Silicon Dragon Ventures is a news, events and research group covering innovation and investment hubs in the Silicon Valleys of the world, formed in 2010 by Rebecca Fannin to provide insights into the world’s emerging tech innovation centers. Her extensive network spans entrepreneurs, founders, deal makers, venture capitalists, angel investors, crowd financiers, family offices, investment bankers and service providers from legal, accounting and management consulting firms. Rebecca’s media group publishes a newsletter, produces and hosts online and live shows, and programs global tech innovation and investment forums.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Rebecca is a journalist, book author, keynote speaker, venture capital scout, and media entrepreneur. She began her journalistic career in New York City, and later Silicon Valley, where she followed the VC trail and became one of the first American journalists to write about the entrepreneurial boom in China, reporting from Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Inspired by the entrepreneurs she has met and interviewed in Silicon Valleys globally, Rebecca became a media entrepreneur herself. In 2010, she formed media and events platform Silicon Dragon Ventures, and later launched a membership group.
She is currently a contributor at CNBC, writing features and profiles for the Top 50 Disruptor report. Newsweek recently published her cover story on China’s electric vehicles and excerpted an AI chapter from her latest book, The New Tech Titans of China.
Represented by Leading Authorities in Washington, DC, Rebecca is a frequent speaker and moderator at major business, policy and tech forums. She has offered commentary on NBC TV, BBC and Bloomberg TV, and provided expert testimony about the China Internet to a U.S. Congressional committee in 2010.
Additionally, Rebecca is a venture scout for Alumni Ventures, an independent board director, and an adviser to the China-US Business Alliance in New York City.
Her first book, Silicon Dragon: How China is Winning the Tech Race (McGraw-Hill, 2008), profiled Jack Ma of Alibaba and Robin Li of Baidu, and she has followed these Chinese tech titans ever since. Her second book, Startup Asia (Wiley, 2011), explored how India is the next up and comer, which again predicted a leading-edge trend. She also contributed the Asia chapter to a textbook, Innovation in Emerging Markets (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Her third book, Tech Titans of China (Hachette Books, 2019), won a Silver Medal in International/Globalization in the 2020 Axiom Business Books Awards. An updated and fully revised edition, The New Tech Titans of China, was published in 2026.
Rebecca also has extensively covered America’s industrial hubs. Her recent book, Silicon Heartland, delves into the transformation of the U.S. Rust Belt to a Tech Belt (Hachette Book Group, 2023).
Her books have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Thai, Russian, Vietnamese and Arabic, and have received favorable reviews from the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, China Daily and New York Times.
Her books have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Thai, Russian, Vietnamese and Arabic, and have received favorable reviews from the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, China Daily and New York Times.
Earlier in her career, Rebecca was a columnist at Forbes for 10 years and international news editor at Red Herring. Her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Inc., Techonomy, Worth, The Deal, and BBC Capital. Rebecca also has contributed to several KPMG thought leadership reports on global technology innovation.
Rebecca resides in New York City and San Francisco, and logs major miles in her grassroots search to cover the next, new thing – including her hometown region in Ohio.
