Kimaru AI graduates from the INTLOOP Ventures Accelerator with the Excellence Award

Kimaru is excited to announce that we have graduated from the INTLOOP Ventures Accelerator and received the program’s Excellence Award. The recognition follows a summer of hands-on collaboration with INTLOOP’s team to shape co-creation themes around our Decision Intelligence Agents for inventory, pricing, and supply chain decisions.

From 650+ applicants to the final four

The accelerator’s selection funnel was highly competitive. As shown in the program flow slide, the track progressed as follows:

Sourcing of 650+ AI startups
Document screening to 40 companies
Pitch selection to 20 companies
Mid-program review to 7 teams
Final results and collaboration pitch with 4 graduating startups, including Kimaru

What the INTLOOP collaboration means

INTLOOP’s accelerator is structured for co-creation with enterprise customers. The program moves from idea exploration to PoC consideration and presentation of concrete collaboration plans. For Kimaru, this work focused on how our Decision Intelligence Agents can deliver measurable results in areas such as:

Inventory optimization and safety stock
Markdown and pricing optimization
Logistics and cross-company decision coordination

Why this matters

External validation – Independent reviewers advanced Kimaru at each stage and awarded 優秀賞 at graduation.
Enterprise access – Collaboration planning with INTLOOP creates direct pathways to customer PoCs in Japan.
Clear outcomes – The work centered on operational KPIs that matter to CFO and COO teams: cash release from working capital, stockout reduction, and margin protection.

What’s next

Post-program, we are moving into co-creation with INTLOOP and their clients. Immediate steps include finalizing PoC scopes, setting KPIs, and scheduling deployments that demonstrate business impact using Kimaru’s agents.

If you are a retailer, manufacturer, or logistics operator interested in piloting a governed decision layer that augments your team’s daily decisions on the right product, place, and price, we would be glad to connect.