The Hong Kong Founder Institute, the local chapter of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from the Hong Kong 2025 program.
After meticulous selection process and intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints, constant evaluation, and feedback from investors and mentors, just 5 companies were able to make it through.
Each of these Founders have demonstrated a high level of perseverance and creativity, and their businesses have been thoroughly vetted and supported by a panel of Hong Kong's top startup experts and investors.
And now, without further ado, we present the Alumni of the Hong Kong program:
- Micro-Clean NexGen Limited - Innovative Sustainability Start-Up specializing in Steam-Powered Disinfection, Car Detailing Services, E-Commerce, Retail/Rental solutions, AI Driven Micro Electronics Manufacturing.
- SevenTwos - Providing smart and affordable investment tools to informed investors so that they can reach out to the lower income.
- Bull Butler Fintech Limited - A smart matching platform that enhances market efficiency in professional services by making pricing, quality, work culture, and delivery style more accessible, empowering customers to make informed decisions and fostering fairer competition.
- Bolo.b (Original DEAR AI) - Creating Bolo.b, an app supporting student mental wellness with AI-driven companion and insights for schools to provide timely interventions.
- Learnova Limited - Offering an AI-powered mobile platform that helps learners rediscover their passion for learning by transforming education into an engaging, personalized daily habit with bite-sized videos.
Join us at Hong Kong Founder Institute Graduation Event on August 26th.
Hong Kong Local Directors
We would first like to thank the Local Directors of the Hong Kong Founder Institute: Hk Admin (., Flutterwave), John D. Evans, CFA (General Manager , SEIML Ventures), Laurent Koehler (Co-Founder, HK-Dtech Limited), Leo Ku (Managing Director, Asia Pacific at PlayNetwork), Warren Linger (CEO, exmersive.ai). Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in Hong Kong that is conducive to building to great companies.
In addition, the Hong Kong 2025 program was supported by some of Hong Kong's top technology organizations, including:
Some of Hong Kong’s top startup mentors helped our founders in the program, including:
In the Founder Institute's pre-seed accelerator program, early-stage entrepreneurs and teams build their business alongside a critical support network of local startup experts that share equity in their success, and through a structured and challenging business-building process that has helped alumni raise over 1.9BN.
After Graduation, the new Hong Kong Founder Institute Portfolio Companies now have a fast-growing company that has been fully validated by experienced startup founders, with access to the Founder Institute's global network and post-graduate support programs to continue building their business.
Leaders of the world’s fastest-growing startups have used the Founder Institute to raise funding, building a co-founding team, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200+ cities and 100+ countries, the Founder Institute’s mission is to Globalize Silicon Valley and empower talented and motivated entrepreneurs to build companies that will create one million new jobs.
The next Hong Kong Founder Institute program is being planned now. If you are interested in being notified when applications open, visit FI.co/apply/hong-kong.
Alumni of the Founder Institute are creating some of the world's fastest growing startups, having raised over 1.9BN in funding, and building products people love across over 200 cities worldwide.
See the most recent news from our Grads at FI.co/news, or learn more about their stories at FI.co/graduates.
