A mainland Chinese start-up specialising in brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) is “in talks” with the Hong Kong government about expanding its operations to the financial hub, the company’s founder has said after meeting the city’s leader in Hangzhou.
“We are in talks with Hong Kong. It is still in the initial stage,” BrainCo founder and CEO Han Bicheng told the Post on Wednesday.
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“We are definitely very interested in the Hong Kong market. Hong Kong has very good conditions, and we will talk to the chief executive,” the start-up founder said.
Han said that at this stage, he was reluctant to elaborate on the potential forms of partnership the company would pursue with Hong Kong.
The neurotech company was incubated at Harvard University in 2015 and founded in Hangzhou in 2018, becoming one of the six Zhejiang-based, world-acclaimed technology start-ups widely known as the “six little dragons”.
Harvard-educated engineer Han recently spoke at the World Internet Conference in Hong Kong, saying he looked forward to teaming up with the city to build a world-leading hub for brain-machine interface technology.
