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SiliconDragonVentures.com                                                             November 13, 2015

 FEATURED EVENT  
  
  

 
Tel Aviv
 
 
Dec. 2, 2015
  
Silicon Dragon
 Explores the Strategic Links Between
Startup Nations
Israel and China:
* VC fund raising
* Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent 
deals with Israeli startups
* Cross-border M&A deals 
R&D collaboration
* Market expansion
*  Breakthrough Innovations
  
 

 SPEAKERS IN SPOTLIGHT

VENTURE INVESTORS

Gilad Novik, Horizons Ventures
Ronen Nir, Carmel Ventures
Kobi Rozengarten, JVP
Zvi Shalgo, China Synergy
Dovi Ollech, Emerge
Jon Medved, OurCrowd
William Bao Bean, SOSVentures
Net Jacobsson, SparkLabs
Howard J. Krongard
Yesha Sivan, Coller Institute
Lionel Friedfeld,
Israel Asia Fund
 
 
DEALMAKERS

Ilan Maor, SHENG Enterprises
Ziv Wassercug, Tadmor-Levy
Hillel Schuster, KPMG
Danny Shacham, IronSource
Ziv Tamir, ZDev Medical

 
MULTINATIONAL
STRATEGISTS 

Dror Pearl, IBM Israel
Oded Salomy, Visa Europe
Ariella Grinberg, GM

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Tech Entrepreneurs
Policy Experts
Inventors
Incubators, Accelerators
 
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 Editor:
 
  
FATE OF ASIAN UNICORNS
 
Asia is certainly not insulated from the meltdown of such high profile unicorn-valued companies as Snapchat, Square and Dropbox. Chinese and Indian startups are right there in this fall-out too.
The threat of another tech bubble bursting is real as venture-backed companies fail to raise money at valuations that come close to their prior round of finance - along with the realization that some of these unicorns are never going to turn a profit. Indeed, they may not survive at all. 
Chuan Thor, a VC at Highland Capital Partners, said he knows of one Chinese startup that took a "significant down round" of $380 million from its prior $800 million financing. Several others including Bill Li of Walden International mentioned that it's becoming more common for VC-backed companies to get bridge loans or go for venture debt instead of equity in a down round.
Unicorns from China, India and Southeast Asia currently account for about one-quarter of some 125 startups globally with a valuation of $1 billion or more - an amazing data point considering that Asian VC was barely on the map 15 years ago while Silicon Valley was going strong. Tops on the list are Xiaomi, Flipkart and Didi Kuaidi. Read Forbes, Fate of Asian Unicorns

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Featuring Venture Investors Chris Burch, Carman Chan, Matt Cheng, James Zhang, Allen Zhu and Alan Chan


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SILICON DRAGON VENTURE AND FOUNDER AWARDS

Allen Zhu, GSR Ventures Alan Chan, Vectr Ventures
Investor Winners:
VC: Allen Zhu of GSR Ventures (Beijing)
Angel Investor: Alan Chan, Vectr Ventures (Hong Kong)

Peter Chen, Penkoi Richard Liu, EHang Lamplight w KPMG  
Tech Entrepreneur Winners:
Peter Chen, Founder, Pinkoi (Taiwan)
Richard Liu, CFO, EHang (Shenzhen)
Fergus Clarke, Co-founder, Lamplight Analytics
(Hong Kong) with presenters Sebastian Leotta of KPMG and Silicon Dragon's Rebecca Fannin  

 
GSR$3M early deal with taxi-hailing app Didi 
Sequoia: $30M bet on drone maker DJI
Vectr Ventures: focus on edgy startups in fintech, data and analytics, VR and medtech
Pinkoi: Asia's Etsy raised $9M from Sequoia India +
EHang: Team Build-up Post $52M from GGV +
Lamplight Analytics: Large $1.5M seed funding from HK

 
 

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