Nov. 3, 4pm-5:30pm PT

James Mi, Lightspeed China

Jeff Chi, Vickers Venture

Olivia Wang, ZhenFund

Edith Yeung, Race Capital

Duncan Chiu, Radiant Capital

Michael Yang, HKEX

Irene Chu, KPMG

Charles Ng, InvestHK

Keynote: Kamran Elahian, Global Catalyst

VC & Serial Tech Entrepreneur with 3 Unicorn IPOs, Silicon Valley

Drive Capital in my home state of Ohio scores its first big win with the Nasdaq IPO of tech-powered insurance app Root in Columbus. The IPO raised $724 million. Drive, founded in 2013 by two former Sequoia partners, was an inaugural investor in Root at $25 million in 2015.

Sequoia China leads $22 million funding of Beijing-based software startup BizSeer. The VC firm also puts $45 million in consumer electronics startup VanTop.

Tencent leads $30 million financing in Chinese smart parking platform ChinaRoad.

Zetwerk, a B2B software startup in India for custom manufacturing, has raised $32 million Series B round led by Lightspeed and Greenoaks Capital.

Sequoia India leads $55 million Series C investment in lending platform Finova Capital. Plus, Indian fintech lender FlexiLoans raises $20 million in mix of debt and equity, led by family office Nykaa.

Sequoia India leads $15 million 1st round in video creation platform InVideo.

Lightspeed leads seed funding of $12 million in virtual events platform Hubilo. 

Iron Pillar funds Fresh2Home in $121 million deal to scale up its e-commerce business selling fresh foods in India.

Smart scooter maker Ninebot surges in early trading on Shanghai’s Star Market board for tech companies

Chinese cosmetics brand and unicorn Perfect Diary files for IPO on NYSE.

Nissho Electronics USA taps Silicon Valley venture firm U First Capital to drive global

strategic investments tied to growth areas. 

Fear of Beijing’s technological prowess is driving deep policy shifts. Foreign Policy

.A deep dive into ByteDance, the company behind TikTok

Chinese regulators have summoned Jack Ma and 2 execs at Ant for questioning (dressing down) leading up to its $37 billion IPO in Shanghai and Hong Kong. FT

Silicon Dragon in Bloomberg, BBC, Channel News Asia, CGTN, China Daily, Nikkei

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