Silicon Dragon Weekly Digest: It was a head-spinning week of China deals and venture featuring Baidu, Alibaba plus a KKR affiliate in India doing a deal with a Netflix rival.
LA innovation campus opens to help jumpstart LA’s startups, new fund that bridges China and the Valley is raised, DCM portfolio company gets acquired by China buyout fund.
Silicon Dragon Valley 2016: China Tech Goes Mainstream, Plus a Market Sector Outlook on VR
October 5 / Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center / San Francisco
Silicon Dragon Talk: Venture capitalists Hans Tung and Chris Evdemon contend that China and U.S. are not in a tech race. It’s more of a tech relay.
Silicon Dragon Shanghai 2016, Sept. 22: A Turning Point – China Venture and Innovation Goes Mainstream
Women in venture capital are getting ahead faster in China than in the U.S. Why? How? Check out this video with 3 top lady VCs: Jenny Lee, Melissa Guzy and Anna Fang.
Making news this week: Kai-Fu Lee’s new $674 million for US-China startups, Tencent’s music streaming deal, disruptions by VR led by China, and Amazon-FlipKart market share battle not over yet.
Weekly Digest: Zuckerberg’s foundation Invests In Indian education startup, Kickstarter Launches in Hong Kong and Singapore, CDH backs Chinese co-working space Fountown.
Silicon Dragon Weekly Digest: Alibaba jumps into VR with HTC to help new technology to scale up more widely, Tencent does a $226 million deal in Douyu TV live streaming, Sequoia India backs peer-to-peer lending service in Singapore.
Lightspeed China’s new funds lifts off while India gets fresh recognition as a startup hub but not much new capital.
It has been tough selecting two winners from the 19 entrepreneurs who pitched last week at Silicon Dragon’s pitch last week in New York City. There were the co-founders Bao Lei and Ying Shen who pitched their startup Xingzhi, which uses big data and machine learning to match Chinese students who wish to study abroad with U.S. universities. There was Sally...
Sequoia Capital made its first deal in New Zealand while Lenovo and Tencent inked a $12 million investment in VR startup in the US. SAIF led a $12 million round in an online tax service in India.
Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector is Challenging the World by Innovating Faster, Working Harder and Going Global (Hachette Book Group, 2019, 2nd edition 2026)
Silicon Heartland (Penguin Random House, 2022)
Startup Asia: Top Strategies for Cashing in on Asia's Innovation Boom
Silicon Dragon: How China Is Winning the Tech Race
