Hong Kong is one of the most exciting cities in the world. It is dynamic, cosmopolitan and accommodating to new ideas. We've found some of the best startups in Hong Kong––but let us know if we missed anything!
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Best Startup companies in Hong Kong
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1. FREED GROUP LIMITED
FreeD Group is committed to creating barrier-breaking, customer-centric, data-driven ways of interaction between consumers and brands via our award-winning, proprietary Hybrid SaaS solutions and services like end-2-end AI Digital Transformation, Smart Merchandising and Smart Marketing.As one of the fastest-growing Tech start-ups headquartered inHong Kong with more than 10 offices globally, FreeD Group supports 200+ business partners worldwide, including major names such as Samsung, China Mobile, SingTel, Marriott, and Match Hospitality, BMW and LG to mention but a few. FreeD Group is also the winner of the 2021 Deloitte Technology Rising Start Award, 2021 United Nations UNWTO Global Start-up Competition and 2018 APAC ICT Grand Award, among many others.
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Website: https://www.freedgrouptech.com/
Founded: 2016
Total Funding: $25.5M
Last Funding Type: Series B
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2. Hyphen Group
Hyphen Group is a leading fintech company in Greater Southeast Asia, reaching over 10 million consumers per month and working with more than 220 financial institutions across six markets including Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand.Founded in 2014 and dual-headquartered in Hong Kong and Singapore, Hyphen Group- formerly known as CompareAsiaGroup - is a portfolio of digital finance companies that empowers and connects people to a better financial future through innovative tools, personalised digital experiences and expert insights, and accelerates the digitisation of the financial industry. We build the future of personal finance through 3 pillars: Comparison and Membership (MoneyHero, CompareHero, Moneymax, SingSaver, Money101, MoneyGuru and Seedly), as well as SaaS (eKos_connect). eKos_connect was launched in 2019 and is a SaaS provider connecting financial institutions with digital partners, affiliates and new users, supporting over 200 integrations through its partnership network.Learn more about how Hyphen Group connects technologies, empowers people and builds the future of finance at http://www.hyphengroup.io.
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Website: http://www.hyphengroup.io/
Founded: 2014
Total Funding: $158M
Last Funding Type: Venture - Series Unknown
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3. AfterShip
AfterShip empowers e-commerce businesses to grow and bring the best shopping experiences to their customers. The platform offers a suite of automation tools to help businesses with sales, marketing, order management, and shipment tracking. The platform connects the global infrastructure of e-commerce and makes buying and selling accessible toeveryone, everywhere. AfterShip is trusted by more than 100,000 businesses around the world, including leading e-commerce platforms like Amazon, eBay, Wish, and Etsy, as well as established brands like Microsoft, Dell, HP, and many more.
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Website: https://www.aftership.com/
Founded: 2012
Total Funding: $69M
Last Funding Type: Series B
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4. Reap
Reap is a financial platform that enables access and financial connectivity through innovation for companies of all sizes. Reap combines spend management software with a range of innovative payment products — including the flagship Reap Visa Corporate Credit Card. Reap is committed to helping businesses orchestrate success by providing the bestfinancial tools that evolve with its customers and the market.Reap is supported by an empowering group of investors, including Acorn Pacific Ventures, Arcadia Funds, HashKey Capital, Hustle Fund, Fresco Capital, Abacus Ventures and Payment Asia. The Company was founded in 2018 and has since expanded to a team of over 40, working across offices in 7 countries.
Website: https://www.reap.global/
Founded: 2018
Total Funding: $46M
Last Funding Type: Series A
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5. ParallelChain Lab
ParallelChain Lab is a blockchain technology company focusing on the research and development of ParallelChain, a scalable, privacy-focused layer-1 blockchain platform powering an ecosystem of interoperable enterprise and decentralised applications.
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Website: http://parallelchain.io/
Founded: 2018
Total Funding: $50.3M
Last Funding Type: Venture - Series Unknown
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6. WATI - WhatsApp Team Inbox
WATI is an early-stage, fast-growing SaaS platform that is revolutionizing how businesses communicate with their customers. We believe customer relationships are built through conversations, one message at a time. Through our cutting-edge customer engagement software built on WhatsApp’s Business API, businesses are now able to have personalizedconversations, be easily accessible and engage with their customers in real-time - at scale! We live in the on-demand economy, where customers expect fast, simple and easy service and that’s exactly what our platform empowers companies to do.This is made possible through WATI’s easy-to-use platform that can be made up and running in no time. As a result, small and medium businesses have embraced the platform rapidly, and thousands of customers across 54 countries are now using WATI within just a year of launch.
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Website: https://wati.io/
Founded: 2020
Total Funding:$31.3M
Last Funding Type: Series B
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7. Micro Connect
Micro Connect provides market infrastructure, fintech, and platform development.
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Website: https://microconnect.com/
Founded: 2021
Total Funding: $120M
Last Funding Type: Series B
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8. Oriente
Headquartered in Hong Kong, Oriente is the leading financial services and technology company committed to unlocking financial inclusion for underserved communities in emerging Asia.Using cutting-edge technologies including, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and data science, Oriente is building solutions that provide real-time creditscoring, digital and O2O lending and other tailored financial services to millions in Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing economies.The company has recently rolled out two app-based ventures, Cashalo (www.cashalo.com) in the Philippines and Finmas (www.finmas.co.id) in Indonesia, which are both continuing to see unprecedented growth in user base and transaction volumes since their respective launches.Oriente was founded in 2017 by former Skype co-founder and CSO, Geoffrey Prentice; former founding CTO and COO at LU.com, Hubert Tai (CEO); and founder of BlackPine Private Equity, Lawrence Chu. For more information, please visit www.oriente.com
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Website: http://oriente.com/
Founded: 2017
Total Funding: $175M
Last Funding Type: Series B
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9. OneKey
OneKeyprovides separately to store and use crypto assets in a secure and convenient manner.
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Website: https://onekey.so/
Founded: 2020
Total Funding: $20M
Last Funding Type: Series A
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10. GoodNotes
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GoodNotes creates beautiful handwritten digital notes.
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Website: https://www.goodnotes.com/
Founded: 2011
Total Funding: $6M
Last Funding Type: Seed
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