Fear of failure or fear or missing out? Which will win in Taiwan? Venture investors and dealmakers Carman Chan, Edward Chyau, Tina Cheng, Heidi Huang and Vivian Wang debate the startup environment in Taiwan.
China Power: 11 China-based VCs rank among the top 100 startup investors globally while Mainland China counts 41 of 155 unicorn companies worldwide. New deals span India, Japan, the UK and Malaysia.
Silicon Dragon founder Rebecca Fannin, interviewed in London by IntelligentCrowd.TV, discusses venture capital cycles – boom to bust and so on.
York Chen of iD TechVentures (formerly known as Acer Technology Ventures) discusses the Taiwan startup and venture opportunity and challenge, from a cross-straits perspective.
Anita Huang of Taiwan Startup Stadium chats with James O’Claire about how Bubbleye is building its business from Taipei.
Silicon Dragon Tech Chat – Taipei 2016: Shawn Guan of Taiwanese startup Umbo CV tells Bloomberg columnist Tim Culpan how he’s ramping up the business.
Silicon Dragon Tech Chat, Taipei 2016: Winnie Lee, COO of Taiwanese emerging company Appier with Arthur Chen of AlumVest
Global VC Panelist Edith Yeung of 500 Startups, Peter Hsieh of Acorn Pacific Partners, Kay-Mok Ku of Gobi Partners, Jay McCarthy of SparkLabs Global and moderator Rebecca Fannin of Silicon Dragon in Taipei, March 2016
Silicon Dragon’s weekly digest: Altos, Cherubic raise new funds for startups in Asia, China outdoes U.S. in billionaire ranks, Tencent inks $100M Twitch-like deal, Cisco dives into India’s digital, Baidu gets in on driver-less cars race.
This week’s Silicon Dragon News: China Media Capital takes stake in Ron Howard’s film group, Amadeus inks first India deal, 500 Startups steps up in Southeast Asia, Lightspeed recharges with 2 news funds at $1.2B, and Alibaba and SoftBank restructuring and bulked up. Elon Musk sounded off about Singapore roadblocks to Tesla. Plus, VR and cloud computing deals got funding.
Taiwan is entering a new era of cool and well-funded tech startups of all kinds — no longer known only as the semiconductor capital of the world.
Amazing to see the mainstream tech media catching onto the copy from China trend that Silicon Dragon spotlighted some 8 years ago (in a book by the same title).
China News / News / USA News
China’s DJI Flies Into The Valley To Tap Local R&D Talent
October 31, 2015
Silicon Heartland (Penguin Random House, 2022)
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)
Startup Asia: Top Strategies for Cashing in on Asia's Innovation Boom
Silicon Dragon: How China Is Winning the Tech Race
