The list of selected participants for the roadshow in the Suzhou competition area is announced! The 2025 Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Growth Camp and Nanqiang Entrepreneurship Camp are igniting the enthusiasm in Gusu.
Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Growth Camp and Nanyang Entrepreneurship Camp is jointly created by Xiamen University and Xiamen Torch High - tech Zone. It is targeted at university scientific research teams and early - mid - stage hard - tech teams, aiming to select and cultivate outstanding technology - based startup companies and projects, deeply connect technology, talent, capital, and resources, and provide free entrepreneurship guidance. It is an entrepreneurship training program focusing on practical entrepreneurship.
The 2025 Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Growth Camp and Nanyang Entrepreneurship Camp has always aimed to support early - mid - stage hard - tech projects, with special attention on advanced manufacturing, new energy, new materials, biomedical and medical, intelligent sensing semiconductors, and electronic information fields.
Since the official launch of the project recruitment in May, the [2025 Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Growth Camp] has attracted more than a hundred hard - tech projects to apply. After strict screening by an expert team, 20 projects in the Suzhou area have finally been shortlisted.
On July 25, 2025, the first round of the roadshow selection for the Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Growth Camp and Nanyang Entrepreneurship Camp was successfully completed in Beijing, arousing a warm response from entrepreneurs in the Beijing - Tianjin - Hebei region. After the roadshow event ended, the participating enterprises and the attending investment institutions took advantage of the momentum to conduct in - depth discussions on topics such as project potential and cooperation models. The on - site interaction was frequent, and the discussion atmosphere was enthusiastic.
▲ Roadshow selection in the Beijing area
Suzhou is well - known as the “Water Town in the South of the Yangtze River and a Strong Manufacturing City”. It has gathered many top - level scientific research institutions and high - tech enterprises, giving birth to a large number of cutting - edge technological innovation achievements and benchmark startup projects.
On August 8, the roadshow selection for the [2025 Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Growth Camp and Nanyang Entrepreneurship Camp] in the Suzhou area will be held at the Nikko Hotel in Suzhou. We look forward to the entrepreneurs participating in the selection in the Yangtze River Delta region standing out with their strength, deeply connecting with various innovation resources, exploring cooperation opportunities in the exchanges, and jointly drawing a development blueprint.
This roadshow selection will adopt a combination of online and offline forms. Online roadshow projects will be connected to the on - site through conferencing software to participate in the roadshow presentation and compete with offline roadshow projects on the same stage. This roadshow selection will focus on the biomedical and medical track. The organizing committee will invite senior investors and industry experts as the jury to score the projects at the event site.
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Roadshow event information
Time: August 8 (Friday), 9:00 - 18:00
Location: Huqiu Banquet Hall 3, 3rd Floor, Nikko Hotel, Suzhou
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Roadshow arrangement
August 8, 2025 (Friday)
Session
Check - in time
Roadshow time
Morning session
8:30 - 9:00
9:30 - 12:00
Afternoon session
13:30 - 14:00
14:20 - 18:00
※ Please arrive on time for check - in and wait for your turn.
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Roadshow rules
① Evaluation form: This evaluation will be carried out in the form of a roadshow + Q&A, following the “10 + 5 model”. That is, the contestants will have a 10 - minute project roadshow, followed by a 5 - minute Q&A session with the judges, totaling 15 minutes.
※ Please strictly control your speech time during the roadshow.
② Scoring dimensions: The project evaluation will be scored based on aspects such as the project team, technical level, market prospects, project maturity, and financial planning, with a total score of 100 points.
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Advancement mechanism
High - quality projects will be selected through this evaluation to advance to the [2025 Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Growth Camp and Nanyang Entrepreneurship Camp]. The final short - listed list will be announced after the evaluations of the four roadshow locations are completed.
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List of short - listed projects
* The project ranking is not in order.
What can you gain from the entrepreneurship camp?
Entrepreneurship is never a solo journey. During the long - term struggle, entrepreneurs need to leverage the joint efforts of multiple parties to achieve continuous growth and leapfrog development. The 2025 Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Camp focuses on multi - chain collaboration, providing all - round support for startups and fast - growing companies through full - dimensional support such as technology empowerment, business demand matching, innovation incubation, cultivation and acceleration, investment assistance, and industry - research linkage.
Entrepreneurship camp x University R & D resources
The [2025 Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Growth Camp and Nanyang Entrepreneurship Camp] is jointly hosted by Xiamen University and the Torch High - tech Zone, involving 16 colleges, laboratories, and research institutes, including the School of Physics, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, School of Materials, School of Energy, School of Aerospace Engineering, School of Information Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, College of the Environment and Ecology, School of Life Sciences, School of Public Health, School of Medicine, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Management, Tan Kah Kee Innovation Laboratory, and Micro - Nano Research Institute. It fully explores the school - enterprise cooperation model, promoting horizontal scientific research cooperation, student employment, enterprise talent introduction, industrialization of in - school innovation projects, and industrial resource matching through the entrepreneurship camp.
▲ Source: Official website of Xiamen University
Entrepreneurship camp x Industrial resources of Xiamen Torch High - tech Zone
The [2025 Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Growth Camp and Nanyang Entrepreneurship Camp] relies on the industrial resources of the Xiamen Torch High - tech Zone, one of the first batch of national high - tech zones in China. The Xiamen Torch High - tech Zone focuses on developing and strengthening industrial chains such as electronic information, mechanical equipment, and new energy, as well as emerging industrial chains such as artificial intelligence, new materials, Internet of Things and industrial Internet, and medicine and smart health.
▲ Source: Official website of Xiamen Torch High - tech Industrial Development Zone
The Xiamen Torch High - tech Zone will actively build a face - to - face communication and matching platform for the enterprises in the entrepreneurship camp, assisting the camp projects to comprehensively expand their financing and business cooperation.
Entrepreneurship camp x Investment institutions
One of the organizers of the [2025 Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Growth Camp and Nanyang Entrepreneurship Camp], Xiamen High - tech Investment, is a state - owned venture capital under the Xiamen Torch High - tech Zone Management Committee, with rich investment experience and excellent historical performance. It will also organize startup projects to connect with more than 50 well - known equity investment institutions. The cooperating investment institutions of the entrepreneurship camp include Xiamen High - tech Investment, SAIF Partners, Songhe Capital, GTJA Healthcare Fund, Orient Fortune Capital, DT Capital, Shengjing Jiacheng Fund, Shuimu Capital, Fujian Venture Capital, Heyong Investment, Qisheng Capital, Deyi Capital, Blueprint Ventures, Guoxing Investment, Zhencheng Investment, Zaishi Capital, Daoyuan Capital, Hetang Ventures, JUNSHI INVESTMENT, Tianshan Capital, Mingyu Ventures, One Yuan Aerospace Fund, Longding Fund, Xiamen Heart Fund, Xinzhi Capital, etc.
In the previous five sessions of the Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Camp, more than 500 startup companies from all over the country applied, and more than 100 excellent projects were selected for in - camp tutoring and training. Among them, more than 20 projects have received a total of over 300 million yuan in financing. This session of the entrepreneurship camp will be supported by a 1 - billion - yuan Xiamen Torch Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Fund, building a complete capital matrix from concept verification to large - scale mass production to help enterprises obtain higher - quality and faster - landing investments.
Entrepreneurship camp x National - level incubator
The Xiamen High - tech Innovation Center, a subsidiary of Xiamen High - tech Investment, is a national science and technology enterprise incubator and a science and technology innovation and entrepreneurship incubation service institution directly under the Xiamen Torch High - tech Zone Management Committee. Its comprehensive incubation strength ranks among the top in the country. It has built four service platforms, namely the “public technology service platform, science and technology finance service platform, entrepreneurship tutoring platform, and policy service platform”, providing strong platform and service support for the development and innovation of small and medium - sized enterprises in the park. It has established a complete industrial ecosystem of “nursery (maker space) - incubator - accelerator - industrial park”, helping science and technology entrepreneurs transform and grow through incubator resources.
▲ Source: Official website of Xiamen Innovation and Entrepreneurship Park
Entrepreneurship camp x Practical courses & Mentors
The startup projects admitted to the camp can not only participate in various financing matching activities and continuous investment and financing tutoring but also attend three - phase concentrated entrepreneurship training and acceleration courses totaling 6 - 7 days. The courses include four major modules: investment and financing, legal affairs, finance, and enterprise management and strategy. Senior mentors or institutional representatives from six fields, including capital, law, finance, taxation, management, and intellectual property, will be invited to provide all - round in - depth entrepreneurship training and tutoring for the selected projects.
The mentors of the Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Growth Camp are often partners of top - tier investment institutions, founders of successful investment projects or other large enterprises, and partners of well - known law firms or accounting firms. They use their practical experience as front - line partners to solve practical problems for entrepreneurs during the entrepreneurship process.
Entrepreneurship camp x Listed companies
This session of the entrepreneurship camp will invite listed companies in six major industry fields, including advanced manufacturing, new energy, new materials, biomedical and medical, intelligent sensing semiconductors, and electronic information, to serve as track mentors, including Zhonglun New Materials (Stock code: 301565), SDIC Smart (Stock code: 300188), Xiamen Tungsten (Stock code: 600549), Inovance Technology (Stock code: 300124), Dabao Medical (Stock code: 002901), and ZTE Corporation (Stock code: 000063). They will provide in - depth guidance to startup projects, improve the understanding of entrepreneurship, and provide resource matching and experience sharing for early - stage projects.
