Head Office: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Nao Yanagisawa, which provides a development platform "JITERA" that automates the software development process, announces that it has been selected by Microsoft Corporation (Head Office: Washington, USA; hereinafter "Microsoft") (Head office: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan; President: Nao Yanagisawa), which provides the development platform "JITERA", has been selected for "Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub", a startup company support program offered by Microsoft Corporation (Head office: Washington, USA; hereinafter "Microsoft").

In response to the recent rapid evolution of AI technologies, especially generative AI, Jitera is developing a development automation platform using Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service and other generative AI services. In addition, Jitera is investing heavily in business improvement and value-added creation using generative AI.

By being selected for this program, we will receive various development environments and tools provided by Microsoft, as well as technical and business support. By utilizing this program of Microsoft, the industry leader in generative AI, we will build a software development automation platform and fundamentally restructure our business flow based on generative AI. As a global startup originating from Japan, we aim to capture a global share of the auto coding market.

# About Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub

It is a startup support program offered by Microsoft Corporation that is globally deployed in more than 140 countries.

The program aims to promote the growth of startups with innovative solutions.

Startups selected for the "Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub" will receive a variety of technical support and technical advisors, including Azure, as well as sales expansion support utilizing Microsoft's network.

[About Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub](https://www.microsoft.com/ja-jp/biz/startups/)

### Representative Director and CEO Profile

Nao Yanagisawa

Born in 1994. Founded a software development company while a student at Keio University. Engaged in development work mainly for fast-growing startups that achieved large IPOs and M&As.

Joined Recruit Holdings as a new graduate and was in charge of SUUMO development.

In 2017, he founded Jitera Inc. He developed the development automation platform "Jitera" after gaining inspiration for coding efficiency while experiencing a wide range of product development phases, including fast-growing startups, pre- and post-IPO, and 100 billion yen in sales.

### About Jitera

With the mission of "creating the next era of software development," Jitera develops "JITERA," a development platform that automates the software development process, and provides development and DX support using "JITERA.

The company has a former director of a prime TSE-listed company, a startup founder CTO with M&A experience, engineers with committed experience in Ruby on Rails and TypeScript, and members with management experience at a Fortune 500 company. With more than 80% of our staff being non-Japanese, we have a global and high-level talent pool, and with over 10,000 followers on LinkedIn, we have overwhelming recognition in the global recruitment market among seed startups.

### Company

Company Name : Jitera Inc.
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Headquarters : 1-28-2 Shoto, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
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Representative ：Representative Director, Nao Yanagisawa
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Business : Development of software development platform "JITERA", DX support

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Head Office: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Nao Yanagisawa, which provides a development platform "JITERA" that automates the software development process, announces that it has been selected by Microsoft Corporation (Head Office: Was...

Jitera Inc. selected for Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub, Microsoft's startup support program