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Co-founder / Investor
Jun 2014
A SMARTER, EASIER WAY OF BUYING INSURANCE
Great tools make any job easy! At UVAMO we have built technology to simplify the shopping and organization of your insurance. UVAMO started with the idea that shopping for insurance should be as easy as shopping for a flight or a hotel room. Using UVAMO users can quickly and easily request quotes from the carriers of their choice and compare them from the comfort of the UVAMO application.
Board Member
Nov 2013
Founded in Singapore, BEX, an arm of SHENGTE INTERNET FINANCIAL FORTUNE CO., LIMITED, is a safe, efficient and highly accessible global digital assets and derivatives trading platform based in Singapore. BEX has a well-established global presence with operating units in Japan, South Korea, Thailand and the Philippines, among other countries. BEX has a team of more than 200 top-notch professionals in finance, IT and block chain technologies
With a deep background in the traditional FinTech sector, BEX boasts a mega-level matching engine that has solved the problems concomitant with instantaneous high volume trading and settlement and built an unrivalled technical barrier in the industry. Chosen by more than 800,000 customers around the world, BEX is a market leader worthy of the name.
Dozens of mainstream digital asset derivatives have gone live, including BTC, ETH, XRP, EOS, LTC and BCH. BEX will continue to optimize user experience, apply more advanced data capture technologies and upgrade to better quotation solutions, millisecond-grade trading speed and more competitive risk control policies.
BEX cherishes every user and treats and maintains its relationship with every user with a long-term vision. BEX will keep creating surprises and more possibilities of earnings for users with high-quality products and services.
Board Member
Jun 2013
Dianrong is a leader in online marketplace lending in China. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Shanghai, Dianrong offers small businesses and individuals a comprehensive, one-stop internet platform providing financial information and services supported by industry-leading technology, compliance and transparency. The company’s sophisticated and flexible infrastructure enables it to design and customize lending and borrowing products and services, based on industry-specific data and insights, all supported by online risk-management and operation tools. Dianrong’s specific offerings include marketplace lending-related services and fintech solutions. Dianrong was named in 2016 to the executive directorship of the National Internet Finance Association of China, led by the People's Bank of China. For more information, please visit: www.dianrong.com/en.
点融是中国在线市场化借贷中介行业的领导者,成立于2012年,总部位于上海,为个人及中小企业提供综合性、一站式的金融信息和交易撮合服务,技术、合规性、透明度排名都领先业内。点融灵活而全面的金融科技基础设施,使其能够设计和定制丰富的借款端产品与出借策略。2016年,点融当选为中国互联网金融协会的常务理事单位之一。
Investor / Advisor
May 2012
Start talking about what is relevant now with the people that matter most. PeerReach analyses your connections and interactions to determine your interests, expertise and who is most relevant for you. Compare and assess your PeerGroups, levels of influence, and join conversations with like-minded people.
Co-Founder & Investor
May 2011
UnitedStyles is an online kids fashion store. Kids and their parents can choose and design kids clothes in 3D. This creation is produced on demand and delivered anywhere in the world.
UnitedStyles has 3 founders: Dirk, Marc and Xander. They have different business backgrounds: marketing, internet and fashion. The result is a full load of complementary skills
The founders are rebels who want to challenge the fashion industry fundamentally. Fashion industry has become boring, predictable, mass production business. UnitedStyles wants to explore new horizons and shake up the clichés.
UnitedStyles chose Shanghai as home base. This town is bursting with energy and attracts young and ambitious people not only from all corners of China but also from the rest of the world. Chinese people are industrious, innovative, and entrepreneurial and open minded. It’s the best place in the world to start a company that merges IT with fashion and vice versa. There is both a large textile industry, nowadays including top class high end production, and a huge IT sector (no country has more people online than China and the centre of IT is Shanghai).
Co-Founder, Board member Tudou.com
Oct 2004
Youku Tudou is a media production company based out of BEIJING. Youku Tudou representatives, don’t miss out on opportunities to build relationships with members on LinkedIn. Claim your page, write a simple description, and share content to attract followers that can lead to new customers, brand fans, and future employees. Go here to get started: http://linkd.in/1DUpBvu
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Sep 2025
Helixion Therapeutics
Helixion Therapeutics is a Vancouver-based biotechnology company building AI-powered personalized cancer vaccines. Our platform, Elyra, converts patient tumor genomic data into ranked neoantigen candidates for personalized mRNA vaccine design — in days, not months, at a fraction of the cost of conventional approaches.
The Problem We Are Solving
Personalized cancer vaccines work by identifying mutations in a patients tumor that produce protein fragments — called neoantigens — which the immune system can recognize and attack. A tumor may carry hundreds of mutations, but only a handful will produce neoantigens capable of triggering a meaningful immune response. A vaccine can carry only 10 to 20 candidates. Choosing the right ones is a computational problem, and the current clinical standard has not kept pace with what the science now tells us about immunogenicity.
The dominant tool in clinical neoantigen prediction ranks candidates primarily by binding affinity — how strongly a peptide binds to the patients immune presentation molecules. But binding affinity is only one of several factors that determine whether a neoantigen will actually trigger an immune response. Is the gene active in the patients tumor? If not, the mutation cannot produce a neoantigen, regardless of binding strength. Does the mutation make the peptide look sufficiently foreign compared to the normal version? Is the mutation positioned where T cells can recognize it? Published research has established that these factors matter significantly. The TESLA consortium — 36 research groups with experimentally confirmed immunogenicity labels — identified five key parameters governing neoantigen immunogenicity. Yet in clinical practice, most vaccine trials still rank by binding affinity alone.
Elyra: Our AI Neoantigen Engine
Elyra is a Gradient Boosted Machine scoring model trained on 18,000 cancer-specific peptides from public immunogenicity databases. It integrates five biologica
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Synaptic Ventures
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Feb 2020
Nth Opinion is an artificial intelligence healthtech firm founded by two medical professionals with more than 20 years of cumulative experience.
Nth Opinion launched, www.AskCo19.com, a platform for physicians and medical professionals on the frontlines to share information about this lethal viral pathogen that currently has no treatment. This communication tool allows doctors to share knowledge about COVID-19 to patients and other healthcare workers using their personal experiences from the ground. This website offers knowledge and insights for people around the world with foresights to help others face the surge and onslaught of COVID-19 in the midst of the pandemic. What started out as an open-source hackathon in mid-March, quickly grew from a few volunteers to a full grassroots non-profit of 200+ united volunteers from around the world working to realize this platform together.
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Nov 2017
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