Wheelock and HK science park team up to offer free city-centre meeting venue for start-ups and investors
6,000 square foot “HKSTP @Wheelock Gallery” in Queensway Plaza offers five conference rooms and a product exhibition area
Hong Kong start-ups are being given the chance to use a free, prime city centre location in which to meet and pitch their ideas to, hopefully, deep-pocketed investors.
As part of a new collaboration between development giant Wheelock Properties and Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP), registered firms will have access to five conference rooms and a product exhibition area, within the newly opened, 6,000 square foot “HKSTP @Wheelock Gallery” in Queensway Plaza in Admiralty, without charge.
Location is the facility’s biggest selling point, explained Albert Wong, HKSTP’s chief executive, launching the initiative on Wednesday.
“The gallery is right in the heart of Hong Kong’s financial industry. That will allow people, even from all around the world, to meet and to get to know our start-ups, and what we do at the science park.
“We’d like to see a lot of pitching [for finance] carried out at the gallery. Some potential investors even made bookings for the meeting rooms today, at our opening.”
Wheelock is one of Hong Kong’s biggest builders of luxury homes and shopping centres and the new facility was previously used as a sales centre, then as an art and cultural exhibition venue.