July, August & September 2019
Hong Kong’s startup news
Note: We’re currently looking for a wider range of news sources for Hong Kong’s tech and startup communities, with the aim of providing more robust coverage across Q4 2019 and beyond.
- Hong Kong: AngelHub equity crowdfunding platform selects 5 startups for fundraising from field of 250
- Hong Kong: Elevator Pitch Competition 2019 applications now open for startups in AI / robotics, fintech, health technology and smart city fields
- Hong Kong: Correctional Services Dep’t to use AI-powered cameras and analytics to detect suspicious behavior among inmates
- Twitter reports ‘significant state-backed information operation’ from within the China targeting Hong Kong; removes 936 accounts and suspends 200,000
- Hong Kong: A look at Snapask, on-demand education app matching students with qualified tutors for interactive Q&A sessions
- Hong Kong: Hydroplast startup unveils water-soluble film, aiming to fight plastic waste in oceans and landfills
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology establishes HK$50M HKUST Entrepreneurship Fund to support development of early-stage startups
- Google shuts 210 YouTube channels acting as part of ‘coordinated’ disinformation campaign about Hong Kong protests, following similar actions by Twitter, Facebook
- Why YouTube continues to demonetize videos of the Hong Kong protests, preventing coverage of this and other important global events
- An overview of the 8 startups selected for Accenture’s 2019 FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific program
- Applications for cohort 2 of The STILE Initiative now open, a 4-month residential incubation program based in Hong Kong
- Hong Kong protestors turn to Bridgefy Bluetooth-based app for ‘mesh messaging’ that the CCP can’t block, communicating using no persistent managed network
- Tweeting through the Great Firewall: Preliminary Analysis of PRC-linked Information Operations on the Hong Kong Protests
- Hong Kong: “In recent days, China has more aggressively stirred up nationalist and anti-Western sentiment using state and social media…to undermine the protesters”
- Japan: Fintech Business Camp Tokyo 2019 unveils participants, including 3 startups from Singapore and 2 from Hong Kong
