Hong Kong’s First Consumer IoT Summit Welcomes over 1,000 Guests from Around the World

February 3, 2016 by StartupsHK

Manav Gupta, founder and CEO of Brinc delivers the opening remarks

Last week we welcomed Brinc’s LAUNCH Summit which was the first dedicated IoT conference in Hong Kong and it was a pretty huge event for Asia’s IoT scene as it welcome speakers and attendees from around the world.

Huge congrats to Bay, Manav, Hilary, Christina, Madison and the rest of the team Brinc on putting together such a great event alongside the StartMeUp Festival by InvestHK. We are convinced that all eyes will be on Brinc going forward for anything to do with IoT in Asia! Here’s to an even bigger 2017 event!

We’ve included the full press release summarising the event below:

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: Brinc, IoT, Startmeup

Report: Hong Kong is 5th Fastest Growing Startup Ecosystem; Ranks 25th in the World

February 1, 2016 by StartupsHK

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“Hong Kong is fully capable of successfully developing a strong startup ecosystem. Its number one priority is to help its entrepreneurs catch up to global knowhow.”

To close out last week’s StartMeUp Festival, Compass held an event to summarise their Global Startup Ecosystem report and specifically to share the insight they found out about Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is the 5th fastest growing startup ecosystem and ranks the 25th in the world, according to the Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking 2015 study released by the San Francisco based research firm Compass.

We’ve reprinted the summary below and you can download the final perspective as well.

We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments.

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: Compass, ecosystem, Hong Kong, InnoFoco, startup

3 Mobile Startups to Represent Hong Kong at MCAP 2016 in Honolulu

January 5, 2016 by StartupsHK

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We’re very excited to have 3 fresh new mobile startups from Hong Kong at the Mobile Challenge Asia Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii next week.

The Mobile Challenge Asia Pacific (MCAP) is a mobile startup competition that brings together entrepreneurs from 9 countries to meet and compete in order to qualify for 3 places at the GSMA Barcelona Conference World Finals in 2016. The challenge is organised by J-Seed Ventures and IE Business School in conjunction with GSMA and is sponsored in part by SoftLayer – an IBM Company.

Representing Hong Kong are:

  • SwapIt: Buy/Sell/Trade stuff in location-based smartphone app.
  • uSpace: Marauders Map for workspaces via smartphone.
  • Spincle: Create your own VR content, distribute everywhere via smartphone.

These new teams will be competing against 24 other startups from around Asia to be 3 of the finalists to be flown in to compete in Barcelona at GSMA! This is amazing viability for Hong Kong teams and we are happy to have 3 of our newest and most exciting startups out there to represent HK on a global stage.

The East Meets West 2016 conference will also be taking place next week in Honolulu and some local familiar faces like our own Casey Lau, Cyril Ebersweiler from HAX and our good friend Dave McClure of 500 Startups.

Congrats to the teams and good luck on stage!

Filed Under: News Tagged With: East Meets West, GSMA, MCAP, SoftLayer, Spincle, SwapIt, Uspace
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