East Harvest Ventures and Futurize Announce Strategic Partnership
East Harvest Ventures, with its mission to inspire and nurture China's next generation of startup founders and VC investors, partners with Futurize to launch Fuel Asia 2023, an entrepreneurship program to address the most pressing challenges in healthcare and climate change.
LONDON, Oct. 19, 2023 - Futurize, committed to nurturing student-led startups, is proud to announce a strategic partnership with East Harvest Ventures, a leading player in China’s university entrepreneurship and venture capital training. This landmark collaboration sets the stage for the launch of Fuel Asia 2023, a program aimed to catalyze innovation within emerging entrepreneurs across the Asia Pacific region (APAC). The program is designed to inspire young leaders to solve critical healthcare and climate change challenges, addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
East Harvest Ventures aims to build an education platform to cultivate young leaders with entrepreneurial and leadership competencies through project-based learning. As we approach the highly-anticipated launch of the second edition of the Fuel Asia program that will run from 24th November to 5th December 2023, it is our privilege to have East Harvest Ventures as our official strategic ecosystem partner in China.
“East Harvest Ventures is excited to announce our strategic partnership with Futurize, a leading global institution renowned for nurturing university student-led innovations. Futurize'sexceptional track record in creating innovation and venture-building programs, trusted by world-class universities and top-tier industry leaders, aligns seamlessly with our mission: to support and elevate young entrepreneurs from China, transforming their groundbreaking ideas into impactful global ventures. Together, we envision a future where the horizon of possibilities is boundless for these young changemakers.” - Iris Yang, Founder & CEO East Harvest Ventures
The objective of the Fuel Asia program and the partnership between Futurize and East Harvest Ventures is to strengthen entrepreneurial efforts across the continent by building a solid community, assisting students with technical support to create new startups, and building a pipeline to funnel student developer talent.
Fuel Asia 2023 is setting the stage for future program co-creation and collaboration opportunities with East Harvest Ventures across China and the APAC region.
About Futurize
Futurize turns university students into entrepreneurs. We deliver cutting-edge innovation and accelerator programs that enable world-class universities and businesses to collaborate to build early-stage ventures. We support the growth of purpose-driven ventures and provide entrepreneurship training through a global platform of 40+ leading universities, Fortune 500 companies, investors, and social enterprises. Futurize founders and startups have raised a collective $1.5 M in funding to date. Find out more at www.futurize.studio
To learn more about the Fuel Asia 2023 program, please visit our official website at https://www.futurize.studio/fuel-asia
About East Harvest Ventures
East Harvest Ventures (EHV) aims to build an education platform to cultivate China’s young leaders in the new era with global vision, entrepreneurship, and leadership via Project-Based Learning. EHV team focuses on developing innovative talents who are passionate about entrepreneurship and venture capital. Young leaders can actively engage in the local startup ecosystem via East Harvest Ventures’ unique VC and Venture Fellowship Programs.
