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Fireside chat: Sealing the Deal with Catalyst Ventures x Telkie

Name of Activity (Chinese): Fireside chat: Sealing the Deal with Catalyst Ventures x Telkie
Unit: PI Centre
Location: Hong Kong
Venue: Online
Date: 2020-08-27 - 2020-08-27
Time: 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Details:

Want to get tips on how to get funded and learn from successful startups? Then don't miss out on our upcoming firechat session, cohosted with Booost Incubator! Our guest speakers Mr. Jeffery Cheng, Partner of Catalyst Ventures and Founder of Ooosh Coworking and Ms. Kimberly Chan, CEO of Telkie, will be talking about tips on sealing deals with venture capitals.  

Guest speakers:

Mr. Jeffery Cheng, Partner of Catalyst Ventures and Founder of Ooosh Coworking
Jeffrey Cheng is a Partner of Catalyst Ventures, and Founder of Ooosh Coworking. On top of his background in Marketing and Advertising background at Leo Burnett, Jeffrey also has experience in Supply Chain and International Trade. Prior to starting Catalyst Ventures, he has been angel investing and has an investment portfolio consisting Technology Private Equities, Real Estates and Securities. Jeffrey is highly engaged with the business and startup community, and has delivered seminars including ones at New World Development and HKUST, on digital transformation, digital marketing, and entrepreneurship.

Ms. Kimberly Chan, CEO of Telkie
Coming from a journalism background, but having devoted the majority of her career to working in the hospitality sector in Hong Kong, Kimberly is the newly appointed Chief Executive Officer at Telkie, a travel tech startup that transforms the way of hotel booking. Kimberly inherently understands the need for humanisation in the traditional hotel booking process. She believes human interaction is key in both acquisition and retention, and has been an advocate in user experience and personalisation in Telkie’s product development.
 

More about Booost:
Booost is a VC-backed incubator created by a team of experienced entrepreneurs and venture investors to boost the growth of pre-seed Asian startups in Travel, Marketing and Future of Work. Become one of six incubatees this year for up to USD100K funding and a chance to secure follow-on investment by Catalyst Ventures.  Applications on a rolling basis.

Learn more about Booost: https://www.booostincubator.com/

Enrollment:

http://www.picentre.cuhk.edu.hk/events

Link to online webinar will be sent to you by email 2 or 3 working days before the workshop.
If you haven't received it, please make sure that PI Centre is on your safe senders list and double-check your spam/junk email inbox.

Enquiries:

Miss Noah Wan
T: 6346 4053
E: picentre@cuhk.edu.hk


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