Company Limited
(formerly named Bug Bros Biotech Limited)
Time: 2:00 - 5:00pm
- The Most Popular STARS (from online voting)
- The Investors Choice STARS (from on-site voting)
Presenters:
Dewee is a technology company that creates smart interactive modules that transforms any indoor space and brings you into a new world. The modular system enables quick and simple DIY transformation. Dewee's grow system is a standalone vertical garden that brings nature indoors and beautifully enables infinite possibilities.
To know more about us, please visit
https://dewee.co/
As we age, we gradually lose the ability to chew and swallow properly. Around 30% of the elderly have some degree of swallowing difficulties, a condition called dysphagia. People with dysphagia have problems of eating, limiting their food options, which consequently affect their appetite and may lead to malnutrition. Carewells (Senior Deli) is committed to developing products for people with dysphagia. Our products include Clear Thickener, Food Softener, Food Gellant and pre-packed soft meals, giving them more choices of food, helping them to eat safely and maintain a balanced diet.
To know more about us, please visit
http://www.seniordeli.com
aspara® is a hi-tech hydroponic smart grower developed by Growgreen for everyone to enjoy a healthy and beautiful life. Its patented grow lights with specialized spectrum and built-in smart sensors creates nature in a box, allowing user to grow healthy plants, fresh food and even superfood for better well-being. aspara® builds controllable environment with auto optimization. Not only it makes domestic urban farming achievable, it also fits schools, corporations and communities for STEM development and promotion of healthy lifestyles.
To know more about us, please visit
www.aspara.hk
Founded in 2016, HKSE is the inventor of the first frozen, ready-to-eat HK-style egg waffle “雞蛋仔” - taking the traditional HK favourite to potential levels of scalability, mass production and export. Without additives/preservatives, the product has no discernible difference in texture or flavour to a fresh, delicious “雞蛋仔”, both crispy outside and fluffy inside after reheating. Innovation is at the heart of the business, and HKSE has developed its own recipes, packaging, technology, and processes.
To know more about us, please visit
https://www.hongkongstreeteats.com/
Geb Impact, a premium biotechnology company, cultivates microalgae for global plant-based protein market. (TAM: US$15Bil, CAGR: 10%) Euglena Gracilis, a microalgae, is well suited for human nutrition needs. The biomass include protein, carbohydrates, beta-glucan, and lipid. The high-quality protein content is comparable to dairy products, making it ideal for meat replacement.
Our innovative technology successfully produced axenic Euglena biomass with protein content close to 55% by weight regularly. Successfully demonstrated with a bioreactor in Hong Kong Science Park, >10x times productivity gain in biomass production. Recently submitted an ESS Proposal on scaling, efficiencies, protein testing, and IP.
To know more about us, please visit
https://www.gebimpact.com/
Avant Meats is a technology company with a patent-pending solution that enables businesses to produce fish meat and marine proteins without catching or farming fish. Thanks to our technology, we customise the nutritional profile of our cultivated meat while keeping them free from heavy metals, micro plastics, radioactive contaminant, parasites and antibiotics.
Applications of the technology include cultivated meat as food. Our pilot product is fish meat that is more nutritious than conventionally produced fish, GMO-free and pollutant-free. Other applications include production of functional marine proteins that are currently produced at a high cost.
To know more about us, please visit
http://www.avantmeats.com/
Today, Distinctive Action provides #INVISIBLEBAG, which is water-soluble, certified compostable, biodegradable and non-toxic, leaves no harmful residues on earth, does not form microplastic in aqueous medium. This is an alternative solution for manufacturers and brands to replace the conventional plastic packaging, in order to reduce the negative impact to our Mother Nature.
This is just our beginning of the journey, as we aim to bring more plastic-free solutions to industry, especially F&B. Hence, we are currently partnering up with R&D center to develop new materials for food packaging to replace plastic dependance.
To know more about us, please visit
https://www.daction.today/
Have you thought about harvesting fresher, safer and more nutrient-rich living plants in a bustling city? Farmacy HK introduced Smart Mobile Farm this year to shorten the distance between people and crops, aims at embarking a New Green Normal.
In fact, climate change and urbanization have led to a decreasing supply of traditional farmland. Farmacy HK developed a smart agriculture solution by combining environmental protection and plantation into one. By embracing the space sharing concept with our business partners, our Smart Mobile Farm can significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 70% and save more than 90% of water.
Farmacy HK has served 20+ supermarkets, hotels, restaurants, and schools to-date. This December, our Smart Mobile Farms will be deployed to two leading supermarket chains in Hong Kong. Moreover, we will collaborate with a renowned catering brand to open a restaurant with indoor hydroponic themed this fall. We look forward to setting up more hydroponic systems around the world in the future.
To know more about us, please visit
https://www.farmacyhk.com/
Nano Bubble Limited is a startup company incorporated by aspiring entrepreneurs who possess great expertise in innovation, business management & marketing.
We are the first company in Hong Kong that working on nano bubble technology since 2019. We used Nano Bubble Technology for sterilization, sanitization and pesticide removal and while maintaining the user friendliness, reliability of operation with increasing efficiency.
We aim to be a global player in providing the best water solutions to improve people lives and reduce water crises.
To know more about us, please visit
https://www.nanobb.com/
Product: Ai360 Quality Platform is making use of AI, big data and patented smart device to ease up and add value to QA and QC activities along the B2B supply Soonlution is a Hong Kong-based startup company offering innovative solutions to the traditional aquaculture industry to facilitate the transition from being labour-intensive to being technology-based. From our roots in life science and engineering, we invent cutting-edge technologies to give our customers invaluable enhancements in their day-to-day practices.
We are currently working on the project: Modernised Shellfish Home (MSH), initiated in 2019 by Soonlution. MSH aims at minimising the impacts of natural hazards, such as typhoons, on shellfish aquaculture. MSH can greatly reduce the economic cost and help the traditional industry to achieve sustainability under climate change.
(formerly named Bug Bros Biotech Limited)
Cooh Science Limited (formerly named Bug Bros Biotech Limited) turns trash into cash by specialising in the rearing of Black Soldier Flies larvae to digest organic waste and simultaneously produce insect protein to feed farmed fish, poultry and livestock. By so doing, we build a green circular economy reducing pollution/waste and increasing food production. Our business model is to control the sufficient/ adequate supply of BSF eggs/larvae to digest organic waste to have our fully automated BSF rearing system at industrial scale to produce BSF larvae for the market; and to dominate the sales channels of the insect protein so produced.
To know more about us, please visit
http://bugbrosbio.com/
Jason Chiu is the founder and CEO of Cherrypicks, a leader in mobile innovation, specializing in making cities smarter and growing the eLearning community. Jason is an industry icon in Hong Kong well known for his successful entrepreneurial experience in mobile innovation. With disruptive Online-to-Offline (O2O) solutions as well as patent-pending products and technology inventions, Cherrypicks has represented Hong Kong and China in many world stages and won over 100 local and international awards. The early entrepreneurial journey of the company was also featured as a Harvard Business School case study (#N9-807-106). Cherrypicks' solution business and Cherrypicks alpha, another startup spun off with the company’s product business, were strategically merged with NetDragon (HKSE:777) in 2014 and 2016 respectively. Apart from leading both entities, Jason is also a mentor and angel investor for a number of startups, incubators and co-working spaces to give back to startups in Hong Kong and Silicon Valley.
Jason is the Honorary President of Group 30 “Creative Industries” and Chairman of the Hong Kong Startup Council under Federation of Hong Kong Industries. He is the Director of the Hong Kong Crowdfunding Professional Association, the Advisor of Crowdfund Capital Advisors, the Vice Chairman of Innovation and Technology Fund - General Support Programme Vetting Committee of Innovation and Technology Commission, a Council member of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and the University of Hong Kong, a Board member of the Junior Achievement Hong Kong, as well as a Committee member of the HKTDC Belt and Road & Greater Bay Area Committee.
Congratulations to all our star-grade startups! Citi Hong Kong is delighted to see each and every innovative food-tech solution in the 4th STARS Program has ventured into impactful entrepreneurship and most importantly, with the potential to revolutionize the industry. As we celebrate this momentous milestone on Demo Day, it also provides a meaningful opportunity exclusively for the cohort to pitch promising new technology, gain access to partnerships and funding, and expand the customer base. In addition to the capacity for growth the program offers, we hope the entrepreneurs find the experience nurturing, and are encouraged to continue their commitment together with Citi to developing sustainable business models and achieving greater social and environmental success.
Anthony is the FHKI Deputy Chairman, a Chairman’s Committee member, Chairman of Group 8 (Food, Beverage and Tobacco Group), Committee member of the International Affairs Committee, and the Finance and Human Resources Committee, and the Advisor of the Education Committee.
The rice products under the Golden Resources Group is one of the earliest awardees of the Q-Mark in Hong Kong, focusing in the product quality and customers experiences, and grew to be the No.1 rice selling company in Hong Kong. Nurturing from the market experiences in Hong Kong, the Group expanded its market to North America, Europe and Australia, and won a lot of loyal customers in those respective markets. The Group also expanded the supply chain management and controls to South East Asia to ensure product quality and suppliability from source, establishing offices in key South East Asian countries.
Anthony had been awarded the Ap Bac Medal from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for his contribution to the Vietnam rice industry, and the Hong Kong Scout Centre Medallions for his contribution to the Scouting community in Hong Kong. Apart from being active members in different business chambers and associations around the world, Anthony is also a regular speaker in major international conferences.
Ken is the Founder and CEO of Stapworks Stem Cell Limited. The company manufactures novel small molecules with application in stem cells biology and regenerative medicine. Company products include a Japanese and US patented kit for transforming normal human skin cells into chemical-induced human stem cells. Stapworks also sell small molecule dyes which specifically distinguish human and animal stem cells from somatic cells. Just out of the pipeline, Stapworks has produce a novel kit which can rejuvenate senescent (old and senile) human adult stem cells and fibroblasts. This rejuvenation kit has potential applications in cell culture meat and the cosmetic industries, as well as in regenerative medicine. Stapworks has exported its stem cell kits and dyes to Norway, South Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Hong Kong.
Ken is also scientific advisor to AVANT Meat Ltd (Hong Kong’s first culture meat company, generating meat from fish stem cells). He is also scientific consultant to ADM Capital Europe LLP, on acquisition of sustainable culture meat companies.
Eric leads Happiness Capital, the “do well and do good” global venture capital arm of LKK Health Products Group (a Lee Kum Kee company) with the mission to create global impacts and make the world a happier place. Happiness Capital’s current investment portfolio covers US, Europe, Israel and China. The major impact goals focus on food, health, trust, climate change and reduced inequalities. Prior to joining LKKHPG, Eric co-founded AGENDA in 2000 and grew it to the largest independent digital advertising agency in Asia, which was acquired by WPP in 2008. Stayed with WPP after the acquisition as the Chief Client Officer (Asia Pacific) of the WPP Wunderman network. Eric’s first venture was an AI cancer diagnostic and treatment planning startup in the UK and US in 1994, which was acquired. He joined Cap Gemini US, a global consulting group, as Director of e-Business in 1997 to help Fortune 500 companies on digital innovations and transformation. Eric was an AI research scientist and university lecturer in the UK in the early 90s.
Alexander Chan is currently the Co-Director of The Mills Fabrica- a leading Hong Kong based incubator, fund and space/lab/store dedicated towards promoting innovations and sustainable businesses at the intersection of technology and style (“techstyle”). Alexander currently leads investments (Fabrica Fund) and also helps with incubation support and government/ policy related affairs at Fabrica.