Bridges has been selected by the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency of Japan(SME) as a grant recipient of “R&D Support Project for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) with Growth Potential” in the fiscal year of 2024 (maximum grant amount: 300 million yen in total for 3 financial years).
Project Name:
Development of an effective utilization system for unused components of plant leaves
About Go-Tech Project
Name: R&D Support Project for Small and Medium Enterprise(SME) with Growth Potential
"Overview: Support SME’s R&D and its commercialization initiatives that collaborate with universities and public research organizations for three years at maximum.
Maximum grant of a support project: 300 million yen maximum in total for 3 financial years"
▼中小企業庁ウェブサイトhttps://www.chusho.meti.go.jp/support/innovation/2024/240624saitaku.html

On Tuesday, April 23, 2024, the Chunichi Shimbun published an article on S-Bridges. The article introduced in detail how S-Bridges' proprietary cell wall breaker technology "Cell Breaker" can extract components such as protein, dietary fiber, and sugar from tea leaves, etc., for use in products such as supplements, fertilizers, and alternative plastics. In the article, our CTO (Chief Technology Officer), Associate Professor Yoshihiko SANO of Shizuoka University's Faculty of Engineering, commented, "We would like to expand our business to energy and medical products in the future. （We want to create a revolution with plants. We also want to contribute to Shizuoka." The CBO (Chief Bioeconomy Officer), Takashi IKKA, Associate Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Shizuoka University, said, "Creating a cycle that reuses materials and energy will lead to new urban planning," and was featured in the article along with photos.

On Tuesday, March 5,2024, Shizuoka University and Hamamatsu Iwata Shinkin Bank held an award ceremony for researchers at Shizuoka University who have research series expected to develop from the perspective of industry-academic cooperation. Associate Professor Takashi IKKA received the "Shizuoka University Industry-Academic collaboration Encouragement Award." Takashi IKKA serves as our company's Chief Bioeconomy Officer （CBO）.

On Tuesday, March 5,2024, three companies, headquartered in Shizuoka Prefecture, Suzuyo Co., Ltd., TOKAI Venture Capital & Incubation Co., Ltd., and Okawara Manufacturing Co., Ltd, were published claiming to have invested in S-Bridges Co., Ltd., a startup company from Shizuoka University.
The reasons for each of the three companies' investments and the details of our company's business were listed.

We released a press release.