2012 Dark Horse Contest & DOBE Entrepreneurship Competition was held on September 26 in DOBE E-Manor in Changning District. The contest was jointly organized by Shanghai DOBE Cultural & Creative Industry Development Co., Ltd., “Entrepreneur” magazine, and Changning District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau. Kong Huawei, director of Shanghai Branch of Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Pan Ruiting, director of JAFCO Asia, Yan Ziyu, partner of Eagle Fund Management Co., Ltd., Hu Xiang, capital partners of Dark Horse, and many other well-known entrepreneurs and investors served as judges. The contest attracted dozens of local entrepreneurial elite enterprises in Shanghai to participate in the competition, including Mozitek, dajiabao.com, ikucul, Pinyuan, etc.
As the largest investment and financing contest for the startups in China, the Dark Horse Contest was equipped with a complete set of services chain including magazine, website, founder training, and was currently China’s largest entrepreneurial services whole chain platform. DOBE, which had considered creative industry in China as its core responsibility, cooperated with Dark Horse Contest to bring the outstanding enterprises in the Shanghai creative office park to the dark horse contest, select the cultural and creative enterprises of the most investment value, and promote the interaction between the small and medium-sized cultural and creative enterprises and the investment community.
The organizer and judges had paid great attention to many innovative enterprises participating in the contest. As a cross-industry mobile Internet company, the Mozitek settled in DOBE creative office park made breakthrough from the most important human-machine interaction point in the living room entertainment – remote control unit. By means of peripheral device, the mobile equipment with growing popularity was transformed into a powerful smart remote control unit and ultimately changed the traditional entertainment experience in the living room.ikucul integrating creative design, technology R&D, production and sales was a outstanding enterprise in children audio picture book in China. The company had the most professional creative team including children literature writer, children psychologist, and children painter, as well as two-dimensional code engineering technology center, marketing distribution center, production center which contains professional and complete industry chain system, and was committed to the development of original audio picture book.
In the contest site, the participator representatives had brought their latest projects, showed their innovative models and exchanged concepts, which promoted the interactive communication between the business community and the investment community. Meanwhile, the judges also gave diagnostic advice and recommendations to the participating enterprises and outstanding projects, contributed ideas and exerted efforts for the growth of small and medium-sized enterprise. Through dark horse project show, scoring and selection by judges, theme sharing forum, etc., the organizer had elected Mozitek, Xingqi Network, Dingdang Network, Huitongzongyou Network Technology, China Designers Alliance, Mailin Technology, Zhucheng Technology, Changzhiju Industry, Caihuabao Technology, ikucul Culture as the top 10 enterprises to participate in the dark horse contest winter season, and issued promotion and honor certificate. The projects brought by Mozitek, Caihuabao Technology, ikucul Technology from DOBE Creative Park were highly praised by the judges and shortlisted in top 10.
As a service provider for cultural and creative industries, DOBE always believed that promoting the rapid growth of cultural and creative enterprises with potential was the greatest contribution to society. And via the seven value-added services, i.e., investment and financing services, basic human resources services, basic legal and policy services, financial advisory services, business management consulting services, brand promoting services, industry resource allocation and high-level exchanges, DOBE helped many micro to small sized cultural and creative enterprises, thus boost the development of cultural and creative industries in China.
