The PHBS-CJBS Global Pitch Competition held its first online healthcare road show on Thursday.

The competition is jointly held by Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS) and Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS). Starting this month, the competition is soliciting entries from young startups and entrepreneurs around the world to join its online roadshows on healthcare, aged care, modern agriculture and peasants, fintech (financial technology), modern consumption and more. The finals and awards ceremony will be held next spring at PHBS.

The organizers collaborated with the Shenzhen Bay Laboratory to launch Thursday’s roadshow. A total of six teams presented projects on state-of-the-art topics such as coagulation tests, the treatments of brain disease and gonitis (knee arthritis), AI microscopy, medical technology platforms, and medical imaging and diagnosis systems. Each project team had seven minutes for its presentation and 13 minutes for a Q&A session at the roadshow.

The projects were rated in terms of marketing and research values, team building, business models, and project feasibilities by a jury of 12 consisting of scholars and entrepreneurs from PHBS, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, and renowned enterprises such as Shenzhen Oriental Fortune Capital, MSQ Ventures, Cheerland Group, CR Medical and others.

“The pandemic shouldn’t stop our pursuit of potential talents for innovation and entrepreneurship across the world. We hope that the competition can inspire more students to start their own businesses and to expand on the strong scholarship of their predecessors,” said Chen Wei, a professor of management practice and director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center at PHBS.

The competition will serve as a matchmaking platform among contestants, industries and capitals. The organizers will keep in touch with the participants to help them better understand the industries, solidify their startup foundations, gain more recognition from potential investors, and win more funds.

The second round of the online healthcare roadshows will begin in July. Startups can send emails to competition@phbs.pku.edu.cn to sign up for the competition.

(Wang Haolan)