How To Make Your Startup Investable?

Description

A panel discussion giving tips such as how to pitch like a founder to insights on what accelerator programmes and investors look for when investing in startups.

*Typhoon Signal No.8 Arrangement:

If typhoone signal no.8 is held tomorrow(8/23), the event will be cancelled. Please pay attention to the weather report. Thank you for your understanding.

Language: Cantonese

Agenda

#1. Introduction to Betatron & Application process

#2. Panel Discussion "How to Make Your Startup Investable"

On the panel

Joe Chan (Partner, MindWorks Ventures)

Jeffrey Au (Partner, Incu-Lab)

Nelson Cheng (Co-Founder & CTO, IC Studio)

Andy Chan (Co-Founder,Qupital)

More details

Joe Chan -Partner of MindWorks Ventures

Joe is an angel investor and veteran TMT investor. Prior to that, Joe has worked for Guosen Securities, one of the largest investment banks in China, as a director and an analyst of Central Asset Investment which is an multi-year award winning asset management firm. Joe has multi-year experience in helping startups on deal structuring, fund raising as well as international expansion.

Jeffrey Au- Partner of Incu-Lab

Jeffrey Au belongs to the 1st generation of creative-force in e-business, e-content and mobile business when the technology, Internet and telecommunication boom started in the exciting 90’s.He is involved in the development and advocacy of most of the pioneer digital products and services in Internet’s earliest stage, including Internet content portal, e-commerce, search engine, push technology platform, digital community, mobile gaming, mobile utilities and other most novel digital services in the development of Chinese Books Cyber Store (1st online shopping store in HK), China Dotcom (1st HK/China based listed company in Nasdaq), Hongkong Dotcom (listed company in HK), Taiwan Dotcom, Netscape search engine, AOL Hong Kong, Cable & Wireless-Hong Kong Telecom’s various digital setups, YesMobile’s mobile application services, etc.

Nelson Cheng – Co-Founder & CTO of IC Studio

Nelson oversees all technical development projects for IC Studio and its incubatees. He has over 25-years of experience on the technology side of different domain areas such as finance and telecommunication.

Andy- Co-Founder of Qupital

Qupital is Hong Kong's first and largest online invoice discounting exchange, the company has secured a seed investment round of 2 million USD led by Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund and MindWorks Ventures. Andy oversees Qupital's daily operations, strategy and partnerships. Andy studied Economics and Computer Science at Brown University and has experience in Commercial Banking and Asset Management in Hong Kong and New Zealand, while also possessing a background in Software Engineering. Also, he has helped to develop an innovative legal technology platform in Denmark.

About Betatron

Betatron is a startup accelerator programme providing US$30k funding and mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs and industry experts, to help optimize and scale your startup.

http://www.betatron.co

About Metropolitan Workshop

Metropolitan Workshop aim to facilitate the new shared economy by providing vibrant and inspiring work environment that also comes with many kinds of services, partnerships and activities. We bring people of diverse background and professions together and induce a collaborative and friendly atmosphere. The chain of workshops are located in different parts of Hong Kong, and they all provide rooms, hot desks and memberships that cater for different needs. You can move from one workshop to another and find very different atmosphere and vibes. Each of our workshop is a close community by itself, and the chain of our workshops together forms a complete ecosystem for you to realize your goals and aspirations.

Directions

Metropolitan Workshop (Admiralty)

Address: Unit 603, 6/F, Tower 1, Admiralty Centre, 18 Harcourt Road, Admiralty

初創企業如何吸引投資？

簡介

座談會分享創業家應如何投售創業計畫和加速器與創投怎樣分辨有潛力的初創企業。

語言: 廣東話

流程

#1 Betatron簡介和講解報名流程

#2 座談會分享初創企業如何吸引投資？

座談會嘉賓

Joe Chan (Partner, MindWorks Ventures)

Jeffrey Au (Partner, Incu-Lab)

Nelson Cheng (Co-Founder & CTO, IC Studio)

Andy Chan (Co-Founder,Qupital)

嘉賓簡歷

Joe Chan -Partner of MindWorks Ventures

Joe 是一個天使和資深TMT投資者。Joe曾在中國最大投資銀行之一國信證券和在多年獲獎的資產管理公司中環資產投資基金擔任主任及分析師。 Joe有多年經驗幫助初創企業進行交易結構，籌資和拓展國際業務。

Jeffrey Au- Partner of Incu-Lab

Jeffrey是在90年代第一代發展電子商務，電子內容和手機業務的一群。Jeffrey 參與了中國圖書網絡商店的發展(第一次在線購物香港上市公司)，中國Dotcom（納斯達克首個香港/中國上市公司，香港Dotcom (上市公司)，台灣Dotcom，Netscape搜索引擎，AOL香港， 香港有線和無線電訊設備，YesMobile的移動應用服務等。

Nelson Cheng – Co-Founder & CTO of IC Studio

Nelson 付責監督所有IC Studio技術開發項目及其孵化器。他在金融和電信等科技領域擁有超過25年的經驗。

Andy- Co-Founder of Qupital

Qupital 是香港首個網上發票融資交易平台獲200萬美元種子輪融資，其中一名投資者為阿里巴巴創業者基金。Andy付責監督Qupital的日常營運，戰略和夥伴關係。Andy 在布朗大學主修經濟與電腦科學，在香港和新西蘭擁有商業銀行和資產管理經驗，同時也擁有軟件工程的背景。此外，他還在丹麥參與開發了一個創新的法律技術平台。

關於Betatron

Betatron是一個創業加速器，提供30萬美元的資金及有經驗的企業家和行業專家指導，幫助優化和擴展您的初創企業。

關於 Metropolitan Workshop

城市工作坊一直致力提供富有生命力及創造力的工作環境去推動共享型經濟。我們提供不同服務，合作機會及場地活動。希望把不同背景及職業的伙伴連在一起，塑造一個融合及友善的氛圍。工作坊位於港九不同地方，提供私人工作間、流動辦公桌等其他類型的會員計劃設合不同人士的需要。每一家城市工作坊也有其獨一無二的主題設計、環境及活動。遊走在不同工作間之中，你會吸收到不同的氛圍及活力。每一家工作坊都是一個緊密的社區，而把所有工作坊融合起來，就是一個完整的經濟生態系統，助你實現你的目標及抱負。

地址

香港金鐘夏愨道18號海富中心一座6樓603室