Following StartWareHK’s First Meetup, Get To Know 3 Hong Kong Hardware Startups

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Hong Kong’s new hardware startup meet-up StartWareHK met for the first time ever yesterday.

Hosted by active hardware startup founders Julian Lee of Ambi Climate, Jon Buford of Makible and Martin Kessler of Phonejoy, the get together was an opportunity for hardware veterans and neophytes to kick back, bond and share ideas.

Since Hong Kong is continuously praised as the ideal environment to build a hardware startup, this meet-up is only the start to a burgeoning community of like-minded builders and tinkerers. We wanted to celebrate this new development by introducing you to a few hardware startups you may, or may not heard of.

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Meet the 5 Newest Additions to Startbase.HK, Hong Kong’s Startup Directory

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Startbase.HK, our daily-updated directory for Hong Kong’s ecosystem, which is a new and powerful resource for those looking to get connected to startups and people in Hong Kong – whether it’s that founder you want to chat with or that investor you want to pitch to or looking to make a local connection to startups in your industry.

We also feature VC firms, government-led initiatives and tech companies of all types, Startbase.HK has, since its 2013 launch, signed up 34 different categories of ‘companies’ and as of last month, has been integrated into CrunchBase’s directory which gives Startbase.hk the highest international profile is assisting Hong Kong-based startups in visibility globally.

To illustrate the vibrant community that we’re building on this directory – here are 5 newly added profiles to Startbase.hk:

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3 Hong Kong Founders to Watch: Meet Julian Lee of Ambi Climate, Steven Lam of GoGoVan and James Giancotti of Bigcolors

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There are lots of cool startups listed on our startup directory. In support of the startup community and all of its brilliant and industrious founders – we wanted to give them an editorial shout out.

In the first of a series of “3 Founders to Watch” posts, we’re introducing three Hong Kong entrepreneurs that are doing cool things in the hardware, mobile/logistics and platform space.

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