Silicon Dragon
 www.silicondragonventures.com                           NEWS                                      February 2014  
                                                                                                       
   
  Featured Event:
  SILICON DRAGON
  
     Golden Gate
 The New International
Tech Capital  
  
Speakers:
Victoria Wu, Director-International, Tencent's popular mobile messaging app WeChat in US
(Watch out Whatsapp!)
 Victoria Wu 
 
 
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
 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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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
    
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Silicon Dragon London 2014, Keynote Talk: Lord Wei with Level 39's Eric Van der Kleij
Silicon Dragon London 2014, Keynote Talk: Lord Wei with Level 39's Eric Van der Kleij

Lord Wei, Rebecca, Tim Watkins  

Serial social entrepreneur Lord Wei, Rebecca Fannin,

Tim Watkins of Huawei

 

David Gill, Tim Watkins, Dave Mott, Mike PowellKelvin AuNigel ToonGareth Wong, Eric Van der Kleij

 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

 

  
Silicon Dragon London 2014: Dealmaker Panel

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VC & Dealmaker Panel

 

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Good Morning Beijing

                  Beijing was a toxic mess for more than a week.

                Photo credit: Frank Yu, "Good Morning Beijing"

     

 

 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

 

 

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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