Silicon Dragon
 www.silicondragonventures.com                           NEWS                                                     Sept 23, 2013   
FEATURED EVENT
  
DEAL HEAT:
Silicon Dragon & Tiger 
@    
Sand Hill Road 2013 
WHEN: October 3, 6-9PM
  
China, India, the Valley:
VCs predict what's next
in innovative technologies
  
VC / DEALS PANEL
Hany Nada
 GGV Capital
Hans Tung
VC Beijing/SF
Melissa Guzy
Arbor Ventures
Rob Trice
 Swisscom Ventures
Kanwal Rekhi
 Inventus Capital Partners
Portia Ku
O'Melveny & Myers
   
TECH CHATS
Omar Khan
Co-CEO, NQ Mobile
Read Forbes post on NQ Mobile strategy
 
Hank Wuh
 CEO, TruTag Technologies
  
INNOVATION VIEWS
Bill Tai
Charles River Ventures
Steve Goldberg
Venrock
Gary Matuszak
KPMG

 

Cocktail Reception  
  
Rosewood Sand Hill
    2825 Sand Hill Rd
Menlo Park, CA 94025
  
Thanks to our sponsors:
O'Melveny & Myers,
KPMG, InvestHK
  
 
  
UPCOMING EVENTS
  
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VC Bill Tai on roadshow in Australia 
  
The AustralAsia Bridge
 November 7, 4-8PM
featuring leading VCs, angels, incubators, dealmakers and 
top startups 
By invitation only and
Silicon Dragon Circle members 
to request a pass to attend
  
  
HONG KONG
Winners (and Losers)
November 14
    
 For sponsorship and
speaking opportunities, email
  
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PARTNER EVENTS
  
TechLab Innovation Center
Sept. 27, Brown Bag lunch
  
Demo Day, ANZ InnovyzSTART
Adelaide, December 4
  
StartMeUp.HK
December 4-7
22 semi-finalists have been selected from 384 entries. 12 finalists will go to HK to pitch and network during
  
  
  

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Dalian, China
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HYSTA annual conference
Panel: Women Entrepreneurs
Diana Ding, Rebecca Fannin
October 5, San Francisco 
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 HK VC and Angel Investment Conference
InnoAsia 2013
December 6, Hong Kong
Moderator,
Technology Investment Trends
  
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IT'S A WRAP!  SHANGHAI 2013
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VC dealmakers on featured panel:  

Ron Cao, Lightspeed; Patrick Loofbourrow, Cooley; MC Rebecca Fannin;  Jenny Lee, GGV; Richard Liu, Morningside Ventures; Hope Chen, DFJ; Gary Rieschel, Qiming Venture

  Read Forbes clip for trends spotlighted in the forum:  
  
Out-Takes: Silicon Dragon Shanghai
 Sept. 12, 2013
  
Forum Highlights: A quick snapshot
   
  See photos: (who can you spot?)
  
 Video Clips on YouTube, Youku (below)
4 TECH CHATS
MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT SESSION
 VC PANEL
  
Silicon Dragon Shanghai 2013 - Venture Capital and Dealmaker Panel

 VC panelists Richard Liu, Morningside Ventures & Hope Chen, DFJ China

Silicon Dragon Shanghai 2013 - Media and Entertainment Sector Spotlight
Media spot: Peter Li, China Media Capital
Silicon Dragon Shanghai 2013 - Alvin Tse, Flipboard China
Tech chat: Alvin Tse, Flipboard China
Silicon Dragon Shanghai 2013 - Justin Mallen, Silk Road Telecommunication

Tech chat:Justin Mallen,

Silk Road Telecommunication

Silicon Dragon Shanghai 2013 - Alvin Wang Graylin, mInfo and Guanxi
Tech chat: Alvin Wang Graylin, mInfo/ Guanxi
Silicon Dragon Shanghai 2013 - Jessica Shu, Affinity China
Startup Story: Jessica Shu, Affinity China
  
We hope you enjoy these videos from
 Silicon Dragon Shanghai 2013
  
Our thanks to sponsors:
 Cooley, KPMG, HINA Group, KIC, HK Cyberport
  
  
  
  
 Startup Asia News  NEWS


Long-time Asian VC investor Lip-Bu Tan of Walden International and head of semiconductor firm Cadence links up with Michael Marks to raise $250 million fund, Walden Riverwood Ventures.

 

CHINA

Tencent pays $448 million for stake in China search engine as boom fuels consolidation @forbesasia

http://ow.ly/oVW0l

 

How Tencent-Sohu search deal hurts Qihoo 360's challenge to Baidu:

 

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Chinese solar company ReneSola completes

$70 million ADR offering. Chairman

Martin Bloom (R)

spoke at our

Silicon Dragon London event in February.

  

 

  

Chinese semiconductor company Montage files for a $115 million IPO on NASDAQ. TransLink Capital and Intel Capital are backers.

 

Qihoo to expand to Southeast Asia with plans to set up a R&D center, just like Baidu. techin.asia/1521nUn

 

Wall Street's eyeing mobile app stores in China. Qihoo 360, Baidu are setting up to be the ones to beat: http://ow.ly/p2dXU

 

   

App Annie Scores $15M From Sequoia at Around $100M Valuation http://bit.ly/15Cls1X 

Here's why http://bit.ly/1dotfT0 and why http://bit.ly/1gyVqOP

 

INDIA 

Entrepreneurship the Indian way: seen as an introspection process, by the founder of RedBus http://zite.to/1gbM9fb 

 

Online education and training startup Simplilearn raises $10M in Series B from Kalaari Capital & Helion http://bit.ly/1elH4o6 

 

 

IN OTHER NEWS . . .  

  

Why Chinese dams are being built regardless of consequences

http://econ.st/1gEnLDh 

 

Why did China stop working on the world's tallest building

http://bit.ly/14Hi9Gh

 

Shanghai Free-Trade Zone Sparked Excitement but Is Short on Specifics - WSJ http://on.wsj.com/1dhPKJa

 

90% Of China's Private Company Bosses Said To Want Their Kids To Succeed Them - Forbes

http://onforb.es/15wX4yN

 

Charles Xue's confession is a disaster for China's web  

http://bit.ly/1grdj1J

     Bo Xilai gets life in prison -- shown in handcuffs for first time. pic.twitter.com/sZQmfBQd47
    The terra cotta warriors could have marched to Beijing faster than Air China flight 1236. http://lat.ms/18r25eH

 

 

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