SynchroLife Partners with Nagoya Grampus and Launches Local Restaurant Support Soccer Team Project Powered by Digital Transformation
Making SynchroLife’s winning pitch from the 2019 Nagoya Grampus x Startup Pitch a reality!
June 15, 2022 — PRESS RELEASE
GINKAN Inc., the managing company of the token economy based social restaurant review service SynchroLife, has announced a partnership with J League professional soccer team Nagoya Grampus. This is the start of a new project aimed at supporting and revitalizing Nagoya’s local restaurant businesses.
This project started in December 2019, when SynchroLife won the 2019 Nagoya Grampus x Startup Pitch competition.
Project Information
Nagoya Grampus Fans (SynchroLife Users) will earn points based on their spending at local restaurants that register as Nagoya Grampus partner restaurants.
Fans can redeem their points for Nagoya Grampus official merchandise or at over 57,000 businesses in Japan including major convenience stores, coffee shops, delivery services and more.
When Nagoya Grampus wins a game fans can enjoy point bonuses, so every win helps support local businesses. SynchroLife is helping fans discover and connect with local restaurants in fun and exciting ways.
Local Soccer Team Supporting Local Restaurants
The goal of this project is to help connect the soccer team Nagoya Grampus connect with and support local businesses and to help revitalize local restaurants.
Restaurants that join the project as Grampus Partner Restaurants will reach new customers through the project and will be able to use SynchroLife’s big data based promotion and customer relationship management tools, all risk free with only a 5% fee based on actual sales.
Nagoya Grampus fans who participate get the chance to discover and connect with local restaurants, and they can earn rewards just for dining out.
Restaurants benefit, fans benefit, and Nagoya Grampus also benefits — able to give back to the local community. It’s a mutually beneficial project for all sides involved.
The project launches this summer 2022.
Past Results — Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars of Sales at Local Restaurants, Successful Boost in Local Business
SynchroLife has already launched a similar project with another J League professional soccer team, Kawasaki Frontale. The Kawasaki Frontale “Meshiagale Kawasaki Project” was launched in October 2021. There has already been several hundreds of thousands of dollars of sales at local restaurants through the Meshigale Kawasaki Project, and SynchroLife has helped connect this soccer team with their local businesses.
Past Related News: SynchroLife x Kawasaki Frontale, Kawasaki Frontale Soccer Game Wins Help Support Local Kawasaki Restaurants with “Meshiagale Kawasaki” Project Launching October 24th, 2021
https://medium.com/synchrocoin/synchrolife-x-kawasaki-frontale-kawasaki-frontale-soccer-game-wins-help-support-local-kawasaki-329dc22756b1
Past Related News: SynchroLife Wins the 2019 Nagoya Grampus x Startup Pitch — Proposes Program to Give Back to Local Restaurants When Local Sports Team Wins
https://medium.com/synchrocoin/synchrolife-wins-the-2019-nagoya-grampus-x-startup-pitch-proposes-giving-back-to-local-7f9297fa07f4
Comment from GINKAN CEO Tomochika Kamiya
I am really excited to be bringing my proposal from 2019 to life. My hometown is in Aichi Prefecture, and as a child I often visited the Nagoya Grampus practice grounds and I grew up with Nagoya Grampus soccer. I have loved Nagoya Grampus my whole life. During the 2019 Nagoya Grampus x Startup Pitch event I learned that Nagoya Grampus was interested in giving back to local businesses and I am overjoyed that we connected for this project.
Although the pandemic has made it difficult for soccer fans to see games in person, I know there are still many passionate Nagoya Grampus fans. With our project fans can feel Nagoya Grampus close to home at local restaurants, even when they cannot go watch games in the stadium. And support of Nagoya Grampus will connect to support of local businesses more than ever before.
Our business model that allows local team wins to help local businesses and benefits the team, restaurants, and local fans is a business model that can be applied to not just soccer teams but other sports teams as well. I believe sports teams can give a lot back to local businesses and am excited to continue this project.
SynchroLife’s Future
SynchroLife currently has over 1,700 partner restaurants in Japan, and has continued to grow by over 400% even during the COVID-19 pandemic. SynchroLife’s vision is to digitalize the hidden value of the restaurant industry and become a bridge between people and restaurants worldwide, and as such SynchroLife has continued to aim at building a platform that can coexist with and support the restaurant industry even during the ongoing pandemic. In the future, SynchroLife will promote various business collaborations to help revitalize local economies and continue to support the world-class Japanese restaurant industry.
About SynchroLife
SynchroLife is a global restaurant discovery social media service (Web2) and the world’s first Eat to Earn (Web3) token economy based restaurant social review platform. Users earn score-based token rewards while dining out and posting restaurant reviews.
SynchroLife started in 2018 as the world’s first “Eat to Earn’’ service and currently has over 350,000 restaurant reviews. SynchroLife uses AI to analyze reviews to give personalized recommendations based on each user’s likes and dislikes and quickly guide users to great restaurants. Within the SynchroWallet users can manage the points they earn cashback from dining at partner restaurants, along with digital offers and membership cards. SynchroLife makes it fun to be a regular customer.
SynchroLife is currently available in over 155 countries and four languages (English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean). As SynchroLife grows it shares its value with users who have contributed through restaurant reviews and other actions, and it aims to be Asia’s top autonomous growing social restaurant review platform.
About GINKAN
- Company Name: GINKAN, Inc.
- Address: Shin-Yurakucho Building 11F, 1–12–1, Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100–0006
- Representative: CEO Tomochika Kamiya
- Established: December 2015
- Website: http://ginkan.jp/index_en.html
SynchroLife Mobile App
iPhone (For iPhone 5s and up, iOS 11.2 and up)
・https://itunes.apple.com/app/id557532449
Android (For Android 6.0 and up)
・https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.synchrolife
Learn More
・Official Website: https://www.synchrolife.io
・SynchroCoin Project Website: https://synchrolife.org/
・SynchroCoin Project Blog: https://medium.com/synchrocoin
・Partner Restaurant Website: https://business.synchrolife.jp/
・Telegram: https://t.me/synchrocoin
・Twitter: https://twitter.com/synchrocoin
・Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/synchrocoin
