Two CE Year-4 students, Mr Fan Hin Wai and Miss Xin Yan, who teamed up with student from Department of Economic and Finance, have been selected to join The Cyberport University Partnership Programme (CUPP) 2016 and have been awarded HK$100K seed fund to develop their FinTech start-up project “TicketChain” (a blockchain ticketing system), which is supervised by Dr Ray Cheung, Associate Professor of EE.
CUPP is a FinTech-focused entrepreneurship programme for local university students to unleash their potential, gain insights into the global market. Awardees will receive a 10-day world-class Entrepreneurship Boot Camp at Stanford University and mentorship in Hong Kong and at Silicon Valley. Selected team will also be given a chance to pitch their FinTech business idea to investor and interview opportunity for Cyberport Incubation Programme .
More details of the successful story can be found at this link.