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City University of Hong Kong (CityU) shone once again in the 2021 top 100 universities granted US utility patents, according to the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). CityU placed 29th in the world, its highest-ever position and 22 places better than last year. Furthermore, CityU was ranked first among local institutions for the sixth consecutive year.

The “HK Tech 300 Pitching Arena”, organised by City University of Hong Kong (CityU), and one of the exciting online community events of InvestHK’s StartmeupHK Festival, was successfully held on 6 September. Ten start-up companies went head to head to compete for the “My Favourite Start-up” award.

In the venture capital industry, an enterprise is regarded as a "unicorn" if it has been established for less than 10 years, has a valuation exceeding US$1 billion, and has not yet been listed.

Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) signed today (22 June 2022) between City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and three venture capital fund and technology companies will establish a co-investment partnership that will provide at least HK$15 million in additional angel fund investment each year to selected start-ups incubated by CityU's large-scale innovation and entrepreneurship programme,

City University of Hong Kong (CityU) announced in March 2021 the launch of the HK Tech 300 innovation and entrepreneurship programme, which is a large-scale HK$500 million flagship programme aspiring to be the best of its kind among universities in Asia.