Betatron recently announced that they’ll be investing up to US$150K into each startup for their next cohort which starts in September 2019. They’re aiming to invest in 8-12 startups with applications ...
With SaaS eating the world its time to make sure you know what the market opportunities are and how, if you’re a SaaS startup, to up your game. SaaStock is a huge European conference that is kicking o...
It’s coming again – RISE – the conference to end all tech conferences is coming back for its FIFTH year in Hong Kong and the excitement is already growing as we are ready to welcome 18,000+ attendees ...
Klook announced it has raised US$225M in Series D+ funding. This increases the company’s total Series D funding round to US$425M. The SoftBank Vision Fund led the round with participation from existin...
Thanks Paul Chan! For the first time since we started StartupsHK, the Hong Kong government is really coming up with the cash to support our ecosystem. Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan delivered...
Animoca Brands has entered into an Earn-In Agreement with Zeroth founder Tak Lo to acquire a 67% stake in Venture Classic Limited, the operational company for the artificial intelligence accelerator Z...
Earlier this month on Thursday 2nd August 2018, Betatron held its Demo Day for the ten startups in cohort 3. The event was held at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with a total of 675 people registering f...
Exclusively launched at last week’s RISE conference in Hong Kong is the China Internet Report 2018. China has twice as many internet users as the total population of the United States — and it’s growi...
On Thursday 10th May, Betatron held a launch event to introduce the ten new startups in cohort 3. The event was held at naked Hub (Bonham Circus, 40-44 Bonham Strand, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong). Programme...
As you know, RISE – the leading technology innovation conference in Asia returns this July 9-12, 2018 at the HKCEC. This year early stage pre-seed startups can apply to Runway to RISE which visits 8 c...
Do you run a startup under five years old with less than US$10 million in funding? If so, you could be eligible for a new programme launched by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), the sta...
8 Securities Group announced it has agreed to receive a total of $US 25 million Series C investment from Nomura Asset Management. The investment demonstrates the promising growth and potential of robo...
When Silicon Valley’s Greylock Partners led Entrepreneur First‘s $12.4 million funding round in September, Greylock’s Reid Hoffman said he could see the company builder expanding to “20 or 30 or 40 ci...
The six startups are CUBE, cyberProductivity, DOV-E, Fractal Labs, Hyper Anna, and Privé Technologies. This brings the total number of DBS Accelerator participants to over 30 since the DBS Bank (Hong ...
These are very interesting stats from AirBNB, so we thought we would share this AirBNB press release with Hong Kong startups: the tourism industry in Hong Kong is growing and besides a handful of trav...
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...
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...
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...
