Hong Kong Business magazine just released their list of the Top 20 Hottest Startups in Hong Kong!
Congrats to those that made the list – its quite a spectrum in there and a special shout-out to the ones in our community:
Stephen Forte is the Chief Strategy Officer of the venture backed company, Telerik, a leading vendor of developer and team productivity tools. Involved in several startups, he was the co-founder of Triton Works, which was acquired by UBM (London: UBM.L) in 2010 and was the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Corzen, Inc., which was acquired by Wanted Technologies (TXV: WAN) in 2007. Prior to Corzen, Stephen served as the CTO of Zagat Survey in New York City (acquired by Google in 2011).
We chatted with Stephen about his accelerator program in Hong Kong and what we need to shake up the startup scene in Hong Kong:
Simon Newstead is co-founding (confounding?!) CEO of Frenzoo, creator of mobile 3D lifestyle games with it’s Me Girl™ series. He’s all about about fun, creative and positive apps with emotional impact.
Prior to Frenzoo, Simon ran the emerging tech team for Asia at Juniper Networks and is originally from rainy Melbourne.
We sit down with Simon to give us some insight into his startup and the challenges he faces as one of the more successful pivots in the Hong Kong startup scene:
