4 Hong Kong Startups Raised $5.3M in June 2025
Join FoundersHK Summer Live 2025 This Thursday | 5 Mistakes Hong Kong Founders Make When Pitching Silicon Valley Investors — and How to Hack Each One
Calling all Hong Kong founders, investors and operators!
FoundersHK Summer Live 2025 + CUHK Delegation [Invite-Only]
This Thursday (July 10) - Join us, FoundersHK, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, San Francisco at our annual Summer Social in person 🇭🇰 and a super fun fireside 🔥 chat with Alvin Cheung - Associate Professor at UC Berkeley on the latest state of AI in 2025 and his work at the Sky Lab, and SLICE Lab. Sign up here!
5 Mistakes Founders Make When Pitching Silicon Valley Investors — and How to Hack Each One
Malcolm Gladwell likes to say success is a "constellation of advantages" — being in the right place, at the right time, with the right people. In venture capital, that constellation is firmly anchored in Silicon Valley. But for startup founders outside of the Valley, breaking into this orbit presents a unique set of challenges.
When founders from Hong Kong try to plug into the Valley's galaxy — five gravitational forces constantly pull them off course. Here are the most critical mistakes we see founders make when trying to enter the Silicon Valley orbit, and how to avoid getting pulled off course.
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Hong Kong Funding Events in Past 30 Days
4 Hong Kong Startups raised $5.3M in June 2025 including:
HashPower (on-chain staking and yield protocol) raised $4M Seed from HashKey Capital, FBG Capital, Hailstone Labs, and DePIN X Capital
Synapse Technology (AI technology financial service provider) raised $1.3M Series A led by GPTX, C Capital, Shuren Education
OneKey (crypto hardware wallet) raised Series B led by YZi Labs
Manifold Tech (3D perception and reconstruction algorithms for robots and drones) raised seed led by Hony Capital
Upcoming Events
At FoundersHK, we are working hard to bring you more educational events focusing on venture capital fundraising, product management, and growth.
FoundersHK Summer Live 2025 + CUHK Delegation [Live Event] - July 10, 2025
Prior Webinar Videos
At FoundersHK, we are working hard to bring you more educational events focusing on venture capital fundraising, product management, and growth. Check out videos from our prior webinars:
FoundersHK Meets Brian Ma - Founder and GP of Iterative Capital
How to Build a High Performing Global Distributed Team (Goodnotes Learning)
FoundersHK Meets Michael Chan - Founder & CEO of Bowtie
FoundersHK meets Allen Lau - Founder of Two Small Fish Ventures and Wattpad
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