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/2014/11/umbrella4.jpg) After we learned about Sensbeat, the team of HKUST students that built a startup while juggling full-time studies (and still managed to graduat...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/polyu.png) PolyU announced two new funding programs to support tech startups last week, on top of their existing ‘Micro Fund’ and ‘STEFG-PolyU China Entrepren...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Draney.jpg) Earlier this year, Cyberport led a delegation of Hong Kong startups to the US where they got to check out Silicon Valley’s culture and mingle with...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/aia.png) This year has stirred Hong Kong into an accelerator-launching frenzy as many corporates seize the opportunity to enter the tech investment space. Bes...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/gogovan.jpg) GoGoVan, Hong Kong’s homegrown success story, has raised an additional US $10 million from RenRen Inc. “The Facebook of China” took a 10% stake i...
Happy Friday startup community! For those that missed our final big event of the year ‘Startups of Future Past’, which was a part of Hong Kong’s very epic Startmeup Week 2014, we’ve got you covered. A...
It’s an understatement to say that Startmeup Week 2014 was a doozy. With 48 events for entrepreneurs, hackers, investors, innovators, techies and the like funneled into 5 days, we all needed a little ...
How was your Startmeup Week 2014? Hong Kong’s ecosystem collectively pulled out all stops to showcase technology and entrepreneurship last week, as our city hosted a dizzying total of 48 events in jus...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bitcoin.jpg) This is a guest post from George Harrap, the founder and CEO of Bitcoin startup Bitspark. Bitcoin. You may have heard of it before in a number of...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/blueprintteam.jpg) If you’re a B2B startup looking for a boost, don’t forget to send in an application to ‘blueprint’ before November 20th! The six-month prog...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/startupshk.jpg) Whether you were in Hong Kong when BootHK first arrived on the scene, or showed up and had over 20 to choose from – you’re still here to witne...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/startupasiasingaporesocialagent.png) Social Agent, a SaaS lead generation platform, has been sold to software development startup Unchained Apps. As the web-b...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Stephen.png) Although they’ve left Hong Kong, some entrepreneurs continue giving back to our startup scene – just like AcceleratorHK’s Stephen Forte. Although...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Founders-Head-Shot-21OCT14.jpg) Unsure your startup needs a PR hand? Meet Coco Alexandra PR & Events. Co-founded by PR pro Coco Alexandra Chan and auditor-tur...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ezeecube.png) After coming off a successful Indiegogo campaign, EzeeCube pulls in an additional $100,000 from Nest Investments. Just four months ago, we had a...
In the past 14 years, the number of Internet users around the world have leapt from 394 million to almost 3 billion. With an increasingly connected world, emerges a new breed of nomadic worker – one t...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/grana2.png) Disruptive fashion brand GRANA raised a US $1 million seed round from Hong Kong luxury retail marketer and distributor Bluebell Group, with local ...
Kick the starter, give it all you got and get out your calendars and book off the second week of November for Startmeup Week 2014! The Invest HK-backed ‘StartmeupHK Venture Programme,’ received 550 ap...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/team.jpg) Born in Poland and raised in Germany, Markus Stefanko (pictured on the far right) headed straight for Copenhagen as soon as he finished school and w...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/BikingatGoogle.jpg) The Bay Area has seen a whole lot of Hong Kong as of late. While our own Shopline has been accelerating with 500 Startups and the Cyberpor...
