October 2019
A collection of key tech, startup and VC funding news from Hong Kong through October of 2019.
- Hong Kong: Mark your calendar – StartMeUpHK Festival 2020 set for February 10-15 next year
- Hong Kong: Betatron accelerator announces funding of up to US$150,000 in each of the 5th cohort’s 8 startups
- Hong Kong: An advance look at November’s Art+Tech: Mixed Reality event, looking at the impact of immersive technologies on everyday life
- An overview of Open University Hong Kong’s 3D and VR technologies for teaching nursing
- Hong Kong: A video look at how technology has changed the way both the police and protesters operate
- A quick look at Hong Kong’s Freekick, football teaming-up and match-making platform
- Hong Kong: Apple reverses HKmap app ban, accepting that what users do with information provided is outwith developer control
- Malaysian-Hong Kong foodtech startup, Phuture Foods, preps for launch of vegan pork meat alternative in Hong Kong, Singapore and beyond
- Hong Kong: OneOneDay advertising tech startup raises $1.3M pre-A following on from launch of India app
- Hong Kong’s Diginex, digital financial services startup, the first firm in Asia to join 19-country Blockchain Alliance led by Steptoe & Johnson law firm
- Hong Kong-based Insilico Medicine secures $37M with focus on AI tech targeting cancer, age-related disease and drug discovery
- How LoL Worlds 2019 gaming championships are shaping up as a new front in the Hong Kong protests battle
- Hong Kong FinTech Week 2019 set for November 4-8, and incorporating 1-day Shenzhen programme
- ICYMI: US lawmakers, both Republican and Democrat, pass Human Rights and Democracy Act in support of Hong Kong
- Hong Kong: Booqed platform for on-demand work spaces raises $1.7M with short-term rentals focus, following participation in Toronto-based Proptech Accelerator
- Google employees take to internal message boards and mailing lists in protest at company’s decision to ban a Hong Kong protest video game app
- Apple urged to restore Hong Kong protest app, HKMapp, or risk being ‘complicit in repression’, highlighting Apple’s censorship of at least 2200 apps in China
- Hong Kong: Katy Perry and Will Smith among $11M investors in HK’s Sandbox virtual reality startup
- Hong Kong: TripGuru backed by Catalyst Ventures early-stage VC firm to connect travelers with unique experiences
- Hong Kong: MIPIM PropTech Asia real estate technology event set for November 27th
- Australia: Immutable, gaming startup, hit by concerted cyber attack for supporting professional gamer banned by Blizzard for endorsing HK democracy protests
- Laos: BCEL state-owned bank partners Hong Kong mobile payments provider Wallyt to allow Lao merchants to accept payments via China’s WeChat Pay and Alipay
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