StartupsHK Blog
Archived content from StartupsHK, the community that helped build Hong Kong's startup ecosystem. Explore the history, interviews, and stories from the early days of the GBA tech scene.
Prelude to StartWareHK: Hacking the Hardware Startup Ecosystem in Hong Kong
Ambi Climate and StartWareHK co-founder Julian Lee [far right] provides this guest post that leads to next week’s very first start-up hardware meet-up in Hong Kong. To get more inspiration for the upc...
Li Ka-Shing Adds Synthetic Eggs to His Portfolio, Investing US $23M into this Silicon Valley Startup
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/LiKaShingScrambles-660x440-1.jpg) Not content with just having a piece of high-tech startups like Facebook, Priceline and Bitstrips – Li Ka-Shing is now getti...
Calling all Startups: Join the Hong Kong Pavilion at Startup Asia 2014 Singapore
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/startup-asia.png) StartupsHK founders Casey and Gene will be heading to Singapore on May 7-8 for TechInAsia’s bi-annual Startup Asia 2014 – and they’d like to...
Artificial Intelligence-Powered iPhone Calendar App ‘Tempo’ Launches in Hong Kong
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/TempoInsights.png)[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Tempo-Smart-CalendarHong-Kong.png) Tempo AI, makers of an artificial intelligence-powered producti...
5 Questions With Raymond Yip, Co-Founder and CEO of Shopline
After many years of living in New York City, Shopline co-founder and CEO Raymond Yip now calls Hong Kong his home. Prior to starting up Shopline, Raymond managed the engineering and delivery of softwa...
Prelude to StartWareHK: Why Do We Need a Hardware Startup Community in Hong Kong?
StartupsHK and StartWareHK co-founder Jon Buford, the creative vision behind Makible provides this guest post that leads to next week’s very first start-up hardware meet-up in Hong Kong. Over the past...
Prelude to StartWareHK: Why Do We Need a Hardware Startup Community in Hong Kong?
StartupsHK and StartWareHK co-founder Jon Buford, the creative vision behind Makible provides this guest post that leads to next week’s very first start-up hardware meet-up in Hong Kong. Over the past...
Google’s Empowering Young Entrepreneurs Program in Collaboration with CUHK Launches in Hong Kong
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Google1.jpg) Remember back in November with Google’s Eric Schmidt announced the Empowering Young Entrepreneurs (EYE) Program in collaboration with the Chinese...
Hong Kong-based Celebrity Social Network AliveNotDead.com Has Been Acquired by Mobile Communication Platform Mig33
Did you know that Hong Kong actor/producer/director Daniel Wu (吳彥祖) was a startup guy? The startup he co-founded Alivenotdead.com has been acquired by mig33 for an undisclosed sum on Wednesday. Founde...
Hong Kong-based Celebrity Social Network AliveNotDead.com Has Been Acquired by Mobile Communication Platform Mig33
Did you know that Hong Kong actor/producer/director Daniel Wu (吳彥祖) was a startup guy? The startup he co-founded Alivenotdead.com has been acquired by mig33 for an undisclosed sum on Wednesday. Founde...
Felix Lam: Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor and Startup Mentor Lends Advice to Hong Kong’s Ecosystem
Following our series of profiles about Hong Kong’s movers and shakers, we’d like to introduce Felix Lam – serial entrepreneur, angel investor, startup mentor and managing director of Red Chapel Adviso...
UX-Men Monthly: Stop Wasting Your User’s Time on Your Website or App
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/bart.gif) “A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.” –Jef Raskin, Creator of Apple’s Macintosh Are your...
2 Days Left To Apply For the JFDI.Asia Accelerator Program
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/image2.jpg) This is a guest post from Ray Wu, accelerator program manager at JFDI. JFDI’s current application is open and we are looking for early stage found...
Maventus Launches MavSocial, a Cloud-Based Platform to Help Businesses Keep Pace with Social Media Marketing
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Screen-01-Homepage.jpg) Maventus, an American-operated social media software company with a Hong Kong office, has launched a new cloud-based social media plat...
5 Questions with Saral Kochar, Co-Founder and CEO of Techpacker
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/saral-image.jpg) Saral Kochar graduated from London College of Fashion with a degree in product design and development and has worked with the likes of Li & F...
Hong Kong Hardware Startups Prepare for StartWare HK Meet-up on March 5th at WYND
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/startware.jpg) Are you a hardware startup looking for a home? Three of Hong Kong’s most active founders in the space have joined forces to create StartWare – ...
StartupsHK Founders Start Up Monthly “Office Hours” Mentoring Sessions
StartupsHK co-founders Gene Soo and Casey Lau are featured in this month’s Capital Entrepreneur magazine talking about the startup scene in Hong Kong on how it started and where it’s going. One of the...
Startup Funding Love: The Hong Kong Startups That Secured Investments
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Grumpy.png) Happy Valentine’s Day startups – we did a roundup of some of our favourite startups that received some love from investors over the past 12 months...
Watch Startup Saturday: Crowdfunding 2014 Hong Kong Panels on YouTube
Just in case you weren’t able to make it our to theStartup Saturday 2014 Crowdfunding event we hosted a couple weeks back, we wanted to forever immortalize those great moments and ideas in video. Here...
Watch Startup Saturday: Crowdfunding 2014 Hong Kong Panels on YouTube
Just in case you weren’t able to make it our to theStartup Saturday 2014 Crowdfunding event we hosted a couple weeks back, we wanted to forever immortalize those great moments and ideas in video. Here...