#StartupHK News
January, February & March 2019
- Hong Kong: API exchange for banking launches, providing over 200 APIs from 13 banks, and a sandbox facility
- Hong Kong: HSBC PayMe for Business payment app unveiled for trial, adding to existing millennials-focused PayMe e-wallet
- Hong Kong: Circle K stores launch AI-powered accelerated checkouts
- Hong Kong: An intro to Miro, startup applying AI technology to marathon running events to provide data to footwear firms
- Hong Kong: A look at the recent Jumpstarter event, an initiative of Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund
- Hong Kong: A look at Ztore, e-commerce startup focused on groceries
- Hong Kong: An intro to YouTrip, multi-currency mobile wallet combined with contactless prepaid Mastercard for travellers
- Hong Kong’s Qupital, SME financing platform backed by China’s Alibaba, aims to be region’s largest trade financing platform
- Hong Kong: Start-up Express development program launched by HK Trade Development Council returns in 2019 to boost 10 startups
- Hong Kong: OliveX AI-driven fitness gamification app publisher secures US$1M
- Hong Kong: Futu Holdings online stock brokerage backed by China’s Tencent aiming for $130M Nasdaq IPO
- Human Rights Watch recently reported that China’s assault on individual human rights is at its worst level since the Tiananmen Square massacre.
