With over 25 years of experience in the Venture Capital industry of which 8 were focused on China, Kevin provides a unique perspective on early stage venture capital investments in China and Silicon Valley. In his talk, he will provide an overview on entrepreneurial activities in China and an insider’s perspective to GSR’s fund. He will also share some insights on how to raise capital in China and what it takes to be an entrepreneur in the world’s second largest economy. Kevin will also compare and contrast the entrepreneurial activities in both countries and what China needs to do to continue to enable entrepreneurs to build world-class companies.

Kevin Fong is a special advisor to GSR Ventures, which he helped start in 2004 to focus on investments in China. He has a 23-year track record of supporting entrepreneurs in early-stage companies to build industry leaders.

Prior to GSR, Kevin was at Mayfield Fund for 20 years as a Managing Director, where he contributed to the creation of companies with an enterprise value of US$13.4 billion — achieving more than $1 billion in returns to limited partners in the past 23 years from investments such as Alantec, Citrix, Crescendo (now Cisco Catalyst), Legato Systems, Redback Networks, and Velocity 11. His recent exits include 3Par, which was acquired by HP for $2.35 billion.

While at Mayfield Fund, Kevin’s focus was on investments in the communications, wireless, semiconductor, software, and consumer media sectors. He has also served as an operating executive at David Systems, HP, and Nortel/Bell Northern Research.

Kevin earned an MBA and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a board member of the Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association (HYSTA).

Immediately following the session, we’ll have a short-networking reception from 5:30 – 6:15PM.  This is the fifth session in the US-Asia Technology Management Center’s ten week seminar series on “Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries.”

Presented by the US-Asia Technology Management Center in Stanford’s School of Engineering, with support from the Miner Foundation and major series support from ISI Dentsu of America.