Incubation & Acceleration Programmes

Betatron invests in promising startups, refines their business models and fast-tracks them to grow and scale over an intensive three-month period.

Booost As a spin-off startup incubator of Ooosh Coworking and Catalyst Ventures, Booost Incubator is designed to boost the growth of Asian pre-seed startups in Travel, Marketing and Future of Work. Become one of six incubatees this year for up

Brinc is a different breed of venture capital and accelerator firm. Core to our business is our belief that some of the world’s biggest challenges can be solved by entrepreneurs, who we like to call GAME CHANGERS.

Google for Startups, together with CoCoon, pioneers a one-stop landing program called 92 Express to help global entrepreneurs build hardware startups.

Cyberport Incubation Programme supports entrepreneurs and start-ups with resources that aim to accelerate their growth.

As a major incubation programme fully supported and funded by the Hong Kong SAR Government and managed by Hong Kong Design Centre, the Hong Kong Design Incubation Programme (DIP) aims to nurture design start-ups at the early stage of their business development, with hardware and software support.

Entrepreneur First is the world’s leading talent investor. We invest time and money in the world’s most talented and ambitious individuals, helping them to find a co-founder, develop an idea, and start a company.

Eureka Nova is an accelerator powered by the New World Group committed to business integration.

FIP is an advanced business of FASHION INCUBATOR for ardent fashion talents and brands. 15 designer brands will be selected to join a 2-year programme over a 3-year period.

The FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific is a highly competitive 12-week programme that helps early to growth stage start-ups refine and test their value proposition with the support of the world’s leading financial service firms.

FT Slingshot aims to showcase Indian fintech firms’ strengths in B2B financial services and bridge their access to international markets, particularly Greater China and South East Asia.

The Founder Institute is the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator and the longest running accelerator program in Hong Kong since 2014.

Global Acceleration Academy (GAA) is an intensive business acceleration programme spearheaded by HKSTP to connect up-and-coming startups with world-class enterprises and help them localise their innovation and achieve success in the Asian market and beyond.

We are a group of investors, entrepreneurs and innovators that have joined forces to help startups with exceptional potential do business across borders.

HKAI LAB is a platform for bringing together academics, scientists, and entrepreneurs in AI who are passionate about innovation and creating a better future.

To support our key strategy of grooming technology startups with good potential, we operate effective incubation programmes to help technology startups turn their innovative ideas into marketable products and solutions.

Kaleidoscope Lab, a mentorship-driven startup initiative powered by ­HSH, offering a unique 12-week programme of coaching, mentorship and commercial assistance to fast-growing technology-based companies to define what’s next in tech for luxury hotels.

LimeHK is a tailored acceleration program for early to middle stage startups focusing on region HK, Greater Bay Area and Japan by providing in-depth mentorship, introducing strategic business relations and essential startup resources.

Mizuho Crowd Brain is an accelerator programme founded by the Hong Kong Branch of Mizuho Bank to support startups in the Greater Bay Area and beyond.

SOW Asia’s i2i (“Incubation to Investment”) Accelerator Program is Hong Kong’s first accelerator program exclusively built for social enterprises.

Jointly launched by Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (“HKSTP”), The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (“HSBC”) and Hong Kong Business Angel Network (“HKBAN”), SPRINTER is a two-year program aiming to energize our innovation and technology ecosystem and thus build Hong Kong as a technology hub in Asia Pacific.

The STARS Programme, organised by Hong Kong Startup Council, provides assistance and support to startups on aspects of mentorship, industrial partnership (prototyping, design & production), go-to-market (marketing, sales, distribution, patent registration and pitching).

The STILE Initiative is a 4-month residential accelerator program based in Hong Kong to support and invest in founders with creative vision and a mind for industry solutions.​

Zeroth is Asia’s first accelerator program backing founders working on frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and robotics.