Venturetec, the First Enterprise Tech-Focused Accelerator for Startups in Asia-Pacific, is Now Accepting Applications

July 14, 2014 by Iris Leung

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Following homegrown startup Divide’s recent Google acquisition, we’re convinced that enterprise tech is a space more startups should be paying attention to.

According to startup mentor Trey Zagante, the enterprise tech market is in investment terms, double the size of the more favored consumer tech market and has made up for 80% last year’s largest tech IPOs. Besides mentoring startups in the Melbourne-based Founder Institute and early stage accelerator AngelCube, Trey is also the founder of a newly launched accelerator program called Venturetec.

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Hong Kong Startup HotelQuickly Raises a Huge Series A-1 Round of US $4.5 Million

July 10, 2014 by Iris Leung

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Hong Kong’s HotelQuickly has raised a huge Series A-1 round of US $4.5 million.

The investment was led by global mobile social company GREE and also included William E. Heinecke, the CEO and chairman of Thai-based Minor International, a hospitality giant that operates over 1,500 restaurants and 100 hotels in the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa.

The last-minute hotel booking app’s latest deal will bring its total funds to $US 5.5 million, having raised $1.13 million back in September of last year. According to a release, the HotelQuickly team plans on using the new capital to ramp up its product development efforts and will also be hiring for a number of development and marketing roles in its Bangkok and Hong Kong offices.

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StartupsHK Resources: Startup-Friendly Legal Contacts

July 8, 2014 by Iris Leung

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With its robust legal system and solid intellectual property protection, Hong Kong truly is an ideal place to start a business.

While you’d rather focus all energies on building your product instead of filling out paperwork, dealing with the legal side is inevitable. For those first-time founders that don’t have the faintest clue where to start, we’ve put together a working list of legal contacts for startups.
 

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With a global team of 750 attorneys throughout the US and in China (they’re located in Shanghai), Cooley’s practice spans the technology, life sciences, real estate, financial services, retail and energy sectors. Operating in eleven major commercial markets, Cooley has had a track record of representing companies that have created disruptive technologies and generally challenge the status quo.

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