Top 5 Restaurants Startup Investors in Hong Kong (October 2026)

SOSV offers pre-seed capital and follow-on financial support to startups focusing on deep technology and scientific innovation. Founders utilize purpose-built laboratory facilities and engineering spaces to accelerate product development and testing. The firm facilitates connections between entrepreneurs and a network of investors through structured matchmaking events and technology summits.

Investment focus

Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, China, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 3729
Round size: Seed $150k–$5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.6M; Convertible Note $50k–$3.6M
Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $306M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

Halla — Halla Intelligence is a digital solution that leverages over 100 billion shopper and product data points to recommend and promote what grocery items.
Simply Good Jars — Simply Good Jars is a B-Corp company that delivers healthy meals in reusable + returnable packaging through use of smart refrigerated kiosks placed in offices, transit centers, universities and health-systems. Driven by purpose to change that way people think about consumption, SGJ introduces sustainable business practices into their everydayoperations with a zero-waste goal. For every jar returned back to the company for reuse, they will help feed someone in need and ensure that no packaging materials end up in landfills.
Verdex Technologies — Verdex Technologies is an advanced materials platform technology that uses nanofibers to disrupt industries. Verdex doesn't just compete, it innovates and disrupts.

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Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

Total investments: 180
Round size: Seed $500k–$6.7M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.2M; Series A $4M–$56M
Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
Unsloth AI — Unsloth is an open-source, no-code deskop UI for training and running open models on your local hardware.
OneImaging — OneImaging makes life-saving diagnostics affordable, accessible, and personal. We connect employers, health plans, and members to a trusted national network of imaging centers, delivering faster answers with transparent pricing and premium care across MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, mammograms, X-rays and more. We serve organizations looking to control medical spend and individuals who need reliable results without delays. Every scan booked through OneImaging is proof that healthcare can be simpler, cheaper, and kinder.

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Building world-changing companies in sunny Miami

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

Total investments: 627
Round size: Seed $880k–$7M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.5M; Series A $5M–$35M
Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

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Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) is a statutory body that has one simple goal – to transform Hong Kong into the regional hub for innovation and technology development.A hub that will diversify and grow the city’s economy, expand employment opportunities across a multitude of industries, raise Hong Kong’s status as aglobal powerhouse to a new level, foster talent and interest in STEM as well as offer them highly-sought-after tech careers, and most importantly, help create a sustainable world and brighter future for the younger generation.Since 2001, HKSTP has been carefully building a tech-based ecosystem that connects stakeholders, nurtures talent, facilitates collaboration, and drives innovation to commercialisation.And through the years, even though this ecosystem has evolved, they’ve held their course and built a strong base of innovators and a full range of tech companies that are among the world’s best.Currently, more than 580 technology companies and over 11,500 technology talents call Hong Kong Science Park home. Their incubation programmes are constantly filled to capacity and numerous startups and their products have reached the world stage with their help, driving tech innovation and the city’s economy.They now stand at the cusp of a tech revolution, a beginning of a new era of innovation that will only be possible because of their hard work.Platforms that will harness their dynamism, flexibility, drive, and their ability to gather the best minds in the city include: Healthy Ageing, Robotics and Smart City.As they begin their new journey, to develop these areas, HKSTP will continue to support and foster the best talent and ideas in the city or otherwise, and create a bright future for us all.

Investment focus

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, SaaS
Stage:Grant, Seed, Series A
Geography: Hong Kong, China, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 41
Round size: Seed $13k–$90M; Grant $13k–$1M; Series A $3M–$100M
Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

AIVI — AIVI empowers businesses to decode the impact of external risks with AI. By infusing proprietary AI algorithms and finance-specific large language models, AIVI dynamically and systematically detects, correlates, and quantifies external factors from massive, noisy and unstructured public data, helping financial institutions to seize upsideopportunities and mitigate downside risks.
Meridian Innovation — Providing thermal imaging solutions for safer and better living
Magical Intelligence — Magic AI is a developer of large-scale model computing infrastructure, concentrating on the creation of an integrated hardware and software optimization platform for large models, with the goal of drastically reducing large models' training and inference costs.

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