Founder of IT startups bitgrit and DataGains, he is passionate about building communities for engineers in the AI, blockchain, and cryptocurrency fields. I'm highly motivated to discover how to make the most of the latest technology to help IT engineers. After gaining experience as a patent engineer at the Intellectual Property and Legal Affairs Division of Canon Inc., Kariya Mukinawa founded bitgrit in Japan in 2017. Bitgrit strives to democratize AI through the implementation of an AI marketplace and currently manages over 30,000 data communities. scientists. Recognizing the value and importance of data at bitgrit, he founded DataGathering in Japan in 2019 to restore data sovereignty to individuals and enable the use of data based on the principle of self-sovereign identity. In 2021, after bitgrit was selected for the Hub71 cohort 2021, the company moved to ADGM. After being selected for UC Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator 2021, DataGathering moved its base to Singapore.