Palo Alto, CA • November 30 at 6:00PM
F50 is hosting a private gathering with Shunwei Capital and a small, exclusive group of local investors and CEOs of rising innovative companies. This event will be attended by LEI Jun, Founding Partner of Shunwei Capital ($2B under management) and Founder & CEO of Xiaomi, the leading smartphone vendor in China. Also in attendance will be Tuck Lye KOH (founding partner & CEO of Shunwei Capital), the Shunwei Capital investment team, and a handful of top CEOs and investors from the US.
AGENDA
5:30pm
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Check-in & Networking
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6:00pm |
Opening Remarks: David Cao, Founder & CEO, F50 |
6:05pm |
Keynote: Lei Jun, Founder and CEO, Xiaomi |
6:20pm |
Fireside Chat Tuck Lye Koh, CEO, Shunwei Capital Anna Shen, Contributor, Fortune Magazine & Huffington Post |
6:35pm |
Dr. Bill Banyai, Co-Founder & COO, Twist Bioscience |
6:45pm |
Jon Su, CEO & Founder, Pilot AI Lab |
6:55pm |
Radu Rusu, Co-Founder & CEO, Fyusion |
7:05pm |
Balaji S. Srinivasan, Co-Founder & CEO, 21.co |
7:15pm |
Venture Capital Panel Discussion Moderator: Dan Feld, Head of Developer Relations Startup & VC Programs, Google Panelists: Shahin Farshchi, Partner, Lux Capital Sanjit Dang, Investment Director, Intel Capital Duncan Logan, CEO, Rocketspace |
7:35pm |
Closing Remarks Speaker: Martin Stroka, Co-Founder, F50 |
7:37pm
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Networking Reception
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9:00pm |
Networking Reception Concludes
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Agenda is subject to change.
About Lei Jun
Mr. Lei is a renowned technology entrepreneur and angel investor in China. In 2014, he was named Businessman Of The Year by Forbes and ranked number 87 on their list of global billionaires. Mr. Lei founded Xiaomi Corporation in 2010 and is currently its Chairman and CEO. He is also the Chairman and co-founder of three other public companies (Kingsoft, YY, Cheetah). Mr. Lei started his career at Kingsoft Corporation, which he successfully brought public in 2007. Mr. Lei was also the founder of Joyo.com, which was sold to Amazon successfully in 2004. Through Mr. Lei’s support, Duowan(YY) was successfully listed on Nasdaq. Companies such as VANCL, UCweb, Great Wall Society also are the best-of-breed in their respective areas.
About Tuck Lye Koh
Mr. Koh has extensive experience in the private equity industry, spanning early to growth stage investments in multiple industries. Before co-founding Shunwei Capital, he held various management positions in several international institutions including C.V. Starr, GIC, AIG and Deutsche Bank. Mr. Koh has invested in multiple industries, including TMT, manufacturing, retail & consumer and logistics. His representative investments include Xiaomi, Dingxiangyuan, 17zuoye, Onemore, Kingsoft (3888.HK), Actions Semiconductor (ACTS) and Xingda (1899.HK). Mr. Koh was Investment Committee Member and Review Committee member of several funds. Mr. Koh graduated from the National University of Singapore and Stanford University.
About Shunwei Capital
Shunwei Capital was founded in 2011 by Jun Lei and Tuck Lye KOH. We manage over 1.7 billion in US dollars and over 1 billion in RMB across five funds. Our investors include sovereign wealth funds, fund of funds, university endowment funds and family offices. We focus on mobile internet and IoT. Specifically, we try to capture opportunities where internet and technology fundamentally disrupt how businesses and services are conducted in traditional industry verticals. We primarily invest in early and growth stage startups.