Shanghai-Hong Kong Twin Cities' Sci-Tech Innovation Story | GPTX簡坤投資 Joins HKUST Shanghai Center's Venture Capital Alliance to Jointly Build a Vertical Innovation Ecosystem
On October 13th, the Global Industry Innovation and Collaboration Summit & Inauguration Ceremony of HKUST Shanghai Center (Beiyang Site) themed "Vertical Innovation, Global Co-creation" were grandly held. The event brought together government leaders from Shanghai City and Xuhui District, HKUST representatives, as well as global top scholars, industry pioneers, and investment institutions from Shanghai and Hong Kong, specializing in zero-carbon power, artificial intelligence, virtual reality healthcare, and low-altitude economy and other cutting-edge fields to jointly explore innovation pathways in vertical sectors and collectively map out the global industrial collaboration landscape.
During the summit, government representatives from Shanghai and Hong Kong, university leaders, and industry guests engaged in in-depth exchanges around vertical innovation, jointly launching multiple alliances and cooperation plans, propelling Shanghai-Hong Kong science and technology collaboration into a new phase. GPTX簡坤投資 was invited to attend as a representative of Hong Kong's industrial investment sector.
Alliance Launches, Ecosystem Co-construction
Rooted in Shanghai and Hong Kong, the HKUST Shanghai Center closely connects industrial resources, international experts, and cutting-edge technologies from both regions to cultivate industrial talents, commercialize research outcomes, and incubate innovative enterprises. To effectively gather these resources, this summit officially launched three major alliances: Venture Capital, Internship & Training, and Industrial Ecosystem, jointly building a practical and efficient vertical innovation ecosystem.
Ophelia Gao, Founder and CEO of GPTX簡坤投資, Attends Launch of HKUST Shanghai Center's Venture Capital Alliance
At the summit, a list of important partners in HKUST's venture capital field was unveiled. Among them, GPTX簡坤投資, in partnership with Fortera Capital under Shanghai State-Owned Capital Investment Co., Ltd., jointly launched the Shanghai-Hong Kong Technology Fund, aiming to attract overseas capital participation, focusing on key industrial investments and specifically prioritizing the incubation of the HKUST Shanghai Center projects. Strategically supported by the Shanghai State-owned assets master fund, Shanghai Future Industry Fund, and Xuhui Capital, the fund leverages the connecting role of industrial alliances to serve as a benchmark case within HKUST Shanghai Center’s industrial ecosystem alliance. It effectively bridges Shanghai-Hong Kong industrial and capital channels, accelerating the commercialization and implementation of university-derived technological innovations.
GPTX簡坤投資 will use this cooperation as a strategic pivot to deepen industry-university-research-investment collaboration with global top universities such as HKUST, fully leveraging the differentiated advantages of Shanghai-Hong Kong dual-city linkage to systematically leverage the coupling effect between "Hong Kong Innovation Hub" and "Shanghai Industrial Hinterland". Through building a full-chain empowerment system, it will accelerate the formation of an open innovation network featuring cross-border flow of innovation elements, bidirectional allocation of industrial resources, precise capital alignment, and organic symbiosis of talent ecosystems, providing core momentum for building a globally influential Shanghai-Hong Kong science and technology innovation community.