Happy Friday startup community! For those that missed our final big event of the year ‘Startups of Future Past’, which was a part of Hong Kong’s very epic Startmeup Week 2014, we’ve got you covered.
As our startup scene (alongside StartupsHK and our co-founder Gene Soo) turned five this year – we wanted to put together an event captured the past, present and future of Hong Kong’s ecosystem. Besides taking a stroll down memory lane with a batch of startup pioneers, we treated the audience to pitches from six of Hong Kong’s hottest startups – and put together a diverse panel of futurists that predicted what was to come.
For those that prefer text, read our ‘Round-Up of Our Final Big Event of the Year ‘Startups of Future Past’- Part of StartmeupWeek 2014 article. It’s got a recap of each panel as well as tweets and Instagram posts from our community as the event unfurled.
For those that want the full video recap, check out our videos below!
Introduction with StartupsHK team and the ‘Last Five Years’ panel featuring Jon Buford of Makible, Cedric Delzenne of Shop Des Createurs, Michelle Lam of Spoilt, David Zhu of Divide, Theodore Ma of CoCoon and Ben Cheng of Oursky. Moderated by our own Casey Lau
Gene Soo Shares the ‘Top 10 Stories on Hong Kong’s Startup Scene’ and introduces the ‘6 Hottest Startups of 2014’: Antony Wong of MyFlat.HK, Ashok Jaiswal of EzeeCube, Benedict Wong of Bindo, Luke Grana of GRANA, Danny Yeung of Prenetics and Steven Lam of GoGoVan.
We named MyFlat.HK, EzeeCube, Bindo, GRANA, Prenetics and Gogovan 2014’s Hottest Startups. Their founders each take the stage to pitch their product to the ‘Future Past’ audience.
‘The Hottest Startups of 2014’ – pitches continued.
The ‘Hottest Startups of 2014’ panel featuring: Antony Wong of MyFlat.HK, Ashok Jaiswal of EzeeCube, Benedict Wong of Bindo, Luke Grana of GRANA, Danny Yeung of Prenetics and Steven Lam of GoGoVan. Moderated by Gene Soo.
‘The Hottest Startups of 2014’ panel continued.
A few of our sponsors (Winifred Wong of Softlayer, Daniel Walker of Dragon Law and Adrian Lai of Cornerstone) introduce themselves. Then ‘The Next 5 years’ panel was up featuring: Duncan Turner of HAXLR8R, Cermain Cheung of Choy, Cheung & Co., Allison Baum of Fresco Capital Advisors, Elad Goz of the Consulate General of Israel in Hong Kong, Hilary Szymujko of blueprint HK, Sam Gellman of Uber and Danny Yeung of Prenetics – who is also one of the founding partners of SXE Ventures. Moderated by Casey Lau.
‘The Next 5 Years’ panel continued.
The wrap up!
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