12 Hong Kong E-Commerce Startups You Should Know

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With its low internet censorship and peak broadband speeds, Hong Kong’s has a highly developed infrastructure for eCommerce startups. Combine that with a population obsessed with shopping, convenience and mobile phones and you’ve got the perfect breeding ground for an online shopping platform.

With online shopping in Asia to reach US$525.5 billion this year and every $10 spent online in Asia coming from China – you can see why eCommerce is still such a hot vertical to be in for startups.

So we’ve compiled a list of 10 eCommerce startups that are currently making their mark in Hong Kong. This will serve as a working list so if you think there’s a great eCommerce startup we should know – send over a nomination to us here.

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Constant Tedder’s The Hive Expands Co-Workspace Empire Into Kennedy Town

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Yet another co-working space has arrived in Hong Kong. This time it’s a Kennedy Town version of Wan Chai’s
The Hive.

Just two years ago, founder Constant Tedder opened up The Hive’s doors to create a productive community for creative freelancers, photographers and startups. Building upon the success of their stylish, five-floored first location, they’re ready to take on the trendy and up-and-coming Kennedy Town neighbourhood.

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5 Questions With Jason Ngan, Co-Founder of NYC and Hong Kong Startup Bindo

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Retail platform Bindo
is a cloud-based inventory indexing tool that brings merchants online through an iPad Point-of-Sale system. A NYC startup that realizes the breadth of business opportunity in Hong Kong, Bindo is now developing a ‘Square’-type mobile payment solution for the local market and has their office in Hong Kong Science Park.

Co-founder Jason Ngan comes from a physics and electrical engineering background and first entered the entrepreneurial realm doing network security for a tech startup. Although Bindo is Jason’s first startup business, he fills his spare time building websites, mobile apps and setting up network infrastructure for friend’s companies.
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