CB students win HK$100,000 seed funding for FinTech project 

College of Business students featured as one of the 12 winning teams in the Cyberport University Partnership Programme (CUPP) this year. The students demonstrated their innovative ideas to the judging panel with their FinTech-focused project, Fund2Play, an A.I. and digital chatbot platform focusing on providing customer-centric conversation to convert online users to customers of insurance companies. By using the platform, companies can embed an intelligent chatbot into their websites.

The team comprised Information Management students, Kevin Suen Cheuk-wing and Felix Cheng Chi-hung, from the Department of Information Systems; and Business Analysis student, Avery Chan Yeung-tsing, from the Department of Management Sciences. The students were previously selected, out of more than 100 teams from different local universities, to join the CUPP, and attended months of intensive training and a 1-week boot camp at the Standard Graduate School of Business. The team was advised by Mr Albert Chung, Instructor of the Department of Information Systems, and Dr Terence Cheung, Systems Manager of the College of Business.

The team was awarded a cash grant of HK$100,000 and shortlisted as candidates for the Cyberport Incubation Programme, which supports startups with more resources and professional services to accelerate their project growth, and turn the business ideas into reality.