SERVICES
Midtown'sServices
Three specialized domains in the space industry — supporting you from strategy through execution.
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Space Business Consulting
The rapidly expanding space business
Space has evolved from a state-led domain into a new private-sector business frontier. As the miniaturization and sophistication of rockets and satellites drive down costs, space technology is converging with industries such as communications, logistics, and defense, increasing its value as technology that supports everyday life. Our expert team, with deep knowledge of the space sector, supports your new market entry, sustainable growth, and next leap forward.
New Business Development Consulting
For companies considering entry into the space business or developing new ventures, we provide end-to-end support — from market research through business planning, feasibility studies, and launch.
Management Consulting
For companies already active in the space sector, we provide comprehensive support for further growth and competitiveness — including strategy formulation and execution, alliance building, fundraising, organizational development, and promotion.
Key Success Factors in Space Business
Long-term Business Vision
Space technology, infrastructure-building, and market maturity all take time — a long-term business perspective is essential.
First-mover Advantage Through Business Assets
Maximize your existing business assets to accumulate technology and track record, and establish a customer base and business infrastructure early.
Multi-stakeholder Collaboration
In the high-cost, high-risk space sector — where continuous innovation is required — multi-stakeholder collaboration with government, local authorities, and other companies is essential.
Midtown's Services
Strategic Back-casting from Your Future Vision
We map your 2030–2040 vision, then work backward to formulate and execute the roadmap to achieve it.
Establishing Decisive First-mover Competitive Advantage
We accurately assess customer needs and the competitive landscape, then formulate and execute strategies to maximize first-mover benefits and establish overwhelming competitive advantages.
Government Partnership & Alliance Building
We build and advance collaboration with government and local authorities — anticipating policy support and subsidies — alongside inter-company alliances that fully leverage your technologies and business resources.
How We Work
Market Research & Theme Definition
Issue Mapping & Hypothesis Building
Research, Interviews & Analysis
Strategy & Plan Formulation
Execution
Market Research & Theme Definition
Issue Mapping & Hypothesis Building
Research, Interviews & Analysis
Strategy & Plan Formulation
Execution
Selected Track Record
Midtown has supported new business development and co-creation across a wide range of sectors including manufacturing, space, environment/energy, AI×healthcare, HR tech, and industry-academia collaboration.
Research
- ·Market research across the space business (major corporations, manufacturing)
- ·Market research and opportunity discovery for new business themes
- ·Research and planning support for university/research partnerships and accelerators
Planning
- ·New business strategy, business plans, and feasibility studies
- ·Business hypothesis design in space, environment/energy, AI×healthcare
- ·Planning and facilitation for industry-academia consortia and new ventures
Execution
- ·Alliance building with space startups, universities, and corporations
- ·Fundraising and business advancement support (multiple space startups)
- ·Organizational development, business development, and program launch support
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Industry-Academia Collaboration
We collaborate with universities and research institutions to give lectures, participate in acceleration programs, conduct joint research, and support the social implementation of research outcomes.
Through industry-academia collaboration, we contribute to the promotion of innovation and the creation and development of new industries.
University of Tokyo — Space Resources Hub
Official name: Space Resources Development Hub for Lunar Development (lead institution)
Centered on the "Space Resources Center (tentative)" to be established at the University of Tokyo, this hub links universities and private companies to develop and demonstrate — from exploration and collection through extraction, storage, and utilization — water and metal resources on the Moon and asteroids.
Tokyo Tech — Mars SX Hub
Official name: Environmental Sensor and Small Payload Development Hub for the Era of Crewed Mars Missions (lead type)
Under JAXA's Space Strategy Fund "SX-CRANE," Midtown Inc. has been selected as a partner institution for the hub led by Tokyo Institute of Science (Tokyo Tech).
Tokyo Tech — Medical SX Hub
Official name: Space-Integrated Medical and Habitat Development Hub (lead type)
Under JAXA's Space Strategy Fund "SX-CRANE," Midtown Inc. has been selected as a partner institution for the medical and habitat hub led by Tokyo Tech.
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Investment
To create new industries and realize our vision of “Regenerative Earth, Habitable Space,” we invest in deep tech startups.
We operate the Midtown Frontier Fund, focused on creating new industries in the deep tech sector. We make angel investments centered on seed-to-early-stage space startups.
Learn more about the Fund →