Startup Funding & Entry Into The Chinese Market

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  • Date
    21 September 2021 - 21 September 2021
  • Beijing Time
    4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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    Online
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China, which was once known as the “world’s factory”, has risen to become an economic superpower. In recent decades, the country has managed to shift its economy from manufacturing to a high-tech and innovative environment leading the world in the fields of AI, blockchain, robotics, or automation to name a few.

China is for many reasons considered as a premium market in terms of investment, especially when it comes to start-ups as it has a first-class ecosystem for this type of businesses. This start-up scene has been built through decades of efforts by the Chinese government, state-owned enterprises, large corporations, universities, research institutes and incubators who are organically linked to gradually build up an innovative ecosystem.

The EU SME Centre, EUROCHAMBRES, the Slovenian-Chinese Business Forum, and the Trade and Investment Promotion Agency of Andalucia Region (Spain) are happy to invite you to this online workshop on 21 September from 10-12:30 (CEST) | 16:00-18:30 (CST) where our experts, Jelte Wingender and Alvaro Montoya, will present the start-up ecosystem in China and prepare European SMEs to grasp upcoming opportunities.

You can find the recorded webinar on Youtube:

Agenda:

10:00 – 10:10 Opening speech

Presentation of the EU SME Centre and the speaker

10:10 – 10:30 Module I :

Overview of the startup ecosystem in China’s and drivers behind China’s startup boom

10:30 – 10:50 Module II:

Where in China? Incubators, accelerators, co-working spaces, high-tech zones, and tech parks.

10:50 – 11:10 Module III:

– How should we start

– Partners, investors and clients

11:10 – 11:30 Module IV:

Funding and incentives available in China for start-ups

11:30 – 11:50 Module V:

Opportunities and challenges

11:50 – 12:10 Module VI:

Case studies

12:10 – 12:20

Closing remarks and Q&A

About the speaker:

JELTE WINGENDER

INNOWAY, STARTUP GRIND, FOUNDERS LAIR, GERMAN INNOVATORS

Jelte is a Startup community enthusiast based in Beijing, heading multiple functions: He leads teams at Innoway, for corporate Innovation and International Startup engagement as Senior Manager and Head of Community at The Lab – Innoway is a State-owned enterprise that is in the middle of Haidian district, the Startup center of Beijing. He supports as APAC community manager & China Director the startup ecosystems in over 100+ cities for Startup Grind, the largest independent startup community organization in the world.

Jelte also founded his own Startup called Founders Lair which helps to build data insights from global startup ecosystems and started the German Innovators in China (Short GINN), helping to bring German and Chinese innovators closer together.

Alvaro Montoya

Founder and CEO at Akkadu

Jelte is a Startup community enthusiast based in Beijing, heading multiple functions: He leads teams at Innoway, for corporate Innovation and International Startup engagement as Senior Manager and Head of Community at The Lab – Innoway is a State-owned enterprise that is in the middle of Haidian district, the Startup center of Beijing. He supports as APAC community manager & China Director the startup ecosystems in over 100+ cities for Startup Grind, the largest independent startup community organization in the world.

Alvaro is a telecom engineer from Barcelona with an MBA from Tsinghua University. Alvaro is the co-founder of Akkadu, a live translation platform for events located in Tsinghua x-lab the accelerator of Tsinghua University.

Akkadu is a remote simultaneous translation solution that aims to make events accessible to anybody, anytime, anywhere by live translating and streaming events audios and presentations so on-site and remote audience can listen, watch, interact and learn in their own languages.

Alvaro is a telecom engineer from Barcelona with an MBA from Tsinghua University. Alvaro is the co-founder of Akkadu, a live translation platform for events located in Tsinghua x-lab the accelerator of Tsinghua University.

Akkadu is a remote simultaneous translation solution that aims to make events accessible to anybody, anytime, anywhere by live translating and streaming events audios and presentations so on-site and remote audience can listen, watch, interact and learn in their own languages.

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