Hong Kong-based Vimantra Wins the Seedstars World Pitching Event and Will Compete for Equity Investment in Switzerland

January 30, 2014 by Iris Leung

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Seedstars World, a global startup competition in support of emerging markets and fast growing startup scenes, is rounding up its world tour in Switzerland on February 4th. It’ll be set in Geneva where top entrepreneurs will compete for bragging rights and an equity investment of up to $500k.

After making pitching event stops throughout Asia in Banglore, Bangkok, Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul and Tokyo, Seedstars has selected Vimantra to represent Hong Kong in the grand final and conference. As a cloud video platform compatible with all internet connected devices, Vimantra offers interactive and real-time experiences for video broadcasting.

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: Arun Prasad, Seedstars World, Vimantra

The Revolution Will Be Crowdfunded! The Startup Saturday: Crowdfunding 2014 Event Overview

January 28, 2014 by Iris Leung

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On January 25, 2014, we played host to a sold out Startup Saturday Hong Kong with a very special spotlight on the local crowdfunding scene.

With just over capacity for 150 attendees, the intimate #SUSHK event was catalyst to great synergy between experienced gurus within the crowdfunding realm and those curious about how it works. Simon Chan, a corporate partner with Dorsey & Whitney (one of our sponsors), led the panels with a keynote on disrupting the traditional commercial behavior and legal environment here in Hong Kong. He noted that the crowdfunding community will need to band together in order to embrace this new phenomenon.

In case you missed it, here’s an overview of the dynamic and disruptive ideas that were shared by a symposium of panel speakers from three groups: crowdfunding on Kickstarter, hardware manufacturing in South China, and crowdfunding capital for startups.

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: 3Doodler, Ambi Climate, Bigcolors, casey lau, Chris Place, Daniel Cowen, Dorsey & Whitney, Eden McMahon, Eric Pong, Fund2.Me, gene soo, James Giancotti, John Buford, Julian Lee, Kevin Leung, Makible, Martin Kessler, Mathias Krostewitz, Muku Shuttr, Native Union, PhoneJoy, Red Hare Fulfillment, Startup Saturday Hong Kong

Meet Hong Kong’s Crowdfunding Pioneer’s at Startup Saturday Tomorrow (SOLD OUT!)

January 24, 2014 by StartupsHK

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THANKS EVERYONE!

THE CONFERENCE IS NOW SOLD OUT!

Last call for you to register for the event tomorrow – we have an amazing line-up of speakers and some amazing sponsors helping us put this mini-conference on tomorrow.

Conveniently located in The Landmark, Startup Saturday: Crowdfunding 2014 will be talking about Kickstarter, crowd funding for business and looking at disruption in the prototyping, manufacturing and logistics parts of creating, funding, making and shipping all these amazing new ideas to a global audience.

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