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Featured Event

 

Startup Asia
Bangalore 2014
 
    
November 20, 5pm - 9pm
Hotel Royal Orchid
1/Golf Avenue
HAL Airport Road
Bangalore, India
  
  
A New Chapter
For Startup India
  
Ventures in India are entering a new era as reforms kick in to give startups and innovation
 a boost. Don't miss this
well-timed event.
 
  
   featuring
VC/Angel Investors
  
Rahul Chowdhri 
Helion Ventures
Ranjith Menon
IDG Ventures
Sandeep Murthy
Lightbox Ventures
Bhavanipratap Rana 
Intel Capital
Veena Avadhanam
Mumbai Angels
  
  Entrepreneurs
  
Bhavish Aggarwal
Co-founder & CEO,
OlaCabs

Amit Agarwal
Co-founder & CEO
VP, Amazon India
  
Manu Jain
India Head
Xiaomi

Sandipan Chattopadhyay
CTO
JustDial
  
Moderators:
Rebecca Fannin
Forbes
Chandan Raj
YourStory
Ashvin Vellody
KPMG 
Welcome remarks:
Varun Gupta
Corporate Strategy Manager
Trans Maldivian Airways  
  
Agenda: 5-9pm
Welcome Remarks
4 Tech Chats
VC/Angel Investor Panel Cocktail Reception and Dinner
  
   
  
 Thanks to our sponsors:
Dorsey 
S&R Associates 
KPMG
  
and event supporters:
Mumbai Angels
TiE
YourStory
TradeBriefs
Bangalore/Global
Entrepreneurs Network
  
Bangalore Forum 2014 
  
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 Out-Takes,

Silicon Dragon Awards 2014

 November 13, Hong Kong

 

   

VC Professional:

Tina Ju, Founding & Manging Partner,

Kleiner Perkins China/ TDF Capital

VC firm:

GGV Capital (accepting MP Jenny Lee)

Entrepreneur:

Simon Loong, Founder & CEO, WeLab

Tech Deal

Silver Lake (accepting MD Zheng Wang)

IPO from Pearl River Delta region:

iDreamSky Technology (accepting VP Monte Singman)

 

Awards Video

 

Congratulations to the Winners!

 

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Venture Capital / Dealmaker Panel

 

 

Jenny Lee, Managing Partner, GGV Capital

Melissa Guzy, Managing Partner, Arbor Ventures

Tina Ju, KP China/ TDF Capital

Tytus Michalski, Managing Director, Fresco Capital

Zheng Wang, Managing Director, Silver Lake

 

VC Panel Video 

       

Tech Chats:

 

 

 

David Yuan, Partner, Redpoint Ventures & Early Backer, iDreamSky Technology with
Bruno Bensaid of ShanghaiVest / AngelVest
Terence Kwok, Founder & CEO, Tink Labs with
Napolean Biggs, WebWednesday
Simon Loong, Founder & CEO, WeLab
 
 
TECH INNOVATION FORECAST
 
James Giancotti, Co-founder, Bigcolors
Cedric Delzenne, Director, The Founder Institute
Gary Matuszak, Partner, Global Chair, TMT, KPMG
 Modertor: Iain Reed, TieHK

 Video of Tech Innovation Forecast 

 

 

Thanks to our sponsors:

Morrison & Foerster, InvestHK, KPMG

 

Event Partners

HK Cyberport, HKSTP, TiEHK 

 

Silicon Dragon Talk - Alibaba and China's Tech Titans Buy Up US Startups

Silicon Dragon Talk:

 

 October program:

Alibaba and China's Tech Titans

Buy Up US Startups

featuring guests

Brad Bao, Fosun Kinzon Capital

Hany Nada, GGV Capital

Yong Liu, SVTech

Host: Rebecca Fannin, Silicon Dragon

 

 November Program from Hong Kong

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  NEWS

 

 

  
CHINA

China's dating and chat app Momo files to go public in the U.S. and raise $300 million. Alibaba owns an 21 percent stake in Momo, started up by Netease founder Yan Tang. Other investors include Matrix Partners China, Sequoia Capital China and Yunfeng Capital. WSJ 

 

Vertex leads investment in Chinese e-commerce site Metao with Morningside and Matrix Partners joining in.  

IPV Capital and AliPay have invested $12 million in a second financing for Singapore and U.S.-based mobile security startup V-key.


 

IDG and Morningside have led a $60 million round for China P2P car-rental site PPzuche that was launched by iCarsclub from Singapore. 

 

Matrix and SIG have invested $20 million in Tencent-backed laundry service app Edaixi in Beijing. 

 

Chinese courier mobile app Renren Kuaidi gets backing from Tencent and Banyan Capital to the tune of $15 million.  


 
Legend Holdings has backed China peer-to-peer lending platform Eloancn

 

DCM has led a $30 million Series B financing for Chinese gay social app Blued
 
     

 INDIA
One more tech gap: WeChat for China, Whatsapp for India onforb.es/1EXSDN3  

Uber-like car-sharing services such as OlaCabs bypass car ownership in India onforb.es/1uChEfc 

A Clue to Softbank's 2 Mega India Deals - OlaCabs and Snapdeal - Can Be Traced To Its Hit at Alibaba in China http://onforb.es/1nQv9oL  
  
Self-driving car rental startup Zoomcar raises $8 million in funding led by Sequoia Capital with additional investors:  ex-Infosys CFO Mohandas Pai, Manipal Group's Abhay Jain, and prior stakeholders Empire Angels, FundersClub, Basset Investment Group, and funds advised by Triangle Growth Partners. 

HomeShop18 drops plans for U.S. IPO. The Indian online shopping network is backed by SAIF, the same firm behind MakeMyTrip's successful listing.


 
Forum Synergies leads Series B round for Indian ethnic clothing retailer CBazaar.in.
 

Helion Venture Partners has invested $5.7 million in a first funding for iD Fresh Foods, an Indian ready-to-cook packaged foods company.

 

Warburg Pincus has acquired a minority stake for $89.6 million in Indian drug maker Laurus Labs, in a partial exit for Fidelity Growth Partners India.


 TAIWAN

Taiwan's PilotTV is set to get funding from Intel Capital in the VC unit's strategic move to invest $62 million in Taiwanese tech startups.

  

SOUTH KOREA

Mobile games developer 4.33 Creative Labs has raised $100 million from Tencent and Japan's Line.

 

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