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CoCoon Pitch Finals Spring 2015 (4/16) 浩觀創業擂台決賽_二零一五年春季
By CoCoon 浩觀
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3/F, Citicorp Centre 18 Whitfield Rd Tin Hau, HK Hong Kong Hong Kong
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Description
Date: Thursday, April 16, 2015
Time: 18:30 - 21:00
Venue: CoCoon Seminar Area
Address: CoCoon, 3/F, Citicorp Centre, 18 Whitfield Road, Tin Hau
Description:
CoCoon Pitch event enables entrepreneurs to present their products or services to a variety of audiences and seek potential funders, co-founders, team members, customers, partners or publicity. #CoCoonPitch Finals were featured on Forbes and TVB Money Magazine. Cash Prize: HKD 20,000 / 10,000 / 5,000
Language: Cantonese, Mandarin or English
Pitch Night in Numbers:
- 23 Pitch Nights have been held
- 62 experienced judges has been involved
- 108 pitch teams has showcase
- 2,400+ audience has attended
- 210,000+ cash prize has been sent out
- HKD117 MILLION in funding from investors they met at CoCoon
Next series is open for application:
Thursday May 21, 2015 (apple before Apr 20) - OPEN
Thursday Jun 25, 2015 (apply before May 20) - OPEN
Thursday July 23, 2015 (apply before Jun 20) - OPEN
Pitch Teams:
[Mobile APP] HK beauty bible - Elizabeth Yeung
HK beauty bible is the search engine for Hong Kong beauty shops. With the most comprehensive database over 3000 beauty shops together with a user friendly website and mobile app interface, we help users to locate the shop for their desired products in just one click.
[Mobile buy & sell app] Swapit - Patrick Kosiol
Swapit is a mobile app that allows you to easily buy and sell stuff nearby. It is a location-based trading platform for pre-loved items that runs entirely on your mobile.
Facebook:swapitla Twitter:@swapitla
[Robotic Coffee Kiosk] Cafe X Technologies - Jack Sun and Henry Hu
Cafe X is creating the next generation coffee experience with a fully automated premium robotic coffee kiosk and mobile ordering app.
Facebook: cafexapp Twitter: @cafexapp
[Check out your space] Ungert Design - Ilya Belikin
It is a digital plan of a workspace for people who work inside. It provides awareness and enables collaboration. It is a better interface for a space.
Facebook: ungertdesign Twitter: @ungertdesign
[Boutique Hotel Digital Marketing System] Yunnke - Perkins Ho
Yunnke is a digitial marketing system ("DMS") to help boutique hotels, initially all those in China called "kezhan", with direct marketing and booking capabilities.
Facebook: Yunnke
[Online Recruitment] Snakehead - Wendy Cheung
"Filling Last Minute Jobs with Last Minute Employment" Snakehead.com.hk is an online platform for employers to find last minute replacement help and for candidates to look for last minute jobs.
Judging panel:
Ms. Selina Chong
Chief Marketing Officer of HKBN
Selina is a seasoned strategic marketing and brand specialist, responsible for cementing HKBN as the Internet Service Provider brand of choice and brand by default for the people of Hong Kong. Selina earned her marketing stripes in Canada and Asia Pacific from American Express, Citibank, Fidelity Investments, and Octopus Cards; bringing in a wealth of experience in brand management, corporate communications, strategic sales and marketing. Over the last 25 years, not only did Selina change employers when she changed jobs, she made a point to switch industry as well with every new role. Her reason is simple: get out of the comfort zone, stay hungry, and become a better marketer with cross-over ideas. Selina holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from University of Toronto, and a Master of Business Administration Degree from McMaster University, Canada. If Selina did not have to work, she would be renovating and flipping dilapidated houses for creative expression. Selina is 1 of 87 proud Co-Owners of HKBN.
Mr. Oscar Chow
Executive Director of the Chevalier International Holdings Ltd
Oscar Chow is an Executive Director of the Chevalier International Holdings Limited. He was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Towngas China Company Limited in 2012. Mr. Chow was educated in Hong Kong, Canada and the United Kingdom. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in Master of Engineering. In 1997, he returned to Hong Kong to engage in finance and had worked in the corporate finance division of BNP Prime Peregrine and subsequently worked as an Associate Underwriter of Centre Solutions (Asia), a subsidiary of Zurich Financial Services, before he joined the Chevalier Group in 2000.
Mr. Tak LoDirector at Techstars
Tak Lo is a Director at Techstars. He has spent over 6 years across the European and NYC startup communities, having founded, mentored, and invested in startups. He's grown Techstars London program from inception, and has worked with over 40 cross-cultural companies from across the globe. Tak started his career in the US Army, became a management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, and was an investment banker at Nomura. London Business School and the University of Chicago. His writes regularly at taklo.co
Roland Yau
Investment Director of CoCoon
Want to meet the judge? Sign-up as pitch team now?
Email the following information to pitch@hkcocoon.org:
- Subject line: [Name of Start-up] Apply for CoCoon Pitch Night [mm,yyyy]
- Description of start-up: Limit 30 words, to be used in event brochure
- Submit a 5-slide business plan, including: short description, problem statement, target market, business solution, the team and what you are seeking by attending Pitch Night.
- Attend a 15 minutes meeting with the community development team to discuss the above.
- Description of start-up: Limit 30 words, to be used in event brochure
- Submit a 5-slide business plan, including: short description, problem statement, target market, business solution, the team and what you are seeking by attending Pitch Night.
- Attend a 15 minutes meeting with the community development team to discuss the above.
Criteria of applicant:
- Open to CoCoon members only.
- Sequence of priority will be given to those holding longer membership at CoCoon.
- As we only have limited spots for semi-finals each month, you will receive a confirmation email to inform you whether you have qualified.
浩觀創業擂台：讓創業家認識新業務、新主意
創業的關鍵是資本，投資的關鍵是人才；但兩者往往欠缺紅娘為其牽線。浩觀創業擂台，除了是一個讓初創企業家發表業務的舞台，也開辟新舞台，讓投資者為自己的計劃尋覓人才。自去年三月至今，已吸引了超過六十間初創企業在此分享創業理念；並透過這個平台集資超過港幣一千八百萬。
獎項： 現金獎港幣二萬、一萬及五千元
語言： 廣東話、普通話或英語
數據:
- 已舉辦23場浩觀創業擂台
- 62位投資者及企業家曾擔任評判
- 108間初創公司在此分享創業理念
- 2400+觀眾來自投資、創業及傳媒界
- 已送出21萬獎金
- 會員在此集資超過港幣二千四百萬
- 媒體報導： 福布斯、TVB財經雜誌等不同媒體也透過創業擂台認識了城中創業新秀
申請方法：
請電郵以下資料至 pitch@hkcocoon.org：
- 電郵標題: [參加創業擂台] 公司名稱 [月份]
- 五頁簡報介紹你的創業計劃：包括您的公司簡介(三十字上限)、產品簡介、市場定位、團隊、參加原因
- 每隊創業隊伍均需經過篩選
申請資格:
- 申請人必須為浩觀會員
- 閣下如能晉身準決賽，將會收到我們的電郵，以茲確認。
- 申請截止日期以電郵接收日期為依歸
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