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Founder and CEO of Meowcard
Founder and CEO of Meowcard, Larry Wang (Wang Lei) was born in 1991. After graduating from college in 2011, he joined a startup where he headed design and marketing. He also designed more than 10 WeChat mini programs*. Wang started Meowcard, a mini program-based social community for cat lovers as a hobby and it went viral.[1] *Small mobile apps (under 10MB) that can be downloaded and run within WeChat.
Founder and CEO of Meowcard, Larry Wang (Wang Lei) was born in 1991. After graduating from college in 2011, he joined a startup where he headed design and marketing. He also designed more than 10 WeChat mini programs*. Wang started Meowcard, a mini program-based social community for cat lovers as a hobby and it went viral.[1] *Small mobile apps (under 10MB) that can be downloaded and run within WeChat.
China’s largest fresh-food aggregator app buys directly from farmers, disrupting the traditionally long supply chain, to offer eateries cheaper, better-quality produce, with speedy delivery.
China’s largest fresh-food aggregator app buys directly from farmers, disrupting the traditionally long supply chain, to offer eateries cheaper, better-quality produce, with speedy delivery.
Duozhuayu is an online platform that collects, refurbishes and sells second-hand books. It aims to be a large-scale recycled product platform for educated Chinese youth.
Duozhuayu is an online platform that collects, refurbishes and sells second-hand books. It aims to be a large-scale recycled product platform for educated Chinese youth.
Leveraging WeChat’s wide reach, Meowcard is the latest cat lovers’ community to go viral in China; eyes other cat-related markets, e.g., insurance, healthcare, food.
Leveraging WeChat’s wide reach, Meowcard is the latest cat lovers’ community to go viral in China; eyes other cat-related markets, e.g., insurance, healthcare, food.
Inspired by community-supported agriculture (CSA), Thousands of Farmers provides an e-commerce platform enabling consumers to subscribe to farm harvests in advance and share their profits.
Inspired by community-supported agriculture (CSA), Thousands of Farmers provides an e-commerce platform enabling consumers to subscribe to farm harvests in advance and share their profits.
Five-month-old startup Xiangwushuo, a second-hand goods trading platform on WeChat, is already valued at US$250 million.
Five-month-old startup Xiangwushuo, a second-hand goods trading platform on WeChat, is already valued at US$250 million.
Swan Daojia (formerly 58 Daojia)
China’s largest on-demand home services platform which has trained 1m service providers in the past three years, providing over $3bn worth of job opportunities.
China’s largest on-demand home services platform which has trained 1m service providers in the past three years, providing over $3bn worth of job opportunities.
Founder of Thousands of Farmers
Before founding Thousands of Farmers in 2020, Chen worked at an agritech company developing apps and mini programs for management and marketing.
Before founding Thousands of Farmers in 2020, Chen worked at an agritech company developing apps and mini programs for management and marketing.
This e-commerce solutions app within WeChat lets individuals and small businesses create e-stores in the social network for free, helping them monetize their content.
This e-commerce solutions app within WeChat lets individuals and small businesses create e-stores in the social network for free, helping them monetize their content.
Wang, a former CCTV host, is the founder and CEO of Kaishu Story. His startup operates a WeChat official account with 20 million followers that generates RMB 200 million in revenue annually. Wang participated in Kuaipeilian's seed funding round.
Wang, a former CCTV host, is the founder and CEO of Kaishu Story. His startup operates a WeChat official account with 20 million followers that generates RMB 200 million in revenue annually. Wang participated in Kuaipeilian's seed funding round.
The owner of WeChat, Tencent is China's biggest online entertainment and social network company. While the company is best known for QQ and WeChat (with 846m active users, and counting), online gaming is actually its biggest money-spinner. Within China, Tencent is the distributor of various international online game titles, such as League of Legends and Call of Duty Online. The company also publishes Honor of Kings, known as Arena of Valor outside China, which regularly tops the list of highest-grossing mobile games globally.Tencent has invested in various gaming-related companies, including Epic Games (creator of Fortnite and the Unreal Engine creation framework), PlatinumGames (Japanese game developer), and Riot Games (creator of League of Legends). Outside of video games, it has developed and invested in products related to video streaming, such as bilibili and Kuaishou, music (JOOX), and even healthcare.
The owner of WeChat, Tencent is China's biggest online entertainment and social network company. While the company is best known for QQ and WeChat (with 846m active users, and counting), online gaming is actually its biggest money-spinner. Within China, Tencent is the distributor of various international online game titles, such as League of Legends and Call of Duty Online. The company also publishes Honor of Kings, known as Arena of Valor outside China, which regularly tops the list of highest-grossing mobile games globally.Tencent has invested in various gaming-related companies, including Epic Games (creator of Fortnite and the Unreal Engine creation framework), PlatinumGames (Japanese game developer), and Riot Games (creator of League of Legends). Outside of video games, it has developed and invested in products related to video streaming, such as bilibili and Kuaishou, music (JOOX), and even healthcare.
Qinghan Fund was founded in 2017 by Crystal Stream, New Hope Group and Chinese celebrity Lu Han. Its largest shareholder is Wang Mengqiu, former vice president of Baidu. Qinghan Fund invests primarily in teams (e.g., small groups of people running a WeChat Official Account) that create professionally generated content, media and platforms which cater to the next generation's lifestyle and consumption upgrade needs.
Qinghan Fund was founded in 2017 by Crystal Stream, New Hope Group and Chinese celebrity Lu Han. Its largest shareholder is Wang Mengqiu, former vice president of Baidu. Qinghan Fund invests primarily in teams (e.g., small groups of people running a WeChat Official Account) that create professionally generated content, media and platforms which cater to the next generation's lifestyle and consumption upgrade needs.
Entrepreneur First is a global entrepreneur incubator program and early-startup investor. The incubator is an intensive six-month program for founders and aspiring entrepreneurs to help them develop ideas that can go into building their own companies. The program is held in six cities around the world: Bangalore; Berlin, London, Paris, Singapore and Toronto (Canada).Participants do not need to have a startup or a specific business idea to participate, and those who have established their own companies can seek partners or co-founders at the program. Roughly 40-50% of the cohort reach the “Launch” phase, where the participants have established their own companies and received investments from Entrepreneur First and potentially other VCs. Entrepreneur First can invest in a startup built by program participants in exchange for 10% equity. The exact amount invested varies: £80,000 for the European programs; S$75,000 for the Singapore and Bangalore programs; and C$100,000 for the Canada program.
Entrepreneur First is a global entrepreneur incubator program and early-startup investor. The incubator is an intensive six-month program for founders and aspiring entrepreneurs to help them develop ideas that can go into building their own companies. The program is held in six cities around the world: Bangalore; Berlin, London, Paris, Singapore and Toronto (Canada).Participants do not need to have a startup or a specific business idea to participate, and those who have established their own companies can seek partners or co-founders at the program. Roughly 40-50% of the cohort reach the “Launch” phase, where the participants have established their own companies and received investments from Entrepreneur First and potentially other VCs. Entrepreneur First can invest in a startup built by program participants in exchange for 10% equity. The exact amount invested varies: £80,000 for the European programs; S$75,000 for the Singapore and Bangalore programs; and C$100,000 for the Canada program.
Co-founder and Co-CEO of Musical.ly
Self-tagged as a “designtrepreneur”, for whom “Everything is temporary” (says his social media bio) and Leonard Cohen fan, Alex Zhu is the co-founder and Co-CEO of Musical.ly. After graduating from Zhejiang University with a degree in Civil Engineering, Zhu started his career as a product designer for chinapages. Subsequently, he worked for eBao as a director of product management, Microsoft as Principal Creative Director and SAP, as User Experience Architect. His debut in entrepreneurship was Cicada Education, a P2P education platform for creating and sharing mini-video courses, before finding success with Musical.ly.
Self-tagged as a “designtrepreneur”, for whom “Everything is temporary” (says his social media bio) and Leonard Cohen fan, Alex Zhu is the co-founder and Co-CEO of Musical.ly. After graduating from Zhejiang University with a degree in Civil Engineering, Zhu started his career as a product designer for chinapages. Subsequently, he worked for eBao as a director of product management, Microsoft as Principal Creative Director and SAP, as User Experience Architect. His debut in entrepreneurship was Cicada Education, a P2P education platform for creating and sharing mini-video courses, before finding success with Musical.ly.
This Chinese café startup aims to best Starbucks with “new retail” strategy
Luckin Coffee has gone from scratch to China’s first coffee shop unicorn in less than a year, pouring more than 5 million cups of coffee along the way
China's WeDoctor offers free coronavirus consultations globally in English and Chinese
WeDoctor lets anyone in the world send queries to doctors who fought to save lives in China's most affected Covid-19 districts, and now helping people overseas to stay safe during the pandemic
South Summit 2021: Lessons in expanding to Asia from experts on the ground
Cast aside your Eurocentric mindsets, China-based SOSV’s Oscar Ramos and Brinc’s Heriberto Saldivar tell startups, why they should expand to the region, and how best to do it
After emulating Chinese business models, Indonesian startups seek success abroad
Indonesia adapted and furthered the successful business models that created unicorns in China. Now, it's exporting its own to the rest of Southeast Asia, even beyond
QRIS: Will the new QR code standard rewrite Indonesia’s e-payments scene?
Enabling interoperability, the QRIS seeks to level the playing field until now dominated by GoPay and OVO – disruption that could go beyond the e-wallets scene
Inspired by rowdy teenagers: the Musical.ly story
Now better known as TikTok, the original Musical.ly was the only Chinese social app to have cracked the Western market – before it got snapped up by Bytedance and joined its stable of short video apps
Future Food Asia: Covid-19 sparked dramatic shifts in agriculture in China and India
Key Chinese players from e-commerce giant Pinduoduo and and agritech VC Omnivore share their insights at last week’s agrifood conference by ID Capital
Founder and CEO Gao Lufeng on Ninebot's acquisition of American motorized scooter maker Segway, China’s rise in technology and innovation, and the company’s plans for the US market
Chinese startups feel the chill of capital winter as VC activities slow
The goods news is investors still have plenty of money. They just become more cautious when making investment decisions
Roadstar.ai: A promising autonomous driving startup wrecked by infighting
No side benefits from the disputes, whether it is the founding team, investors or the employees
Kathy Xu stays ahead of the curve in China's VC scene
Dubbed “Queen of VC” in China, Xu has spotted great companies that others were not quite interested in, like Chinese online retail giant JD.com
eShop Ventures: A costly spending spree to create the Spanish Amazon
Behind the downfall of one of Spain's most promising startups
Investing in Indonesia: The fintech companies driving a new influx of capital
With 66% of Indonesians not owning a bank account, fintech startups have come up with myriad innovative products to entice a new generation of retail investors
Anantarupa Studios: Using mobile games to retell local folklore to game-loving Indonesians
Next month, online game and AR/VR developer Anantarupa Studios will release Lokapala, the first Indonesian Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game
Plant-based eggs (Part II): The foodtech startups to watch
Here’s a shortlist of the foodtech startups to watch in the global vegan egg market
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