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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
