Hong Kong Startup Snaptee Gets US$600K In Seed Funding

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One of our Hong Kong startups, Snaptee is being featured on TechCrunch today!

“With just a few taps on the screen of your iOS device, Snaptee lets you turn your photos into stylish graphic t-shirts and sell them. Ten thousand designs have already been created by the app’s users since it went live in July and now the Hong Kong-based company’s founders have secured $600,000 in seed funding from a group of Hong Kong and Singapore investors, including Yat Siu of Outblaze Management Team and Animoca, Chris Lee of 6waves, Mikaal Abdulla from 8 Securities (a Techcrunch Disrupt Beijing finalist), Singapore-based angel investor Emanuel R. Breiter and Hong Kong-based investor Tytus Michalski of Fresco Capital.”

We had Wai-Lun Hong pitch at Start Club a few months ago and look at him now. This is the first big angel investment for 2013 and we know there are more coming. Congrats to Wai-Lun and to the group of Hong Kong angels that led this seed round.

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Hong Kong Business Magazine Names the Top 20 Hottest Hong Kong Startups

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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 spectrum in there and a special shout-out to the ones in our community:

  • Aftership.com
  • Enterproid
  • GoIDD
  • refer.me
  • Flipter
  • 8Securities
  • PhoneJoy
  • Talkbox
  • Sponfed

Click here to see the PDF

Taxiwise, GOnnect and SnappyCard Support the StartupsHK CNY Party

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Monday night is our big annual party at California Vintage Wan Chai and if you’ve registered consider supporting some of our startup services that will make the evening even better:

TaxiWise: Schedule a taxi to take you to the party or to help you get home afterwards! Special package created especially for the party – check it out here.

GONnect: Coming to a StartupsHK party for the first time? Let GOnnect make sure you connect with the people you want to meet using your LinkedIn profile to match up people you NEED to meet. Sign up here.

SnappyCard: It’s tough to follow up on all the new people you meet at our party – so use SnappyCard on Tuesday to send quick re-introductions to all the people you meet. Create a card here.