2018 CO-ORGANIZER
The Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation is a public corporation set up by the Hong Kong Government in 2001 to foster the development of innovation and technology in Hong Kong
PLATINUM SPONSORS
Cooley‘s lawyers solve legal issues for entrepreneurs, investors, financial institutions and established companies. Clients partner with Cooley on transformative deals, complex IP and regulatory matters, and high-stakes litigation, often where innovation meets the law. Cooley has 950 lawyers across 13 offices in the United States, China and Europe.
“Deloitte” is the brand under which tens of thousands of dedicated professionals in independent firms throughout the world collaborate to provide audit & assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, tax and related services to select clients.
Black Tiger Capital is an early stage investment firm primarily focusing on biotech and medtech startups in the Silicon Valley which have their focused markets in China and the emerging South-east Asia region.
SILVER SPONSORS
BCL Professional Services Limited provides various business support services to venture capital firms, private equity houses and startups.
SUPPORTING PARTNERS
The Hong Kong Venture Capital and Private Equity Association was established on November 12, 1987 with the objectives of promoting and protecting the interests of the venture capital industry in Hong Kong. The Association was formed based on a recommendation in the Working Party of the Hong Kong Association of Banks’ study of venture capital and has been incorporated as a company limited by guarantee.
HKUST Entrepreneurship Center (EC), established in 1999 initially as Entrepreneurship Program, is a center to support innovation and entrepreneurship in the campus. It runs activities and funds to foster an entrepreneurial campus and cultivate a risk-taking value-creation mindset. Through direct encouragement and engagement of the HKUST community (students, alumni, professors and support staff), we strive to nurture next-generation entrepreneurs whose companies make commercial, social or cultural impacts for the economic and social development of Hong Kong and other regions.
Hong Kong Private Equity Finance Association (HKPEFA) is founded by executives from prominent private equity /venture capital firm in 2013. Since its inauguration by The Honorable Sir David Aker-Jones and the then Financial Secretary, Mr. John Tsang Chun-Wah, HKPEFA has actively promote PE/VC awareness in Hong Kong and worked with major universities to cultivate talent into the industry.
Silicon Valley Bank, a subsidiary of SVB Financial Group, is a U.S.-based high-tech commercial bank. The bank has helped fund more than 30,000 start-ups. SVB is on the list of largest banks in the United States.
EventXtra’s mission is to helps event organizer and manager to cut cost and time through replacing labor-intensive task by mobile technology and make it extremely accessible everywhere. A Hong Kong startup, it is now the dominant event platform for major conferences and forums in Hong Kong
China Money Network is an artificial intelligence-based platofmr tracking China’s smart investments and technology innovation. CMN provides a unique way to traget deal makers, top decision-makers and business leaders in China and around the world. Founded in 2011, it is headquartered in Hong Kong and operates from offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and Los Angeles.
Founded by Xiaomi’s Lei Jun and Li Ruxiong, this incubator-investor helps talented entrepreneurs realize their ideas into businesses in the China’s “north Silicon Valley” in Wuhan, Xian and Chengdu. Optic Valley Startup Café organizes semi-annual Global Angel Investors Conference supported by local governments in Wuhan, Xian and Chengdu