via cyberport.hk
Cyberport IncuTrain Centre recently admitted the highest ever number of incubatee companies. A record 22 new start-ups were accepted on to the scheme in October and November. This latest intake also saw the greatest number of applicants with the total reaching 56.
Half of the incubatee intake will be based at Cyberport while the remaining will operate off-site. This year’s incubatees mainly come from six key business categories spanning gaming, animation/comics, music/audio, education and infotainment, tools and technology and creative digital lifestyle.
Among the new incubatees is award-winning Nuthon IT Solutions. A specialist in providing mobile solutions for smart phone platforms and location based mobile applications and mobile games, its store locater and mobile coupon download application Leisure Guide, was awarded, on December 9, the Champion and the Usability Award at the Windows Mobile Creative Software & Game Design Contest, an event sponsored by Microsoft, and co-organized by The Pocket PC Channel and the Cyberport IncuTrain Centre.
The software gives consumers access to the latest retailing information and offers stores a mobile marketing platform on which they can promote their products and services. As one of the five winners chosen from over 100 applicants, Leisure Guide will be launched in the Microsoft Marketplace in Hong Kong and be ready for downloading later this month.
Cyberport’s incubatees will have access to professional assistance in a number of areas including training and services such as marketing, business matching and partnering, the introduction of angel investors and venture capitalists and financial support. The IncuTrain Centre aims to help start-ups realize their fullest potential so that every creative idea will have an opportunity to be nurtured into commercial success.