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Silicon Dragon
 Palo Alto 2015
 
Asia Links
    
Thursday, February 5, 2015
5-9pm
2000 University Avenue Circle
Palo Alto, CA
 
  
  
Catch the early bird rate now!  
  
Startups and small businesses are discovering the (not-so) secret strategy to scaling up quite fast and big. Go Asia is their mantra. China and India are two key destinations on their itinerary.
Here's how they're mapping the journey and profiting.
 Don't miss this
well-timed event.

featuring VCs and
Tech Entrepreneurs with
Asia Impact
 
Eric Hsia 
Venture Partner,
TransLink Capital
Eric Kim
Managing Partner
Goodwater Capital
Guru Gowrappan
COO
Quixey
Tong Luo
Founder & CEO
Handscape Inc.
Chang Kim
CEO
Tapas Media Inc.

Programmed by
Silicon Dragon Ventures

  
Thanks to our Sponsors:

DLA Piper
Silicon Valley Bank
  
 Agenda: 5-9pm
Welcome Remarks
3 Tech Chats
VC/Angel Investor Panel Cocktail Reception and Networking  
      
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March 11, 2015
Google Campus
UK-China Links
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April 22, 2015
HK Cyberport
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 New York
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Silicon Valley
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Silicon Dragon VIP and Venture Awards

November 20, 2014

Hong Kong

 

Dealmakers Zheng Wang, Silver Lake; Tytus Michalski, Fresco Capital; Tina Ju, Kleiner Perkins/ TDF; Melissa Guzy, Arbor Ventures; Jenny Lee, GGV Capital

 

See photos and videos 

from Awards event

 

Congratulations, winners!

 

VC Professional:

Tina Ju,

Kleiner Perkins China/ TDF Capital

VC firm:

GGV Capital

(accepting  Jenny Lee)

Entrepreneur:

Simon Loong, WeLab

Tech Deal:

Silver Lake

(accepting Zheng Wang)

IPO: Pearl River Delta

iDreamSky Technology (accepting Monte Singman)

 

Awards Video 

 

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                     SILICON DRAGON TALK
Silicon Dragon Talk: Xiaomi - Copy Of iPhone Or Original?

Silicon Dragon Talk: Xiaomi -

Copy Of iPhone Or Original?

  
Featuring guest Hans Tung, managing partner, GGV Capital and
Xiaomi investor, interviewed by Rebecca Fannin of Silicon Dragon Talk.

See related Forbes post: China's smartphone Xiaomi


STARTUP ASIA BANGALORE

HIGHLIGHTS

VC panelists: Veena Avadhanam, Bhavanipratap Rana, Ranjith Menon, Rahul Chowdhri, Sandeep Murthy with MC Rebecca Fannin

Photographed above: Amit Agarwal, Amazon India; Chandan Raj,

Your Story with Bhavish Aggarwal, OlaCabs; Girish Menon, KPMG

 with Sandipan Chattopadhyay, JustDial;  Sandeep Murthy, Lightbox Ventures;

Verun Gupta, KPMG;

Rebecca Fannin, Silicon Dragon with John Chrisman, Dorsey;

bar scene and ballroom 

 

VIDEOS

VC Panel

Tech Chats:

Amazon India

OlaCabs

 JustDial

Welcome Remarks 

        

Thanks to our sponsors:

Dorsey, S&R Associates, KPMG

 

Event Partners

Your Story, Mumbai Angels, TiE Bangalore

 

Silicon Dragon Talk: Hong Kong Startups - A Reality Check
Silicon Dragon Talk: Hong Kong Startups - A Reality Check

Silicon Dragon Talk:

 

  November program:

Startup Hong Kong: A Reality Check 

featuring guests

Tytus Michalski, Fresco Capital

Melissa Guzy, Arbor Ventures

Simon Squibb, Nest

Host: Rebecca Fannin, Silicon Dragon

 


 

See more Silicon Dragon Talk shows

 

  NEWS

 

 

  
CHINA

Chinese social app Momo is an IPO with mojo http://dlvr.it/7n1Lhq  Alibaba

has a 21 percent stake in Momo, started up by Netease founder Yan Tang. 

Other investors include Matrix Partners China, Sequoia Capital China and Yunfeng Capital. Momo is set to go public on NASDAQ, Dec. 11.

Ahead of IPO, Chinese social app Momo accused of stealing its name and tech. http://bit.ly/1wcnFyc 

 

Didi Dache, a Chinese Ride-Hailing App, Raises $700 Million http://nyti.ms/1DbiYdc 

 

Alibaba Group backs KTplay social gaming platform: Chinese e-commerce behemoth makes another investment.  http://kazi.info/1zPClTi 

 

Xiaomi's fitness wearable partner, Huami has raised USD 35 million in series

B funding led by Banyan Capital http://dlvr.it/7kY2JX 

 

Tencent, Banyan Capital lead $15 million Series A for Renren Express  http://bit.ly/1zRb6HU 

 

China reaches out to Facebook in growing courtship onforb.es/1s8uOjD

Zuckerberg's Love Affair With Xi Jinping http://on.cfr.org/1uhDnmk
  
All this blather about #China becoming world's No.1 econ is a pile of
statistical nonsense http://on.mktw.net/1tSdA43

More than 680 million people in China will be online next year, or 2.5X the number in the United States http://nyti.ms/1FVnMRD

500 Startups hires Edith Yeung to lead the new $10 million micro-fund for mobile apps, 500 Startups Mobile Collective http://ow.ly/F7Ej8

China flexes its high-speed rail muscles by rolling out 32 new routes in one
  
Xiaomi Expands Beyond Smartphones Once Again With New $150 Air
        
INDIA
 
Reflections on Uber Incident In India http://onforb.es/1Gknt1ehttp://onforb.es/1Gknt1e
Quixey moves into India, acquires mobile development company Dexetra http://bit.ly/1GkmZZ5

InMobi raises $5 mn from SoftBank. But not enough to pay even the
canteen bill! http://ecoti.ms/0bJNZY

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  
  
Sequoia and Nexus invest $3 million in TinyOwl. Zomato recently raised
a $60 million funding round from Naukri.  bit.ly/1FRiqoA

Zipcar clones offer 73 cents an hour rentals to lure Indians http://buswk.co/1umocJHhhttp://buswk.co/1umocJHttp://buswk.co/1umocJH

Stage Set For Uber Battle In Asia With Local Rivals http://onforb.es/1yp9TKA
 
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       OUT AND ABOUT
    
 

Lilly Huang, SVB; Edith Yeung, 500 Startups Mobile Collective; Elise Huang, WestSummit Capital; Jeff Richards, GGV Capital with Silicon Dragon

moderator Rebecca Fannin at GMIC SV conference, preparing to go on stage.


 

 

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