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HKU 2018 DreamCatchers 100K Entrepreneurship Seed Fund Final Pitch

13 Apr 2018

 

Final Pitch of the first HKU Entrepreneurship Seed Fund, DreamCatchers 100K, will be held on 15 April (SUN). 18 Finalists led by HKU students and young alumni will pitch their business idea or prototypes on the day to compete seed fund awards up to HK$100,000. Some of the teams include:

MrReply (Let everyone build a chatbot without coding in 10mins)
OssFila (3D printing solutions to build advanced tailor-made ortho implants with superior strength and integrity, and seamless biological integration)
Freehunter (An online marketplace to hire a personalized freelancing talent in the creative industry)
Farmacy (Farmacy grows a large variety of high quality rare herbs and edible flowers in our indoor hydroponic lab located in the heart of our city. We enable farm-to-table production in Hong Kong within a day and aim at expanding in Asia and beyond)

Event details

Date: 15 April 2018, Sunday

Time: 2:00pm-6:00pm

Venue: Rayson Huang Theater, HKU

Language: English

Judges:

Alison Chan Managing Director, New Frontier
Professor Andy Hor Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), HKU
Dr SC Kim Director, Technology Transfer Office, HKU
Peter Yan Chief Executive Officer, Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Ltd
Andrew Young Associate Director (Innovation & Technology), Sino Group
Dr Claudia Xu Chief Commercial Officer, Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation

Programme Rundown:

1400     1st Session of Pitching

1420     Break and Networking

1540     2nd Session of Pitching

1650     Judges Deliberation & Networking & Live Voting (Decide People’s Choice Award)

1715     Results Announcement

1800     End

Interview with individual teams could be arranged after the event. For more event and team details: http://bit.ly/2018DC100KFinalPitch

Enquiry:

Technology Transfer Office Mr Taurus Yip (Tel: 3917 1743/ 9359 4229; Email: taurus.yip@hku.hk) OR Mr Laurence Tang (Tel: 3917 1714/ 6076 9413; Email: laurence.tang@hku.hk)