We’ve now had some time to reflect on what the first-ever hybrid Latitude59 actually was. This blog post looks back on how this year’s Latitude59 was organised. 

Everyone who works at VNTRS – developers, data scientists, growth hackers, and fundraisers, owns a part of the equity fund by investing their salary in the investment fund. This is a great opportunity to get involved in investments, share risks and this also means that they are in the same boat as founders & startups – they want them to succeed as much as they do.

Kyoto has a strong image as a tourist city, but actually it is one of Japan’s leading manufacturing cities, with the long history of traditional industries that have been inherited over the years. There are located many leading global companies such as Kyocera, Shimadzu, Murata, Nintendo, and so on.