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.
Viss Raises 6-figure Seed Investment for their Hong Kong-based Fashion App
Congrats to Viss – a social media fashion app for iOS and Android based out of Hong Kong and created by Leo Ku. Viss tells us they have raised seed capital from new angel group 8 plus and will be usin...
Traction is Your Key Slide: Buffer Shares the Pitch Deck they Used to Raise US$500,000
We were lucky to have Buffer co-founders Joel Gascoigne and Leo Widrich here in Hong Kong right after they raised this money in late 2011, and to share their experiences growing their social media too...
Dave McClure Coming Back to Hong Kong on May 31
> UPDATE: Please note that due to an unforeseen scheduling conflict, the event featuring Dave McClure, Founding Partner at 500 Startups has been changed from its original Thursday evening time slot to...
Dave McClure Coming Back to Hong Kong on May 31
> UPDATE: Please note that due to an unforeseen scheduling conflict, the event featuring Dave McClure, Founding Partner at 500 Startups has been changed from its original Thursday evening time slot to...
Echelon 2013 Brings The Best Internet Minds to Singapore June 4-5
A star studded line-up for Echelon 2013 and we sincerely hope that if you missed Startup Asia in March that Echelon 2013 is on your calendar for June. Our friend and founder-in-spirit Dave McClure wil...
8 Securities Has 60,000 Customers, Holds US$1 Billion in Client Assets and is Cash Flow Positive
Congrats to Mikaal and Mathias at 8 Securities for having CBS MoneyWatch cover their amazing success in such a short time: > “8 Securities believes its technology gives them a cost, scale and speed ad...
Hong Kong Startups Flock to U.S.-based Accelerators
With only one real accelerator program in Hong Kong (AcceleratorHK focusing mainly on mobile startups, ChinaAccelerator in Dalian and JFDI in Singapore) where is a startup based in Hong Kong to go for...
Meet Hong Kong’s Game Developers Community on May 16 at the IGDA Hong Kong May Social Mixer
IGDA Hong Kong is hosting the city’s game industry for a night of networking and being social. Come represent your game or meet the people making the games that you are playing on the MTR every mornin...
Sign-up Now Open for 4-Week Early Stage Venture Survival Series at The Good Lab
Paul Orlando and Stephen Forte are putting together a series of weekly workshops at The Good Lab from May 15 to June 21 on early stage development for startups – the 4-week series will include each of...
Happy 1st Birthday to The Hive
Time flies in Hong Kong when you’re in the Hong Kong startup scene, and we’re happy to wish The Hive – one of Hong Kong’s leading co-workspaces – a Happy Birthday as they celebrate their first year of...
Get Ready for CoCoon Pitch Night in August with Cash Prizes!
CoCoon is having another Pitch Night in August – and this time not only do you get to pitch to investors and angels but there are some cash prizes to go along with it. CoCoon is one of Hong Kong’s lea...
General Assembly Hosts 3rd ‘Intro to the Hong Kong Startup Community’ on May 15
General Assembly is assmembling an Intro to the Hong Kong Startup Community talk with our own Casey Lau on May 15th at The Hive. This will be the third time he has done this talk to an ever growing au...
5 Questions with Raphael Cohen, Co-Founder of Hotel Quickly
Raphael is the co-founder of Hotel Quickly. Raphael worked for Rocket Internet as Managing Director of foodpanda Vietnam and DropGifts Singapore, before joining HotelQuickly as Chief Sales Officer. As...
5 Questions with Wailun Hong, Co-Founder of Snaptee
Photo by Vaughn Hew Wailun Hong is the co-founder of Snaptee. Wailun is proud to be a Computer Science graduate and a software engineer. He wears t-shirts and jeans everyday and loves tying in weird p...
Hong Kong Startup ‘Recruit.net’ Aggregates Job Boards Into One Unified Site, Featured on Techcrunch
Great news for Hong Kong-based startup Recruit.net who just launched a new site and got some great coverage over on TechCrunch.com. Founder Maneck Mohan (ex-Morgan Stanley) set up the job board in 200...
Startup College Posts All-in-One Hong Kong Startup Resource Page
Startup College has put together a great toolbox of information for Hong Kong Startups to use to find the best: Government resources Organisations Incubators Co-Work Spaces Crowd-funding Recruitment a...
Silicon Dragon 2013 Startup and Investor Conference at Cyberport Dubs Hong Kong the ‘Silicon Harbour’
It was a great event last week at Cyberport as Forbes contributor and author Rebecca Fannin brought her Silicon Dragon conference back to Hong Kong. Tons of photos and video clips here of the amazing ...
Hong Kong Startup in Focus: MakiBox
MakiBox is a Hong Kong startup founded by our very own (StartUpsHK’s co-founder), Jon Buford. MakiBox was recently on Bloomberg TV, reported by CNN.com and gained numerous interests from various parti...
Next Bank Asia is April 16-17: Get 50% Off Tickets From StartUpsHK
You can get 50% off tickets with a special code from us, find the code at the end of this post! Do you want to… Connect with the regions best banking minds? Meet leaders from the biggest banking, cons...
Win 1 of 10 Free Tickets for StartupsHK Members to the 2-day CoCoon Annual Startup Exchange 2013 on April 19-20th, 2013
As we are a supporting organization to the CoCoon Annual Start-up Exchange 2013, we have been offered limited complimentary tickets to this 2 day conference (valued at $500/person). This conference co...