Austin San Antonio Startup and Founder Club

Ask MX VC Dalus Capital!
December 12, 4-5pm PT
Rogelio De los Santos is the founding managing partner of Dalus Capital in Monterrey, MX, where he serves as director in multiple companies and has deployed more than $175M into 50+ deals since 2010.
A a timely juncture for cross-border US-LATAM investment opportunities, Dalus Capital focuses on large and growing market opportunities in Latin America stretching across the U.S. and China as supply chains and reshoring expands. The venture firm specializes in seed, series A and B investments in tech scaleups. Its VC funds are supported by the IFC and IDB, as well as pension funds, family offices, and high net worth individuals.
Close to university ecosystems, De los Santos is a Trustee of Tec de Monterrey and chairs its Entrepreneurship Institute; also participates as a member of the International Board of Advisors at the University of Texas at Austin. In the last decade, De los Santos has sponsored multiple ecosystem development initiatives like incMTY entrepreneurship festival (incmty.com), the ScaleUp Nation platform, and Catal1.5T initiative (catalist-initiative.eco).
De los Santos earned his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tec de Monterrey, a master’s degree in business leadership from Duxx, received an honorary degree from Babson College, and obtained an ecosystem-builder certificate from MIT.
Bio: Rebecca A. Fannin, host, Ask A VC show
Rebecca A. Fannin is an author, speaker and media entrepreneur known for for trend-spotting tech innovation and startup ecosystems. She is the founder of Silicon Dragon Ventures, an events and content group that publishes a newsletter and produces the online AskAVC show. At CNBC online, she is a special contributor on global tech trends and the Disruptor 50.
Her work has led to public speaking at Brookings, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, Oxford and many tech festivals including SXSW, and appearances on CNBC’s Squawk Box, BBC, CNN, and Bloomberg. Additionally, she is a venture scout at Alumni Ventures.
Her four books covering global innovation trends by region - Silicon Dragon (2008), Startup Asia (2011), Tech Titans of China (2019) and Silicon Heartland (2023) - have been translated in 10 languages, and she co-authored a textbook, Innovation in Emerging Markets (2016).
Formative years of career include at Red Herring and the Asian Venture Capital Journal, where she was an international editor and became one of the first American journalists covering China’s entrepreneurial boom. See more at LinkedIn.
About Silicon Global Online
We kicked off this online series in April 2020 with Bill Tai, a first investor in Zoom, and have since featured 70+ speakers including leading VCs and tech titans on the show. This series helps startups, strategists and investors connect and provides valuable insights into what makes them tick, and next innovation trends. Whether you're raising capital, perfecting your business model, scaling up, going for unicorn status, an IPO or M&A deal, or figuring out your Give Back strategy, don't miss this series.
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Ask A VC!
Jay Eum, Founding Managing Partner, GFT Ventures, Silicon Valley
Jay is a 21-year veteran venture capitalist with extensive investment experience at Samsung Ventures and TransLink Capital. He recently became Founding Managing Partner of GFT Ventures, which invests in category-leading early stage startups focused on frontier technology sectors including AI/ data science, automation/ robotics, fintech/ blockchain, digital healthcare and mobility. Jay started his venture capital career at the Silicon Valley office of Vertex Management, the Singapore-based VC arm of investment firm Temasek Holdings.
Jay received an MBA from Stanford University and M.S/B.S. in Chemistry from Seoul National University. Jay serves as Chairman and Board Director of the Asia America MultiTechnology Association (AAMA). Jay is also an active angel investor and advisor to several startups including Coupang (NYSE: CPNG), KiwiCo, Korbit (acq’d by Nexon), Korea Credit Data, Merit, Noom, SoFi (NASDAQ: SOFI) and Tapas (acq’d by Kakao)
Ask A VC!
Nan Zhou, Director, Qualcomm Ventures, Silicon Valley
Nan is an investor at Qualcomm Ventures focusing on AI application, IoT, and 5G connectivity in North America. Her core thesis includes AI in Retail, AI & automation in Manufacturing, IoT, and mobilities. Previously, Nan was head of U.S. investment at Baidu Capital and Baidu Changcheng Growth fund, responsible for establishing Baidu’s U.S. investment ecosystem. She built local VC and entrepreneur networks and sourced and completed investments including Cererbas, Kitt.ai, Velodyne, Falcon, Ripcord, MoreHealth, and Black Sesame.
An ex-Wall Street investment banker, she is familiar with both U.S. and the Asia Pacific (HK and China) capital markets, as well as M&A and IPO processes.
She is an MBA graduate of the Wharton School and received accounting and economics undergraduate degrees from the University of Maryland.
Spotlight: Asia Brands Going Global
Strategies and lessons learned from Asia-founded brands going global.
Alvin Wang Graylin, Global VP of Corporate Development, HTC, Seattle
Alvin leads global corporate development at smart mobile device maker HTC. A seasoned tech entrepreneur and executive, he also is a co-author of the soon-to-be-released book, Our Next Reality, How The AI -Powered Metaverse will Reshape the World.
Graylin has more than 30 years of business management experience in tech and business, including 20 years in Greater China and seven years as China president at HTC. Prior to HTC, he was a serial entrepreneur, having founded four venture-backed startups in the mobile and internet spaces, covering mobile search, NLP, AI, AR, big data, mobile social, adtech, and digital media. He also has held P&L roles at Intel, Trend Micro, and IBM.
Tech Founder Pitches
Xuejun Sheldon Xie, Co-founder & CEO, PhantaField, San Francisco
Wesley Zheng, Co-founder & CEO, POSH, San Francisco
Chris Wentz, Founder, Everykey, Cleveland
San Wong, CEO & Founder, R2C2
KS Cheng, Marketing Director, ReelSights AI
Judges for feedback: Stephen Forte, Fresco Capital; Jean-Marc Ly, Growth Investor & Serial Entrepreneur, Bob Sopko, Director, CWRU LaunchNet / Plus audience Q&A
AGENDA
5pm Registration & Networking
5:15 Welcome Remarks
5:30pm Ask A VC
Jay Eum, GFT Ventures
Nan Zhou, Qualcomm Ventures
6pm Spotlight
Alvin Wang Graylin, HTC
6:15pm Tech Founder Pitches
Xuejun Sheldon Xie, PhantaField, San Francisco
Wesley Zheng, POSH, San Francisco
Chris Wentz, Everykey, Cleveland
San Wong, R2C2, Hong Kong
KS Cheng, ReelSights AI, Hong Kong
6:35pm Reception
7pm Event Concludes[email protected]

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