Description:
#CoCoonPitch 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

-       300+ pitch teams have showcased

-       CoCoon entrepreneurs have raised HKD5.4+ billion since 2012

Agenda:

14:30 Registration

15:00 Event start

16:30 Voting

16:45 Networking

** Please note that voting codes will not be distributed after the first pitch has begun.**

Judges:

Rudy Chan
Venture Partner
CoCoon Ignite Ventures
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 the next level, ultimately to their positive social impact.

Von Lam
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Falcon Partners
Falcon Partners is a leading private equity and venture capital investment firm licensed by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) headquartered in Hong Kong with offices in Shenzhen and Shanghai. Founded by former investors at institutions such as Warburg Pincus, Apax Partners, Capital Group, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, Falcon partners with exceptional management teams to build enduring, category-defining businesses over the long-term by providing value-added capital and strategic support at all stages of the company’s development – from pre-seed to pre-IPO. Pre-seed stage companies backed by Falcon, including Klook Travel (HK Unicorn), have raised over US$600 million in follow on investments, and later-stage global companies have achieved accelerated market expansion into Asia in partnership with Falcon.

Before Falcon Partners, Mr. Lam was a senior and founding member at Clearlake Capital, a $10+ billion U.S. private equity firm. Prior to Clearlake Capital, Mr. Lam was a private equity investor with Warburg Pincus, a $70+ billion global private equity firm. At Warburg Pincus, Mr. Lam executed leveraged buyout, growth equity and venture capital investments in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Prior to Warburg Pincus, he was a member of the corporate investment group at Microsoft, which worked directly with the Chairman, CEO and senior management to execute acquisitions and investments for the company in the U.S. and China. Mr. Lam started his career at JPMorgan in Investment Banking.

Mr. Lam graduated with an A.B., with honors, in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard University.

Teams:

[Boat & water entertainment Booking Network] Holimood - Bill Lau

It is a central system for boat and water entertainment booking that provides booking management software to service providers and distributes their service by connecting international distributors.

[Tourist Pass for Hong Kong] Hong Kong Tourist Pass - Rais Azad

It is a pass for you to access Hong Kong tourist spots in a cost-effective and time-saving way.

[Smart micro kitchen] VÄRM - Rasmus Rasmusson

VÄRM is designed for people who can’t cook. They are found in both the consumer market (e.g. busy families and elderly people) and many businesses in the service industry (e.g. mid-range hotels, bars and cafes).

[Fitness goal sharing platform] Stryde – Leon Lee & Alex Chung

Personal achievements and the self-discipline to breakthrough boundaries and obstacles are a feat of courage often overlooked. Stryde is the company's vision to create a platform on which users can finally have a voice and more importantly, a proverbial 'roof' to shout to the world their personal successes.