Singapore’s Techventure 2014 has come and gone, with 100+ exhibiting tech startups and 700 visiting conference attendees from Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, Switzerland, Malaysia and the US. Notable talks featured YouTube co-founder Steve Chen who chatted about his startup story, and Evernote CEO Phil Libin who shared his ‘lessons for Southeast Asian startups’ drawn from building Evernote.
The two-day conference featured over eight pitching events including the ‘Techventure Connect 180’ which facilitates investor-startup matchmaking via the official conference app and the ‘Business Pitch Competition,’ where startups went head-to-head for a US $40,000 grand prize.
As Hong Kong and Singapore are often pitted against each other in ecosystem comparisons, here are two ways our tech startups could benefit and borrow from Techventure 2014.
