Share Sotaro Ohara had toyed with the idea of becoming an entrepreneur while working as an engineer at a Japanese manufacturing giant in the early 2010s. But it was a 2015 reunion with his mentor from his University of Tokyo laboratory that prompted him to actually follow this dream and launch a business that developed a cutting-edge wireless communication technology for the internet of things (IoT), where devices, appliances, sensors and other such “things” are connected to the worldwide computer network. At that time, Ohara’s mentor, Makoto Suzuki, was researching a technology called concurrent transmission flooding at the laboratory headed by Professor Hiroyuki Morikawa of the Graduate School of Engineering. The technology allows transmission of identical data simultaneously over multiple devices, operating much like a bucket brigade, at high speed and with less energy, overcoming many of the shortfalls associated with conventional transmission technology.