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TOY8 Screening is the world’s first digital developmental screening for children three to five years old. Children can enjoy a 20 minute game, and paired with their parent’s questionnaire, it can measure their Gross Motor, Fine Motor, Cognitive, Speech & Language, and Social / Adaptive Behavior to detect and report any unusual attribution of developmental delay.
Shun Matsuzaka
Co-founder, Chief Creative Officer
Shun Matsuzaka
Co-founder, Chief Creative Officer
Shun is a co-founder of TOY EIGHT, AI-backed health and education company from Japan that specialises in innovative solutions for child development. Aside from being a regular speaker and jury member at international conferences and awards, Shun has been recognized and rewarded by Spikes Asia, the New York Festivals iF Design Award, and the Internationalist Awards.
Maika Muraguchi
Communications and Assessment Programme Director
Maika Muraguchi
Communications and Assessment Programme Director
After 15 years experience as a strategic planner in the advertising and communications field, her passion for education led Maika to join TOYEIGHT. As a mother of two boys, she hopes to contribute to a future where each child is empowered to find and nurture their own strengths and talents. Leads assessment programme development such as research collaborations, as well as marketing communications.
Masaki Ishibashi
Co-Founder, CEO
Masaki Ishibashi
Co-Founder, CEO
Entrepreneur and Founder CEO of TOYEIGHT Holdings. After his corporate career as bureau chief of business news wire, Masaki had joined a consulting firm and successfully exported, developed, modified, and fine tuned various Japanese business including but not limited to fashion, beauty, entertainment, and education business in Hong Kong, Macau, Guangdong in China, Singapore and Malaysia. He is a business advisor for JETRO Kuala Lumpur
