Cyberport University Partnership Programme (CUPP) 2025

Interested SFU teams are required to seek for the Nomination by Innovative Incubation Centre (IIC) to participate in CUPP 2025

Please scroll down for details. Application deadline for seeking SFU Nomination is on 17 Feb 2025.

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Cyberport University Partnership Programme (CUPP) is a FinTech focused entrepreneurship programme with boot camp, mentorship and competition that aiming at nurturing young FinTech talents for Hong Kong since 2015. CUPP is a programme on nomination-based.

For the upcoming cohort, CUPP is themed in AI, Blockchain, Cybersecurity and Web3.

CUPP 2025 offers

•   A series of digital tech pre-camp nurturing sessions in Hong Kong
• Entrepreneurship Boot Camp at Draper University in Silicon Valley
•   Mentorship and insight from industry experts
•   Pitch your digital tech business idea to investors
•   Win HK$100,000 grant by Cyberport Creative Micro Fund

Prize

Winning teams will receiveHK$100,000 Grant of Cyberport Creative Micro Fund

Eligibility

Project must be rooted in digital tech.
Applicants must be nominated by CUPP Co-organising Universities (SFU, CityU, HKBU, HKMU, HKSYU, LU, CUHK, EduHK, HSUHK, PolyU, HKUST, HKU).
Applicants must be between 18 to 30 years old (inclusive) upon the nomination deadline (i.e. 3 March 2025).
Applicants must be undergraduate or postgraduate students nominated by the Co-organising Universities, either currently enrolled university students or recently graduated within 3 years prior to the nomination deadline (i.e. 3 March 2022 to 3 March 2025) from the Co-organising Universities.
Applicants must have a good command of English.
Team members could be a mixture of students or recent graduates from the CUPP 2025 Co-organising Universities.
Each team could have up to 5 members. Suggested team structure:

1 team leader (i.e. principal applicant) with Hong Kong ID Card holder and main contact person of the team.
Up to 2 core team members with technical/UIUX knowledge, who will be joining Entrepreneurship Boot Camp
Up to 2 supporting team members, who will NOT be joining Entrepreneurship Boot Camp
Maximum 3 members per team can join the Entrepreneurship Boot Camp.

Details of CUPP 2025, please see PDF or visit official website (HERE).

How to Apply CUPP 2025 SFU Nomination?

Interested SFU teams please fill the Online Form, upload your PITCH DECK and TEAM LIST( CUPP 2025_Team List.xlsx) by 17 Feb 2025.

Internal Assessment will be taken by SFU IIC to select potential teams to Cyberport for further consideration.
Enquiry: mh2ip@sfu.edu.hk (Dr. Ken Ip)