SHANGHAI, Sept. 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On September 21, the WeStart 2025 Entrepreneurial Investment Conference was launched in Shanghai as a key a part of the 18th Pujiang Innovation Forum.
Anchored by the theme “Innovate Forward & Build Together,” it constructed a multi-tiered, worldwide, and high-efficiency investment-financing matching platform through one convention, one competitors and one exhibition — aggregating world innovation assets to gas high-quality progress for tech enterprises.
The Shanghai WeStart group targets cutting-edge tech entrepreneurs, providing an open expertise service platform to satisfy wants for disruptive innovation funding, incubation, and improvement throughout Shanghai.
At the discussion board, home and worldwide company delved into capital empowerment logic all through the sci-tech innovation chain. The “WeStart early-stage & small-scale investment alliance,” initiated by the Ministry of Science and Technology, was formally established. Co-founded by main funding establishments, central enterprises, and ecosystem companions, this group leverages the WeStart TOP 100 startup competitors to hyperlink high capital and industrial assets, accelerating early-stage sci-tech achievement translation.
Over two days, these startup showcase and matching actions wove a full-chain innovation service system (protecting tech switch, achievement translation, and enterprise capital), offering a high-level platform for world innovation parts to converge and join.
The WeStart TOP 100 startup competitors drew 1,487 world groups from 4 frontier fields — biomedicine, built-in circuits, AI, and future industries — together with 71 abroad initiatives. After the preliminary spherical, 100 high-quality initiatives superior to roadshows, competing for the TOP 100 titles.
As a key hub for worldwide trade, Shanghai hosted the WeStart cross-border sci-tech mission matchmaking session. Over 30 abroad tech initiatives from 9 nations — the U.S., Canada, the UK, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, South Korea, Malaysia, and Pakistan — held energetic dialogues with native capital. These initiatives spanned AI+ enterprise companies, digital healthcare, clear tech & sustainable vitality, fintech, advertising & e-commerce, and edtech.
Source: The 18th Pujiang Innovation Forum
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