Akio Kurata is the founder & CEO at EQUITY X LTD. at Level39 in London. EQUITY-X® offers Software as a Service and data for equity valuation so that you can gain holistic views of equities in each country and sector on a real-time basis for sourcing, financial reporting (mark-to-market) under IFRS9 and IRS409A and portfolio management. EQUITY-X® has deployed two independent financial models for double-checking and stress testing and unique technologies: the world's first machine learning search engine to help you pick up comparable companies and transactions (M&As and public offerings) and instantaneous generator of full valuation reports in PDF and CSV formats (including 50+ pages and 6,000+ data points). Prior to that, he worked for Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. and Rothschild Japan - Global Advisory Japan Co., Ltd. as an investment banker in Tokyo, Japan. He established EQUITY-X®, developed the prototype, got patents granted, received Tier 1 Entrepreneur Visa, moved to London to unlock the global potential, won the first prize at Startup Grind Europe 2017 powered by Google out of thousands of start-ups across Europe, signed license agreements with CMIC Holdings Co., Ltd. (2309: TYO), accounting firms and early adopters as well as the master data agreement with S&P Global in 2018 to feed real-time data via APIs and the providership agreement with BT Radianz for global secure data distribution via its high-grade extranet to which top-tier financial institutions are attached and raised £1.3 million from seed funds and high-net-worth individuals. He is looking for individual and institutional investors for further automation of regulatory compliance to enhance accuracy and transparency in capital markets. He holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Tokyo. He is a fellow at Salzburg Global Seminar.