Betatron recently announced that they’ll be investing up to US$150K into each startup for their next cohort which starts in September 2019. They’re aiming to invest in 8-12 startups with applications ...
Klook announced it has raised US$225M in Series D+ funding. This increases the company’s total Series D funding round to US$425M. The SoftBank Vision Fund led the round with participation from existin...
WHub’s FinTech Whitepaper presents the key findings and facts as well as a comprehensive analysis of the contributing factors in the ecosystem that have solidified Hong Kong’s position as a leading gl...
Next week, Hong Kong will usher in one of the biggest tech conferences for startups, welcoming over 15,000 attendees from 60+ countries all over the world. Produced by the team behind Web Summit, Euro...
Podcasts are making a big resurgence these days with massive amounts of listeners tuning in while traveling or at the gym. Multitasking at its best! While we love podcasts like Recode Decode, The Tim ...
Upfront we’d like to clarify, this site you are reading is called “StartupsHK.” The InvestHK startup initiative is called “StartMeUpHK.” Two similar sounding but totally different things run by differ...
StartupsHK co-founder Casey Lau always advises new entrepreneurs to focus on one of the 3 pillars of Hong Kong – finance, property and logistics – when choosing a vertical to concentrate on, if they w...
Betatron team Application deadline: countdown Betatronis Hong Kong’s newest accelerator programme providing both funding and hands-on mentorship to help optimize and scale startups. The programme will...
You saw their booth at RISE and now they are here full time – Facebook’s startup program FbStart is officially in Hong Kong and now we are happy to announce that us along with blueprint, Cyberport and...
[](https://www.2016hkstartupssurvey.tech) With more and more startups launching in (and moving to) Hong Kong every day it’s time to get serious about defining the data in our city so we can talk, quot...
RISE is a global conference that takes place in Hong Kong, with hundreds of investors and startups with eyes on the Asian market flying in to learn more, network more and invest more. Only 1/5th of at...
Here we go everyone! The excitement of RISE returns next week, and with it again, the Hong Kong community (and beyond) have pulled together to put on evening events every single night – we are calling...
Having lived both in Hong Kong and Singapore, perhaps this is one of the most often asked question: Which is better, Hong Kong or Singapore? You’ll find loads of blogs and banter, even charts and list...
“Hong Kong is fully capable of successfully developing a strong startup ecosystem. Its number one priority is to help its entrepreneurs catch up to global knowhow.” To close out last week’s StartMeUp ...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/1-qSlXGj8hGsaHIJEHP2xkZA.jpg) With an average of eight unicorns born each year (companies worth over $1B) throughout each of the past 10 years, it’s no surpri...
We went out and asked a bunch of people that helped make RISE such a huge success their thoughts on the whole event and we got back a bunch of tweets, Instagram photos and just an outpouring of emotio...
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG2898.jpeg) One of the exciting things about RISE was Paddy Cosgrave’s impetus to include as much of Hong Kong’s startup ecosystem into the actual event as ...
In what was an incredible finale at RISE – over all of the startups selected for PITCH; the main RISE pitching stage that included 33 startups from around the world – all 3 finalists were from Hong Ko...
So, what a week eh? Just a quick post here before a longer deep dive post into RISE week. I am absolutely amazed at what we all pulled off in Hong Kong for RISE. It absolutely blew away all expectatio...
Asia’s biggest startup conference RISE is heading to Hong Kong next week Friday and Saturday – but there are all kinds of things happening starting on Monday. For those out-of-town visitors I threw to...
