Business Targets
Visit Targets
49 source-backed visit targets across the Hong Kong / Shenzhen corridor and Greater Bay Area. Contact routes stay in your private pack.
Hong Kong
9 targetsBest Jul 6–7 or Jul 11 · avoid Jul 8–10 (LEAP East)
Great Bay Bio大湾生物
HKSTP-based 'AI + bioprocessing' company that applies AI to the manufacturing/CMC side of biologics — antibody design, cell-line development, culture-media optimization and sequence/expression optimization — i.e. the AI-in-biomanufacturing layer, not just AI drug discovery.
Next action: Prepare the private outreach route and meeting ask; keep contact details out of the app.
Avant — Zellulin (HK Science Park)
A Hong Kong Science Park biotech (founded 2018) whose Zellulin / ZelluGEN is a cell-cultivated marine-protein peptide complex for skincare — a differentiated, sustainable marine-repair active reachable during the Hong Kong leg.
GenieBiome (G-NiiB)
CUHK clinician-scientist microbiome spinout behind the consumer G-NiiB probiotic brand — Hong Kong's most consumer-facing, clinically-credentialed microbiome company and the closest peer to a Coolvex-style functional-health play.
BioMed Technology Holdings
Hong Kong microbiome startup and HKSTP partner offering precision microbiome testing and probiotic products — and expanding into oral and skin microbiomes, the axis closest to Coolvex's topical-care focus.
BioMap百图生科
Baidu-backed 'large biology model' company whose 100B+-parameter life-science foundation model xTrimo powers an AI-Generated Protein (AIGP) platform — now standing up its first international innovation center, BioMap InnoHub, in Hong Kong with HK government (HKIC) backing.
Insilico Medicine英矽智能
End-to-end generative-AI drug discovery company, newly listed on HKEX, that both discovered and designed an oral IPF drug now heading to Phase III — with a parallel longevity/aging research agenda and an existing Gulf footprint.
GUTolution
A Hong Kong Science Park microbiome health-tech startup that runs an in-house sequencing lab, tests 5,000+ gut bacteria, and uses an AI engine to tailor-make and GMP-manufacture personalised probiotic formulas — the most relevant HK-based, consumer-facing precision-probiotic platform for a Week-1 Hong Kong meeting.
AilsynBio
HKU-spun-out, Science Park-based AI drug-design startup that fuses generative AI with physics-based modelling — and has signed a deal applying AI to traditional Chinese medicine.
Pinnacle Food Group / Bioboost (HK precision-fermentation lab)
The most concrete Hong Kong precision-fermentation node found: a Pichia-yeast recombinant-protein lab (human lactoferrin) run via a Bioboost Synbio collaboration, with a proposed open-yeast-platform hub at the HK–Shenzhen I&T Park. Early-stage R&D, not a turnkey CDMO — a relationship/ecosystem lead, not a manufacturing vendor yet.
Shenzhen
22 targetsFrom the Nanshan base · Jul 13–31
Synceres Biosciences森瑞斯生物科技（深圳）有限公司
The strongest direct fermentation-and-active-ingredient lead in Guangming: a synthetic-biology R&D-and-production company whose own catalogue already includes squalane, ectoine and ergothioneine.
Next action: Prepare the private outreach route and meeting ask; keep contact details out of the app.
National Biomanufacturing Industry Innovation Center (+ Xinmei / Yinxing Synthetic Biology Industrial Park)国家生物制造产业创新中心（及新湖/银星合成生物产业园）
China's first national-level biomanufacturing innovation platform, purpose-built to close the '1→10' lab-to-pilot scale-up gap — the single best ecosystem gateway to actual pilot-fermentation capacity and tenant companies in Guangming.
Next action: Prepare the private outreach route and meeting ask; keep contact details out of the app.
SIAT / iSynBio — Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology & Synthetic Biology Infrastructure中科院深圳先进技术研究院 合成生物学研究所（深圳合成生物研究重大科技基础设施）
The academic and biofoundry backbone of the Guangming synbio cluster — China's first synthetic-biology institute, operating the world's largest synthetic-biology research infrastructure and the institutional lead behind the national biomanufacturing center.
Next action: Prepare the private outreach route and meeting ask; keep contact details out of the app.
SiyoBio (Zhongke Xinyang)深圳中科欣扬生物科技有限公司
A Shenzhen synthetic-biology company that runs microbial cell factories at industrial fermentation scale and sells COSMOS-certified skin actives (ectoin, ergothioneine) — a credible local fermentation + ingredient partner.
Next action: Prepare the private outreach route and meeting ask; keep contact details out of the app.
Biosysen倍生生物科技（深圳）有限公司
A Shenzhen (Guangming Science City) 'software-defined' synthetic-biology house that designs and licenses engineered industrial microbial strains — it explicitly runs a strain library (ArchiCel®) and a strain-licensing business plus a daily-chemicals (日化) pipeline, so it maps directly onto Pure Advance's microbial-cell-factory + bio-derived-actives priority.
Next action: Prepare the private outreach route and meeting ask; keep contact details out of the app.
Shenzhen Bay Laboratory深圳湾实验室
A flagship Guangdong/Shenzhen biomedical research institute in Guangming Science City, focused on the discovery, diagnosis and treatment of major diseases — the most on-brand stop on the program for Pure Advance.
Next action: Prepare the private outreach route and meeting ask; keep contact details out of the app.
BGI Precision Nutrition (Umeta)华大营养 / 华大精准营养（深圳）科技有限公司（优美达）
BGI's (华大) precision-nutrition arm sits on one of the largest human-commensal microbial strain libraries in China — 50,000–60,000+ gut/commensal strains built on BGI's sequencing scale — and runs a full 'test → functional probiotic → nutrition' chain; it is the single biggest microbial-resource-discovery asset in the GBA and a credible strain / data / co-research partner.
Hetao Shenzhen–Hong Kong Science & Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone河套深港科技创新合作区
A small cross-border innovation zone straddling the Shenzhen–Hong Kong boundary in Futian, purpose-built to let researchers, capital and materials move between the two systems — including a dedicated biopharma cluster.
Readline Biotech (Ruidelin)深圳瑞德林生物技术股份有限公司
Shenzhen synthetic-biology / enzyme-catalysis company with its own pilot lines in Shenzhen and ton-to-hundred-ton production lines in Zhuhai — a strong scale-up partner for peptides, sugars and specialty actives, and a credible candidate for external process development / custom manufacturing.
XtalPi晶泰科技
Shenzhen-founded, HK-listed quantum-physics-plus-AI drug discovery platform serving most of global big pharma — the Shenzhen counterpart to Insilico for AI-native discovery, and a strong platform-benchmarking peer.
PAM²L Biotechnologies柏垠生物（深圳柏垠生物科技有限公司）
The most Coolvex-specific biomaterial lead in the shortlist — a Shenzhen synthetic-biology company whose star molecule is a recombinant mussel adhesive protein with skin-repair, anti-inflammatory and wet-adhesion properties.
BGI Genomics (GeneT / GBI ALL)华大基因（GeneT / 生成式生物智能）
Shenzhen-headquartered genomics giant whose GeneT (Genetic Transformer) multimodal genomic foundation model anchors its 'Generative Bio-Intelligence (GBI ALL)' paradigm — and which already runs a large AI-genomics operation inside Saudi Arabia (Genalive, Riyadh), making it the most Saudi-relevant company in this AI-biotech batch.
Xbiome未知君
Shenzhen clinical-stage, AI-driven microbiome drug developer that also does consumer-facing functional probiotics and strain licensing — the most credible China microbiome bridge to a consumer-health brand like Coolvex.
Bloomage TangAn华熙唐安生物科技（深圳）有限公司
A Bloomage-incubated synbio company in Guangming building a world-leading non-animal heparin/glycan platform via full-enzymatic synthesis — strong glycan/biomaterials pedigree, but not an open pilot-fermentation CDMO.
Shenzhen GSH Bio-Technology深圳市古特生物技术有限公司
A Shenzhen-headquartered fermentation-ingredient company specialising in glutathione and NMN — a convenient Nanshan-based meeting on a relevant antioxidant active, though its actual fermentation plants sit outside the GBA.
Angelo Biotech安各洛（深圳）生物科技有限公司
A Guangming synthetic-biology company specialised in functional proteins/enzymes (SOD, NAMPT) made via novel bioreactors and plant/insect cell factories — a possible antioxidant-active niche, but unproven as an external fermentation service provider.
BYD Company Limited比亚迪股份有限公司
A vertically integrated Shenzhen manufacturing giant — the world's largest plug-in EV maker — that also runs one of the planet's biggest electronics contract-manufacturing (EMS) arms.
Lenovo (Shenzhen — South Smart Campus)联想
Lenovo's most critical global supply-chain and R&D hub sits in Shenzhen, anchored by its new 'mother factory' — a showcase of AI-accelerated smart manufacturing.
iCarbonX碳云智能
Shenzhen 'digital life' company building an AI platform that fuses multi-omics (genome, metabolome, microbiome) with lifestyle data to model individual health — an early, ambitious AI-multi-omics play whose mid-2010s hype has cooled and whose current momentum is unclear.
Guangxin Bio-manufacturing广新生物智造技术创新（深圳）有限公司
A Guangming biomanufacturing-innovation platform tied to the Guangdong Guangxin / state-owned ecosystem and SIAT — strategically connected as a co-founder of the national center, but with no clear public BD channel or confirmed external-service offering.
MegaRobo镁伽
A Beijing-headquartered embodied-AI-for-the-lab company fusing robotics automation and AI to build intelligent, self-running biological laboratories (MEGALAB) — the infrastructure layer under AI drug discovery, synthetic biology and bioprocess; included as a benchmark/ecosystem reference, with HQ in Beijing rather than the GBA.
Synthetica Pioneering (Shengbao Bio)深圳市生葆生物科技有限公司
A SIAT-incubated synthetic-biology startup developing engineered living bacterial therapeutics for solid tumours — strong investors and synbio pedigree, but far from pilot-fermentation manufacturing for a topical product.
Guangzhou
11 targetsDay-trip from Shenzhen · Weeks 2–4
MoonBio (Moon Guangzhou Biotech)慕恩（广州）生物科技有限公司
Guangzhou's strongest pilot-fermentation lead — a microbial-resource-and-biomanufacturing platform selected onto China's first national biomanufacturing pilot-platform list, with a very large proprietary strain library and a full-chain discovery-to-scale-up process.
Next action: Prepare the private outreach route and meeting ask; keep contact details out of the app.
Guangzhou Tinci Materials广州天赐高新材料股份有限公司
A leading manufacturer of functional personal-care ingredients (SZSE-listed, stock code 002709) — the mild surfactant/emulsifier/stabiliser backbone for a sensitive-area topical, complementing whatever hero active is chosen.
Ausmetics Daily Chemicals澳斯曼
An export-oriented, audit-heavy cosmetic OEM/ODM (since 1998; 600+ brands; bases in Guangzhou/Dongguan/Zengcheng) with sensitive-skin and natural collections — a partner to turn a chosen Coolvex active into a compliant finished ointment.
SCSIO — Marine Materia Medica (CAS)中国科学院南海海洋研究所
The CAS South China Sea Institute of Oceanology's Guangdong Key Lab of Marine Materia Medica — China's best-placed marine-microbial natural-products lab for antimicrobial/antioxidant actives, and the most travel-accessible marine institute (in Guangzhou).
Yikewei Bio广东益可维生物技术有限公司
A Guangzhou probiotics company built around a proprietary 'native Chinese' probiotic strain resource library — it isolates, banks and commercialises functional strains and supplies strains plus whole-process technical solutions across dairy, functional food, pharma, agriculture and daily-chemicals.
NIKOO Chemical广州尼酷化工有限公司
A Guangzhou skincare-raw-material supplier and custom-solution house with an unusually Coolvex-relevant catalogue — recombinant collagens, repair/anti-sensitisation peptides, bio-fermented filtrates, and a recombinant mussel adhesive protein (a bioadhesive skin-barrier active).
Guangzhou Institute of Microbiology Group广州市微生物研究所集团股份有限公司（广微集团）
A 50-year-old Guangzhou-municipal microbiology institute (now a state-controlled joint-stock group) that operates the Guangdong Provincial Microbial Germplasm Resource Bank and does microbial fermentation, biopharma and bio-product R&D — an institutional microbial-strain resource with deep collections and screening capability.
Tidetron Bioworks (Taichuang)态创生物（Tidetron）
A fast-funded Guangzhou synthetic-biology multi-substance mass-production platform built on an intelligent fermentation system — peptides and small molecules at a claimed 10,000-tonne-plus annual capacity. A credible GBA fermentation-platform lead, with several specifics still to confirm.
Marubi Biotech丸美生物技术股份有限公司
A listed Guangzhou skincare company that has built real recombinant-collagen and fermentation R&D (500+ patents) around barrier repair and anti-ageing — a science-led GBA player to learn from, though access for a small partner may be harder.
Canton Biologics (Hanten Biotech)广州汉腾生物科技有限公司
South China's largest large-molecule biologics CDMO — antibody/recombinant-protein focused, with strong process development and downstream and ~13,000 L GMP capacity across two GBA bases. A credible recombinant-protein and (smaller) microbial-fermentation partner, with the caveat that the core is mammalian CHO antibody work.
Kingfa Science & Technology金发科技股份有限公司
A large listed advanced-materials maker (modified plastics, biodegradable plastics, bio-based materials) growing a green-biomanufacturing arm — relevant for materials/packaging adjacency, not active-ingredient fermentation.
Dongguan
3 targetsWeek 3 supply-chain window · Jul 20–24
XbotPark (Songshan Lake Robotics Base)松山湖国际机器人产业基地
A hardware-first startup incubator beside Songshan Lake that turns Dongguan's dense supply chain into a fast, cheap path from prototype to product — with a track record of producing robotics unicorns.
OPPO广东欧珀移动通信有限公司
One of the world's largest smartphone makers, founded and still headquartered in Dongguan, with its core R&D, advanced testing and smart manufacturing concentrated in Chang'an Town.
vivo维沃移动通信有限公司
A top-tier global smartphone maker headquartered in Chang'an Town, Dongguan, running one of the region's largest integrated phone manufacturing complexes.
Zhuhai
2 targetsGBA day-trip · Weeks 2–4
Gene-Biocon珠海冀百康生物科技有限公司
A Zhuhai recombinant-protein house that makes recombinant humanized collagen, growth factors, peptides and ferment-lysate actives — and openly offers a CDMO service — making it a one-stop fit for Coolvex's skin-repair ingredient and contract-manufacturing needs.
Next action: Prepare the private outreach route and meeting ask; keep contact details out of the app.
VTR Bio-Tech广东溢多利生物科技股份有限公司
A 30+ year, publicly-listed Zhuhai industrial-fermentation company — one of China's largest enzyme-preparation makers — running large-scale microbial fermentation and downstream across multiple GBA and national bases. The strongest 'real industrial fermentation plant' lead near the trip.
Foshan
1 targetGBA day-trip · Weeks 2–4