BCIC Spring Venture Summit Summary
To promote innovation, and communication, Boston Chinese Investment Club (BCIC) held the 2019 Spring BCIC Venture Summit with MIT GCC, bringing venture capital funds and outstanding startups together. The summit focuses on cutting edge technology development in two sectors: life science and high-tech, and the impact on investment in startups under new policies carried out by The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), and US-China bilateral trade deal and diplomatic relationship.
Healthcare
Keynote Speech:“Understanding bone and liver diseases by understanding cell signaling regulations”
Dr. Yingzi Yang | Associate Dean for Translational Research, Professor of Developmental Biology, Director of Biological Sciences in Dental Medicine (BSDM) PhD Program, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Keynote Speech: “Use of Computer Vision in Human Vision Care”
Gang Luo, Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Healthcare Investment Panel (Left to Right)
Moderator: Zhaoying Xu | Senior Analyst, Health Advances
Chong Xu, Ph.D. | Senior Associate, F-Prime Capital
Roger Song | Associate Analyst, Jefferies
Jia Sun | 6 Dimension Capital
Healthcare Startup Showcase
Peter Palomaki, Ph.D. | CTO, QLED Cures
Roya Khosravi-Far, Ph.D. | Co-Founder, BiomaRx
Kai Xu, Ph.D. | Chief scientist, ZSFab
HighTech
Keynote Speech:“U.S.-China Trade Tensions: What Does the Future Hold for Bilateral Business Relations”
Leslie Griffin | Principal of Allinea LLC
Keynote Speech: “The Expansion of CFIUS and the New Critical Technology Pilot Programs”
Stephen J. Doyle, Esq. | Partner of TCF Law Group PLLC
HighTech Venture Capital panel discussion
- Lex Zhao | Early-stage Investor, One Way Venture
- Pong Choa | Investor, Mendoza Venture
- Hongkai He | Venture Partner, Skylight Investment
HighTech Startup panel discussion
- Weihong Zhang, Ph.D. | Founder, Cmind, Inc
- Yudong Cao, Ph.D. | Co-founder, Zapata Computing
- Wentao Xiao | Co-founder and CEO, Zealery
- Helen Yang, CFA | Founder and CEO, Andes Wealth Technologies
Left to right：Leslie Griffin | Principal of Allinea LLC, Min Yi | President of BCIC
VIP Happy Hour; BCIC Team
As we wrapped up our VIP Happy Hour, the BCIC thanked its participants for bringing so many diverse backgrounds and perspectives in high-technology and bioscience to the conference. It was a pleasure witnessing all the relationships between investors and startups forged throughout BCIC in 2019. We look forward to continuing a conversation around collaboration, technology development, knowledge exchange, and future cooperations between the US and China in commercial investment.