2023 Awardees

Platinum Award

Platinum Award

Team Name: Allegrow
Focus Area(s): Healthcare 
Brief Description: Allegrow Biotech aims to bring cell therapeutics to all. We are a platform company, spinning-off from Biomaterials and Drug Delivery Lab HKUST.  We develop AimGel platform, which is our proprietary hydrogel microbead technology to enable faster and cheaper cell therapeutics production.

 

Gold Award

Gold Award

Team Name:  not only powder
Focus Area(s): Healthcare; Social Services & Enterprise; Environment & Sustainability 
Brief Description: The company will be managed by 6 founders who are graduates in Business, Legal, Marketing, Chemistry, and Computer Science. The diverse skill sets these founders to possess, coupled with their academic knowledge, is the ideal mix NOP needs to thrive as a food-tech startup.

Sliver Award

Sliver Award

Team Name:  Fleming MedLab
Focus Area(s): Healthcare; Robotics & AI
Brief Description: We are a medical robotics startup. We design wearable robots and software to help stroke survivors walk again and recover their brains. Our priority is regaining walking ability and gait recovery. We design neuroscience-based medical devices. They assist therapists and stroke patients to retrain muscles and neural pathways.

Gold Award

GF Innovation Award

Team Name:  Allegrow
Focus Area(s): Healthcare 
Brief Description: Allegrow Biotech aims to bring cell therapeutics to all. We are a platform company, spinning-off from Biomaterials and Drug Delivery Lab HKUST.  We develop AimGel platform, which is our proprietary hydrogel microbead technology to enable faster and cheaper cell therapeutics production.

Gold Award

Elevator Pitch Award

Team Name:  Elevatefoods
Focus Area(s): Healthcare
Brief Description: We are a spin-off company from the HKUST, consists of core R&D 3 PhD and 2 UG students from the Smart Manufacturing and Laser Manufacturing Research Group with Prof. Mitch Li and Prof. Tak Chi Lee (Ex PolyU School of Design Asso. Dean) as our R&D advisors. Our CMO Mazing Lee, is the co-founder of renowned wellness tech Startup Lify Wellness with Connie.

HKUST Student Team Award

Sustainability Impact Award

Team Name:  Daoad
Focus Area(s): Social Services & Enterprise; Environment & Sustainability
Brief Description: Risk husk-based company

Team Name:  not only powder
Focus Area(s): Social Services & Enterprise; Environment & Sustainability
Brief Description: The company will be managed by 6 founders who are graduates in Business, Legal, Marketing, Chemistry, and Computer Science. The diverse skill sets these founders to possess, coupled with their academic knowledge, is the ideal mix NOP needs to thrive as a food-tech startup.

Team Name:  Salvaged Limited
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability; I.T & Smart Tech
Brief Description: Bringing the power of e-commerce, data analysis, and automation to the clothing resale industry. 
We want to leverage existing technologies to make managing, tracking, and marketing unique second-hand garments scalable. Our mission is to create a digital presence for each clothing reject so that second-hand garments can compete with and eventually replace fast fashion in a new, circular world.

Elevator Pitch Award

HKUST Student Team Award

Team Name:  Elevatefoods
Focus Area(s): Healthcare
Brief Description: We are a spin-off company from the HKUST, consists of core R&D 3 PhD and 2 UG students from the Smart Manufacturing and Laser Manufacturing Research Group with Prof. Mitch Li and Prof. Tak Chi Lee (Ex PolyU School of Design Asso. Dean) as our R&D advisors. Our CMO Mazing Lee, is the co-founder of renowned wellness tech Startup Lify Wellness with Connie.

Team Name:  Mydaan
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability; Fintech
Brief Description: Mydaan provides an all-in-one e-receipt solution for consumers. Achieving waste-free, effort-free, worry-free.

Team Name:  Salvaged Limited
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability; I.T & Smart Tech
Brief Description: Bringing the power of e-commerce, data analysis, and automation to the clothing resale industry. 
We want to leverage existing technologies to make managing, tracking, and marketing unique second-hand garments scalable. Our mission is to create a digital presence for each clothing reject so that second-hand garments can compete with and eventually replace fast fashion in a new, circular world.