Featured Event:
SILICON DRAGON
The New International
Tech Capital
Speakers:
Victoria Wu, Director-International, Tencent's popular mobile messaging app WeChat in US
(Watch out Whatsapp!)
Venture Capital Dealmaker Panel with Silicon Dragon Valley experts
Alex Hartigan, Steamboat Ventures
Chris Evdemon, Innovation Works
David Lam, WestSummit Capital
Hans Tung, GGV Capital
Jim Boettcher, Focus Ventures
Mavis Yee, Nixon Peabody
Nazar Yasin, Rise Capital
(many of these VCs just moved to the Bay Area from Beijing or Shanghai)
Tech Chats with entrepreneurs capitalizing on
global connections
Matt Zitzman, Kamcord
Yitao Guan, FunPlus Games
Peter Szulczewski, Wish
Sonny Vu, Misfit Wearables
(startups backed by Jerry Yang, Marissa Meyer, Kai-Fu Lee, John Sculley, Pony Ma,
Li Ka-Shing, Max Levchin, Vinod Khoshla)
by March 3
for early bird!
March 13, 2014
4-8pm
PCH International,
San Francisco design district
135 Mississippi Street
Matt Zitzmann, Yitao Guan (photographed)
Silicon Dragon MC Rebecca Fannin
Moderators: Eric Savitz, Christine Lu,
Janet Kornblum, Diana Ding
Thanks to our Sponsors
Nixon Peabody
PCH International
Thanks to our Marketing Partners:
AAMA, Asia Society, Bay Area Council,
CCICE, DingDingTV,
Netbridge Global, SFentrepreneur
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Presenting
Our 2014 Silicon Dragon Global Events
February 7, London
March 13, San Francisco
April 15, HK Cyberport
May 15, Beijing
August 21, Sydney
September 18, Shanghai
October 2, Silicon Valley
November 13, Awards
For speaking and sponsorship inquiries, please email
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SILICON DRAGON CIRCLE
Nazar Yasin of Rise Capital & Tiger Global
Jackie Yang of Translink, Chris Evdemon of Innovation Works, Steve Goldberg of Venrock, Richard Sheridan of China Unicom
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Membership Benefits
Rosemary Coates of BlueSilk Consulting, Jim Boettcher of Focus Ventures, Poh Kam Wong of NUS Enterprise Center
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Invitations to Silicon Dragon
roundtables, like in above photos taken Feb. 21 in Palo Alto at luncheon hosted by Morrison & Foerster
Specially priced Silicon Dragon event tickets
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| Silicon Dragon London 2014, Keynote Talk: Lord Wei with Level 39's Eric Van der Kleij |
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Serial social entrepreneur Lord Wei, Rebecca Fannin,
Tim Watkins of Huawei
Above panelists: David Gill of EY, Tim Watkins, Dave Mott of Oxford Capital, Mike Powell of Woodside Capital, Kelvin Au of Metail, Nigel Toon of XMOS, Gareth Wong of GamBond and
Level 39's Eric Van der Kleij
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icon Dragon London 2014:
VC & Dealmaker Panel
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See more videos and photos from
Silicon Dragon London 2014
Thanks to our sponsors
EY, Huawei, Level 39
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Beijing was a toxic mess for more than a week.
Photo credit: Frank Yu, "Good Morning Beijing"
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NEWS
DEALS and FUNDS
Morningside raises $400 Million + across 3 funds
Business social network @LinkedIn has launched a localised site for China, backed by @Sequoia_Capital and CBC Capital
Alibaba, Qiming, Temasek invest $100 million in online education service provider TutorGroup
Ventech invests in China P2P lending platform Jimubox http://ift.tt/1k6J9Y9
Business social network LinkedIn has launched a localized site for China, backed by Sequoia_Capital and CBC Capital
Tencent buys 20% stake in VC-backed Dianping
Fosun Venture leads Series B investment in social media marketing firm Kongming and $21 million in mobile game operator, both in Beijing
China travel site 17u raises $82 million from Tencent, Boyu, Oriza
Xiaomi Ventures invests $20 million in Kingsoft gaming unit Westinghouse
Sequoia Capital leads second round in home renovation site to8to
China's Sungy Mobile buys VC-backed app store Getjar in the U.S.
Chinese companies heading for US IPOs: gaming company ChuKong and online retailer JD.com
Angel investor Lei Jun leads a $100 million round for China's online retailer Vancl.
SINGAPORE
Singapore online grocer RedMart raises $5.4m funding round http://dld.bz/dgppY
INDIA
Mayfield closes second India fund at $108 million
American Express VC unit backs India's software developer provider Capillary Technologies
Sequoia Capital India has led a $18.8 million Series B round of funding for Swiss mobile app Truecaller
IDG Ventures and Ascent Capital invest nearly $18 million in Newgen Software Technologies
Matrix India leads Series B round for mobile payment service MSwipe in India
JAPAN
Japanese incubator Digtal Garage invests $10 million in New York-based BetaWorks
Globis, Gree invest invest nearly $3 million crowd-sourced editing platform Viibar
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Speaking Appearances
Partner Events
Israel Dealmakers Summit
March 4-5, New York City
China Investment Surge in US High Tech
April 1, San Francisco
The Asian Business Angel Forum 2014
May 21-22, Hong Kong
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CONNECT
@silicondragon
@rfannin
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Startup Asia channels
VIDEO CLIPS
Silicon Dragon News is edited by
Rebecca Fannin.
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