There are hundreds of start-ups in Macau. We have selected some that represent different sectors and different levels of development.
Macau Business | June 2022 | Special Report | Macau Startups
Aomi
Aomi is Macau’s most famous start-up and is so well known in MSAR that only a few years have passed since the app they use every day to order food and get discounts on loyalty. Many people are unaware that it isn’t there.
Prior to becoming Aomi’s founder and chief executive officer, Tayu Jianghai received a full scholarship to the University of Science and Technology of Macau in 2003. After earning an MBA from Macao University, he chose to become an entrepreneur.
The Aomi mobile application, which is basically a localized version of the Chinese company DianPing, was founded in 2016.
Over the next few years, the company experienced difficulties, causing online rumors accusing it of delaying payments to affiliated stores and restaurants.
However, the pandemic was strong for Aomi, whose sales have been increasing since the border was closed. “At the peak of the COVID-19 crisis, people spend more time indoors at home, increasing orders by more than 50% year-on-year on our platform,” confirmed the CEO. The platform processed an average of over 40 million MOP per month in 2019, reaching a cumulative total of 1 million users.
In 2021, Aomi secured an injection of 36 million MOP into the North American stock market.
Rose studio
Kammy Cheong Ka Man, Felix Tong Weng Hou, and Alex Leong Ka Chon (all under the age of 30) founded Barra Studio in 2017. This is a start-up company with a particular focus on Augmented Reality (AR) and interactive design.
Cheong is a graduate of Psychology, and Tong and Leong have a degree in Computer Science.
“We wanted to launch a project that would do something different from what we saw in previous research. The goal is simple. We want to do something that appeals to people.” Said Mr. Chung.
Their first influential piece was the AR video game that accompanied MGM Cotai’s Fuerza Bruta show in 2019.
Since then, they have won several awards in local and regional startup contests, the first of which is none other than the Macau government’s own startup innovation and entrepreneurship contest.
Barra Studio has grown with the support of the Macau Young Entrepreneur Incubation Center and the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (University of Macau).
Follow Me Macau
Follow Me Macau – a one-stop booking platform for Macau travel experiences primarily focused on B2B (business-to-business) models – was devised and developed by Marco Duarte Rizzolio of Portugal, who decided to make Macau a second home from 2015. it was done.
Choosing to take advantage of Macau’s booming tourism industry, Rizzolio co-founded Follow Me Macau with its business partners in 2017.
The platform provides a Macau guide that allows travelers to book meals, shopping, leisure, culture, sports and other activities. In recent years, we have focused on the MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, Exhibitions) market and promoted team building activities. for example.
The pandemic has frozen the activities of Follow Me Macau, but startups continue to find support at the Young Entrepreneur Incubation Center in Macau.
For many years, Resorio has also been one of the most prominent voices in the analysis of Macau’s business ecosystem, especially in the field of start-ups.
Trendy health techniques
Trendy Health Technology is a company in the healthcare sector focused primarily on the development of the health sector, which covers healthcare, healthcare and primary care. “We are the first and only company in Macau to operate an online clinic booking system,” they say. “Starting from the platform, pool medical resources from the Greater Bay area and provide a fair reallocation of those resources.”
After graduating from the University of Macau in 2016, Hazel Huang worked for a pharmaceutical company in Guangzhou before participating in a special training program for young talents in Macau in Shanghai.
She found that Shanghai’s online medical booking system was extremely efficient, easy to use, and far more sophisticated than Macau, and decided to resume services similar to business partner Luo Yizheng (UM graduate). did. Trendy Health Technology was founded in 2019 and soon launched its flagship product, the Jubilee Health Platform. This helps patients choose the right clinic. It can reduce patient waiting time and give doctors a clear work schedule.
They also have a company in Zhuhai: Bay Valley Technology Research Limited.
Zidian technology
Zidian Technology Co., Ltd was founded in Macau in 2019 by Timothy Cen, an undergraduate student at the University of Macau, who majors in psychology.
He and his team have developed a medical indoor sterility maintenance device using Air-Clear V® air disinfection technology, inspired by the problems that existed during the outbreak of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) in 2003. did. HKTDC Research reports that “after repeated efforts to develop new technologies, he has finally succeeded in paving the way for the development of air disinfection products.”
“This new technology has four national patents and three international patents pending, and holds a disinfectant product license approved by the Guangdong Health Commission,” said Cen.
He was also awarded the Cantonese-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area Award for Outstanding Young Entrepreneur in the first year.
Zidian Technology currently has a 6-person R & D team in Macau and employs approximately 12 people at its Foshan production facility.
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