HKU Startup Demo Day X Jumpstarter 2026
Innovative startups with promising business ideas or prototypes are encouraged to participate. Whether you’re ready to deliver a compelling pitch or display your latest prototype, it’s a fantastic opportunity to gain visibility, connect with industry leaders, and expand your network. Don’t miss the chance to elevate your startup journey and make impactful connections!
About HKU Demo Day
At the HKU Demo Day, promising startups will showcase their business plans and latest progress to venture capital investors, who will provide valuable feedback and insights. This event also offers an exceptional networking opportunity for aspiring entrepreneurs and supporters of HKU’s innovation journey. Each team will be given a 5-minute pitching slot to present on this prestigious JUMPSTARTER platform. A panel of distinguished judges will select the winning teams, who will be awarded complimentary co-working space support from iDendron to further accelerate their growth.
About JUMPSTARTER
JUMPSTARTER is a mission driven initiative curated by Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund that provides a platform for all entrepreneurs and young people to jump start their dreams in Hong Kong. It is also a first-of-its-kind startup event focused exclusively on showcasing quality startups and providing high-impact networking opportunities. Its goal is to build, empower and boost Hong Kong’s startup ecosystem and entrepreneurship by bringing entrepreneurs, corporates, investors and the public together, helping to transform Hong Kong into a leading hub for global innovation and technology.
JUMPSTARTER: https://www.jumpstarter.hk/en/
Key Event Highlights:
- Pitch Format: Each startup will deliver a focused 5-minute pitch + 5-minute Q&A to present their vision and progress.
- Networking Opportunities: Entrepreneurs will gain significant exposure on the prestigious JUMPSTARTER platform through both the booth display and pitching sessions.
- Other Benefits: Selected winning teams will receive co-working space support from iDendron to further their operations.
Let’s anticipate an inspiring showcase of innovation and entrepreneurship!
Event Details:
Exhibition Dates: 12 – 13 March 2026 (Thursday – Friday)
Pitching Date & Time: 13 March 2026 | 2:00 PM – 4:00PM
Venue: Hall 5BC, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island
Language: English/ Mandarin
Rundown
| Time | Description |
| 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM | HKU Super Angel Symposium | |
| 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM | HKU Demo Day x Jumpstarter | |
| 2:00 – 4:00 | Start-up Pitching (5 mins Presentation + 5 mins Q&A) |
Showcase booths:
| Company Name | Project Description |
| BioEcho Limited | BioEcho is the world’s first AI-powered wearable echocardiography platform. We have miniaturized conventional ultrasound machines into a coin-sized device, integrated with flexible sensors and advanced AI algorithms to deliver radiation-free, real-time, 24/7 heart monitoring. It can be worn easily during daily life, exercise, elderly care, or clinical nursing. When risks are detected, AI instantly analyzes the signals, reports to the smartphone, and can connect with medical assistance if needed. With this groundbreaking innovation, BioEcho enables early detection and timely intervention in cardiovascular disease. |
| BiomOrgan Limited | BiomOrgan is at the forefront of the transformative field of organoid technology. Leveraging its proprietary patented respiratory organoid platform and specialized expertise, the company aims to provide cutting-edge organoid culture product development, organoid equipment systems, and organoid biobank services to both academia and industry. BiomOrgan is committed to advancing drug and vaccine development evaluation and disease model construction and applications based on its organoid platform. Additionally, the company strives to establish international standards for organoids and build the Hong Kong/Greater Bay Area Organoid Technology Center. |
| Chemmino Biotechnology Limited | Chemmino is a spin-off company of InnoHK center Laboratory for Synthetic Chemistry and Chemical Biology Limited (LSCCB). Our product is a portable device for rapid, non-invasive cancer risk assessment. It detects DNA damage levels in saliva using innovative luminescent metal compounds and a miniature spectral sensor. Its detection can be finished within 10 minutes anywhere with the help of mobile phone APP, requiring no professional medical skills. It provides a routine and convenient approach to evaluate cancer progression or recurrence risk. |
| Differentiable Instruments Limited | Differentiable Instruments Limited pioneers computational imaging through our proprietary “Differentiable Imaging” paradigm—enabling uncertainty-aware, end-to-end co-optimization of optics, sensors, and algorithms. Commercializing two HKU patents (IP01604, IP01606), we deliver breakthrough solutions in Fourier ptychographic microscopy and lensless imaging for high-resolution 3D/4D microscopy, industrial metrology, and biomedical imaging applications. |
| Easephys Brain Research Centre Limited | Easephys is a noval CRO company dedicated in the brain scicence and brain-computer engineering field. We aim to establish a preclinical animal electrophysiology testing platform dedicated in providing comprehensive, one-stop preclinical animal tests, data acquisition, and processing services for customers engaged in research related to brain-computer interface (BCI) and artificial intelligence (AI) fields.We hope to bridge the gap between basic research and clinical application, accelerate the translation of BCI-related products and technologies, facilitate AI development in human health and assist the investigation of neuropsychiatric drugs. |
| Hay-koze Limited | Haykozé crafts Life Care Widgets for all to enjoy life with greater agility and freedom. With 229 million outdoor workers worldwide facing deadly heat risks, our Air Ring 49 (AR49) is the world’s first contactless biomedical cooling accessory for headgears —light (155 g), headache-free, up to 5.1°C cooling and 15h use. Winner of the James Dyson Award and 370+ units ordered by contractors, AR49 is our first step to reduce heatstrokes, recover expensive hours of productivity and enable agile lifestyles worldwide. |
| Hong Kong Stellar Robot Technology Co., Limited | The company is a startup founded by HKU team members, focusing on Pantheon Hand—a high-precision robotic hand. With proprietary sensors and algorithms, it combines bio-inspired tendon technology with high flexibility, supporting data collection, wearable teaching, and AI imitation learning. |
| NeuroHarbor Limited | Epilepsy affects 50 to 70 million people worldwide and can cause physical injury and psychological issues, particularly in patients who respond poorly to medication. We have proposed a solution that uses a wearable EEG sensor combined with an artificial intelligence (AI) model and alerting APP to detect seizures in real time, paired with a lightweight device that stimulates the vagus nerve to suppress seizures before they fully happen, thereby improving the safety and quality of life for epilepsy patients and their families. |
| SNAPP Ocean Data Solutions Limited | Our robotic system supports real-time water quality monitoring, biodiversity assessments including eDNA sampling and mangrove mapping and infrastructure inspection in areas such as ports, pipelines, and aquaculture sites. We focus in areas such as carbon sequestration, coastal protection, and biodiversity enhancement to measure, report and verify nature-based solutions in wetlands and coastlines.
Our autonomous robotic fish navigate complex habitats like mangroves, offering the first full-stack habitat monitoring system. They deliver 10x more frequent and extensive environmental data with zero risk to field workers, enabling safer, scalable, and high-resolution monitoring to support effective ecosystem stewardship and impact measurement. |
| Spatial Robotics Limited | Spatial Robotics Limited is currently engaged in research and development activities that involve the development and testing of advanced technologies for autonomous navigation, perception, and control. The company focuses on multi-sensor fusion, safety-grade autonomy, real-time planning and control, as well as secure V2X/5G communications. Existing R&D projects include the development of autonomous systems for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), covering all aspects from hardware design to software integration. |
Start-up Pitching:
| Company Name | Project Description |
| BiomOrgan Limited | BiomOrgan is at the forefront of the transformative field of organoid technology. Leveraging its proprietary patented respiratory organoid platform and specialized expertise, the company aims to provide cutting-edge organoid culture product development, organoid equipment systems, and organoid biobank services to both academia and industry. BiomOrgan is committed to advancing drug and vaccine development evaluation and disease model construction and applications based on its organoid platform. Additionally, the company strives to establish international standards for organoids and build the Hong Kong/Greater Bay Area Organoid Technology Center. |
| Chemmino Biotechnology Limited | Chemmino is a spin-off company of InnoHK center Laboratory for Synthetic Chemistry and Chemical Biology Limited (LSCCB). Our product is a portable device for rapid, non-invasive cancer risk assessment. It detects DNA damage levels in saliva using innovative luminescent metal compounds and a miniature spectral sensor. Its detection can be finished within 10 minutes anywhere with the help of mobile phone APP, requiring no professional medical skills. It provides a routine and convenient approach to evaluate cancer progression or recurrence risk. |
| ElohaX Limited | ElohaX: Transforming Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery with AI
ElohaX is an AI-driven drug discovery platform originating from HKU, designed to accelerate drug repurposing for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and extend reliable, generalizable solutions to other complex diseases. Built on HKU-invented and patented DeepDrug technology, our platform integrates biomedical knowledge from Cambridge University and Tel Aviv University with advanced graph neural networks to systematically identify high-confidence drug candidates and drug combinations targeting upstream mechanisms of AD. ElohaX’s credibility is reinforced by: With 1.5M HKD in angel funding and 0.8M HKD TSSSU support from the HK Government, ElohaX is well-positioned to deliver clinically actionable drug candidates for rapid validation. By collaborating with world-renowned partners, we aim to significantly reduce the time, cost, and risk of traditional drug development, ultimately bringing safer and more effective Alzheimer’s treatments to patients worldwide. Through the Jumpstart, we seek to amplify our impact, strengthen partnerships, and accelerate the translation of our discoveries into real-world therapies. |
| Hay-koze Limited | Haykozé crafts Life Care Widgets for all to enjoy life with greater agility and freedom. With 229 million outdoor workers worldwide facing deadly heat risks, our Air Ring 49 (AR49) is the world’s first contactless biomedical cooling accessory for headgears —light (155 g), headache-free, up to 5.1°C cooling and 15h use. Winner of the James Dyson Award and 370+ units ordered by contractors, AR49 is our first step to reduce heatstrokes, recover expensive hours of productivity and enable agile lifestyles worldwide. |
| LightMind Tech Limited | LightMind Tech Limited develops and commercializes low-power optical sensing and optical-computing modules, and builds AI-powered wearable systems and a multimodal memory platform based on these core technologies. The company focuses on enabling continuous, first-person perception of the physical world and transforming everyday human–world interactions into structured, usable intelligence. Our flagship product is an all-day AI wearable, designed in a pendant or clip form factor, that continuously performs optical and acoustic sensing to perceive the user’s surrounding environment and activities. Rather than functioning as a conventional recording device, the wearable acts as a first-person AI assistant that captures, organizes, and understands daily experiences. By combining multi-dimensional sensing with on-device semantic extraction and data compression, the system converts raw sensory inputs into meaningful memory cues that support daily recap, cross-day recall, contextual reminders, and AI-assisted decision support. Over time, the wearable builds a personalized memory and context model, enabling the AI assistant to better understand the user’s routines, work patterns, and real-world contexts. At the core of this system is LightMind’s proprietary optical sensing and optical-computing module. This module performs information encoding and dimensionality reduction at the sensing layer, enabling multi-dimensional perception while significantly reducing data volume and power consumption. By shifting part of the computation to the optical front end, the module allows continuous, always-on operation in a compact wearable form factor, and serves as the key enabler for scalable, low-power real-world perception. In addition to the consumer wearable system, LightMind commercializes its optical sensing and optical-computing modules as standalone products for B2B customers. These modules can be integrated into third-party systems to enhance front-end perception capabilities, reduce reliance on high-resolution imaging and heavy backend computation, and enable efficient sensing in power- and latency-constrained environments. Typical application areas include embodied AI and robotics, intelligent machines, industrial automation, and next-generation edge AI devices. Through the combination of system-level AI wearables and modular optical sensing technologies, LightMind positions itself as a deep-tech company at the intersection of optical perception, optical computing, and intelligent human-centered systems. |
| NeuroHarbor Limited | Epilepsy affects 50 to 70 million people worldwide and can cause physical injury and psychological issues, particularly in patients who respond poorly to medication. We have proposed a solution that uses a wearable EEG sensor combined with an artificial intelligence (AI) model and alerting APP to detect seizures in real time, paired with a lightweight device that stimulates the vagus nerve to suppress seizures before they fully happen, thereby improving the safety and quality of life for epilepsy patients and their families. |
| NEXTOPOLY TECH LTD | Project U offers an innovative U-shaped electric toothbrush that combines thorough cleaning with AI-powered oral imaging to enable early detection of dental issues. Designed for urban professionals and parents—groups often challenged by poor or inconsistent brushing—it addresses a key cause of preventable oral diseases and costly treatments. The device provides AI-driven diagnostics for conditions like cavities and gum disease, along with seamless dentist booking. The business operates a dual model: direct consumer sales and clinic lead generation through data insights. It leverages strong e-commerce channels, influencer marketing, and strategic partnerships, supported by manufacturing advantages and a proprietary AI dataset. |
| SightTorch Technology Limited | SightTorch addresses the critical challenge of delivering timely eye care amid severe specialist shortages and rapid population aging. In Hong Kong, ophthalmology waiting times have reached more than 2 years, resulting in preventable blindness. Our integrated AI platform combines community-based diagnostic screening with intelligent management system, transforming fragmented eyecare into a coordinated model serving patients, caregivers, and clinicians.
We will carry out strategic collaboration with Topcon Healthcare, exploiting international market through their Harmony platform. With projected expansion serving 150,000 annual patients by 2030, SightTorch will establish a new standard for AI-powered community eye care, effectively preventing blindness while significantly reducing healthcare costs. |
| SNAPP Ocean Data Solutions Limited | Our robotic system supports real-time water quality monitoring, biodiversity assessments including eDNA sampling and mangrove mapping and infrastructure inspection in areas such as ports, pipelines, and aquaculture sites. We focus in areas such as carbon sequestration, coastal protection, and biodiversity enhancement to measure, report and verify nature-based solutions in wetlands and coastlines.
Our autonomous robotic fish navigate complex habitats like mangroves, offering the first full-stack habitat monitoring system. They deliver 10x more frequent and extensive environmental data with zero risk to field workers, enabling safer, scalable, and high-resolution monitoring to support effective ecosystem stewardship and impact measurement. |
| Tymis Limited | Senthing is an AI-powered pediatric developmental telehealth platform designed to assist parents who are concerned about their child’s growth milestones, behavioral management, and learning abilities. The service streamlines the path to care through a four-step process that begins with uploading video and audio data for AI Triage Analysis, followed by the generation of a detailed “Need Profile” for the child. To address the anxiety of long public sector waiting times, Senthing utilizes a “Human-in-the-Loop” model to match children with licensed healthcare professionals within 48 hours for immediate support. The platform offers year-round teletherapy services, including on holidays, and provides data-driven progress reports to ensure holistic family involvement and early intervention. |