FoundersHK Meets Tony Wong - Co-Founder of Shopline
FoundersHK hosted a fireside chat (on Zoom) with Tony Wong - Co-Founder of Shopline.
Meet Tony Wong - Co-Founder of Shopline.
Tony's story and experience raising funding from global investors
Startup accelerator or incubator - to join or not to join? His experience joining 500 Startups in Silicon Valley
Advice for founders in terms of fundraising, pitching and company building.
And more!
Speakers:
Tony Wong - Co-Founder of Shopline
Edith Yeung,- Founder of FoundersHK, Race Capital and Advisor to 500 Startups
About Tony Wong
Tony Wong, Co-founder of SHOPLINE, is a 2x serial entrepreneur, experienced in Product & Systems Architecture.
Before founding SHOPLINE, he has managed high profile projects in media and e-commerce industries. As SHOPLINE Founder, he grew the team from 3 to 1500 within 9 years and built a strong product with an agile development team in 3 locations, powering thousands of merchants to achieve their own entrepreneurial dreams. Tony also led the team into 500 startups accelerator in Silicon Valley, being the the 2nd team from HK to be accepted. He successfully raised a financing round from the Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund.
Tony multi-cultural background makes him highly adaptable by living previously in Venezuela, Canada, Singapore, San Francisco, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
About Edith
Selected as one of the 10 Most Powerful Investors in Crypto by The Information, Edith is a General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund investing in all things infrastructure. Edith is the seed investor in Solana (has been dubbed one of the best venture investments of all time), Lightning Network, Agora.io, Placer.ai, RapidAPI, and 60 other amazing startups.
Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator which invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies.
Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia Capital - backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk. She frequently speaks on Crypto, China and Silicon Valley technology and investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, etc
About FoundersHK
FoundersHK is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with the mission to build Hong Kong as the next tech hub of the world.
FoundersHK is a global community of entrepreneurs, technology leaders and investors passionate about propelling the next generation of Hong Kong founders to scale and thrive in all parts of the world. FoundersHK is an entryway for Hong Kong founders to Silicon Valley and the rest of the world. We put the right people together, to help Hong Kong founders become an integral contributor to the global community of tech innovation leadership.
FoundersHK is a community where we skip the bullshit, get right to work, and deliver results. For that is the essence of the true Hong Kong spirit.