Mr. Feng Deng founded Northern Light Venture Capital (NLVC) in 2005. He currently manages approximately US$ 1.7 billion in committed capital with 4 US$ funds and 4 RMB funds. He has led and backed over 200 companies, focusing on 4 main sectors: TMT (technology, media and telecom), clean technology, healthcare and consumer.
I am a 40 years old change maker woman in business devoted to better rural people’s life and create wealth using “QuickCash” that offers mobile financial services since 2011. I have 40 employees and around 500,000 customers from Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina, Niger, and Togo. My entrepreneurial journey started when I was 14 helping my mother to run her small shop both in town and in the village
Tania Zapata was born in Bogota and she migrated to the United States after completing her secondary education. In 2003, with her husband Alex Torrenegra, she invested her life savings to create Voice123, the first voice over marketplace in the world. Voice123 quickly became the industry leader and has provided professional voice overs for companies such as Pixar, Spotify, MTV, Pandora, Zynga, History Channel and Warner Brothers. Thanks to the success enjoyed with Voice123, Tania and Alex decided to launch other services in different industries and invest in other Latin American entrepreneurs.
Prof. Shoucheng Zhang joined the faculty at Stanford in 1993, and is now the JG Jackson and CJ Wood professor of physics. He is a member of the US National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He discovered a new state of matter called topological insulator in which electrons can conduct along the edge without dissipation, enabling a new generation of electronic devices with much lower power consumption.
Andy Zain is a serial entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in building Internet and technology businesses in South East Asia. Currently Managing Director for Kejora Ventures, a venture builder based in Jakarta, Indonesia that builds and make investments in online startups across Southeast Asia. Andy also sit in the Board of migme, a digital media company which provides social entertainment platform for mobile & Internet users in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Middle East & Africa.
Andreas Zeller co-founded Open Capital Advisors in 2010 and has led dozens of engagements for high-potential businesses, investors, development partners, and the public sector in Africa. Open Capital is now a team of 36 professionals across three offices in East and Southern Africa and has worked with over 150 clients.
