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January 24
Dixon Doll, Impact VC
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VC Chat
Fudan U Exec MBA
January 14, 4-6pm
San Francisco
Invitation only
China - From Imitator
To Innovator: A Media Perspective
San Francisco, Dec. 4
Rebecca Fannin, Jon Swartz, Michelle Quinn, Sally Shin
Commercializing
Technion Innovations
San Francisco, Dec. 5
David Chivo, David Kaufman, Rebecca Fannin, Moran Bercovici, Harel Kodesh
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Silicon Dragon's Year in Review published at
Forbes highlights our picks for the
top happenings in 2018 in US-China venture capital and tech innovation.
Think:
Qiming Ventures' $1.3 billion for 3 new funds,
Sensetime funding of $600 million at $4.5 billion valuation,
Pinduoduo's $1.6 billion IPO on Nasdaq from 0 in 3 years,
New unicorn
ByteDance in top rank at $75 billion
, Meituan acquisition of
Mobike in $2.7 billion deal,
Sequoia Capital China tops global 100 VC rankings +.
We also name our top pick for book, hotel and film.
Our list of predictions for 2019 is coming next.
Stay tuned!
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China asserted its power with U.S. IPOs this past week of Chinese companies Tencent Music Entertainment and 360 Finance, bringing the tally to 25 China public listings in New York during the first three quarters of 2018 -- despite heightened U.S.-China economic tensions. The number tops any full-year total since 2010, notes IPO tracker Renaissance Capital.
Tencent Music grabbed the headlines by raising $1.1 billion at a valuation of $21.3 billion.
FUNDS
Sequoia Capital China is raising a seed fund of undisclosed size for investing in Chinese startups, according to a SEC filing.
Hubspot is launching a $30 million fund for "customer-first" startups in India.
STARTUP NEWS
Starbucks will start delivering coffee in the U.S. through a partnership with
UberEats. Funny thing is that Starbucks started doing this first a few months earllier in China with Alibaba's
Ele.me delivery service. In China's large cities, Starbucks customers skip the line, click on a smartphone app to order and pay, and grab their favorite brew while it's still hot via
Ele.me speedy couriers.
Up until now, this on-demand service would not be possible on Main Street USA. But here is just the latest example of where the future is already here, in China, while the
U.S. lags behind.
American entrepreneurs who flocked to China to start their own businesses are heading home. This article in
WSJ (in case you missed it) features founder
Steve Mushero of
ChinaNetCloud, who has been on stage more than once at Silicon Dragon in Shanghai.
PEOPLE
Neil Shen, the chief of Sequoia Capital China, will step down as a board member at instant messaging platform Momo, which was caught in a data leak scandal. A co-founder of Alibaba, Yongming (Eddie) Wu, will step in.
DCM Ventures promotes two of its VC investors to partners: Kyle Lui in the U.S. and Ray Zhao in China.
DEALS
Tencent backer Naspers leads $540 million funding of Indian education startup Gyju.
Sequoia Capital China led a Series A financing of China's self-driving startup HoloMatic.
SAIF, Nexus and
Sequoia India put $21 million in edtech startup
Unacademy in India.
Qiming Ventures invests in
FirstGrid, a Chinese medical supply management platform.
Ally Bridge leads $17 million A round in Chinese biotech startup
GenFleet Therapeutics.
VC RANKINGS
Forbes China published its annual list of top 100 venture capitalists in China. Qiming Venture Partners nabbed five spots on the list: Duane King, William Hu, Nisa Leung, Helen Wong and Yong Zhang.
If you can read Chinese, have a look at the top
DATA POINTS
China's
richest 2018: Fortunes Fade Amid Trade Friction. More than half of 2018's top 400 are less well off than a year ago.
Marco Polo China digs into 40 AI-related local projects in China to see a close-up of China's nationalistic goals to become the world's AI superpower.
NOTEWORTHY
Will China cheat American investors? Beijing wants to bring home its big tech firms.
WSJ column by Harvard Law School professor
Jesse Fried and
Burford Capital portfolio manager
Matthew Schoenfeld.
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