Hong Kong’s startup ecosystem has drastically increased in the past few years. In 2015, Hong Kong saw a significant increase in the number of startups (+46 percent), staff (+56 percent) and workstations (+60 percent) from a year ago. According to InvestHK’s latest survey on Hong Kong’s startup ecosystem, there were 1,558 startups, involving 3,721 staff and 4,535 workstations as of August 2015.
(A) Co-Work Spaces (34 locations in total)
| 1. blueprint – Co-work space 2. CoCoon 3. Cowork CHM (2 locations) 4. Cyberport – Smart Space 5. Dim Sum Labs 6. Fashion Farm Foundation 7. Garage Society (2 locations) 8. Hatton Studios 9. HK Commons 10. Incu-Lab 11. Makerbay 12. MakerHive |
13. Paperclip HK (2 locations) 14. Retro Spot 15. Startup Commune 16. The Coffee House 17. The Crafties 18. The Good Lab (2 locations) 19. The Hive (3 locations) 20. The Hub 21. The Loft 22. TusPark Workhub (4 locations) 23. UNO Co-working Space (2 locations) 24. WYND Co-working Space |
(B) Incubators/ Accelerators
| 1. Cyberport – Entrepreneurship Centre 2. Hong Kong Design Centre 3. Hong Kong Science Park 4. blueprint 5. Brinc |
6. Nest 7. AIA Accelerator 8. DBS Accelerator 9. INFINITI Accelerator 10. FinTech Innovation Lab |
In 2015, out of 1,912 entrepreneurs, 692 (36 percent) founded their startups in public funded co-work spaces/incubators/accelerators, while 1,220 (64 percent) were based in private facilities.
Original Source: InvestHK, Startmeup.hk
