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In January 2006, Chen Hua (Tony Chen) co-founded Kuxun.cn, a Chinese travel and hotel search engine that was acquired by TripAdvisor in 2009. Chen exited Kuxun in late 2008 and joined Alibaba in early 2009, working on the application of search engine technology. He resigned in February 2011 and started a mobile tech enterprise. In May 2012, he released Changba, an app offering users a portable solo KTV booth that attracted over 1m users in just one week after its release.

VAS Ventures is the investment vehicle of Martin Varsavsky, a serial entrepreneur from Argentina and founder of companies such as Jazztel, Fon, Ya.com, Prelude and Viatel.Varsavsky began teaching entrepreneurship at Columbia University in 2012. He is also a member of the Advisory Council for Innovation in Justice, created by the Spanish Ministry of Justice in February 2018.VAS Ventures is headquartered in Madrid and has been co-investing with German publishing house Axel Springer since 2019.

Horizons Ventures is a Hong Kong-based venture capital firm that manages the personal investments of Li Ka-shing, one of Hong Kong’s richest businessmen. Horizons’ investments cover a wide range of tech, media, and telecommunications companies. Standouts include artificial intelligence company DeepMind (acquired by Google in 2014), plant-based meat replacement makers Impossible Foods, and video conferencing software Zoom. It has also backed consumer-facing businesses like Atomo Coffee in Australia, Kopi Kenangan in Indonesia, and US-based distilled spirits company Endless West.

Italy's first impact investment fund is focused mainly on assisting Italian startups. Its investment size ranges from €200,000 to €6m. Oltre Venture was founded in 2006 as Oltre Venture I by Luciano Balbo and Lorenzo Allevi, both pioneers in Europe's impact investing ecosystem and each with extensive experience in investment banking, corporate finance and VC firms.In 2016, the company launched a second investment vehicle (Oltre Venture II) which currently has a portfolio of more than 22 startups.

Hong Kong-based Unicorn Capital Partners was founded in 2015 by Tommy Yip, former partner of Emerald Hill Capital Partners.Unicorn is a leading FoF platform that focuses on venture capital fund and direct investment opportunities in China and Asia. It mainly invests in technology, media, telecommunications and healthcare. By December 2019, Unicorn had $800m in assets under management. It also raised over $350m for its fourth fund.

New York-based Humboldt Fund invests in startups with the potential to solve critical issues of our time across the areas of food production, healthcare, energy, and construction and manufacturing materials. It currently has 14 companies in its portfolio.  Its most recent investments include in the March 2021 $48m Series A round of Dutch cell-based meat startup Meatable which leverages pluripotent stem cells for the first time in foodtech, and in the February 2021 $16m seed round of US biotech Cellino Biotech. 

Former child prodigy armed with chemistry, law, accounting and economics degrees. Shi graduated in Chemistry from Sichuan University at aged 20. He is also a qualified lawyer and accountant, and a doctor of Economics (PhD, Xiamen University). He founded RichWise Capital, investing in many startups that later went public; and 8jee.com, a lifestyle services website that did not take off.     

Aida Sutanto graduated with double degrees in Economics and Law from Universitas Trisakti and Universitas Tarumanegara, Indonesia. She worked at Standard Chartered Bank in Dubai, UAE, as an associate director of transactional banking from 2007 to 2010. Aida was also a vice-president at Bank Danamon, Rabobank and CIMB Niaga Bank. She is now co-founder and chairwoman of Investree.    

Christie Amanda has Australian diplomas in hospitality and business from the Alexander Education Group and a bachelor’s in Management and Marketing from Curtin University. After graduating in 2007, she worked at Australian retailer Coles and at the Commonwealth Bank before returning to Indonesia. She worked at PT Indosurya Finance before becoming the COO of Code-O Solutions, a software development startup that she co-founded with Hendry Rusli in 2012.

Co-founder and CTO of Trio.AI. Qi has worked in the field of Natural Language Processing since 2004. After graduating with a master’s in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology Liaoning in 2007, he worked at Alibaba, Tencent, Microsoft and Baidu.As a technology initiator, he helped with the development of Microsoft’s chatbot XiaoIce in 2014 and Baidu’s Xiaodu robot in 2015.

Co-founder and Architect of QingCloud. A top scorer in the National College Entrance Examination of Hainan province, Lin received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Tsinghua University and later worked for IBM and Tencent. Lin Yuan is now in charge of the API level technology at QingCloud.

Ernesto Cohnen is co-CEO and one of the founders of Triporate, a startup that applies AI to corporate travel planning. He has 12 years of hands-on IT and project management experience across software architecting, agile software development and deep tech applications. Before launching Triporate, Cohnen spent five years as the Product VP of ixigo, an Indian travel search engine and travel planning application. 

Giuseppe Fortuna is an Italian mechanical engineer and MBA graduate from the IESE Business School in Barcelona. With over 20 years of experience, Fortuna is currently Procurement Director at Tecnica Reunidas, an international general contractor engaged in the engineering, design and construction of oil and gas industrial facilities. Fontana is a former co-founder and ex-CFO of Parclick, a parking reservation app. 

Harvard-trained ex-McKinsey consultant Nadiem Makarim holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations and Affairs from Brown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Before launching Gojek, Nadiem worked at McKinsey, Zalora Indonesia and Kartuku. Makarim was born in 1984 in Singapore. In October 2019, Makarim left Gojek to take up the post of Minister of Education and Culture in the Indonesian cabinet of ministers.

Beijing-based Hualian Group is one of China’s leading retailers, owning and operating hypermarkets, supermarkets, department stores and shopping malls. Founded in 1996, Beijing Hualian Group now has 121 supermarkets across 33 main cities. It is the only Chinese member of International Association of Department Stores.

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