[MentorHUB] First Meetup@HKUST

Mentor - Prof Alan Chow 

Prof Alan Chow is a serial entrepreneur with startup experience in information technology, investment, mine and resources, property and education. He has successfully brought a start-up company to list on SGX and HKEx within 4 years and is now serving as the INED of a HKEx listed company. He is the Founder of Focus Capital Group Ltd, and Focus Capital Investment Inc, which invested in companies in Greater Bay Area and Silicon Valley. He is also the Advisory Partner of Beyond Ventures, a Hong Kong Government Information Technology Venture Fund (ITVF) Co-Investment Partner. To promote latest technology in the Greater Bay area, Prof Chow founded Greater Bay Area AI Academy, which develops proprietary technology and realise with various industries to support the education of AI with enhancement on the efficiency and security with reduction in cost. Prof Chow also serves as Professor and Visiting Lecturer of HK and China universities for Entrepreneurship as well as Honorary Judge and Professional Mentor of various Start-up competitions in various countries to promote entrepreneurship. He is a philanthropist who established and operate various charitable organizations and NGOs. One of them is AI Lab which promotes free training of AI coding courses. Prof Chow received professional education on Business Administration in Entrepreneurship and New Business Ventures as well as Electronic Commerce and Internet Computing from Universities in Australia and Hong Kong. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Corporate Finance from Ren Min University of China and is undergoing his second Phd at Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute with research interest on Artificial Intelligence.

Mentor - Miss Jennifer TSANG

With over 20 years of experience in digital media, advertising and marketing, Mentor Jennifer Tsang currently works for SCMP magazines division to lead and drive new product development, creative design, data analytics, commerce and membership business.   Jennifer was previously a member of a start-up in HK and continues being passionate with driving new business projects within the company.  

Mentor -  Mr. Ronald YU

Ronald taught law, business strategy; has been an advisor to a U.N. body, been an entrepreneur and worked with several major companies including IBM and FedEx.

Mentor - Mr. Rudy CHAN

Rudy amassed with 20 years of extensive experience in strategic planning and corporate innovation projects. He has been leading numerous innovation projects in corporate and multi-national firms. Rudy has immerse knowledge in incubating internal entrepreneurship within corporate and also lead their funding. His proficiency in new technology and startups network would enable him to bring startups up to next level, ultimately to their positive social impact.

Mentor - Mr. Shreyansh Durgesh

Experienced, passionate digital payments professional with strong technical background, SD has moved into business role with a track record of launching successful initiatives. Focused on fintech, product development and data analytics.

Startup - 3DK Tech

3DK Tech is building the metal 3D Printer of the future. Metal 3D printers use high-power lasers to selectively melt the very fine metal powder. Our technology is the only one on the market to deliver a solution that our customers desperately need: Full control of mechanical properties, 4x reduction in manufacturing time, and unlimited material choices. The parts printed with this technology are expected to have 200x the durability of parts printed with other technologies. 3DK Tech has been recognised by Solar Impulse Foundation to be one of the world’s Top 1000 efficient solutions for protecting the environment. We are working with HAECO Group, one of the world’s leading aircraft maintenance companies, to redesign specialized tools.

Startup - 6reen

6reen is an online food ordering platform that aims to reduce food waste by offering discounted “less fresh but edible food” from cafes and bakeries as pickup merchandise for the general public.

Startup - AnyDrinks

AnyDrinks creates a new format of drinks supply channel by the automated drinks production machines and AI-powered logistic arrangement. By cooperating with beverage vendors and restaurants who wish to expand their business, they can easily sell drinks with extensive sales channels and minimal labor and space cost. Our product and service include the drinks production machine, AI logistic and management system, and the cooperation service. 

Startup - AutoSafe Ltd.

Seeing the inefficiency in current site monitoring strategy, that is heavily relies on human and on-site supervision. We would like to develop an AI and computer-vision system that can help our end-user (mainly main contractors) to carry out this duty and hope to save Engineers, Managerial staff some time so that they can focus more on design and managerial works but not going out to the site to obtain such low-level information. Our solution have 3 levels, 1) AI-based Automatic site safety monitoring system, using the current CCTV system to monitor safety. 2)Integration with DWSS for drafting safety report, using the information logged by the AI CCTV monitoring system to help Engineers to draft the safety/ incident report. 3) Multi-camera trajectory tracking for site analytics, extending our vision beyond single CCTV camera so that we can understand the whole site better and allow us to have better evaluation and analytic for the whole construction site, where one camera is impossible to cover the whole site.

Startup - Delivery Ape

Delivery Ape is a logistic company that uses public transport passengers for delivery. By setting up pickup points in commuting hotspots for sending and recieving cargos, we allow users to deliver fragile and expensive cargos in a low price.

Startup - Fan{task}tic

Fantasktic is an AI-Powered Personalised Learning Solution that Supercharges Classroom Learning.

Startup - FlashGreen

FlashGreen is a social enterprise that focuses on recycling residual stock of short-dated best-before date products and redistributing them to people from different subgroups through vending machines and the companion mobile APP. Through the integration of technology and sustainability, FlashGreen is fostering a smart and sustainable campus and office culture dedicated to reducing unnecessary food waste through debunking the misconception of Best-before Date and promoting responsible consumptions behaviors.

Startup - Homsync

Homsync is an online roommate matching platform aiming to solve the housing problem in Hong Kong. We provide customers with a safe and reliable environment to meet with potential roommates and flat owners. In the future, we will leverage data analytics to provide more accurate information when comparing rental prices and finding a compatible roommate. 

Startup - NextG

NextG is a company focuses on providing special industrial lighting solutions for harsh and hazardous applications.

Startup - None

N. A.

Startup - Stemtitute education and technology Co., Ltd 

An education technology with the mission to make it easier and happier in learning. We are designing an AR technology that integrate into stem education.

Startup - SuiGor

SuiGor is the first-ever Cantonese Personal Finance Chatbot in Hong Kong. Our mission is to help users achieve their personal financial goals through an intuitive and fun virtual assistant, which assists users in building a financial tracking habit and learn about their own personal finances through AI-generated insights. Ultimately, we hope to be a financial educator for our users.

Startup - Takeawayla

Takeawayla is a Trivago in Food delivery across all restaurants in Hong Kong, as well as all products across different ecommerce platforms. Price and quality comparison can be seen on Takeawayla. 

Startup - UniHK App

UniHK App aims to popularize Hong Kong as a study destination by streamlining the application process for students intending to further partake in higher education. We aim to make higher education more accessible for students not only in Hong Kong but also to the international community.

Objectives:
-- To develop a system that can simplify and provide convenience to the application process for all students (international, mainland, and locals) applying or transferring to higher educational institutions in Hong Kong; 
-- To further attract Hong Kong as a destination for higher education through the collective system made, allowing more exposure of different universities and education offered in Hong Kong not only to the local audience but also international ones.
 

The first meetup at theBASE was successfully held on 29 Dec 2021. Total 14 startups joined the networking with the 6 mentors (Alan, Jennifer, Mac, Rudy, Ronald and SD). The teams gained inspiration for their startup development. Thank you for all your support on the MentorHUB and we look forward to seeing you soon!

Attended mentors:

1. Prof Alan CHOW (Founder and CEO, Focus Capital Group)

2. Miss Jennifer TSANG (Vice President of Digital, SCMP)

3. Mr. Mac Chan (Practising Solicitor)

4. Mr. Ronald YU (Board Member, International  IP Commercialization Council)

5. Mr. Rudy Chan (Venture Partner, Cocoon Ignite Ventures)

6. Mr. Shreyansh DURGESH (Senior Consultant, Teradata)

Attended teams:

1. 3DK Tech  

2. 6reen  

3. AnyDrinks  

4. AutoSafe Ltd.  

5. Delivery Ape  

6. Fan{task}tic  

7. FlashGreen  

8. Homsync  

9. NextG  

10. none  

11. Stemtitute education and technology Co., Ltd  

12. SuiGor  

13. Takeawayla  

14. UniHK App

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