“2016 hong kong international entrepreneurs festival”, the top-level and largest international innovation and entrepreneurship event in hong kong, was convened on december 15 and 16 at multiple sites, including asia world expo arena and hong kong convention and exhibition center. as a service provider that is dedicated to the development of the cultural & creative and technological innovating industry, dobe group attended the road show along with other shanghai enterprises and attracted attentions from many investors.
this festival has been supported by the government of hong kong sar, china internet network information center and the liaison office of the central people's government in hong kong sar and attended by famous domestic and foreign investment institutions, industrial leaders and startup entrepreneurs. liang zhenying, chief executive of hong kong sar and ma li, chairman of china internet development foundation attended the opening ceremony and gave speeches on december 15.
"chuanghui 021" project, which is a highlight project of the hong kong international entrepreneurs festival, launched its road show in a novel form of a talent show, where more than 150 investors on the site, after hearing the presentations performed by the project leaders, made simulative investments for their preferred projects with virtual money of rmb 30 million and in this way selected the best entrepreneurship project. this roadshow in this year is featured by internationalization, with its projects coming from different countries and regions, including mainland china, hong kong, taiwan, south korea and america, and the separate chinese and english language site arrangement allowing projects with different cultural backgrounds to demonstrate their characteristics.
as a service provider dedicated to cultural & creative and technological innovation enterprises with its core objective being "for creative", dobe group has paid close attentions to the progress and development in the field of creation and innovation. this time, dobe group has extended its innovation and entrepreneurship platform to hong kong. during this "entrepreneurs festival", dobe group, along with linjia.me and onemile, both are enterprises from dobe's industrial park, went to hong kong attending the roadshow of chinese language site and captured attentions of many investors.
linjia.me, from the dobe xuhui creative loft, is a highly representative enterprise which was created and grew up in the environment of "innovation and entrepreneurship". as a leading c2c errand service platform in china, linjia.me is dedicated to meet the life demands of users under the "busy", "lazy" and "urgent" scenarios, providing timely, personalized and convenient errand services. currently, the main service types on the online platform include multi-aspect individual requirements for users such as free shopping, all-powerful legwork, autowiser, urban express, fast maintenance, queuing up agent, flower purchasing agent, food purchasing agent, starbucks purchasing agent, afternoon tea purchasing agent, occupying seats at restaurants, hospital registration, etc. and the scope of business has covered shanghai, beijing, guangzhou, hangzhou, nanjing, dalian and other large-scale first-tier and second-tier cities.
in august 2014, linjia.me acquired the angel investment from shanda group; in may 2015, acquired a-round financing led by idg and followed by shanda group; in august 2015, acquired b-round financing of usd 10 million led by qiming and followed by idg. it is an internet enterprise with distinct industrial characteristics and looked promising by many investors.
the founder of linjia.me, liu weili said, "the inland market is huge and the venture has good prospects. as a bridge connecting eastern and western culture, hong kong has a lot of entrepreneurial opportunities as well. the main purpose for participating in this hong kong road show is to promote the exchange between the entrepreneurs in the two lands for learning from each other while expanding the influence of linjia.me on the entrepreneurship and investment circle."
another enterprise participating in this road show is onemile technology from dobe sports loft creative park@hongkou, an innovative company specialized in urban mobility and going-out. it is committed to creating a green lifestyle of "urban mobility traffic connection" from the perspective of utilizing user needs, urban environment and new energy. after more than 2 years' development, onemile created the first two-wheel full-foldable intelligent bike "halo". one of its co-founders, yu lin, calls it "a new kind of urban moving mode." currently, onemile has entered the stage of angel round. this hong kong trip is also aiming at attracting more attention and concerns from investors.
dobe group has made different explorations on the path to link global resources and promote china's innovation and entrepreneurship. it not only set up a park in silicon valley in the united states and florence in italy, but also held the first global exchange meeting for innovation and entrepreneurship communities - "international community festival" in july of this year.
it is reported that dobe group will also cooperate with relevant organizations in hong kong to set up a cooperation base for shanghai and hong kong financial and technological innovation. in the near future, a youth startup platform will be set up separately in shanghai and hong kong. through this platform, entrepreneurs and investors from inland and hong kong will be able to communicate with each other, promote cooperation, seek common development and create opportunities. meanwhile, it is expected to invite cooperators, young entrepreneurs and investors in hong kong to take part in the high-profile second "international community festival" in 2017 to deepen the interaction between the two lands and promote bilateral investment in the two lands.