events - 港創人 Hong Kong Founders

FoundersHK meet KK Wong, Co-Founder of Xiaomi

FoundersHK is hosting a in-person discussion with KK Wong, Cofounder of Xiaomi and Edith Yeung, General Partner of Race Capital and FoundersHK. Xiaomi was founded by Lei Jun, KK Wong and 6 other co-founders in 2010. Today, Xiaomi is world third largest smartphone brand ins the world with over 150 million units sold in 2022. The smartphone commodities of Xiaomi include different series such as Mi Series, Mi Note Series, Mi Max Series, Mi Mix Series, Mi NoteBook Series, Redmi Series, Blackshark, and Pocophone. Xiaomi has around 291.6 million active users for its MIUI updates. Besides, the company also offers laptops, mobile apps, mobile accessories, wearables, home appliances, and smart-home devices. Come join us on March 22 and learn: The Xiaomi story What is KK's experience from 14 years in Microsoft to being a startup founder? What next for KK and what is he excited about in terms of technology? Advice for Hong Kong founders and ecosystem

Hong Kong Internet Report 2023

The annual Hong Kong Internet Report tracks all the investments, startups, VCs and general activity in the city. This years report addresses: - Statistics on the Hong Kong’s most well-funded startups, largest funding rounds, and most active venture investors - Opportunities for Hong Kong startups - Challenges facing the Hong Kong startup ecosystem including outflow of tech talent to other countries - Recommendations for Hong Kong

A 2023 Outlook for Venture Capital, Technology and Startups with Alfred Chuang and Kaifu Lee

FoundersHK is hosting a in-person discussion with Alfred Chuang - Founder of Race Capital, BEA Systems and FoundersHK and Dr. Kai-Fu Lee - Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and former president of Google China. 2022 was not a great year for venture capital and tech startups. Venture funding for the first nine months of 2022 totaled $369 billion, down 25% year on year, according to Crunchbase. The median pre-money valuation for all stages were trending downward and may likely continue in 2023. Come join us on January 11 and learn: How the global tension impact venture investment allocation and strategies What industries and sectors are Alfred and Kaifu are bullish or bearish on Will startup valuation be shifted and adjusted in 2023 What is the impact on IPO, merger, and acquisition

Anthony Cheng - Partner @ Newman Capital

FoundersHK Meets Tony Wong of Shopline

FoundersHK will host a fireside chat (on Zoom) with Tony Wong - Co-Founder and CEO of Shopline. Meet Tony Wong - Co-Founder and CEO of Shopline and learn: Tony's story and experience raising funding from global investors His experience transitioning from a engineer / CTO to CEO Startup accelerator or incubator - to join or not to join? Advice for founders in terms of fundraising, pitching and company building. And more! Sign up here > https://lu.ma/foundershk-shopline-tony-wong-2022

FoundersHK Meets Joe Chan, MindWorks Capital

FoundersHK hosted a fireside chat (on Zoom) with Joe Chan, Partner at MindWorks Capital and Edith Yeung from Race Capital. Meet Joe Chan, Partner at MindWorks Capital. Advice for founders in terms of fundraising, pitching and company building. What, Where, and How MindWorks invest. And more! Speakers: Joe Chan, Partner at MindWorks Capital Edith Yeung,- Founder of FoundersHK, Race Capital and Advisor to 500 Startups

FoundersHK Meets Perry Tam, Locus Ventures

FoundersHK hosted a fireside chat with Perry Tam, Locus Ventures on July 12 9 am. Perry Tam is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Locus Ventures and founder of Storm8 (acquired by Stillfront Group for $300M) . As CEO, Perry Tam sets Storm8’s overall strategic vision. Before co-founding Storm8, Tam was an engineer at Facebook, where he led the payments team that architected Facebook Credits. Previously, he held engineering roles at Guidewire Software and Oracle. Tam is the author of four patents. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University. Selected as one of the 10 Most Powerful Investors in Crypto by The Information, Edith Yeung is a General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund investing in all things infrastructure. Edith is the seed investor in Solana (has been dubbed one of the best venture investments of all time), FTX, Lightning Network, Agora.io, Placer.ai, RapidAPI, and 60 other amazing startups. Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator which invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies.

My Founding Stories - Steven Chan, founder of GoodNotes

Steven has a background in maths and machine learning and has self-taught programming since young. He developed & launched the first version of GoodNotes right out of college, and single-handedly run the business till 2015 when Apple Pencil released. Since then, GoodNotes becomes the No.1 note taking app globally and has been consistently ranked within top 20 paid app on App Store, and regularly featured by Apple. GoodNotes is in hyper-growth since 2020, the team has grown 4x to ~80 staffs globally. In the fireside chat, we will chat with Steven about: - His unique founding story. - Challenges for a solo founder during the early days, how he single-handedly bootstrap, go-to-market, etc. - Key elements for GoodNotes' hyper-growth. - Challenges to scale and run a globally distributed team. - Lessons learned. - And more!

FoundersHK Meets Yat Siu, Animoca Brands

FoundersHK hosted a fireside chat (on Zoom) with Yat Siu, Animoca Brands. Yat Siu is the founder of Animoca Brands, one of the most active investors in digital entertainment, blockchain and gaming space. Yat invested in over 150 investments in blockchain and NFT-related startups including Axie Infinity, OpenSea, Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot), Yield Guild Games, Harmony, Alien Worlds, Star Atlas, and others. The company has multiple subsidiaries including The Sandbox, Quidd, nWay, Pixowl, and Lympo. At Animoca Brands's mission is to drive digital property rights via NFTs and gaming to build the open metaverse. They recently raised over $700M in funding & most recent valuation of $5.4B pre-money in January 2022.

Mastering B2B Sales with Esmond Tong - CRO at Falaina, Former VP & GM at Oracle

Fireside Chat with Esmond Tong - CRO at Falaina, Former VP & GM at Oracle In this webinar, we will cover: - Key attributes of a great B2B sales team. - How to identify top sales leaders and form a great sales team. - How to develop a comp plan & incentive structure, and motivate your sales team. - How to develop qualified leads for Sales - Best practices for sales in different Asia countries. - Lesson learnt, Dos & Don’ts in B2B Sales. - And more! Esmond is the CRO of Falaina - a high growth New Generation Cybersecurity Solution startup based in HK & Singapore. As a CRO, Esmond oversees all sales initiatives across ASEAN & China. Prior to Falaina, Esmond was a VP & GM of Application and SaaS in Oracle for 10+ year. Esmond has comprehensive sales, business, and operation management experiences for driving and growth emerging technology-related businesses in the APJ and China region with a strong focus on SaaS, Cloud, AI, Blockchain, E-Commerce and Cybersecurity.

FoundersHK Fireside Chat with Chibo Tang, Gobi Partners

Fundraising Trends and Tips for Founders with Chibo Tang, Gobi Partners. FoundersHK is hosting a fireside chat (on Zoom) with Chibo Tang, Gobi Partners and Edith Yeung from Race Capital. Meet Chibo, Gobi Partners' (GP of Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund) Advice for founders in terms of fundraising, pitching and company building. What, Where, What and How Gobi Partners invests. And more! Speakers: Chibo Tang, Managing Partner at Gobi Partners Edith Yeung,- Founder of FoundersHK, Race Capital and Advisor to 500 Startups

How to Hire & Build a High Performing Team for Your Startup

FoundersHK is hosting a Zoom Webinar with Derek Choy, COO at Rainforest QA. Derek is the COO of Rainforest QA, Inc. - a high growth Series C startup with staffs all over the world. Derek helped the company to hire, build & run a successful fully remote & distributed team since the very early day. In this webinar, we will discuss: * How to hire key executive, engineering leaders & engineers. * How to intentionally create & shape team culture, when should you start caring about that. * Pros & Cons between offshore and fully distributed team. * How to build & run a fully remote & distributed team from Day 1. * Dos & Dont's when scale a team from 10 to 30, 30 to 70, 100+. * And more!

FoundersHK Batch 1 Demo Day

FoundersHK is hosting its very first Demo Day for Batch 1 companies. FoundersHK is hosting its very first Demo Day for Batch 1 companies with our amazing companies including: * Big Bang Academy - Effective and engaging education for kids anytime, anywhere * Dimorder - TOAST Asia Style - Restaurants' super app for sales, operations & customer experience * Find Recruiter - Bounty recruiting platform for businesses in Asia to hire in days, not weeks * PowerArena - Deep learning video analytics platform for manufacturing operations.

How to Build an Awesome eCommerce Brand From Zero with Frost Li

FoundersHK is hosting a Zoom workshop with Frost Li, Former Head of Growth at Wish. On July 26, FoundersHK and Frost Li (former GM and Head of Growth at Wish, advisor to Pinterest and Lyft) and learn: * How to build your brand on eCommerce platforms * How to generate more sales on Pinterest, Instagram and Wish * How to leverage live-streaming for eCommerce works * How to build a loyal audience and increase life time value (LTV) for each customer