PolyU

Entrepreneurship Parade 2019

Blue Pin is a start-up formed by a group of Hong Kong expertises, offering an effective indoor positioning system for different venues, especially exhibition space. Compared with the existing solutions, Blue Pin provides end-to-end effective solution to the customers with high cost efficiency and satisfactory user experience. Currently, Blue Pin's solution has been deployed in both Hong Kong and mainland China.

CoffeeLib.com is a cross-border wholesale platform for specialty-grade green coffee beans, with a vision to foster an ecosystem featuring smooth flow of information, goods and payments between coffee farmers and specialty coffee shops with transparent pricing and traceable information.

www.coffeelib.com

BRACODE is a lingerie brand that uses 3D scanning technology to capture human body data and then provides semi-customised bra according to customers’ body data. Since over 90% of women in the world are wearing the wrong bra size, BRACODE’s solution can provide a higher accuracy in both body and product data. They also aim to develop a 3D scanning machine that can be fully automated so that customers can do the scanning and purchase within the machine by herself without interference from salesperson.​

www.bracode.me

Aco Studio Limited aims to integrate design and technology to provide personalised learning experience for Special Education Needs (SEN) children.

Their first project, “Card Adventure”, is an educational app which adopts multisensory learning and game learning, combines word cards, digital game and augmented reality (AR), and aims to improve the sensory integration, perceptual motor and Chinese language ability of dyslexic children.

acostudio.hk

Degree (Hong Kong) Education Consulting Limited aims to develop one-stop service platform for mainland students in Hong Kong offering residence rental, cross-border logistics, job hunting consultancy and other landing support.

The App “HKOK” currently has 50,000 users, covering over 70% of the new mainland Chinese students coming to Hong Kong every year with a 10% increase of new users every month. In addition to the HK$1 million funding support from PolyU, Degree (Hong Kong) Education Consulting Limited has secured over HK$5.25 million further investment.

hkok.offerhk.com

Labwork focuses on remote sensing and automation with cloud technology, offering remote laboratory to local middle schools as a spin-off from PolyU.

Through the remote laboratory platform, students can practise science experiments with real equipment outside school anytime anywhere, allowing a personalised way of learning and the access to dangerous or complicated experiments. Schools can now save laboratory set-up time and start a new chapter of science education with Labwork.

www.labwork.com.hk

Unicow Education & Technology (International) Holdings Limited is an EdTech service company driven by educational content and creativity, founded by a group of tech-savvies and language professionals in 2017. Unicow is committed to developing augmented reality (AR) for education.

Borderless Interactive Limited aims to create unlimited fun for everyone. No constraints and no borders. Borderless Interactive Limited provides unique and remarkable gaming experiences and encourages new mechanics and gameplay to create extraordinary games.

“Play borderless, feel the impossible”

www.borderlessinteractive.com

Snoring is a common problem among all ages and both genders, and it affects approximately 90 million American adults. While you sleep, the muscles of your throat relax, your tongue falls backward, and your throat becomes narrow and "floppy." The narrower your airway becomes, the greater the vibration and the louder your snoring.

Ori is the simple and natural snoring solution that is designed specifically to stop snoring before it wakes your sleeping partner. No electricity needed, Ori is the safest and most effective way to improve your snoring problem directly.

Avatar Rehabilitation Technology (Shenzhen) Limited Company (ART) employs virtual reality, augmented reality and mix reality technologies to develop rehabilitation simulation systems for research and clinical use. ART also provides customisation, sale or rental services, data storage and analysis, as well as clinical therapy with the rehabilitation system.

www.avatarrehab.com

In the entertainment and creative industry, professional giant puppeteers operate the puppet with high physical output and endurance. Their repeated daily operation easily strains their muscles and creates fatigue resulting from the dynamics of performance.

This invention, “Exoskeleton - to cater extreme load of giant puppet body”, is probably the first whole-body exoskeleton in the world which operates with the assistance of skate wheels and coiled spring wire. The construction of the exoskeleton is built with sturdy frame while remains flexible for dynamic movements. It supports and distributes the weight of giant puppet and wearers’ body with strategic ergonomics.

 www.Cubedecor.com.hk

Eternal Billion (Hong Kong) Ltd develops self-help medical devices and services for women preparing for pregnancy. With accurate ovulation period monitoring and AI-enabled fertility prediction, the hand-held test kit can also be used for medication monitoring of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) users.

The product has been approved by FDA and is undergoing clinical trial of CFDA. In addition to the HK$0.97 million funding support from PolyU, the company has secured over HK$1.9 million further investment and was admitted to HAX, the world famous hardware accelerator from Silicon Valley.

Medmind Technology is an award-winning medical technology start-up incubated by Hong Kong Science Park. The company researches and develops innovative products to promote healthy ageing. The team is composed of university professors and healthcare professionals. They develop interactive platforms for seniors and patients, particularly regarding dementia and other mental health disorders.

www.medmindtechnology.hk

Studio Doozy designs and develops all-inclusive, accessible and beautiful solutions for the silver age community. As the ageing population increases, equipping homes with better accessible products and services is essential. Current products for the ageing community often make the home feel like a hospital and make users feel that they are "different". Studio Doozy aims to strip away this hostile feel.

studiodoozy.com

Vision Science and Technology Company Limited (VST) aims to commercialise Defocus Incorporated Soft Contact (DISC) lens for myopia control developed by School of Optometry, PolyU. Clinical trials results suggested that DISC lens can reduce myopia progression up to 60%, and are particularly beneficial for school children aged 6-18 who are in fast myopic progression period by reducing their risks of developing high myopia.

VST’s product is available for order in over 60 optometry centres in Hong Kong and has officially entered China market in mid-2019. The team targets to expand its sales network to all cities in China by 2020. Since its incorporation in 2016, VST has secured over HK$1.75 million further investment, in addition to the HK$1.1million funding support from PolyU.

vsthk.com