Are you a hardware startup looking for a home? Three of Hong Kong’s most active founders in the space have joined forces to create StartWare – a community for hardware startups.
Julian Lee of Ambi Climate, Jon Buford of Makible and Martin Kessler of Phonejoy all have one thing in common: they’ve all built successful hardware startups and want to help others in this exciting but often turbulent process.
StartupsHK co-founders Gene Soo and Casey Lau are featured in this month’s Capital Entrepreneur magazine talking about the startup scene in Hong Kong on how it started and where it’s going. One of the main points is the need for more mentorship by startups to startups.
Since they’ve become the unofficial poster children for the Hong Kong start-up community Casey and Gene have decided to open their doors and offer new startups a chance to come in and talk about their startups for mentoring sessions with the two startup connectors in Hong Kong.
Happy Valentine’s Day startups – we did a roundup of some of our favourite startups that received some love from investors over the past 12 months.
As the Hong Kong ecosystem matures year by year, we’d like to keep track of all the monumental successes that our startups have experienced. 2013 was a great year of funding for Hong Kong startups – with deals ranging from the US$200k to $12M giving new and veteran investors had a chance to get involved. We know we might have missed a deal or two, so this will serve as a working list of the top funding in 2013.
