15
Nov
Asian venture capital: Staying the course (Joint session with the Venture Capital and Limited Partners’ Summits)
- From post-pandemic high to public markets low – how has tech investment changed?
- Are portfolio companies being prepared for a new normal?
- Is it becoming harder for VCs to raise growth-stage or opportunity funds?
- What are the key ‘beyond-B2C’ trends in business services, hard-tech, and deep-tech?
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SpeakersPang Lee Partner COOLEY LLP
Wei Zhou Founding Managing Partner CCV
Sang Han Partner CENTO VENTURES
Shinichi Takamiya Managing Partner GLOBIS CAPITAL PARTNERS
Joon Sung Park Managing Director LEGEND CAPITAL
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Pang Lee is a fund formation partner in Cooley’s Hong Kong office. Pang Lee's practice is focused on the offering, investment and operation of various types of private investment funds, with a focus on venture capital and private equity funds, special situation funds, and investment advisory businesses. He has advised clients on various types of fund formations across a range of geographies and industries, particularly for fund managers and institutional investors making investments in and around the Pacific Rim, with an emphasis on Greater China, South and Southeast Asia and the Silicon Valley.
Pang also has experience advising clients on secondary transactions, co-investments and strategic joint venture arrangements. Pang brings a global perspective, having started his career as a private funds lawyer in New York, and have also practiced in the San Francisco and Shanghai offices of Cooley. Pang regularly speaks at regional industry conferences in China and Southeast Asia.
Pang has a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and a BS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 2007, Wei joined KPCB as a member of the founding team and served as the managing partner of KPCB, leading the technology investment team in Greater China. In 2017, Wei founded CCV, adhering to a selected investment strategy, focusing on early investment in artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous driving and other fields, and maintaining the rate of investing in at least one unicorn per year.
The companies he invested include: JD.com (NASDAQ:JD), JD.com, Ximalaya FM, VenusTech (SZSE:002439), CreditEase (NYSE:YRD), Rong360 (NYSE:JT), Arrail Dental (06639.HK) ), Shukun Technology, Perfect Corp, MetaApp, Cowa Robot, Transsnet Financial, IceKredit, Quicktron, PPIO, U POWER Technology, etc.
Wei has been honored as the Most Influential Venture Capitalist by Fortune, Best Venture Capitalists by Forbes, FT China Leader Venture Capitalist and Best Venture Capitalist by China Venture and Zero2IPO.
Wei also serves as the treasurer of China Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (“CVCA”), the oldest and longest-running trade group representing the venture capital and private equity investment industry in Greater China.
Wei holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.
Sang Han is a Partner at Cento Ventures, overseeing investments and investor relations. He has over 20 years of professional experience in venture capital, incubation, and entrepreneurship spanning Korea, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, US, and Europe.
Before Cento, Sang was Managing Director of Temasek Lifesciences Accelerator, and prior to that, Senior Executive Director of Vertex Holdings, a venture capital investment entity wholly owned by Temasek Holdings. He started his venture capital career at Walden International, a US-based international venture capital firm which he joined after serving for a number of years in various software engineering roles at enterprise software startups in Korea.
Sang received a BSc in Computer Engineering from Seoul National University and an MBA from INSEAD.
Shin is Managing Partner at GLOBIS Capital Partners. Shin leads GLOBIS’s investments in mobile, digital media, and web services. Shin takes a hands-on approach to his portfolio companies initiating strategy development, organization/process development, partnership development, and global expansion.
His track record includes: IPO iStyle (ticker TSE 3660), Aucfan (3674), Kayac (3904), Pixta (3416), and Mercari (4385); M&A Shimauma Print System (acquired by CCC), and nanapi (acquired by KDDI). His portfolio includes Lancers, Viibar, Timers, Coubic, Reblue, and Mirrative etc. Selected as Forbes Japan Midas List Most Influential Venture Investor 2018.
Prior to Globis, Shin led management consulting projects at Arthur D. Little where he developed corporate strategy, new business strategy and innovation strategy for leading IT service providers and software companies. Shin received BA in Economics from University of Tokyo (graduation thesis with Honor), and MBA from Harvard Business School (Second Year Honor). Shin has 8 years of overseas experience in England, Holland and the US.
Mr. Park joined Legend Capital in 2005, and is now Managing Director of the firm in charge of cross border investment.
Mr. Park focuses on TMT and consumption investment, especially overseas investment centered on Korea, Japan and India. Mr. Park led investments of HYBE (KOSPI: 352820, the management agency of K-pop sensation BTS boy group), Any Color (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 5032), Zinus (KOSPI: 013890), Dexter Studios (KOSDAQ: 206560), Wipam (KOSDAQ: 332570), C-Channel (Tokyo Pro Market: 7691), LUNIT, L&P Cosmetics, Bespin Global, Healing Paper, PPB Studio and Vedantu.
Before joining Legend Capital in 2005, Mr. Park worked with Accenture Tokyo office.
Mr. Park holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Yonsei University in Korea, and MBAs from Keio University Graduate School of Business in Japan and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in China. He is a Kauffman Fellow.