Description:
#CoCoonPitch Night enables entrepreneurs to present their products or services to a variety of audience and seek potential investors, co-founders, team members, customers, corporate partners or publicity.

Pitch Night in Numbers:
http://www.hkcocoon.org/pitch-night.html

-       222+ pitch teams have showcased

-       CoCoon entrepreneurs have raised HKD640+ million since 2012

Pitch Teams:

[Advertising platform] Clickful – Raymond Yip
Clickful is an end-to-end solution for online advertising. It automatically generates custom designed ad creatives, sets up, manages and optimises all of your online ad campaigns on the various ad networks. Using machine learning, it is also able to predict the best ad creatives for increased conversion and removes underperforming ads in advance to reduce unnecessary ad spend.

[Gadget Sharing Platform] - Deown - Jennifer Suek
A platform connecting gadget loving consumers with hardware startups/companies to provide gadget trial and marketing service.
Facebook: @deown.hk
Twitter: @rent_at_deown

[Mindfulness solution] Mindfio - Kendy Abbasi
Mindfio introduces a mindfulness platform with trainers, corporates and trainees in mind, that will disrupt the mindfulness training market with bio-feedback and data-driven personalization.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindfio

[Car platform] Beyond Cars – Preston Cheung
Beyond Cars eliminates inefficiencies and overhead intermediary costs associated with car dealerships and reshapes how and where you buy cars through technology and services based on convenience, trust and transparency.
Facebook: fb.com/beyondcarshongkong/
Twitter: @BeyondCarsHK

[Texile] LXN Collection – Way Cheung
Our patented anti-sweatmarks and stain resistant dress shirts and polo shirts are helping our customers be worry free of embarrassing sweatmarks especially during special occasions such as job interviews, big presentation, and even on dates. The shirts’ additional stain resistant function can keep coffee, sauces, and even red wine from staining the shirts.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lxncollection
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LXNCOLLECTION

[Education Tech] Find Solution AI - Viola Lam

Find Solution Artificial Intelligence Limited is engaged in research, develop and use of artificial intelligence technologies to find solutions to problems in education, medical diagnostics and ecommerce. We currently provide adaptive learning solutions to students and medical diagnosis tools for students with learning disabilities (detect ADHD/Autism) on iPad or tablet.

Judges:

Alison Chan
Managing Director

Alison Chan is the Managing Director of New Frontier.Prior to joining New Frontier, Alison joined Gerson Lehrman Group as the Chief Representative in China in 2009 and was last heading the New Markets development in Asia. Prior to that, Alison founded a think-tank financial advisory practice focused on enhancing SME value via strategic planning and restructuring. Alison also worked at JP Morgan Chase in Corporate Finance division in New York focusing on high yield origination. She also worked in the finance and treasury department at GE Capital. She has over 15 years of consulting, corporate finance and operational experience working in the US, Japan, Europe and China.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Alison graduated from The University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor in Business Administration and subsequently obtained a Master in Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Alison is the President for the Harvard Business School Association in Hong Kong and a board member of Bring Me A Book.

Andy Yung
Managing Director of Yung’s Enterprise Holdings Limited

Andy is currently running his family business’ directing investment operations including various early stage investments.  The three main areas of focus are: hardware technologies, green technologies, and workflow optimization. To date, such investments have been made in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Silicon Valley, with a total investment size of over US$50 million.

Ricardo Wenzel
Partner, Ventris Capital Advisor

Ricardo's main work and interest is on transformative technologies and ventures focused in the financial sector. Originally from Germany, Ricardo grew up in Chile and first moved to Asia in 1993 to learn Mandarin. Prior to Ventris, he was Head of Asset Servicing for the Greater China markets at UBS in Hong Kong. Before joining UBS in 2006, Ricardo spent several years working for the Liebherr group in Switzerland and China. Ricardo holds a BBA from Ravensburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany and an MBA from Edinburgh University, UK. He is fluent in German, English, Spanish, Mandarin and French.