Founder of IT startups bitgrit and DataGateway, he is passionate about building communities for engineers in the fields of AI, blockchain, and cryptocurrency. He is highly motivated to discover ways to maximize the use of the latest technologies to help IT engineers. Kaoriya Mukonawa founded bitgrit in Japan in 2017 after gaining experience as a patent engineer in the Intellectual Property and Legal Division of Canon Inc. bitgrit strives to democratize AI by enabling an AI marketplace and currently manages a community of over 30,000 data The company is a member of the Japanese Association of Scientists. Recognizing the value and importance of data at bitgrit, he founded DataGateway in Japan in 2019 to return data sovereignty to the individual and enable the use of data based on the principle of self-sovereign identity. In 2021, following bitgrit's selection for the Hub71 cohort 2021, the company moved to ADGM. After being selected for the UC Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator 2021, DataGateway moved to Singapore.