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Competition results, accelerator cohorts and the events where we showed the platform — each entry links to its source.
Prizes and placements from blinded benchmarks, entrepreneurship finals and start-up programmes.
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A blinded, prospective benchmark of in-silico antibody discovery run through AIntibody.org, with every submission scored against experimental affinity and developability. abYcloud placed in the global top three and co-authored the Nature Biotechnology paper that reports the results.
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Silver AwardThe HKUST One Million Dollar Entrepreneurship Competition came to Shanghai for the first time in 2026. abYcloud took the Silver Award at the Shanghai regional final.
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Second PrizeThe HICOOL 2026 final ran on 14–15 August at HICOOL Industrial Park in Beijing’s Shunyi District. From 10,209 projects registered across 141 countries and regions, 48 reached the final; abYcloud came away with a Second Prize.
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Future Geek Grand PrizeThe Future Geek track of the Yangtze River Delta Jujin Innovation Competition, hosted at NYU Shanghai: 70 contestants built AI applications from scratch in 24 hours. abYcloud took the track’s grand prize.
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Top 10 WinnerSelected for the 2025 cohort of HKTDC Start-up Express International and named a Top 10 winner. The cohort was introduced on stage at Entrepreneur Day on 4–5 December 2025, with coverage in the South China Morning Post.
Exhibitions, roadshows and accelerator cohorts, newest first.
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ExhibitorExhibited at the 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance in Shanghai, showing the closed-loop antibody platform — AI design, wet lab and cryo-EM as one system — to the AI industry.
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Cohort 7Joined Cohort 7 (2025) of the P4 Precision Medicine Accelerator in London, one of ten healthtech companies in the intake alongside Uniqgene, RAER Therapeutics and Directed Systems.
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RoadshowPitched in the UK–China industry roadshow at the 2025 Sino-Europe Exchange Forum on New Quality Productive Forces in London, hosted by Beijing’s Haidian District and Zhongguancun Science City, alongside Zhipu AI, BioCorteX and others.
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Cohort 5Cohort 5 of the UCL Centre for Digital Innovation Impact Accelerator, where the team used AWS to turn the research prototype into the Axiom platform. UCL’s case study records one engagement cut from two to three weeks to two days.
