Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, RocketHub, FringeBacker, Big Colors, Crowdrise, Quirky, AngelList – crowdfunding is definitely the future of getting your ideas off the ground and we’re putting together the first Startup Saturday around this topic on January 25. Register now at this link and see the latest list of speakers and agenda.
We’ll be coming at from a few angles:
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Having lived and worked in Beijing’s entrepreneurial ecosystem for 11 years, investor Nicolas du Cray is no stranger to the Chinese startup scene.
As a venture partner at Iris Capital (a Parisian VC firm that has opened an office in Beijing in 2012), Nicolas is deeply involved in backing growth-stage tech companies within the Greater China region.
As a quick back story: when Orange (a pan-European telecom company) and Publicis Groupe (a global PR and advertising firm) decided to go the venture capital route, they asked Iris Capital to manage their international fund – and that’s when Nicolas joined their new office as a venture partner.
In his journey through China’s startup landscape in the past decade, Nicolas speaks volumes about the country’s entrepreneurial spirit. “China is a place that surprises you every day, even if you’ve been living here for 11 years,” said Nicolas. “And the same goes for the people here: Chinese people have the capacity to adapt to change, and that really impresses me.”
