Top 20 Manufacturing Startup Investors in Hong Kong in October 2023

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• PoLoPo — PoLoPo is a biotech company that produces proteins on a large scale and according to specifications. PoLoPo develops a "superAA" plant by employing directed metabolic engineering techniques and fully utilizing plants' capacity as various metabolite and green protein factories. A significant amount of free amino acids can be producedby the superAA. The increased production of amino acids is then translated into an increase in the scale at which proteins are produced in plant organs.
• Equinom — Equinom is a fully integrated food-tech company, combining agricultural know-how, culinary expertise and deep technology to develop delicious, nutritious, affordable and sustainable non-GMO plant-based ingredients – from the ground up.Sustainable, plant-based proteins are key to feeding Earth’s 10B people by 2050 The plant-based food market grew27% in 2020 and is projected to reach $162B by 2030.The industry is unable to supply the full demand for food vs. feed For decades, crops have been farmed primarily for animal feed – not for human consumption. To be palatable in human food, these crops require extensive and expensive processing. . With limited processing facilities equipped for this use, the industry is on track to supply only 50% of projected demand for plant-based foods.What is Equinom doing about it? Equinom is using science and technology to develop superior ingredients naturally, at the source – in a fraction of the time typically required to breed new crops. Equinom crops are bred naturally, without genetic editing or modification, and are optimized to make meat and dairy analogues more delicious, nutritious, cost-effective and sustainable. Ingredients designed by deep tech to bring out nature’s best The company’s proprietary Manna™ technology platform uses AI to speed the development of superior, high-yield, non-GMO ingredients as nature intended – featuring the quality traits that satisfy consumer expectations. The technology also ensures biodiversity and climate resilience that are critical to ensure food security in light of climate change. What makes Equinom a compelling foodtech investment and collaborator? Working with great partners including Meatless Farm, Roquette with GoodMills Group., Equinom is recognized as a trusted developer and supplier of unrivaled ingredients. Prestigious strategic investors such as BASF and Roquette have helped position Equinom as one of the breakout Round C companies to fuel the worldwide surge in plant-based eating.
• Liberation Labs — Liberation Labs believe that by innovating technology, It can free the world from the costs of industrialized agriculture and unlock a new era of accessible, healthy foods. The mission is to make precision fermentation by commercializing purpose-built manufacturing facilities for industrial biotech.

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• Archireef — Archireef aims to restore degraded marine ecosystems and mobilise blue carbon to achieve carbon neutrality. Archireef combine expertise in marine biology and the latest technologies in 3D printing techniques and material science to create artificial habitats that are best suited for threatened marine life.

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• Order Handler — Order Handler is a E-commerce Start Up based in Shanghai.
• Keo Technology Group — Keo Technology Group is an ed-tech startup that aims to create innovative solutions for the education industry. Through its many products, Keo Plus and Dash, we are on a mission to transform career discovery and upskilling through providing an inclusive ecosystem built and sustained by the students, teachers, and supporters. Backed by AminoCapital(early-investors of Chime Bank, Zoom, Webflow) and Mandra Capital, we are a team of curious, ambitious, and bold individuals with a common vision: Learn and Redefine. We promote a culture of life-long learning and positive transformation, hoping to empower everyone to achieve their daring dreams. Dash is our skill-sharing marketplace. We believe that everybody has skills that can empower others. Dash seeks to make education more fun through a unique incentive scheme built on common prosperity. Start earning as a teacher, student, investor, or supporter; learn and earn without boundaries!
• Dreamshare Network Technology — It is embedded in the mobile phone system in the form of SDK (software development kit), which becomes a system-level function. The whole product covers mobile phone users and open platforms. The mobile phone user terminal presents the "scene card" in the negative screen of the mobile phone, the notification bar and the like, and providesthe corresponding entry service to the user in a timely manner. The open platform is aimed at the scene merchants, providing management services such as management platforms and data platforms for the merchants. Relying on scene recognition and accurate information service to introduce innovative technologies, and constructing a new connection method of “people and scenes”, users can use it in any scene without paying attention to the public number or downloading the APP.

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• EcoCeres — EcoCeres is an innovative biomass utilization company with strong R&D capability and excellent ESG performance. EcoCeres focuses on the utilization of bio-grease and agricultural waste. EcoCeres creates decarbonization solutions to help the world achieve carbon neutrality.
• CitiusTech — CitiusTech enables healthcare organizations (payers, providers, medical tech & life sciences companies) to reinvent themselves by accelerating digital innovation, leveraging next-gen technologies and driving convergence.
• Virgin Voyages — Ahoy Sailor! Welcome to Virgin Voyages: our adult only cruise ships redefine luxury cruise vacations to the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Europe, and beyond.

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• Apsis — Apsis is a cutting-edge and vertical pearl company that aims to preserve the natural beauty of pearls and nature through sourcing, grading, evaluation, jewelry design, manufacture, and sales. Its design incorporates adaptive elements that blend handmade craftsmanship and ancient age-old processes with contemporary technologies to showcase the rawbeauty of pearls and nature.

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• Buildkite — Buildkite is a platform for running fast, secure, and scalable continuous integration pipelines on your own infrastructure.
• Green Monday Holdings — Green Monday Holdings is a manufacturer of plant-based pork substitute products and frozen meals and an operator of a chain of vegetarian-focused retail outlets and cafes.
• Secure Code Warrior — Secure Code Warrior helps developers write more secure code. We are focused on bringing an innovative approach to developer security training. Contact us today.

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• Withmal — Withmal provides veterinary services. It focuses on treating pets and is considered as an alternative to succession planning concerns by aging physicians by managing small pet clinics.
• Gooder Foods — Gooder Foods re-imagines Mac & cheese that's stealthily healthy and unbelievably delicious. It was launched in 2020 and operates in Santa Cruz, California.
• Chuangjian Medical — Chuangjian Medical is a technological innovation company that focuses on the creation, sale, and research & development of novel protein- and nucleic acid-based medicines.

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• Future salad — Allklear is a Hong Kong food tech startup combining nature and technology.
• viAct.ai — viAct optimises construction safety, productivity and environmental compliance. Ensuring higher ESG preposition with AI. Offering services for construction industry of Asia & Europe & operational in China, Singapore, Japan, Australia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Hong Kong.

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• Mymro — Mymro engages in providing digital supply chain procurement solutions.
• Leyaoyao — Leyaoyao is an offline self-service equipment intelligent payment platform, a payment solution expert.
• Juwan Technology — Juwan Technology Research Institute is the first in-house incubation technology innovation company of GAC Group.

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• Parafin — Parafin provides you with an end-to-end solution to offer one-click financing to your sellers.
• Valon Technologies — Valon Mortgage is a Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac approved, tech-enabled residential mortgage servicer. The company’s mission is to champion homeowners on their financial journey as the partner they trust with their home and their future.
• InvestX Capital — InvestX is the private equity marketplace for registered dealers to provide access to retail accredited investors. Their goal is to democratize private equity investing to provide every investor with access to highly vetted, top-quality private companies at significantly lower minimums.InvestX Members can invest in any of the private equity dealson its platform at minimum investment sizes as low as $2500. To meet the steep minimums required by private equity firms, InvestX aggregates all of their members’ smaller checks and writes the multi-million-dollar check to the PE firm.InvestX provides access to the same high-quality private company deals that institutional investors and the ultra-wealthy are investing in. InvestX members are always assured that a professional Private Equity firm has taken the investment through its thorough, institutional quality due diligence process.InvestX partners with private equity firms that have a strong track record of success. Additionally, members are assured that the private equity firms’ interests are aligned with theirs because the PE firm will always co-invest alongside the members in the investment.

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• SIRUN — SIRUN is a provider and operator of Internet of Vehicles system services, alongside a manufacturer of passenger and commercial vehicles.
• Anpaixin — Anpaixin manufactures thin-film lithium niobite photonic circuits and optical engines.
• Xungene Therapeutics — Xunjing Biotech creates RNA-targeting small molecule medicines. The company's goal is to create RNA-targeting small molecule therapeutics that target uncommon disorders and malignancies. It employs RNA structure detection and artificial intelligence technology with its own intellectual property rights to design, screen, and evaluate smallmolecule drugs, shorten the R&D cycle in a more efficient and smarter manner, improve development efficiency, and promote faster drug marketing.

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• DAISCH — DAISCH is a high-precision inertial positioning solution provider that provides high-precision motion and position sensing systems and tool chains for autonomous driving. It develops unmanned high based on carrier phase differential technology, inertial navigation technology and machine vision technology. The precision positioning system realizeshigh-precision positioning of all road conditions through visual information fusion RTK combined inertial navigation, providing over-the-horizon road conditions and environmental information for automatic driving.
• InventChip — Inventchip provides power conversion solutions based on SiC power devices, SiC driver IC and SiC power modules. Applications: Wind Inverter, PV Inverter, Industrial Power Supply、 HEV/EV, Motor Drive, Charging Pile and other fields, and many.
• Jiana Energy — Jiana Energy offers sodium-ion batteries that can be used for energy storage of green energy such as solar energy and wind energy, smart grid power generation side, user side, backup power supply, low-speed electric vehicles, two-wheeled vehicles, and other fields.

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• WOW EARN — WOW EARN connects users to the blockchain, enabling them to mine, earn, and trade via decentralised mining, earning, and trading systems.
• New School Foods — Whole-muscle, plant-based seafood
• Basecamp Research — Novel proteins from nature. We sample the most extreme and exciting places on the planet to build the world's largest knowledge graph of natural biodiversity.

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• Toku — At Toku, we help businesses in APAC build better customer experiences that drive more customer engagement. Headquartered in Singapore, we’re Asia Pacific’s bespoke cloud communications provider helping businesses overcome the complexity of digital transformation in the region, enhance their customer experience and cater to the growing demandfor hybrid work. As a channel-agnostic provider, Toku combines the most robust carrier-grade connectivity in APAC with local expertise and in-country infrastructure into bespoke CPaaS, CCaaS and UCaaS solutions that adapt to your business needs. Since its inception in 2018, Toku has worked with organisations as diverse as Gojek, JCDecaux, Public Utilities Board Singapore and foodpanda. Whether you are a sophisticated fully digital business or just starting your digital transformation journey, we have products to suit your internal collaboration and customer engagement needs.
• Sinay — Use the full potential of your data with intelligent solutions. Become more efficient on a daily basis and reduce your environmental impact.
• Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app

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• ZumVet — ZumVet provides access to affordable and convenient veterinary care through video calls and medication delivery. They are passionate about animals and want them to get the best possible care by offering video consults, referrals, home visits, and emergency services. It was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Singapore.
• Archireef — Archireef aims to restore degraded marine ecosystems and mobilise blue carbon to achieve carbon neutrality. Archireef combine expertise in marine biology and the latest technologies in 3D printing techniques and material science to create artificial habitats that are best suited for threatened marine life.
• igloocompany — igloocompany is the parent company of igloohome and iglooworks, the leading smart access company in Singapore.

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• TinyTap — TinyTap, the world's largest library of games by teachers, becomes a part of Animoca Brands to build an open education system on blockchain
• Springdel — Move beyond cloud and legacy MDM with an enterprise-grade EdgeOps platform purpose-built for the interactive Edge of Things.
• Geekbang Technology — Geekbang Technology is a Enterprise services company.

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• Form Energy — We are developing a new class of cost-effective, multi-day energy storage systems that will enable a reliable and fully-renewable electric grid year-round.
• UBQ Materials — UBQ Materials envisions a world where finite resources are infinitely reused. It aims to help rescue the planet. The UBQ proprietary process converts Residual Municipal Solid Waste, destined to landfills, into novel bio-based UBQ Material, that can be used to make everyday durable products - with a reduced carbon footprint.The company was foundedin 2012 and is headquartered in Tel-Aviv, Israel.
• Banyan Treatment Center — At Banyan, our drug addiction treatment centers offer unique programs and therapeutic methods to help patients' through recovery. Learn to lead a sober life!

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• Retykle — Buy & sell new and second hand designer children's clothing at up to 90% off. Shop today for great discounts on clothes, shoes and accessories from over 2000+ of the best baby and kids brands
• Green Monday Holdings — Green Monday Holdings is a manufacturer of plant-based pork substitute products and frozen meals and an operator of a chain of vegetarian-focused retail outlets and cafes.

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• ZoomAgri — ZOOMAGRI provides an assessment of agricultural commodities to all participants of Agri supply chain via AI, computer vision and IoT.
• Supplynote — End-to-end supply chain management tool to track inventory, orders, payments and suppliers online
• Navi Medical Technologies — Navi Medical Technologies is a medical device development company.

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• CADDi — CADDi is an online ordering platform for manufacturing industry.
• BentoML — BentoML is the platform for software engineers to build AI products.
• FancyTech — FancyTech creates social media data analytics software that is intended to give users marketing options. Its software creates reports and placement recommendations for marketing, allowing users to target a wider, more relevant clientele.