Business ExpandingVirufy, developing a smartphone app to analyze COVID-19, flu, and pneumonia infections using AI, establishes an office in Fukuoka

The company, established in 2020 in the US, develops a smartphone app to analyze breathing and cough sounds, recorded on smartphones using AI/machine learning, to detect COVID-19 patterns. The founder and CEO/CTO Mr. Khanzada, who has lived in Fukui in the past, wanted to further develop the company's app to detect pneumonia in elderly patients while promoting citizen volunteer activities centered around a non-profit organization in his second home, Japan. He established a General Incorporated Association, Virufy Fukuoka, in Fukuoka in November 2024.

JETRO's Invest Japan Business Support Center (IBSC) assisted the company by offering consultation on corporate establishment including registration and visas, introducing administrative scriveners, arranging meetings with local governments, facilitating business matching, and providing market information.