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.
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/photo-1.jpg) Wai-Lun Hong the founder and CEO of recently funded SnapTee went to the annual South by Southwest event in Austin, Texas and he was able to send ...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/acceleratorHK.jpg) After a successful first cohort at AcceleratorHK, they are starting recruitment for cohort #2 that will begin on May 13th. This cohort will...
We are happy to announce a special vist to Hong Kong by Dr. Gregory Leman, Director of Baylor University’s LAUNCH Innovative Business Accelerator, one of the top entrepreneurship programs in the Unite...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/amcham.jpg) The American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong‘s newsletter Biz.hk features a great cover story – Is Hong Kong Ready to Become a Startup Hub? – on ...
Hong Kong co-Workspace CoCoon held their first Pitch Night last week and now they have the video up for the entire event. 12 startups pitched to a panel of judges on March 8th and it was a great turn ...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/KiddAutom1.jpg) Cory Kidd, Ph.D. is the founder and CEO of Intuitive Automata. Intuitive Automata is creating interactive, social robots for helping people wi...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/boothk.jpg) BootHK – the first and original Hong Kong co-workspace started by our co-founder Jon Buford – has relocated from Wan Chai to Sheung Wan and Lai Ch...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/alicezhang.jpg) Alice Zhang is the founder of Mischmasch. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006 with a degree in graphic design. After ...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/david-beatty-refer.me.jpg) David Beatty is co-founder of Refer.me, the platform for crowdsourced recruitment. With a background in Software Development, Compu...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/IMG5876.png) After 15 years of working for someone else Mikaal Abdulla finally got smart and started his own company. He is the co-founder and CEO of 8 Securi...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/GADigital-Marketing-2.jpg) Teams that learn together, stay together. Sign up for General Assembly‘s 10-week Digital Marketing course with your co-founder, fri...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/StartupsUnpluggedlogo.jpg) Working on a startup or have an idea you want to explore? Unplugged is a three-month lean startup program that includes workshops, ...
Another creative hot desk co-works space is coming to Hong Kong – Retro Spot. Check it out tomorrow at Retro Spot’s Quarry Bay Grand Opening! See invitation below for more details. [](/startupshk/wp-c...
Local startup PINGSPOT is having its launch party on 21 March (Thursday), join and support if you can. [](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Savethedatepingspotlaunchparty.png)...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/mike-guangzhou-chinese-new-year-jan-2011.jpg) Michael Michelini has been living in mainland China since ’07, helping western companies leverage Chinese social...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/snapteemobileapp.png) One of our Hong Kong startups, Snapteeis being featured on TechCrunch today! > “With just a few taps on the screen of your iOS device, S...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/hkb.jpg) Hong Kong Business magazine just released their list of the Top 20 Hottest Startups in Hong Kong! Congrats to those that made the list – its quite a ...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/steveforte.jpg) Stephen Forte is the Chief Strategy Officer of the venture backed company, Telerik, a leading vendor of developer and team productivity tools....
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/simonewstead.jpg) Simon Newstead is co-founding (confounding?!) CEO of Frenzoo, creator of mobile 3D lifestyle games with it’s Me Girl™ series. He’s all about...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/cny.jpg.scaled980.jpeg) Monday night is our big annual party at California Vintage Wan Chai and if you’ve registered consider supporting some of our startup s...
