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Serial entrepreneur Yu Jianjun founded three businesses before co-founding his most successful startup Ximalaya, China’s largest online audio sharing and service platform. After graduating with a masters in mechanical engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Yu began his entrepreneurial journey by building virtual city maps using 3D modeling technology. His second business, City Bar, was sold to Baidu.  

Antonio Tripiana Caballero worked for almost two years as project engineer at the Signal Processing for Communications and Navigation (SPCOMNAV) research group at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).The Department of Telecommunications and Systems Engineering project was part of Tripiana’s master’s degree in Telecoms Systems Engineering during his university days from 2011 to 2016. He also completed a one-year exchange program at Finland’s Tampere University of Technology.Tripiana worked as a freelance full-stack developer in Barcelona during his studies. He worked for four months as a scientist at Barcelona’s Mobile World Capital to develop a cloud-based GNSS receiver for IoT devices with ultra-low battery consumption. He also spent five months testing receivers at the European Space Agency (ESA) in the Netherlands.In 2018, he co-founded Plant on Demand (POD) as the startup’s Solutions Architect. He took on the full-time role of CTO during 1Q2020.

Fu was born in Jiangxi province in March 1978. In 2005, he led a team that created free antivirus software Qihoo 360 Security Guard. In 2008, he became vice president at Matrix Partners China. A year later, Fu became CEO and chairman of picture software firm Conew Image, which merged with Kingsoft Security in November 2010 to create Kingsoft Network. Fu has served as CEO of the merged company ever since, which, in March 2014, was renamed Cheetah Mobile. He is also founder and general partner at Purple Cow Startups.

Based in San Francisco, the Mulago Foundation is a philanthropic foundation designed to carry on the life work of pediatrician Rainer Arnhold who died in 1993 while working in the mountains of Bolivia. He originally set up the Mulago Foundation in 1968, naming it after a hospital in Uganda. His Jewish family, bankers for generations, continued to support the foundation for impact investing across diverse sectors and geographies, with scalable solutions to alleviate poverty.It has invested in 61 companies to date. Successful ventures include: Kenya’s Komaza that raised $28m in its 2020 Series B and Myanmar’s Proximity Finance, a fintech for small-holder farmers that raised $14m in 2020. Komaza helps poor families turn dry land into small-scale, income-generating tree farms, benefiting more than 2m farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Fosun RZ Capital was founded as the investment arm of the Fosun Group in 2013. Formerly known as Fosun Kinzon Capital, the firm changed its name in 2017. With assets of over RMB 10 billion under management, the firm invests mainly in the internet, finance, education, healthcare, automotive, consumer products and business services fields. Headquartered in Beijing, Fosun RZ Capital has branch offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Silicon Valley, New Delhi, Bangalore, Lagos, Jakarta, Singapore, among other locations.

ATM Capital is a China-based venture capital firm with a focus on Southeast Asia. In 2017, ATM Capital participated in the seed round of Indonesian coworking space operator Rework (now GoWork). Its its partners have invested in Go-Jek, Rocket Internet and several Chinese companies. It closed its US$200 million fund in January 2019. 

Jerry Ng was the CEO of Indonesian financial institution Bank Tabungan Pensiunan Nasional (BTPN) for a decade until BTPN's merger with Sumitomo Mitsui Indonesia. Ng participated in the seed round of smart retail kiosk startup Warung Pintar in 2017 and again in early 2019 for its Series B funding. 

BlackRock was founded in New York in 1988 by a group of Wall Streeters led by Laurence D. Fink. As of April 2019, it has US$6.25 trillion in assets under management. BlackRock, which has 70 offices in 30 countries, manages assets for clients in more than 100 countries. Clients include individual investors, foundations, companies and governments.

Founded in Beijing in 2015, Frees Fund is an asset management company with a portfolio valued at RMB 3.6bn. Frees primarily invests in early-stage startups in diverse sectors including fintech, education, healthcare, entertainment, hardware, intelligent manufacturing and SaaS. The VC is incorporated as Shanghai Ziyou Investment Management Co Ltd.

Aka “China’s first female hardware creator”. One of Huawei’s earliest staff in Eastern Europe/the Balkans (2003-7), opening offices in Hungary and Croatia, Li Qin’s experience of Huawei’s rise in Europe provided fodder for her semi-autobiographical novel, A Thousand Li of Barren Land. A sailing enthusiast. Holds a master’s in Economic Management from Stockholm University (where she studied on a scholarship).

Purdue engineering graduate Ryan holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. Upon graduation, he worked as an engineer at Distribution Service Technologies and Sigma Cipta Caraka (Telkomsigma), both IT companies. He subsequently became Head of Business Development at Bayu Buana Travel, a travel company. He eventually quit to start crowdsourcing creative website Sribu in 2011. In 2014, he founded Sribulancer, an online marketplace for freelancers.

Creative toy designer and photographer, Paulus Hyu Susanto is a busy entrepreneur often found at toy expos around the world. His twitter slogan, “We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing”, captures it all. Besides running a designer toy online shop Kurobokan, Paulus also works as a photographer at AXIOO that was co-founded with David Soong.

A former investment banker, Wen Ronghui holds an MBA from Peking University. Before founding Talkmate, Wen spent five years in education both as a university lecturer and as a principal of a Beijing language school owned by Nasdaq-listed China Bilingual Technology & Education Group. Prior to that, he was an investment banker for eight years, taking more than 10 companies public.

Agung Mahesa Yudhistira is an Information Systems graduate from Universitas Bina Nusantara, Indonesia. After graduating in 2016, he joined PT Lapi Divusi, an IT development and consultancy company, as a Quality Assurance engineer. He assumed the role of systems analyst at the company, but left in 2018 to start Bobobox, a capsule hotel startup.

Zhu graduated from Stanford University in 2012 with a master’s in Mechanical Engineering. That same year, he returned to China and co-founded Mobvoi. In 2014, Zhu left Mobvoi to work at IDG Capital Partners as the firm’s first Entrepreneur-In-Residence. A year later, he joined VC firm FreeS Fund, where he now serves as vice president.

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