iDendron

Enabled by
Azalea (1972) Endowment Fund

Strategic Partners
Sino Group
Stanley Chu
New Frontier

Ideate | Incubate | Impact

iDendron, HKU Innovation & Entrepreneurship Hub, was established in 2017 with the aim of nurturing entrepreneurial and innovative spirit on campus, incubating HKU early-stage startups, establishing interdisciplinary cooperation and engaging the community to support human endeavors and society developments.

High potential HKU startups will be selected to the 6-month incubation programme with seed investment worth up to HKD500,000, deep mentor engagement, investor relation building, professional business support and exposure opportunity to enhance the product and business development.

250+

innovators & entrepreneurs

170+

new employment created

70+

teams & incubatees

40+

mentors including serial entrepreneurs, investors and industry experts

50+

annual events, workshops, classes, hackathons

Startups supported by HKU

Hollo

Co-founded by Cameron van Breda (Year 5, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology) and Ajit Krishna Namakkal Raghavendran (Year 5, Computer Science)

Hollo is a mental health companion app for the youth, mental health professionals and NGOs to improve their accessibility to diagnosis and treatment with cutting edge technology to generate behavioral data insights with AI and Big Data Analytics.

The first team from Hong Kong winning the World Champion of the Microsoft Imagine Cup
iDendron cohort #2 incubatee

Raspect

Founded by Sun Chi Chun, Harris 辛子雋 (BEng (CSIS), 2004)

Provision of architectural inspection service that integrates artificial-intelligence technology, internet of things technology and robotics system

HKU DreamCatchers 100K Fund Awardees 2017
ICT Startup (Software and Devices) Gold Award 2020
US$0.25M Innovation and Technology Venture Fund 2020

CYC Motor X1 Pro Gen2 Motor Conversion Kit to turn analog bike into an e-bike

CYC Motor

Founded by Chan Yuk Chun Jon 陳昱駿 (BA(AS), 2017)

Design and manufacturing of components of electric mountain bike such as motor system, drivetrains, smart controller system, peripherals and batteries, and bike frame