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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...
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...
> 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...
> 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 ...
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...
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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...
