Wristcheck is a tech-driven watch platform – the ultimate destination for watch enthusiasts worldwide. A safe and transparent marketplace for buying and selling authentic timepieces, Wristcheck offers thousands of watches at every price point, in-house watchmaking services, an industry-leading grading system, a real-time transaction-powered index, and a focus on community-building that provides a holistic experience for all. Founded by watch lovers, for watch lovers.
Founded in June 2013 and based in Taipei, AsiaYo is an online room booking platform offering people a chance to discover over 60,000 uniquely designed accommodations covering 60 cities in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and Hong Kong. Growing quickly, AsiaYo offers local hosts a chance to utilize their unused space, opening it to an international audience. Learn more at: www.asiayo.com
Great Bay Bio Ltd. is a high-tech company that develops blue ocean biopharmaceuticals with a digital platform. It has a long history of biomedical research and development and rich experience in product development. Adhering to the national strategic concept of scientific and technological innovation and coordinated development of the Greater Bay Area, Dawan Biotechnology brings together high-quality resources from Europe, the United States, Singapore, and Hong Kong to build a biopharmaceutical development platform centered on AI technology, big data, and Internet of Things technology, which greatly shortens The drug development cycle significantly reduces development costs and has great industry competitive advantages.
Qupital is a fintech company that provides cross-border e-commerce sellers with financing services using big data and a self-developed risk control model. It aims to improve financing efficiency by digitalizing the financing process. Qupital operates an online invoice discounting and exchange platform designed to help in injecting liquidity into the market. The platform helps qualified businesses to raise finance against their receivables by connecting them with professional investors' inequitable win-win opportunities, enabling businesses to reduce the cost of financing and professional investors to access an entirely new asset class of accounts receivables. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Forkast.News is a digital media platform covering blockchain and emerging tech at the intersection of business, economy, and politics.
SleekFlow is the Omnichannel Conversational AI Suite for customer engagement. The all-in-one SleekFlow platform creates seamless and personalized customer journeys across everyone’s go-to messaging channels, including WhatsApp, Instagram, live chat, and more. SleekFlow is dedicated to shaping the future of communication by empowering companies to center all their workflows around meaningful conversations. From marketing and sales to support teams, SleekFlow streamlines business operations by leveraging its cutting-edge conversational AI capabilities. By automating routine tasks, optimizing customer interactions, and delivering unparalleled support, the customer-first solution empowers businesses to achieve unprecedented scalability and growth. SleekFlow is located in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brazil, and the UAE. In Aug 2024, the startup secured an $7M USD Series A+ funding round led by Atinum Investment, with participation from existing investors (AEF Greater Bay Area Fund, managed by Gobi Partners GBA and Transcend Capital Partners) and a new investor, Moses Tsang (Former General Partner of Goldman Sachs Group and Chairman of Goldman Sachs (Asia) LLC). The company has raised a total of US$15 million to date.
viAct is a leading ESG-focused AI company that provides “Scenario-based Vision Intelligence’ solutions for the AEC industry across Asia, Europe & Middle East. With hundreds of deployments since its inception in 2016, viAct’s proprietary AI algorithms have evolved successfully providing extremely granular insights in jobsites by transforming vision to practical actions. Our 30+ pre-built AI modules enable the stakeholders to reduce the number of accidents, optimize costs and track environmental non-compliances.
Lynk helps the 1 billion knowledge workers reach their full potential. With a single login, knowledge workers can access opportunities offered by Lynk, or on private marketplaces organized on the Lynk platform by other companies and organizations. Lynk aims to become the infrastructure for knowledge work, offering credentials for expertise and experience, workflow tools to streamline engagements. The future of work requires systems to catch up, and Lynk’s networked marketplace will be the key to unlocking this economic potential. With a diverse team across 8 locations, Lynk works with hundreds of global enterprises including top Fortune 500 companies, high-growth startups, and investment firms. There are tens of thousands of advisory, project, part-time, and full-time opportunities offered daily on the platform. Lynk is ISO27001 certified with global operations in major cities including New York, Toronto, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Mumbai. We have also established a multi-faceted Global Alliance with UBS Group. For more information, visit https://lynk.global/.
Qupital is a fintech company that provides cross-border e-commerce sellers with financing services using big data and a self-developed risk control model. It aims to improve financing efficiency by digitalizing the financing process. Qupital operates an online invoice discounting and exchange platform designed to help in injecting liquidity into the market. The platform helps qualified businesses to raise finance against their receivables by connecting them with professional investors' inequitable win-win opportunities, enabling businesses to reduce the cost of financing and professional investors to access an entirely new asset class of accounts receivables. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Aqumon is a digital wealth management company that devolops wealthtech solution for financial institutions.
Private Equity Round in 2020
Prenetics is a health sciences company, that is dedicated to consumer and clinical health. Its consumer initiative is led by IM8, a new health and wellness brand, and Europa, one of the top sports distribution companies in the USA. The clinical division is led by Insighta, focused on multi-cancer early detection technologies. This is followed by ACT Genomics, which has achieved FDA clearance for genomic profiling of solid tumors, and CircleDNA, which uses NGS to offer DNA tests. Each Prenetics unit impacts health by ‘enhancing life through science’.
KABOB CLOUD specializes in managing all-scenario store applications through one platform and empowering chain brand experience and management. It empowers chain brand operations by using AIoT smart apps to connect with content terminals, store operations, and staff management. The firm primarily focuses on providing three major SaaS apps cover screens (Lookr Digital Signage), music (Voicer BGM Master), and people (staff management) solutions.
Ecoinno is a Hong Kong Science Park-based green material technology company that focus on developing multiple categories of consumer packaging products with its proprietary Green Composite Material™ (GCM™), derived from natural plant fibre, an abundant naturally occurring biopolymer, using Ecoinno's advanced processing technology.
RaSpect is an Intelligence Inspection company. They are offering cloud-based inspection Big Data/AI inspection platform for inspection partners.
Mize is a hotel booking optimization solution. Mize provides along the hotel booking industry using its fully automated proprietary technology.
NEXTDRIVE provides solutions including HEMS, CEMS, and API, offering energy applications for power companies, energy companies, corporate customers, and end customers. Their products includes API and IOE suite developer, IOE suite ecogenie, ecogenie app, community energy management, IOE gateway atto, cube smart energy gateway, AMI module route B, and accessory.
Polygence is an online technology platform that empowers students to take control of their learning. Participants work one-on-one with a PhD-level expert who guides them in exploring their interests and creating meaningful projects—whether a research paper, podcast, video essay, or another format. Covering subjects from STEM to the arts, Polygence supports students at any stage of their academic journey, helping them develop skills and confidence to succeed. Rather than focusing on grades, the program encourages curiosity and independent exploration, allowing students to forge their own paths to success.
WeLab Holdings Limited is a financial technology company based in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, with an additional office in Shenzhen, China. Founded in 2013, WeLab operates online and mobile lending platforms, including Wolaidai in China and WeLend in Hong Kong. These platforms offer various financial products, such as personal loans, online balance transfers, and handset installment plans. Utilizing proprietary risk management technology, WeLab analyzes unstructured mobile big data rapidly to assess creditworthiness and provide innovative consumer financing solutions. In addition to its direct-to-consumer services, WeLab also partners with traditional financial institutions to deliver B2B enterprise solutions, enabling these partners to offer fintech-enabled services to their customers.
While interface designers have embraced collaborative tools like Figma to enrich their design workflows, developing games and 3D interactive experiences remains a tedious process where each designer and developer works on their tasks in separate silos. Area28 is developing a tool-agnostic cloud collaboration service, enabling game teams to work together on projects in real-time, radically improving current interactive entertainment production workflows.
Cloudbreakr is a media analytics company based on big data and AI analysis, with business operations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Thailand. With the latest marketing technology applications and integrated solutions, the company provides influencer and content discovery tool, customized analysis report and influencer marketing strategy services to over 100 MNCs and offer its platform solutions to over 10,000 marketers around the regions.
AutoX is a California-based startup, with a mission to "Democratize Autonomy". We aim to accelerate the advent of fully driverless cars. Our autonomous driving platform is capable of navigating the most challenging and dynamic traffic conditions in urban areas. AutoX was granted the world’s second fully driverless RoboTaxi permit from the state of California.
Kapito provides an AI solution for smart manufacturing, securing great traction in defect detection in several industries through testing and data analysis services. They allow visual inspectors to increase output and stabilize quality while also assisting owners to decrease labor costs, increase yield, and get rid of defective goods through data analysis.
Qupital is a fintech company that provides cross-border e-commerce sellers with financing services using big data and a self-developed risk control model. It aims to improve financing efficiency by digitalizing the financing process. Qupital operates an online invoice discounting and exchange platform designed to help in injecting liquidity into the market. The platform helps qualified businesses to raise finance against their receivables by connecting them with professional investors' inequitable win-win opportunities, enabling businesses to reduce the cost of financing and professional investors to access an entirely new asset class of accounts receivables. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Sandbox VR is a virtual reality startup that offers a premium, fully-immersive virtual reality experience. The company combines motion capture in real time with virtual reality technology to create a new medium that is the closest thing to the Star Trek holodeck that exists. The company was founded in 2016 and has presence in the Bay Area and Hong Kong
StockViva provides trading and real time investment analysis and education services from financial key opinion leaders online. StockViva is growing rapidly across Asia and receives investment from reputable investors, including Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund, K3 Ventures, HHG Capital Group, Angelhub, Cell Rising Capital and Farquhar VC. StockViva is managed by a team from UBS, KPMG, JP Morgan, Tencent, 9gag and HK01.
Lydia AI is a health AI insurtech startup on a mission to insure the next billion people by making insurance personalized, easier to buy and more inclusive. Insurers work with Lydia AI to leverage new sources of data to make risk predictions which are used to personalize individual experiences, accelerate underwriting practices and develop new inclusive digital products with innovative Pay How You Live Benefits. The company has launched the first series of digital Lydia AI health score insurance products in Taiwan and plans to expand across Asia. Established in 2015, Lydia AI is backed by Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund, Information Venture Partners and 500 Global with offices in Toronto and Taiwan.
KKday is a travel platform that facilitates access to authentic local tours and activities for travelers. It offers a wide range of experiences across numerous countries and cities, enabling users to easily search, discover, and book their ideal activities. The platform also supports travel suppliers in their digital transformation by providing tools for product management and order fulfillment.
FUNNOW Group is Greater Southeast Asia's leading lifestyle booking platform, transforming how people access leisure and entertainment services. Our platform offers on-demand dining, wellness, beauty, and accommodation bookings, providing seamless convenience for modern consumers. Operating in seven countries—Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Japan—FunNow manages four brands: FunNow, Eatigo, Niceday, and SaaS (FUNNOW Manager, TABLEAPP). We connect over 10,000 merchants with a growing community of 8 million users, creating a vast ecosystem of curated lifestyle experiences. Driven by AI-powered yield management and digital transformation, we help service retailers optimize efficiency while enhancing customer experience. As we expand, the FUNNOW Group continues to reshape people to have delightful leisure time. We are committed to our vision: make people happy.
En-trak is a proptech solution provider based in Hong Kong. We build software solutions to make buildings more efficient, productive, and comfortable places to work, all while helping to reduce carbon footprint and operating costs. Founded in 2013, our award-winning solutions have been used and trusted by hundreds of prestigious clients across Asia including property owners, facility managers, corporations, government agencies and schools.
Kneron specializes in designing and developing integrated software and hardware solutions that enable artificial intelligence to function on devices at the edge. Their products serve a variety of applications, including smart homes, smart surveillance, smartphones, robots, drones, and IoT devices. Kneron offers AI System-on-Chips, visual recognition software development kits, and intellectual property for neural processing units.
GetLinks is a platform and ecosystem connecting tech talents to opportunities across Asia.
Kloudless abstracts away the differences between APIs without compromising functionality, creating a simple, unified interface for developers to build native integrations into their applications. Code once to our Unified APIs, and reuse that code for any service in that category. We support 100+ integrations across software categories like Cloud Storage, CRM, Calendar, Email, Chat, Accounting, ERP, Messaging, ITSM, and more. Our platform technology can quickly ingest new APIs and add support for new integrations, which makes Kloudless a great long-term partner for satisfying future product requirements and customer requests.
Cocomelody is a leading bridal and formal wear brand that has been providing high-quality and affordable dresses to customers worldwide since 2005. Our mission is to make every customer's special occasion unforgettable by offering a wide range of stylish and customizable dresses that fit their unique style. At Cocomelody, we strive to create a seamless shopping experience for our customers, whether they are shopping in our physical stores or online.
Aqumon is a digital wealth management company that devolops wealthtech solution for financial institutions.
The citiesocial platform helps emerging brands successfully grow their sales and market presence in Asia. We specialize in brand localization, omni-channel sales planning and managed cross-border logistics. We were founded in 2011 and are backed by the Alibaba Taiwan Entrepreneurs Fund, Cherubic Ventures and CDIB Capital.
Wishing-Soft is a software company offering environmental security management solutions. Its SaaS ESH management software provides information services with a focus on the environment, health, and sustainability, enabling business enterprises to monitor production progress and improve safety performance at a minimum cost. The mission of the company is to enhance and empower enterprises in legal compliance, risk mitigation, labor safety, and social responsibility.
Sandbox VR is a virtual reality startup that offers a premium, fully-immersive virtual reality experience. The company combines motion capture in real time with virtual reality technology to create a new medium that is the closest thing to the Star Trek holodeck that exists. The company was founded in 2016 and has presence in the Bay Area and Hong Kong
Kneron specializes in designing and developing integrated software and hardware solutions that enable artificial intelligence to function on devices at the edge. Their products serve a variety of applications, including smart homes, smart surveillance, smartphones, robots, drones, and IoT devices. Kneron offers AI System-on-Chips, visual recognition software development kits, and intellectual property for neural processing units.
HowLiving is a Taiwanese cooking video content platform that focuses on quick cooking, hand baking, and parent-child food. HowLiving vertically integrates audio-visual content websites, social media, and e-commerce platforms. HowLiving was founded in 2015 by Xie Kai Ting, a well-known culinary researcher at Silicon Valley Delicious Wife.
WeLab is reinventing traditional financial services by creating seamless digital experiences. With the company's proprietary risk management technology, WeLab effectively analyzes unstructured mobile big data within seconds to provide innovative financial services and offer consumer financing solutions for individual customers. WeLab also offers B2B enterprise solutions by partnering with traditional financial institutions, which utilize WeLab’s technology to offer fintech-enabled services to their customers.
Prenetics is a health sciences company, that is dedicated to consumer and clinical health. Its consumer initiative is led by IM8, a new health and wellness brand, and Europa, one of the top sports distribution companies in the USA. The clinical division is led by Insighta, focused on multi-cancer early detection technologies. This is followed by ACT Genomics, which has achieved FDA clearance for genomic profiling of solid tumors, and CircleDNA, which uses NGS to offer DNA tests. Each Prenetics unit impacts health by ‘enhancing life through science’.
Gobee.bike is the leading dock-less bike sharing company outside mainland China. They aim to solve your last mile destination problems by making bicycles easily accessible and affordable in your locality. At the tap of a button, you can simply unlock one of their bright green bikes spotted near you and ride to your destination of choice and drop it off there. Convenience, fitness, and leisure can now be integrated into your daily commute. With GoBee's latest technology, cycling has once again been made fun and cool again! Gobee.bike is available in Hong Kong, France, Italy, Belgium.
DayDayCook was founded in December, 2012. They are Hong Kong’s largest cooking multimedia platform and have community with monthly users totaly more than 400,000. Today, as more and more users aspire to a higher quality of life, food safety, and health, DayDayCook has become a platform for original recipes and cooking advice, helping their users to maintain a healthy lifestyle. DayDayCook inspires a young generation to cook and enjoy both traditional and modern Asian recipes through a variety of distribution channels including digital and traditional publishing with high quality and easy-to-follow recipes. DayDayCook has millions of monthly viewers over its broad reach including website, mobile apps, videos, and books. With a strong and dedicated fan base including over 275,000 Facebook fans, DayDayCook also brings goods to the consumer through its e-commerce store 'The DayDayCook Shop'
Aqumon is a digital wealth management company that devolops wealthtech solution for financial institutions.
Hyphen Group is a network of finance companies. They empower and connect people to a better financial future through innovative tools, personalized digital experiences, and expert insights, and accelerate the digitization of the financial industry.
Qupital is a fintech company that provides cross-border e-commerce sellers with financing services using big data and a self-developed risk control model. It aims to improve financing efficiency by digitalizing the financing process. Qupital operates an online invoice discounting and exchange platform designed to help in injecting liquidity into the market. The platform helps qualified businesses to raise finance against their receivables by connecting them with professional investors' inequitable win-win opportunities, enabling businesses to reduce the cost of financing and professional investors to access an entirely new asset class of accounts receivables. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
ORII is a producer of a voice-powered smart ring for hands-free connection to a smartphone. Their smart ring connects to any smartphone via Bluetooth and can make calls, send voice texts and emails and give reminders via bone conduction transmission, providing convenient smart communication solutions to users.
Platina Systems is an infrastructure management company that activates the value of data by simplifying infrastructure operations - at a fraction of the cost. By converging scalable compute within storage, organizations can deploy and manage systems for AI and active archives, simplify on-premise customer deployments and enable developers to focus on development and innovation instead of the operational efforts to manage clusters. For the world’s largest enterprises, Platina Systems technology minimizes data movement, extracts long term value from their digital assets and reduces the time and expertise needed to implement modern cloud-like infrastructure.
Grana Group Limited is an ecommerce fashion startup based in Hong Kong, specializing in direct-to-consumer clothing for both men and women. Founded in 2014, the company offers a diverse range of wardrobe essentials, including T-shirts, sweaters, dresses, and various styles of jeans and chinos, all designed in-house using high-quality fabrics sourced globally. Grana aims to provide its products at honest prices by directly sourcing from garment factories, thereby minimizing unnecessary markups typically found in traditional retail. The brand ships to over 65 countries within 1-2 days and also features an offline showroom called "The Fitting Room" in Hong Kong, allowing customers to try on items before making online purchases.
YEECHOO is an online designer apparel rental and sharing platform based in Hong Kong, and is expanding to Southeast Asia. They are making "experience is the new ownership" a reality by creating a boundless designer wardrobe for customers to experience at only a fraction of the retail price. YEECHOO partners up with over 150 designer brands (and fast expanding) across the globe and offers thousands of latest season products, just off the runway styles. A YEECHOO experience is simple and convenient – log on to the website, choose the style, pick the size, select any 4 or 8-day rental period and make the payment online. YEECHOO will deliver, collect and take care of dry cleaning and maintenance after every rental. YEECHOO has brought a new lifestyle to Hong Kong, that is fashionable, smart, convenient and environmentally friendly. Being part of the sharing economy, YEECHOO is redefining the fashion industry by making high quality fashion accessible to the mass market. They will soon launch their "everyday wear" subscription business line aiming to ultimately become the cloud closet for everyone. With its highly scalable, high margin and asset light business model paired with exclusive sourcing channels, YEECHOO is positioned to grow quickly in the Asia Pacific fashion retail ecosystem.
Shopline is a DIY e-commerce platform for creating online shops in Asia. Their differentiation lies in their simplistic setup process, native language support, regional payment methods and the fact that the entire experience is optimised for mobile. All shops are completely responsive and adapts to all screen sizes so the customer experience is consistent on every device. Their mission is to empower small businesses in Asia with simple-to-use tools that complements the way they do business and allowing them to succeed in e-commerce. Beginning with the Chinese-speaking countries of Asia, their company is positioned to disrupt a huge market in an ever growing e-commerce space in Asia.
Established in 2013, GoGoX is the first app-based platform for delivering goods in Asia, which is dedicated to offering excellent delivery service through innovative technology. Since then, GoGoX has extended its service to various platforms. The company connects individuals and businesses directly to thousands of drivers for their real-time delivery needs and redefines the everyday delivery experience by providing a convenient and efficient service. Over the years, GoGoX has expanded its business from Hong Kong to Singapore, South Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan, and India and will continue to expand globally. In August 2017, GoGoX merged with 58 Suyun, the leader in Mainland China’s intra-city logistics market, and increased GOGOVAN’s presence to over 300 cities, with more than 8 million registered drivers under its network. GoGoVan has announced its rebranding as GoGoX in July 2020.
Amwise Diagnostic is a leader in precision medicine technology for cancer. Our patented genetic analysis technologies assist doctors and patients in determining the most appropriate individualized treatment strategy that has optimal treatment effectiveness and minimal treatment-related adverse events.