Silicon Dragon Presents 2017 Awards

  

Silicon Dragon held its Annual Awards 2017 highlighting Asia's leading venture investor and startup achievers at an action-packed event in Hong Kong, Nov. 16.
Top honors:  
  Venture Capitalist : Chibo Tang, Gobi Partners

Founder: Dr. Li Xu, SenseTime Group
Dealmaker, Reeve Kwan & Co-founder, GoGoVan
The awards were presented by Silicon Dragon's Rebecca Fannin with KPMG partner Darren Bowdern. 

See More Videos of Award Winners: 
GoGoVan   GoBee Bike

New Financing Deals

Silicon Valley-based startup AISense has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Horizons Ventures with participation from Tim Draper's Draper Associates and Draper Dragon Fund, David Cheriton, the first Google investor, and Bridgewater Associates, among others. Bart Swanson, an advisor at Horizons Ventures, has joined the AISense board. Founder Sam Song Liang commented: "It does not happen very often when the first or very earlier VCs of Google, Facebook, Tesla, DeepMind, Siri all invested in the same early stage startup"  - his own! 
By the way, AISense was first featured in a tech chat at Silicon Dragon SF 2017. View video chat: AISense. 

Tiger Management has led a $120 million investment in China freight logistics and distribution firm Jianmanman, in what was labeled a Series D deal in the Shanghai-based company. 

  

AI-focused facial recognition startup CloudWalk has drawn $75 million from China venture firm Shunwei Capital and other Chinese investors, as AI continues to build oomph in China.  

Softbank's $10 billion investment in Uber could end the war with Grab in Southeast Asia. Uber and Grab share as their investors, Didi Chuxing and Softbank. 

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