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CMS

CMS is one of the largest law firms in the world. 1,100 partners. 4,800 lawyers. 41 countries. 72 offices. CMS works for Fortune 500 enterprises, FT European 500 enterprises, and DAX 30 organizations. With an equal drive, it helps clients to transform their start-ups into game-changers through their international start-up program equIP.

Partners

aws

AWS is a cloud computing service platform under Amazon that provides customers in all countries and regions around the world with a complete range of infrastructure and cloud solutions. AWS provides users with a complete suite of cloud computing services, including elastic computing, storage, databases, and the Internet of Things, helping businesses reduce IT investment and maintenance costs and get to the cloud easily.

Zhen Robotics

Zhen Robotics offered the last mile solution for delivery, invested by Tsinghua University and PlugAndPlay, dedicated to empowering all industries and leading human progress with leading mobile robotics technology.

Popular Robotics

Popular Robotics is an innovative tech start-up with the mission to help people adapt to this new era, come closer to robots of all kinds, and share their experiences with others. We are building the most innovative and creative community of influential technology pioneers. Popular Robotics aims to make robotics accessible to everyone mainly targeting teenagers and young adults and to empower the robotics community.

CMS

Ranked as a Top 10 Global Law Firm, CMS can work for you in 40+ countries and 70+ offices worldwide. 4,500+ CMS lawyers offer you business-focused advice tailored to your needs, whether in your local market or across multiple jurisdictions. Client-centric - Being immersed in the industry sectors our clients operate in is at the heart of what we do. Our business is structured according to the industries our clients work in, delivering technically excellent lawyers who talk your language.

ZGC Global Youth Lab

The Administrative Committee of ZGC Science Park and Innoway jointly launched the ZGC Global Youth Lab. ZGC Global Youth Lab is targeted at international youth with the willingness of innovation and entrepreneurship in Chinese market and with the intention to come to China. It aims to attract more and more international talents to China by providing a series of service support through Innoway and by constantly upgrading and optimizing policies.

China IPR SME Helpdesk

The China IPR SME Helpdesk supports European Union (EU) Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to both protect and enforce their Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in or relating to Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan through the provision of free information and services. These take the form of jargon-free, first-line, confidential advice on intellectual property and related issues, plus training, materials and online resources.

Beijing Story

#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.

ACI Medellin

The Agency for Cooperation and Investment of Medellín and the Metropolitan Area – ACI Medellín, is an association of public entities: The Medellín Mayor’s Office, EPM, the Metropolitan Area of Aburrá Valley, and EMVARIAS. It has established as key actor in the internationalization process to develop the territory by creating strategic international relations. This allows the city and the region to access international cooperation resources and the arrival of local and international investments.

Ruta N

Corporation Ruta-N was founded in 2009 as a regional innovation agency to support Medellín's transition from an industrial city into a knowledge city. Its purpose is to inspire and encourage innovation in the city and create favorable conditions for business and entrepreneurship. From 2012 to present, it has attracted more than 320 companies/startups from 32 countries. Ruta-N公司成立于2009年，是一家支持梅德林从工业城市向知识城市转型的区域创新机构。其宗旨是激励和鼓励城市创新，为创业创造有利条件。从2012年至今，它已经吸引了来自32个国家的320多家公司/初创企业。

Brandgoodness

Brandgoodness, a brand marketing firm was founded by Diane Cook-Tench. It's focused on helping small business owners use marketing strategy and creativity to develop strong brands that gain attention, attract fans, and grow profits. Put over two decades worth of knowledge coupled with the latest digital marketing techniques to work for you. We cover social media marketing, advertising, PR, and design.

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. Any founder traveling to another city, or any entrepreneur who wants to start their startup in their own ecosystem relies on insights of who they can trust. Having access to reliable information is however something most founders do not have, and they will spend a lot of time and resources on finding trustworthy partners.

LATAM CHINA

A platform to connect people involved with the Latin American startup scene with China, and vice-versa, by bringing resources, information, opportunities for real meet-ups and meaningful connections. Our platform boosts regional development in multiple industries by supporting innovation, technology, investment, and startup promotion in both Latin America and China.

Celo

Celo is an open platform 
that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone. Our mission is to build a monetary system that creates the conditions of prosperity for all. We are a decentralized community of creators -- developers, designers, dreamers, doers -- who are motivated by the power of accessible financial tools to make the world a better place.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Innoway

Innoway is a hi-tech landmark of startup culture and innovation center in China. As the managing department of Innoway, our global incubation platform associated with 45 startup Services agencies located on Z-Innoway, aim to assist global entrepreneurship teams with professional and accurate global incubation services to help them settle and develop in China and to provide industrial services to corporations to upgrade and transform their innovation structures.

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.

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.

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。

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.