B&A partners with organizations that want to support the growth of global founder talent and next-generation hardware ventures in Shenzhen. Partnership creates visibility, deal flow, and ecosystem activity.
Discuss PartnershipB&A brings international founder talent into Shenzhen. It creates events, visibility, ecosystem activity, and access to an emerging pipeline of physical AI and smart hardware companies.
B&A actively recruits founders from outside China. Partners get early access to an international cohort of ambitious hardware and physical AI builders — before they scale.
Supporting B&A strengthens Shenzhen's international profile as the world's premier hardware innovation city. It creates real events and outcomes — not just announcements.
Partners gain structured visibility into cohort companies at the earliest stage. For manufacturers, labs, and investors, this means first access to promising product teams before they raise or scale.
B&A runs events, workshops, and demo sessions throughout the cohort. Partners can participate, host, sponsor, or co-produce — creating tangible ecosystem activity and engagement.
For institutional and financial partners, B&A creates a structured channel for deal flow from an international founder base with deep Shenzhen integration.
Technical partners — labs, manufacturers, component suppliers — can work directly with cohort companies, co-develop on real products, and shape the next generation of hardware builders.
Partnership with B&A can take several forms. We work with each partner to define a structure that creates genuine value on both sides.
Support B&A's cohort events, demo days, workshops, and community gatherings. Visibility to founders, experts, investors, and the broader Shenzhen innovation ecosystem.
Local and regional organizations — government-linked bodies, innovation hubs, economic development agencies — that want to support a new international platform for hardware founders in Shenzhen.
Labs, fablabs, engineering service providers, and technology companies that can provide resources, testing, infrastructure, or expertise to cohort companies in exchange for early access and partnership visibility.
Contract manufacturers, PCB fabricators, CNC shops, injection moulding providers, and other production partners who want to work with early-stage hardware founders and be part of their build journey.
Academic institutions and research centers that want to connect with the B&A founder community, access early-stage hardware ventures, and contribute academic expertise or facilities to cohort programming.
Government bodies, chambers of commerce, bilateral organizations, and quasi-public institutions that want to support international innovation activity in Shenzhen at an institutional level.
Every partnership is structured individually. We do not have a fixed sponsorship menu. If you have an idea for how you want to contribute, we want to hear it.