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.
Betatron wraps up cohort 2 and is accepting applications for cohort 3
Betatron recently held it’s Demo Day for their seven startups in cohort2 on Thursday 25th January. The turnout was impressive with 360 event registrations and a high-quality audience with most of Hong...
East Meets West brings the best of Asia and the US together in Hawaii on Feb 1-2
2018 is going to be an amazing year for tech and Blue Startups are happy to be kicking it all off in February in Hawaii with EAST MEETS WEST 2018. Our co-founder Casey Lau is co-hosting this event and...
Betatron’s Demo Day for Cohort 2 is on January 25
Betatron is unleashing their second batch of startups onto the world and you can get an exclusive look at these teams on January 25th! What is demo day? It’s a private, invitation-only event where the...
Brinc Secures Capital through Artesian Venture Partners
This is a guest post by Brinc founder and CEO Manav Gupta. We don’t usually re-post articles but this one sums it up what Brinc is doing pretty clearly – so, take it away Manav: We are excited to anno...
The Silicon Dragon Awards Roars Back to Hong Kong on Nov 16
Silicon Dragon returns next week to present its annual program in Hong Kong: Best Deal Top VC Top Founder Plus A VC Panel Discussing Deals, Tech, Valuations, IPOs, Venture Investor Panel, Tech Chats w...
Connect with Top Chinese E-Commerce Amazon FBA Sellers
Curious what is happening in the Chinese e-commerce world, specifically with Amazon FBA? Over the years, more and more Chinese factories and trading companies have been selling on Amazon, and have gro...
Hong Kong’s Klook Raises US$60 million Series C Financing to Go Global
We remember back when the first request for StartupsHK to cover a new travel startup called Klook came in. Just look at them now! Klook announced today that it has completed a near US$60 million Serie...
Looking to Raise Money for your Startup? Join the StartupsHK Investor Introductions Network
As we build our network in Hong Kong and around the world we are looking to make meaningful introductions to startups at the point in their lives when they need to raise capital to build out their tec...
Klook and StartupsHK Offers ‘Welcome to Hong Kong’ Package for RISE Attendees: SIM Cards, WiFi and Airport Express Tickets!
Next week, Hong Kong will usher in one of the biggest tech conferences for startups, welcoming over 15,000 attendees from 60+ countries all over the world. Produced by the team behind Web Summit, Euro...
RISE is Not Just a Tech Conference; it’s All About the Networking on the Ferry, Yum Cha and More!
Isn’t a technology conference featuring ‘startups’ also just listening to seminars or exchanging a few name cards? Having chatted with Casey Lau, Head of Asia of RISE, we realised that RISE is not onl...
Radix’s Startup League Supports 5 Startups with FREE Alpha Stand at the RISE Conference in Hong Kong
The Startup League, a startup-support program by a domain name registry Radix, is offering 5 FREE Alpha Stands at the RISE Conference in Hong Kong this year. The Startup League, a program for startups...
WebConf.asia: a New Tech Conference in Hong Kong Kicks off on June 3
Hong Kong is becoming a conference haven for startups and the tech industry. With events like RISE, Internet of Life, StartMeUp Festival, UX Hong Kong, Cross Border Summit – the city is primed to be a...
3 Hong Kong Startup Podcasts to Add to Your Playlist
Podcasts are making a big resurgence these days with massive amounts of listeners tuning in while traveling or at the gym. Multitasking at its best! While we love podcasts like Recode Decode, The Tim ...
Doing Cross-Border E-commerce? Go Both Ways and Check Out the Cross Border Summit
Buying from Chinese factories and selling overseas? Or, even better – taking foreign products and selling into the Chinese market? Whichever way you’re going – the Cross Border Summit is the place you...
Hong Kong’s Annual “StartMeUpHK” Festival Returns January 2017
Upfront we’d like to clarify, this site you are reading is called “StartupsHK.” The InvestHK startup initiative is called “StartMeUpHK.” Two similar sounding but totally different things run by differ...
5 Hong Kong Logistics Startups to Keep an Eye On in 2017
StartupsHK co-founder Casey Lau always advises new entrepreneurs to focus on one of the 3 pillars of Hong Kong – finance, property and logistics – when choosing a vertical to concentrate on, if they w...
Betatron – Hong Kong’s newest accelerator coming in February [deadline for application: this Friday 16th December 9pm]
Betatron team Application deadline: countdown Betatronis Hong Kong’s newest accelerator programme providing both funding and hands-on mentorship to help optimize and scale startups. The programme will...
We are HK Founders: Simon Loong of WeLab
Simon Loong is Founder and CEO of WeLab. Simon graduated from Stanford Graduate School of Business in Master of Science in Management prior to that he also became a Certified Public Accountant. This y...
We Are HK Founders: Paul Tomes of Passkit
Paul Tomes, Co-Founder and CEO of PassKit, grew up in sunny Bournemouth, England. After graduating as an Engineer has been working in 5 countries. He has been living in Hong Kong for 11 years now. Bef...
We Are HK Founders: Norma Chu of DayDayCook
Norma Chu was born and raised in Hong Kong and now is founder and CEO of the Hong Kong-based startup DayDayCook. She grew up in Seattle and graduated from University of Washington. Before going into t...