Inside the VC Mind Ep2: Billion-dollar Opportunities That Investors Missed (Remington Ong, Ray Yang, William Bao Bean)
11/02/20 • 21 min
Our guests:
Remington Ong
Remington is Partner at Fenbushi Capital, one of the earliest and most active blockchain-focused venture capital firms, where he has managed investments into over 40 leading startups around the world leveraging blockchain technology to disrupt a wide range of industries, such as finance, healthcare, supply chain, and consumer goods.
Ray Yang
Ray is Partner at Marathon Venture Partners, a China-based early to growth stage fund focusing on digital healthcare transformation. Prior to Marathon Venture Partners, Ray was MD at Northern Light Venture Capital and Investment Director at Orchid Asia Group Management. Many of his investments have achieved listings on major stock exchanges or achieved exit via M&A, such as Burning Rock Riotech, a Chinese biotech company went public on NASDAQ.
William Bao Bean
William is General Partner at SOSV. a US$740m+ venture capital fund known as “the accelerator VC”. He is also the MD at Chinaccelerator, SOSV’s global Internet accelerator and the first accelerator to launch in China in 2010 and MOX, the mobile-only accelerator platform with 130m smartphone users in SE Asia. Before SOSV, William was one of the founding MDs at SingTel Innov8 Ventures and Partner at Softbank China & India Holdings.
Show Notes:
01:00 Talk with Remington Ong
06:41 Talk with Ray Yang
14:00 Talk with William Bao Bean
Many thanks to our guests; host Oscar Ramos; producers Eva Shi and Sagar Chaudhary; editor David; organizer Chinaccelerator; and sponsor People Squared. Be sure to check out our website www.chinaccelerator.com
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Our guests:
Remington Ong
Remington is Partner at Fenbushi Capital, one of the earliest and most active blockchain-focused venture capital firms, where he has managed investments into over 40 leading startups around the world leveraging blockchain technology to disrupt a wide range of industries, such as finance, healthcare, supply chain, and consumer goods.
Ray Yang
Ray is Partner at Marathon Venture Partners, a China-based early to growth stage fund focusing on digital healthcare transformation. Prior to Marathon Venture Partners, Ray was MD at Northern Light Venture Capital and Investment Director at Orchid Asia Group Management. Many of his investments have achieved listings on major stock exchanges or achieved exit via M&A, such as Burning Rock Riotech, a Chinese biotech company went public on NASDAQ.
William Bao Bean
William is General Partner at SOSV. a US$740m+ venture capital fund known as “the accelerator VC”. He is also the MD at Chinaccelerator, SOSV’s global Internet accelerator and the first accelerator to launch in China in 2010 and MOX, the mobile-only accelerator platform with 130m smartphone users in SE Asia. Before SOSV, William was one of the founding MDs at SingTel Innov8 Ventures and Partner at Softbank China & India Holdings.
Show Notes:
01:00 Talk with Remington Ong
06:41 Talk with Ray Yang
14:00 Talk with William Bao Bean
Many thanks to our guests; host Oscar Ramos; producers Eva Shi and Sagar Chaudhary; editor David; organizer Chinaccelerator; and sponsor People Squared. Be sure to check out our website www.chinaccelerator.com
Share, subscribe, review, enjoy!
Follow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/the-china-startup-pulse/
Email us: [email protected]
Previous Episode
China's Cross-Border Luxury Ecommerce: The Past & The Present, with Claire Chung, Former China GM of Yoox Net-A-Porter Group
Show notes:
02:26 Educating overseas brands about the China market in Shangpin
05:03 The reasons why overseas brands rejected Chinese platforms in early days
08:05 Shangpin partnered with banks to build trust with customers
10:30 First time brought Topshop to China’s online space
13:22 Online consumers for high-end brands in China
16:37 The role of Shangpin in providing unique user experience
19:17 The importance of after-sales customer service
22:04 The biggest changes in China’s luxury ecommerce space
28:32 China’s innovation that is brought to the rest of the world
30:53 How the overseas perceives the innovation from China
35:00 The new definition of luxury
Many thanks to our guest Claire Chung; host Oscar Ramos; producers Eva Shi and Sagar Chaudhary; editor David; organizer Chinaccelerator; and sponsor People Squared. Be sure to check out our website www.chinaccelerator.com
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Follow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/the-china-startup-pulse/
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Next Episode
Rapid Accession of China’s Capital Market Post COVID with Benjamin Qiu, Legal Expert on Cross-border Investment
Today, we will invite one of our old friends Benjamin Qiu, Partner of Loeb & Loeb, an international law firm based in the US and Asia. He has over 15-year experience in working with high growth companies in China and big VC firms such as GGV and Sequoia Capital. He is the perfect person to answer our questions and expand on the future outlook of the post-covid startup world. We will also talk about the relationship between China and other Asian markets including Southeast Asia and India, and how the recent events will change the way that China invests in those regions.
Show Notes:
02:01 Introduce Benjamin Qiu
02:41 More Chinese tech companies got listed in overseas markets
05:02 China’s financial policy reforms
08:42 How the pandemic has impacted investors’ investment deals
12:54 Reasons behind the fast market recovery in China
16:05 Trends about China going to Southeast Asia
20:43 The impact created by the geopolitical intensions between China and India
Many thanks to our guest Benjamin Qiu; host Oscar Ramos; producers Eva Shi and Sagar Chaudhary; editor David; organizer Chinaccelerator; and sponsor People Squared. Be sure to check out our website www.chinaccelerator.com
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Follow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/the-china-startup-pulse/
Email us: [email protected]
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