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HKUST Entrepreneurship Fund
Investor · Hong Kong · Asia Pacific
The HKUST Entrepreneurship Fund (E-Fund) is a capital investment fund established by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to invest in promising HKUST technology start-up companies. It makes direct primary investments in exchange for minority stakes, aiming to bridge the funding gap for HKUST start-ups before they secure sufficient external funding.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsuniversitytechnologyearly-stagehong kongdeep tech
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Or find every investor that fitsHKUST Entrepreneurship Fund lists 6 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (44%), AI & Machine Learning (22%) and E-commerce & Marketplaces (11%). 80% of its companies are based in Hong Kong. It invests most often alongside Gobi Partners, Aurum Venture Partners and Creative Destruction Lab.
No funding round on record names HKUST Entrepreneurship Fund yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 44% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 22% | 18% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 11% | 5% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 11% | 7% |
| Consumer | 11% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Gobi Partners | 4 |
| Aurum Venture Partners | 1 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 1 |
| EthAum Venture Partners | 1 |
| Qiming Venture Partners | 1 |
| VU Venture Partners | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 8th | 6 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 79th | 44% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers6100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare HKUST Entrepreneurship Fund head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its sitePortfolio
6 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atom Semiconductor develops high-performance analog chips for consumer and industrial IoT systems. | Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Dayta provides a cloud-based AI solution for retail analytics using video cameras to acquire and interpret in-store data | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Gense Technologies develops and manufactures a portable AI health screening device for monitoring organ-specific health indexes | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| PanopticAI develops a camera-based blood pressure and vital sign monitoring solution | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops a non-invasive sweat patch for real-time biomarker monitoring | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| QUANTier provides a cloud-based quantum computing platform | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- hkust.edu.hk
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 6
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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