Silicon Dragon
 www.silicondragonventures.com                           NEWS                                      Nov. 12, 2013  
                                                                                                       

 

 Presenting

Our 2013 
  Silicon Dragon Awards

for 
Best Entrepreneur and VC Deal of the Year:
Greater China
   
November 14, 5-8 PM
  Hong Kong
  
 

 

2012 entrepreneur award winners:

Tencent team for WeChat -  

Ian Chan, Poshu Yeung, Norman Lam

 

  

2012 VC award winner:

Hurst Lin, DCM 

 

 

2013 winners to be announced

at our awards reception,

November 14 

 

Plus

VC / Dealmaker Panel
  
Brian Wong
 Seacliff Partners
James Mi
Lightspeed China
Henry Wong 
Garage Ventures
Jeffrey Chi
 Vickers Ventures
Egidio Zarella 
 KPMG
StartMeUp.HK Preview
Simon Galpin, InvestHK
  
Cocktail Reception  
  
WHERE:   
KPMG Hysan Place
Level 23 
    500 Hennessy Road
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
  
Thanks to our sponsors:
Morrison & Foerster
KPMG, InvestHK
  
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PARTNER EVENTS 
  
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
  
November 19
Ming's Restaurant, Palo Alto, CA
  
  
  

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Startup Asia Tech Chat: Daniel Friedman, CEO, Ninja Blocks in Sydney

Startup Asia Sydney 2013

Videos

Tech Chat: Daniel Friedman, Ninja Blocks

Startup Asia Tech Chat: Rick Baker, Blackbird & Melanie Perkins, Canva
Tech Chat: Melanie Perkins, Canva
Startup Asia VC panel: Rebecca Fannin with Australia's leading dealmakers
Dealmaker panel

 

November 7, 2013 5-9pm

Hong Kong House, Sydney

  

 3 Tech Chats, Dealmaker Panel,

Cocktail Reception & Networking

 

Dealmaker panelists: Bill Bartee, Blackbird Ventures;

David Morris, DLA Piper; Benjamin Chong, Right Click Capital; Jana Matthews, ANZ InnovyzSTART;

Hamish Hawthon, ATP Innovations

Welcome: Cameron Boardman, InvestHK 

Tech entrepreneurs: Andrew Rallings, Atlassian; Daniel Friedman, Ninja Blocks; Melanie Perkins, Canva with Rick Baker, Blackbird Ventures

Moderators: Ben Hurley, Fairfax Business Media;

Rose Powell, StartupSmart  

MC & Moderator, Rebecca Fannin, Silicon Dragon & Forbes 

 

David Morris, Rebecca  Cameron Boardman

 

Thanks to our Sponsors:

DLA Piper, InvestHK, ANZ InnovyzSTART

 

Programmed by Silicon Dragon, www.SiliconDragonVentures.com

 

 

  
  FeatThoughtful China panelured Article

Thoughtful China: VC Investing in China

 

Featuring Silicon Dragon panelists Gary Rieschel of Qiming Ventures and Perry Chui of Steamboat Ventures in Shanghai with Journalist Rebecca Fannin, anchor Trevor Lai and producer Normandy Madden.

The show also features interviews with Jessica Shu of Affinity China and William Bao Bean of SingTel Innov8.

 

View the Video

                     
  

NEWS    

                   

 

CHINA 

China is a leading source of scientific research papers, true and false, real and fraudulent http://econ.st/18ZfACA

 

How China Internet giant Tencent is buying its way into the world's richest Internet market, the U.S.   

 

Private equity bets on luxury auto dealerships in China. http://ow.ly/p4L55

 

Chinese firms going global #ChinaOutbound http://lnkd.in/bcFjnsP

 

Old age hath yet its honor and toil for Pony and Jack Ma, who said they fear falling out of touch w/ young 'uns: http://on.wsj.com/HGlhu9

  

 China's squeeze on western media is working (for the CCP) in ways outsiders can't appreciate. 
 http://econ.st/1aPaVnM

 

China's building the highest bullet train track in the world. (will pass by the Dalai Lama's birthplace)

http://econ.st/1be

 

Beijing approval for Alibaba/Baidu entrance to financial industry shows one direction for banking reform 

http://on.wsj.com/HzEiOp

 

Baidu splashes money on Digione, a mobile firm that wants to overthrow Xiaomi as China's smartphone king

 http://ift.tt/16Fzm3z

 

Chinese cloner makes HTC One rip-off called "Galaxy 56" 

http://bit.ly/1a7B0eU

  

380K Xiaomi devices totaling Y500 million sold in a few hours on China Singles Day

pic.twitter.com/KV7AzTbRxO

  

Alibaba breaks online sales record in China. So what are Chinese online shoppers buying? Video

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/2829023517001

 

Qunar and 58.com go public in New York

onforb.es/1g72NB4

 

Chinese search engine Baidu has invested in Digione, a Shenzhen-based hanset manufacturer

 

Innovation Works backs Chinese IT job website Neitu with $410,000

 

Google has partnered with The Chinese University of Hong Kong to launch a one-year incubation program to help students and young entrepreneurs build their own businesses.

 

INDIA

Sequoia leads $16m investment in Cloudnine hospital chain in Bangalore with existing investor Matrix Partners. 

 

Matrix invests Series A funding in Shotformats Digital Works, a distribution and digital entertainment company.  

 

JAPAN

Globis invests $700,000 in Pixta, the Japanese company behind stock photo and online storage service site Pixtastock.com.

 

V-Cube, a Japanese developer of web conferencing systems backed by Globis and Intel Capital, has filed for a Tokyo IPO.

 

KOREA 

H&Q Korea is buying a 49.9% interest in JobKorea, the South Korean operation of Monster Worldwide, for $90 million.  

 

AUSTRALIA

Startup Asia Sydney 2013: AUS startups & VCs bridge the gap   http://bit.ly/18ePNkO

 

The pivots behind the ANZ Innovyz Start's graduating pitches: http://ow.ly/quEPe 

 

 

 

 
 KINDLE OFFER Frank Yu and Kindle edition

 

Fans of the Kindle electronic reading device can order a digital edition of

Startup Asia for only $9.99. Just click Kindle. That's Beijing entrepreneur Frank Yu displaying his Kindle edition with the author of Startup Asia.