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Founded by Matt Cheng, a leading angel investor, serial entrepreneur and top-ranked ITF world junior tennis player, in 2010, Cherubic Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm with coverage across Silicon Valley and Greater China. With US$120 million of assets under management, it has invested in 100+ companies.

Warren Shaeffer is the co-founder of online video community Vidme. He was also COO of SocialEngine, co-founded by Vidme co-founder Alex Benzer. He had also worked at Golden Gate Capital and JPMorgan. Shaeffer received his bachelor’s degree in Government from Harvard University and was a Detur Book Prize recipient.

A famous angel investor in the healthcare sector, Shao Hui founded Youxiang, the first cross-border medical tourism player in China in 2006, targeting the Chinese upper class.  In 2001, he participated in the venture-stage funding of Beijing Nanshan Ski Village, now the most popular ski village in China.

Acton Capital Partners is a Munich-based VC that focuses on late-stage investments. The firm invests primarily in the sectors of fintech, marketing and e-commerce and has invested over €350m across the three industries. It has backed prominent companies such as Toronto-based Chef’s Plate and online homemade crafts marketplace Etsy.

Co-founded by renowned angel investors, Beijing Software and Information Services Exchange, leading IT listed companies and the Administrative Committee of Zhongguancun Haidian Science Park, Beiruan Angel focuses on mobile internet, cloud computing, modern services, cultural innovation and IC. One of its partners, Li Zhu, is also a founding partner of Innoangel Fund. 

K11 is a shopping mall brand based in Hong Kong. It was founded in 2008 by entrepreneur Adrian Cheng. Cheng’s family owns and controls Hong Kong conglomerate New World Development, which deals mainly in property, infrastructure and services, department stores and hotels, and jewelry group Chow Tai Fook.

Minsheng Securities Co., Ltd. was established in Beijing in 1986 with registered capital of RMB 9.619 billion. China Securities Regulatory Commission has authorized Minsheng Securities to engage in securities trading and securities underwriting and serve as a sponsor. It is one of the first securities companies in China.

UCommune is a Chinese coworking space operator, best known for its UrWork brand. As of November 2018, it has raised over US$650 million and has most recently completed series D funding. UCommune has also invested in Chinese companies Danke Apartment and Huodongxing, as well as Indonesian coworking space operator Rework (now GoWork).

Chongqing Environmental Fund was established by China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment and the Chongqing Municipal Government in June 2015. As of late December 2018, the fund has invested RMB 448m in 28 projects. It has launched 13 funds with a total capital of about RMB 8bn. 

A prolific investor, Eddy Chan has been involved in venture investments for US companies like Paypal, SpaceX, and Palantir, as well as Indonesian ones like coworking space EV Hive (now CoHive), BeliMobilGue (used car marketplace) and Kata.ai (chatbot builder). He is also the founding partner of Intudo Ventures, an "Indonesia-only" VC firm.

Portuguese-born Nuno Sebastião is best known as the CEO and co-founder of risk management platform Feedzai where he has worked since 2010. Based in San Francisco, he is also a senior advisor at Oak VC and as an individual investor, he has participated in the €1.15 seed round of fintech StudentFinance.

Los Angeles-based Leonard Green & Partners (LGP) is a PE investment firm with over $50bn of assets under management. Since it was founded in 1989, LGP has invested in over 100 companies in the form of traditional buyouts, going-private transactions, recapitalizations, growth equity, and selective public equity and debt positions. 

Armed with Asian and European experience, Miguel Amaro co-founded Uniplaces in 2011. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Nottingham, and took a course in Chinese Studies at East China Normal University. He obtained his master’s in Management, with a concentration in Global Entrepreneurship, from Babson Graduate School. Amaro also spent two months as an analyst at Grameen Bank in Dhaka, Bangladesh. While developing Uniplaces, he was an entrepreneur-in-residence at Picvic Labs (France), Zhejiang University Innovation Institute (China) and Osram (United States). Amaro is currently part of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers. As an investor, to date, he has only invested in Portuguese healthy food service EatTasty and part funding the company's angel, pre-seed and seed rounds, with undisclosed investments. 

Jungle Ventures was founded by serial entrepreneur Anurag Srivastava and business angel Amit Anand in Singapore. Anurag arrived in Singapore in 1993 and established interior design Space Matrix group in 2006. Amit was a vice chairman of Business Angels Network South East Asia (BANSEA). He is currently a member of the Advisory Council for Ethics in AI & Data in Singapore.The VC specializes in the finance, retail, software, media, travel and hospitality sectors. Investments include budget hotel network RedDoorz, microfinancing fintech Kredivo, photography services platform SweetEscape and digital logistics Waresix.

Bohai Leasing is an Asia-based international comprehensive leasing industry group, and the largest container leasing service provider in the world. Since 2015, Bohai Leasing has begun its investment into the Bohai Life Insurance and Lianxun Securities, building up a large financial holding group with leasing as core business supplemented and enhanced by other financial services.

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