Where HydroBeetle has been, who backed it and what it took from each step. Every story lists its sources.
Funding Tokyo
HydroBeetle is one of 15 projects on the Seed track of TokyoTCP, Tokyo’s programme for deep-tech founders. Its GAP Fund has granted ¥1,000,000, which brings HydroBeetle’s funding to ¥2,300,000.
Programmes Silicon Valley, USA
HydroBeetle spent late summer on a JETRO course for student founders. It teaches one habit: build around the person who will use the thing.
Programmes Kenya
HydroBeetle joined a one-week UNIDO field programme in Kenya, built around visits, interviews and listening to the people a product is meant for.
Events Bangkok, Thailand
At the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development, water was one of the goals under review. HydroBeetle showed one of its collecting panels there.
Programmes Hongo, Tokyo
The programme gave HydroBeetle a place to work, machines to make parts with and ¥300,000. Its fourth prototype was built there.
Funding Hongo, Tokyo
The Soil Foundation picked four student projects at the University of Tokyo. HydroBeetle was one. It is HydroBeetle’s first funding, and it comes with three months of mentoring.
Events Belém, Brazil
As one of five finalist teams of ACTION 2025, HydroBeetle presented its water backpack at a climate and health session in the China Pavilion.
Recognition Hong Kong
HydroBeetle’s first result outside the lab. The competition asked students across Asia for ways to protect people’s health as the climate changes.
