William Bao Bean is a General Partner at SOSV - The Accelerator VC - the #2 most active angel and seed stage investors in the world 2019 with US$700m under management. At SOSV he is the Managing Director of Chinaccelerator the first accelerator to launch in Asia and the only accelerator in Asia to have a unicorn come through its program – Bitmex the #1 crypto exchange in the world by trading volume enabling anyone with a smartphone to access financial products and opening up investment to the unbanked.
William Bao Bean Interview Focus
1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
Career highlights - equity analyst and technology, IPOs, investors accelerators
2. Bringing alibaba public - ant financial
3. Your company SOSV - Chinaaccelerator, MOX companies, organisations and focus?
4. As someone that comes from history and investment How do you see all areas of digital transformation and your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
William Bao Bean Biography
William Bao Bean is also Founder and Managing Director of MOX - the Mobile Only Accelerator - providing startups with free user acquisition to the 70m smartphone users on the platform. William joined SOSV from SingTel Innov8 Ventures where he was a founding Managing Director supporting China investments. Prior to that William was a Partner at Softbank China & India Holdings, a venture capital firm backed by Softbank and Cisco, leading investments in China and South East Asia. Previously, William spent 11 years as an equity research analyst most recently with Deutsche Bank where he was a top ranked analyst for Asia Internet and China Tech, Media and Telecom and worked on IPOs for Alibaba, Kingsoft and eLong (Expedia China).
He holds a BA from Bowdoin College.
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