List of Hong Kong Entrepreneurship Pitching Events (with deadlines and application thresholds)
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1/9/20239 min read
Hong Kong's start-up ecosystem is thriving. Data from the Hong Kong Trade Development Council shows a remarkable surge in start-ups, with an increase of over 115% from 2015 to 2020. For many first-time entrepreneurs facing challenges due to limited capital and networks, entrepreneurial contests serve as an excellent launching pad. Today, Shangkan presents a comprehensive guide to Hong Kong's 2023 Entrepreneurship Competitions, complete with in-depth information on application deadlines and entry criteria, to give you a competitive edge and help you gear up for success!
ForbesGA 2024 Tech Roadshow
The ForbesGA Tech Roadshow event aims to encourage and recognize outstanding entrepreneurs and innovative companies, and provide them with opportunities to showcase and develop. Promote entrepreneurship and entrepreneur exchanges through ForbesGA Tech roadshow activities, and encourage the development of new startups and technology communities in China's Greater Bay Area.
Roadshow participants will participate in two rounds of roadshow activities. The time for the first round is 3 minutes, and the time for the top 5 finalists is 8 minutes (5 minutes speech + 3 minutes Q&A). The roadshow mentor jury will vote to select the top three outstanding speakers, who will receive cash awards: a gold award of HK$20,000, a silver award of HK$10,000, and a bronze award of HK$5,000. All roadshow participants will have the opportunity to obtain membership in the Forbes Global Alliance Technology Chapter and receive brand promotion, entrepreneurial guidance and growth fund support of up to HK$1 million.
Application Details
Never received institutional investment or only received early-stage seed or angel round investment
A company incorporated in Hong Kong must be established no more than 5 years ago
The participating projects must involve at least one of the technology fields collected by the competition.
The participating projects currently or plan to develop business in China in the future
Entrants must have participated or currently participate in one of the Hong Kong incubation programs
Speech can be in English, Mandarin or Cantonese
EPiC stands as a distinctive international contest designed for global startups aiming to broaden their presence across Asia by taking advantage of the expansive network and customized assistance offered by Hong Kong's premier innovation landscape.
Benefit from widespread visibility among Hong Kong vast network of investors and corporate allies, and expedite your enterprise in the globe's most rapidly advancing region.
One day in Hong Kong and a 60-second elevator pitch can position you to revolutionize the Asian market
The finance sector is essential to the economy, providing necessary capital and relying on good governance to maintain public trust.
EPiC has a broad focus, including AI, digital assets, ESC, RegTech, and Web 3.0, aiming to innovate in these areas.
In real estate, PropTech is transforming the entire building process, enhancing design, construction, operation, and demolition. EPiC encourages showing innovation in planning, efficiency, sustainability, and safety, focusing on green materials, clean energy, digital workflow, smart monitoring, automated operations, and waste management.
MobilityTech improves the transportation of people and goods through advanced systems, essential for community connectivity and function.
EPiC's encourages showing include electrification, route optimization, sustainability, and enhancing warehousing and data collaboration.
Application
If your business meets the following criteria, nothing should stop you from hitting Apply Now!
Your company will have been established for less than 10 years as of 30 April 2024.
Your company is built on innovations in FinTech, PropTech, or MobilityTech.
To submit your application, please use the appropriate online form:
If your company is registered in Hong Kong, please apply at
For companies registered outside Hong Kong, click to submit your application.
Expiration date:
January 8, 2024 23:59 (GMT +8)
For More Information, please visit : https://epic.hkstp.org/#why_epic
Elevator Pitch Competition 2024
ForbesGA 2023 Tech Roadshow(Registration has ended)
The ForbesGA Tech Roadshow event aims to encourage and recognize outstanding entrepreneurs and innovative companies, and provide them with opportunities to showcase and develop. Promote entrepreneurship and entrepreneur exchanges through ForbesGA Tech roadshow activities, and encourage the development of new startups and technology communities in China's Greater Bay Area.
Roadshow participants will participate in two rounds of roadshow activities. The time for the first round is 3 minutes, and the time for the top 5 finalists is 8 minutes (5 minutes speech + 3 minutes Q&A). The roadshow mentor jury will vote to select the top three outstanding speakers, who will receive cash awards: a gold award of HK$20,000, a silver award of HK$10,000, and a bronze award of HK$5,000. All roadshow participants will have the opportunity to obtain membership in the Forbes Global Alliance Technology Chapter and receive brand promotion, entrepreneurial guidance and growth fund support of up to HK$1 million.
Application Details
Never received institutional investment or only received early-stage seed or angel round investment
A company incorporated in Hong Kong must be established no more than 5 years ago
The participating projects must involve at least one of the technology fields collected by the competition.
The participating projects currently or plan to develop business in China in the future
Entrants must have participated or currently participate in one of the Hong Kong incubation programs
Speech can be in English, Mandarin or Cantonese
"Qianhai Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition 2023" Hong Kong Division (Registration has ended)
"Qianhai Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition 2023" Hong Kong Division aims to discover young talents with creative and innovative abilities, cultivate young people's innovative attitude, unleash their leadership potential and entrepreneurial spirit, and realize their entrepreneurial dreams in the Greater Bay Area. The competition is divided into enterprise growth group and start-up team group, competing for a maximum prize of 100,000 CNY.
This year's competition is coming as scheduled. The Hong Kong competition will be hosted by Qianhai Service Group and the Hong Kong Youth Association, and the content has been upgraded again, providing more training and on-site inspection opportunities for entrepreneurial young people.
Whether you are a college student, working youth or a start-up entrepreneur, you can seize the opportunity to apply!
Enterprise Growth Group
Have innovative capabilities and high growth potential, be mainly engaged in the research and development, manufacturing, production and services of high-tech products, possess intellectual property rights and have no property rights disputes;
Technology-based small, medium and micro enterprises that meet the national classification standards (non-Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchange listed companies);
The company has been officially registered in Hong Kong, operates in a standardized manner, and has no bad credit or illegal records;
The company was registered and established after January 1, 2013 (inclusive);
The company’s annual sales revenue in 2022 will not exceed 200 million HKD;
Applicants need to submit the Hong Kong Certificate of Incorporation (CI), Business Registration Certificate (BR) and Incorporation Form (NNC1);
Those who win the plan must register and establish an enterprise in the Qianhai Cooperation Zone within six months after winning the award, and receive a bonus of up to RMB 100,000.
Startup Team Group
All types of business registration have not been completed before the deadline and meet the following conditions:
Team members must be no less than 2 (inclusive). There should be no more than 3 core team members, at least one of whom is a Hong Kong citizen;
Core team members must be under 45 years old;
The products, technologies, and patents in the participating projects belong to the participating teams, and there are no property rights disputes;
Not included in the list of abnormalities in scientific research integrity;
Those who win the plan must register and establish an enterprise in the Qianhai Cooperation Zone within six months after winning the award, and receive a bonus of up to RMB 100,000.
Enterprise Growth Group
The project’s planned application of innovative technology and entrepreneurship (25%)
Team composition (25%)
Business planning (30%)
Feasible and effective Qianhai business development direction (10%)
Highlights (10%)
How to apply:
The program only accepts online registration. Please submit the online form before the deadline (5:00 pm on September 17, 2023). Late submissions will not be accepted.
Website: https://sic.hkfyg.org.hk/qianhaihk/
Startup Team Group
Creative ideas (25%)
Team composition (25%)
Business value analysis (20%)
Action planning (10%)
Pitching (20%)
JUMPSTARTER 2023 Global Pitch Competition (Registration has ended)
Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund announced the JUMPSTARTER 2023 Global Pitch Competition, which will accept registration from now until May 14 this year. After the top 100 teams are selected by the judging panel, the competition will begin in late June, and the top 30 teams will be announced in September. , and advanced to participate in the finals held in Hong Kong in November.
The foundation stated that due to the high quality of the participating companies in the past, this year's top 30 startup teams will all undergo investment evaluation. These evaluated startups will have the opportunity to receive a total of up to US$5 million (approximately HK$39 million). Amount of investment. In addition to investing in start-ups, the competition also offers a total cash prize of HK$1 million for the championship and other awards.
This year's competition has further expanded its mechanism. In addition to continuing to cover areas such as sustainable development, healthcare, financial technology, art technology, advanced technology/artificial intelligence, and data/robotics technology, this year's special additions include biotechnology/life sciences, and industry 4.0. and Web3.0, a total of 8 major categories. Eligibility will be expanded to startups that are still in the ideation or growth stage and have raised less than $20 million to date. At the same time, we continue to welcome any enterprises that have been in business for no more than five years and intend to develop in Hong Kong and/or other cities in the Greater Bay Area to participate.Write your text here...
The 9th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (Registration has ended)
"Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition" started in 2015. The competition is currently the largest, most representative and most authoritative university student innovation and entrepreneurship competition in Hong Kong. The "Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition" has always been about innovation and entrepreneurship in parallel. Every year, there are "Innovation" projects (Life Sciences/Energy, Environment and Chemical Engineering/Information Technology/Mathematical Machinery) and "Entrepreneurship" projects (Business Plans/Start-ups/Social Enterprises). cultural and creative).
At the same time, entrepreneurial projects can include information technology, biomedicine, energy conservation and environmental protection, advanced manufacturing, education and training, medical health, cultural creativity, social enterprises and other types. Eligible candidates are full-time higher diploma, associate degree, bachelor's, master's and doctoral students. Entrepreneurial category (those with registered companies) full-time college and graduate students within five years of graduation are eligible to participate.
In order to enhance the credibility and recognition of the competition, the competition will invite representatives and celebrities from the innovation and technology community (academicians, university professors, experts and scholars), the entrepreneurial community, and the investment community according to different categories to serve as judges. Aiming to better integrate outstanding projects with the market and obtain richer resource docking and investment and financing opportunities at different stages of the competition.
A. Innovation
Format : Research Thesis / Invention
Category :
Life Sciences
Energy, Environmental
Chemical Engineering
Information Technology
Mathematics and
Physics / Mechanics and Control Systems
Eligibility :
Hong Kong’s Full-time diploma, higher diploma, associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree students. (On-job postgraduates exclusive )
No. of Participants:
Individual / Team Project (no restriction on the number of people)
Members could be from different institutes, but the institution of the team leader will represent the whole team when taking part in the Regional /National Competition
B. Entrepreneurship
Format : PPT + Proposal（could be submitted after initial judging）
Group :Entrepreneurship Proposal, Startup, Social Enterprise/ Cultural & Creative Services
Category : Advanced Manufacturing, Information Technology, Modern Agriculture
Eligibility :
Full time diploma, higher diploma, associate’s, bachelor’s, MPhil-PhD articulated programmers, master’s or doctoral degree students. (On-job postgraduates exclusive). For Entrepreneurship enrollment with registered company, welcome the Projects from Graduated ≤ 5 years or Cooperative Projects of teachers and students.
No. of Participants :
Individual / Team Project (no restriction on the number of people). Members could be from different institutes, but the institution of the team leader will represent the whole team when taking part in the Regional /National Competition.Write your text here...
Application
Participants must finish the application on or before the 20th April, 2023 (Thu) 12 noon.
Website: https://www.hkchallengeplus.com/en/application-info/first-step-apply/
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