William M.

Insurance Executive

📍 Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong SAR🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2018
VC🌍 Hong Kong SAR
12
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May 2018
The East Asia Super League (Simplified Chinese: 东亚超级联赛; Traditional Chinese: 東亞超級聯賽), abbreviated as EASL, is the champions league of professional basketball in East Asia. It is Where Champions Clash and the top teams across the region match up to determine the best of the best. The qualifying EASL participants are the champions and runners-up from the top basketball leagues in Chinese Taipei, Japan, Korea and the Philippines. Each season features a 24-game Group Stage held October to February, with six games (three home, three away) for each of the eight teams. The four winningest teams in the Group Stage qualify for the Final Four weekend in March, which crowns the champion of East Asia. EASL is organized under an exclusive agreement with FIBA, the international basketball federation. For more information about East Asia Super League, please visit www.EASL.basketball or any of our social media channels.
Board Member
May 2018
The East Asia Super League (Simplified Chinese: 东亚超级联赛; Traditional Chinese: 東亞超級聯賽), abbreviated as EASL, is the champions league of professional basketball in East Asia. It is Where Champions Clash and the top teams across the region match up to determine the best of the best. The qualifying EASL participants are the champions and runners-up from the top basketball leagues in Chinese Taipei, Japan, Korea and the Philippines. Each season features a 24-game Group Stage held October to February, with six games (three home, three away) for each of the eight teams. The four winningest teams in the Group Stage qualify for the Final Four weekend in March, which crowns the champion of East Asia. EASL is organized under an exclusive agreement with FIBA, the international basketball federation. For more information about East Asia Super League, please visit www.EASL.basketball or any of our social media channels.
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Mar 2018
Robots that make delicious coffee and more
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Jan 2017
Papumba is a mobile subscription-based educational platform designed for 2-7y/o children. It boasts over 500 learning activities, including educational games, videos, books, podcasts, meditations and yoga. Papumba is kidSAFE certified, and we feature no ads nor in-app purchases. It’s available on the App Store and Play Store. Our goal, above all, is to help young families grow together through playful activities which stimulate childrens intellectual and emotional intelligence.
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Jan 2017
SoapBox Labs’ speech recognition caters to the idiosyncrasies and unique speech patterns of childrens speech. Our voice engine is unique, proprietary and built from the ground up for kids voices specifically, ages 2 and up. SoapBox powers Prek-12 literacy, language and math assessment and instruction tools for kids of every accent, dialect and stage of development. We are an equity and privacy first company, and the first AI company in the world to earn a certification for "Prioritizing Racial Bias in AI Design" from Digital Promise. In November 2023, SoapBox Labs was acquired by leading US education company, Curriculum Associates (CA). Over the coming months and years, SoapBox will voice-enable CAs award winning portfolio of literacy and math learning tools, and continue our mission to make teaching and learning easier, and to improve educational outcomes for every child in every classroom.
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Jan 2017
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Dec 2016
With enterprise-grade security built for the SMB, Atakama transcends the boundaries of conventional security with protection as fluid as your people, data, and critical assets. Say hello to user-centric security for today’s Window of Work. Visit https://www.atakama.com to learn more.
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Dec 2016
Introducing DBM Cloud Systems'​ Advanced Intelligent Replication Engine (AIRE™) - The most scalable, software-only platform for replicating object data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments - AIRE identifies objects for replication via patent-pending algorithms and change notifications - AIRE maximizes performance by selectively replicating only new and changed data based on metadata tagging - AIRE synchronizes data stores in hybrid and multi-cloud environments Features and benefits of AIRE™ include: INTELLIGENT ARCHIVING Shift historical data from production to one or more backup/DR sites to free up Tier-1 storage space and reduce OPEX up to 70 percent BUSINESS CONTINUITY & DISASTER RECOVERY Continuously copy data to geographically-dispersed sites, providing resiliency and data recoverability CLOUD DATA MIGRATION & REPLICATION Lift and shift petabytes of data from on-premise to the cloud, or across public, private, or hybrid clouds COMPLIANCE & REPORTING Ensure that cloud data complies with regulatory requirements and data geo-sovereignty rules - GDPR, HIPAA, and Sarbanes-Oxley CLOUD DATA TIERING Move and maintain data in close proximity to desired cloud services and applications for optimal performance
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2019
PBC Asia Ventures
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May 2018
The East Asia Super League (Simplified Chinese: 东亚超级联赛; Traditional Chinese: 東亞超級聯賽), abbreviated as EASL, is the champions league of professional basketball in East Asia. It is Where Champions Clash and the top teams across the region match up to determine the best of the best. The qualifying EASL participants are the champions and runners-up from the top basketball leagues in Chinese Taipei, Japan, Korea and the Philippines. Each season features a 24-game Group Stage held October to February, with six games (three home, three away) for each of the eight teams. The four winningest teams in the Group Stage qualify for the Final Four weekend in March, which crowns the champion of East Asia. EASL is organized under an exclusive agreement with FIBA, the international basketball federation. For more information about East Asia Super League, please visit www.EASL.basketball or any of our social media channels.
Board Member
May 2018
The East Asia Super League (Simplified Chinese: 东亚超级联赛; Traditional Chinese: 東亞超級聯賽), abbreviated as EASL, is the champions league of professional basketball in East Asia. It is Where Champions Clash and the top teams across the region match up to determine the best of the best. The qualifying EASL participants are the champions and runners-up from the top basketball leagues in Chinese Taipei, Japan, Korea and the Philippines. Each season features a 24-game Group Stage held October to February, with six games (three home, three away) for each of the eight teams. The four winningest teams in the Group Stage qualify for the Final Four weekend in March, which crowns the champion of East Asia. EASL is organized under an exclusive agreement with FIBA, the international basketball federation. For more information about East Asia Super League, please visit www.EASL.basketball or any of our social media channels.
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Mar 2018
Robots that make delicious coffee and more
BeeRoll
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Feb 2018
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