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Google for Startups

Google is committed to empowering entrepreneurs around the world through programs, partnerships, and our products.

Local Sponsors

Startup Downunder: South Australian Entrepreneur Visa

South Australia is building an ecosystem for entrepreneurs—and your big, bright, bold idea could get you there. Bring your startup Down Under with the new visa for seed-stage entrepreneurs. If you have an innovative idea backed by a project proposal in industries including: Space & Defence; Health & Medical Technology; Media & Film; Food, Wine & Agtech; Robotics; Cyber Security, Big Data & Blockchain, you can start your company in one of the top 10 most livable cities in the world.

Founders Lair

Founders Lair - or FLair - is a free peer to peer platform for founders, which strives helping entrepreneurs find faster the resources they need. Founders Lair is like a secret platform, a hideout that you can only enter and contribute to if you are a startup founder.

Local Partners

Bespoke Travel Co.

Bespoke specializes in creative, customized tours, events, and immersive programs in China for the intellectually curious traveler. Twice nominated at the Travel+Leisure sponsored LE Miami Awards in the category disruption in travel, and featured in publications ranging from The Guardian and The New York Times, the company currently has operations in Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, Chengdu, and Shenzhen.

Israel Chamber of Commerce

IsCham was launched during the Olympic Games in August 2008, and it was established to represent and assist the Sino-Israeli business community in developing commercial relations between China, Israel, and the Jewish world. IsCham strives to promote bilateral business exchanges in both countries, to serve Israeli and Chinese companies, and individuals – whether they are already conducting business in China, Israel or wish to take their first steps in these important markets.

IE Business School

IE Business School is a graduate and undergraduate school of business located in Madrid, Spain. It was founded in 1973 under the name Instituto de Empresa and since 2009 is part of IE University.

New Digital Business department of ŠKODA AUTO China

New Digital Business department of ŠKODA AUTO China (Part of Volkswagen Group) focuses on building new mobility services to better serve the needs of our current and future customer. The main target of the department is to extend current automotive core business with innovative services and mobility solutions to ensure a sustainable growth path. Heading feasibility checks, in-market piloting, and implementation of new digital business ideas – this is what ŠKODA brand in China stands for.

ONTology

Ontology provides new high-performance public blockchains that include a series of complete distributed ledgers and smart contract systems. Ontology blockchain framework supports public blockchain systems and is able to customize different public blockchains for different applications. Ontology supports collaboration amongst chain networks with its various protocol groups.

NEAR

NEAR is a blockchain protocol designed to bridge the adoption gap for mainstream commercial DApps. With NEAR, you can build a blockchain application within minutes, and you will have a better development experience due to tooling (IDE) & use of modern languages like WASM, Typescript, and Rust. NEAR has completely re-imagined how end-user usability will be done, which will tremendously help with user acquisition, which developers care a lot about.

Jingjobs

JingJobs is a curated job listing platform and matching service for China based internships and jobs. We broadcast top quality internships and positions for university students and young graduates/professionals. Ranging from start ups, boutique firms and multinational corporations, we compile the most suitable opportunities in Beijing, Shanghai and other cities across China for bilingual jobseekers.

ACYA

The Australia China Youth Association (ACYA) is the only youth-administered NGO run for its members, by its members that works to actively foster a transnational community of young Australians and Chinese interested in furthering understanding of each other’s countries. Focusing chiefly on young people between the ages of 18 to 30, ACYA’s objectives are to facilitate and develop lasting bilateral friendships, partnerships and opportunities across a variety of social sectors.

PANDAILY

Pandaily is an international media company reporting on China’s tech ecosystem in English. Based in Beijing, our mission is to deliver premium content and contextual insights on China’s technology scene to the worldwide tech community. Pandaily has three main offerings: online English content and videos, English podcast called TechBuzz China, and a one-week immersion experience called DecodeChina. We are growing rapidly, with our monthly social media reach extending to over 50 million people. Many of our reports have been quoted by overseas media, including Forbes, Wired, and TechCrunch! Though our subscribers hail from all corners of the world, they all share one common goal: to strengthen their understanding of China’s tech scene. If you are interested in partnering with us or learning more about Pandaily, please email us at contact@pandaily.com.

KUPKUPKUP

Located in the heart of Beijing, KUP KUP KUP in Taikooli Sanlitun is the new hip and casual Southeast Asian food hall offering you a variety of authentic Northern Thai, Northern Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malaysian, and Singaporean dishes with a twist! KUP KUP KUP is definitely your no. 1 choice to fulfill your Southeast Asian food cravings, or simply just to enjoy the good vibes with your friends and family. Address: 北京市朝阳区三里屯太古里北区 NLG45 (Right next to Let's Burger)

3 Little Pigs By Andy's Craft Sausages

When it comes to making truly exceptional sausages, there are no shortcuts. We learned a long time ago that real, authentic flavor can only come from real, authentic ingredients.  That’s why we’re so passionate about buying premium meats and importing only the finest herbs and spices from around the world to make our different varieties of international gourmet sausages.  We mix and make all of our products in-house the same way it has been done for hundreds of years. While it might be the old-fashioned way, we think it makes all the difference! website: www.beijingsausages.com/

The Blck Lab

The Blck Lab  is created to allow everyday coffee lovers to have the opportunity to get their hands on an amazing range of coffee from across the globe at great prices. Not only are we striving to enhance the coffee culture in China, we are also improving peoples knowledge and experience when it comes to specialty coffee. Our co-founder & chief coffee roaster, Kevin Richardson has taken it upon himself to explore the variety of coffee flavors and equipment that China has yet  to offer.

HUAWEI

Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With integrated solutions across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud services – we are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.

KR Space

The vision of Kr Space is to build a global leading co-working space network and community. Its mission is to solve the difficulty of SMBs and SMTs to find proper working space, and to provide a much better working environment. The slogan of Kr Space is “Be With The Best”. With its closed-loop of co-working space, service and community network, Kr Space aims to build global leading elite communities.

Game Buz

GameBuz is a resource for gaming industry including indie studios, established studios, publishers and investors, and individual contributors in the gaming ecosystem (consultants). Game Buz is a gaming industry news portal, focussed to gather gaming developers together. Providing the best services and solutions to developers is our main focus. Our weekly show reviews the latest news related to game startups, featuring the founders of various internet companies as guests.

Enjoy Global

Enjoy service platform on the mission to help Game Developers and Game publishers. We have our Daily Media outlet and Video Show, media business providing the latest news to the Gaming Industry in China. We have Educational department serving developers, helping them use new tools, and find good services. We also serve as a B2B salesforce platform to foreign services that Chinese game developers need in order to publish their games globally.

Press Start Hong Kong

Press Start Hong Kong is a first-of-its-kind games consultancy with a mission to explore the world through games and to unlock the full potential of games as a platform for learning, innovation, and inspiration.

SCOLAR Network

SCOLAR Network is a platform aimed at bringing together young leaders from 18 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) countries to strengthen connectivity, promote dialogue, and contribute to regional development.

World Law Forum

World Law Forum is a UK-based independent, non-partisan, international community of change-makers committed to transforming the world through law and uniting a new generation of multi-disciplinary collaborators and leaders through Advocacy, Education, Innovation and Research.

#Beijing Stories

#BeijingStory is a community that aims to build, collect and share inspiring Beijing moments. We do that by running a Friday weekly social for people to share their Beijing stories, sharing updates of community events happening in Beijing and creating videos of people sharing their stories.

ECOVIS Beijing

ECOVIS Beijing is a member of Ecovis International, one of the 20 biggest tax & legal consulting networks in the world, and specialized on medium and small-sized enterprises (SMEs). Our highly qualified and experienced international and Chinese team, includes Certified Public Accountants (CPA), Certified Tax Agents (CTA), and Attorneys at Law (LL.M.) that provide tailored premium services to SMEs at a reasonable price.

TechTemple

TechTemple is a community and co-working space dedicate to startup companies. Startup Zen is our philosophy which we strongly believe in. We offer full range service to our clients and we incubate some of those most potential companies inside of our hub. We have 11 locations in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen，Hangzhou，Nanjing，Singapo，and San Francisco in which not only work also event and parties are happening every day and bring resources to the community.

Tsinghua SEM X-elerator

Founded in 2015, Tsinghua SEM X-elerator is a startup acceleration platform for global entrepreneurs and start-ups, which is affiliated with Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management. Revolving around the entrepreneurial ecosystem, we are composed of a 3-in-1 model of “Co-working Spaces, Mentorship, and Investment.” Tsinghua SEM X-elerator brings together elite global entrepreneurs and empowers them with entrepreneurship acceleration “from 1 to N.”

Startupbootcamp

About Us We are a global family of industry-focused programs. We support early-stage tech founders to rapidly scale their companies by providing direct access to an international network of the most relevant mentors, partners, and investors in their industry. As each program focuses on an industry, we’re able to provide an unmatched level of support to the startups selected into our programs.

500 Startups

500 Startups is a venture capital firm on a mission to discover and back the world’s most talented entrepreneurs, help them create successful companies at scale, and build thriving global ecosystems. We are one of the most active seed stage venture capital firms in the world.

Teal Dance

TealTech Capital invests in projects of entrepreneurs, evolving products based on modern management practices and platform solutions in the fields of medicine and health, education, retail, robotics and agriculture.

French Tech Beijing

The French Tech Hub Beijing is the official Beijing hub of La French Tech, the French government's supported initiative that gathers many French companies and individuals in France and abroad including entrepreneurs, investors, designers, developers, NGOs, bloggers, media, companies and government departments. The French Tech Hub Beijing counts around 400 members who work together to create a vibrant ecosystem and activate it through events and partnerships with innovative corporate supporters.

CKGSB Chuang Community

CKGSB Chuang Community is an eco-system for start-ups, initiated by CKGSB and CKGSB alumni. We aim to cultivate emerging business leaders with global vision, humanistic spirit, a strong sense of social responsibility, and an innovative mindset. CKGSB Chuang Community has formed strong partnerships for joint programs with Tencent, Baidu, JD, IBM, and other prominent internet and technology giants. In 2017, 16 students from our community were listed in the 2017 Forbes China 30 Elites under 30.

Sunrise

At Sunrise, we create life-changing experiences and serve as a bridge between China and the world. Today, Sunrise offers the very best in experiential education, travel and media programming to tens of thousands of students and professionals, and provides full cross border digital, event, and marketing support for hundreds of organizations seeking to better engage the Chinese market.

NetworkingMatters

NetworkingMatters is a WeChat based newsletter that digests the best Tech, Innovation & Entrepreneurship events for the next two weeks in Beijing and Shanghai. The Beijing event digest is prepared by Influence Matters, a tech PR and marketing agency in Beijing. The Shanghai event digest is prepared by Jumo Group, a Market Expansion Agency.

Walmart Food Safety Collaboration Center

Walmart Food Safety Collaboration Center is a center to promote food safety innovation and education

Shangri-la Beer

Shangri-La is a magical place and we’re dedicated to brewing a magical beer. Life is tough and we think everyone deserves to find their own Shangri-La. All of our beers are inspired by Shangri-La, that’s why we use only all-natural Tibetan Mountain Spring Water, heirloom Qingker Barley and Imported German Hops. It doesn’t take a lot of ingredients to get to Shangri-La, only 3 perfect ones.

Tsinghua x-lab

Tsinghua's x-lab is a university-based education platform designed to foster student creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. It brings together Tsinghua students, faculty, alumni, experienced entrepreneurs, investors and experts from across society.

ChinaGrowthCapital

China Growth Capital is an early stage tech venture capital firm based in Beijing, managing $800M with 229 portfolios as of the end of 2017.

TechNode

TechNode (formerly known as MOBINODE) is the leading tech media uncovering the latest news on start-up entrepreneurs, investors, large companies and industry trends in China and Asia. TechNode is the official partner of TechCrunch, managing TechCrunch China. Its focus is social media, mobile and e-commerce and new trends such as Big Data and augmented reality.

Vanke

China Vanke Co., Ltd. was established in 1984. After 30 years of development, it has become a leading real-estate company in China since it stepped into the housing market over thirty years ago in 1988.In July 2016, the Group was listed on Fortune Global 500, ranking 356th.

German Centre Beijing

THE GERMAN CENTRE NETWORK. The German Centre Beijing is part of the global German Centre network. Regardless of which German Centre you are in when you launch your business abroad, we will be at your side – connecting you with other tenants, embassies, chambers of commerce abroad, and many more institutions and service providers, whose experience you will benefit from as you enter the market and beyond.

DayDayUp

DayDayUp is a business community that connects Chinese and global innovators. Focusing on Industry 4.0, Smart Cities, Mobility, Healthcare, we bring together startups, corporates and investors within our Innovation Program and provide them an ecosystem to find quality products and resources DayDayUp 致力于连接中外创新者，以全球空间为载体，依托跨国、跨界的线上线下社区，围绕工业4.0、智慧城市、智慧出行、医疗健康等重点产业，通过创业加速服务，来构建面向大企业、投资人、创业团队的国际创新生态系统。

Beijing Energy Network

The Beijing Energy Network (BEN) is a professional network that was created to help understand and tackle China’s energy and environmental challenges. BEN organizes a number of regular events and activities to connect environmental professionals in Beijing. The flagship activity of BEN is the Beijing Energy & Environment Roundtable (BEER), an approximately twice-monthly happy hour/speaker series.

angelhack

Our hackathons and global community maximize the fun you can have while changing the world, together with 97,000 others. Compete to build, test and launch your amazing idea to the world and get kudos, cash and maybe even a crown.

WeWork

WeWork is a global network of workspaces where companies and people grow together. We transform buildings into dynamic environments for creativity, focus, and connection. More than just the best place to work, though, this is a movement toward humanizing work. We believe that CEOs can help each other, offices can use the comforts of home, and we can all look forward to Monday if we find real meaning in what we do.

National University Singapore

NUS Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore (NUS), plays a pivotal role in advancing innovation and entrepreneurship at NUS and beyond. The NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) programme, a programme by NUS Enterprise, offers internships for students to work alongside entrepreneurs in start-up environments at strategic entrepreneurial hubs around the world. Students will also get the opportunity to study at renowned partner universities and immerse themselves in their unique culture and communities.

Startup Salad

Startup Salad is a startup community, including ‘52-hour Startup Salad(52-hour startup hackathon)’, ‘Big Salad(Global Entrepreneur/Startups Conference)’ and ‘Salad Pro (value-added startup salad association/courses)'. We are present in more than 50 cities around the world now. The primary goal of us is to establish a city of convergent Change Makers and empower Change Makers in all cities globally. 创业沙拉是一个连接创业者的社区，包括52小时创业沙拉，大沙拉，和沙拉大学，现已覆盖全球50多座城市，连接数十万志同道合的创业者。创业沙拉的终极目标是建造一个汇聚改变者的社区。

Startup Genome

Startup Genome is a global collaborative effort to help regions everywhere nurture and maintain thriving tech startup ecosystems. Our insights, gathered from 10,000+ startup companies and 300 partner organizations, provide a starting point for founders, employers, local leaders, and policymakers in 50+ cities around the world to make informed and timely decisions that drive innovation and economic growth.

InternsinBeijing

With nearly 25'000 Young Professionals following us on Wechat and other platforms we are Beijing's largest platform for young professionals and the most powerful Expat Wechat Account in Beijing InternsInBeijing is the #1 provider of Internships to foreign young professionals. More than 500 companies use our platform to find their ideal intern and bring their company to the next level.