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

March 6, 2014 by Iris Leung

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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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Filed Under: News Tagged With: hardware startups, Hong Kong, StartwareHK

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

March 5, 2014 by Iris Leung

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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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Prelude to StartWareHK: Why Hardware Startups Matter to Hong Kong (Again)

March 4, 2014 by StartupsHK

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PhoneJoy and StartWareHK co-founder Martin Kessler provides this final guest post that leads to tomorrow’s very first start-up hardware meet-up in Hong Kong.

This week, my team’s project Phonejoy is finally starting to ship product to eager Kickstarter backers. Finally— because we are way behind our schedule and because there had been plenty moments of doubt that we would ever make it this far. ☺

Phonejoy Team at Warehouse in Hong Kong: Alex, Martin, Jacques, Leon (from left to right)

We have learnt an extraordinary amount since we first started in early 2012 with the development of Phonejoy. Like every other startup we’ve had our fair share of breakthroughs and of course we’ve, too, committed a ton of mistakes along our journey.

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Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Martin Kessler, PhoneJoy, StartwareHK
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