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Food journaling and discovery app Burpple has released its new Burpple Camera, which features six filters specifically designed to enhance photos of food and a tilt-shift blur effect.
iSTART项目携饱贝食记、新旋律、LittleLives、人力才酷、门徒游戏以及思募等10余家年轻活力的初创企业登陆中国，求索创投的创始人陈中被选为iSTART@Beijing项目的导师之一，他同时也是窝窝团的联合创始人。
Social food diary, Burpple, receives US$500,000 in funding, led by Neoteny Labs together with QuestVC. Burpple, the social food diary app, today announced their latest funding leg by Neoteny Labs together with QuestVC to the tune of US$500,000…
据国外媒体报道，开发出同名iPhone美食分享应用的新加坡Burpple公司种子轮获得50万美元融资，本轮领投者为Neoteny Labs，参与者为中国的求索创投（QuestVC）。
James Tan, from QuestVC in China, one of the jury members, added: “Waytag is a brilliant yet simple solution to improve how people interact and navigate on smartphones, it is much easier to use a unique one word address to find someone than a 5 line address…
我们在iSTART项目中提供的最重要的支持环节就是导师，我们选择的导师通常都是在目标市场有着非常丰富的经验以及关系网，例如我们iSTART项目在北京的导师之一—求索创投的陈中。。。
Veteran Straits Times reporter Grace Chng interviews James Tan. “To take on the giant Chinese market, it might be best for a Singaporean entrepreneur to start as a student. That is the advice of Mr James Tan, 37, co-founder of China’s second largest group-buying site, 55tuan. Today, 55tuan.com has eight-figure US revenue per month, with double-digit growth month-on-month… 55tuan.com sells a variety of things, such as beauty and travel products and clothes. It employs 3,900 workers and has expanded to 150 cities.”
iSTART项目导师之一、求索创投(QuestVC)创始人及管理合伙人陈中先生表示：“希望能够与年轻一辈的初创企业家们分享自己对市场的认知以及相关的创业经验，在为初创企业家们照亮前行道路的同时，也能促进中新两国在资讯通信产业方面更多元的合作和交融。”
投资人观点：他们如何看待和选择本地生活服务企业。每次17Startup沙龙，我们都会邀请关注该细分领域的投资人一起参加，分享他们关于这个行业的看法，以及他们会从哪些方面来看待这个领域的创业公司，这次我们邀请了4位投资人，一起来看看：求索创投陈中：1）获取用户的能力；2）获取商户的能力；3）商业的设定和赚钱。
“ACE Beijing provides a ‘by Singaporeans, for Singaporeans’ softlanding platform where mentors and entrepreneurs can sharpen their ideas and execution, thus improving their chances of success. We hope to eventually replicate this model in other cities,” says Mr James Tan, Chairperson of the ACE Overseas Chapter sub-committee.
James Tan, managing partner at QuestVC, signed the agreement on behalf of ACE as his role in chairman for internationalization.
“Singapore’s Action Community for Entrepreneurship Overseas Chapter in Beijing (ACE Beijing Chapter) recently announced collaborations… to provide China-bound Singapore entrepreneurs greater access to opportunities in Beijing and China.
James Tan… signed Letters of Intent on 4th July with the Managing Director of HDC, Du Peng, and the Director President of Coway, Dr Tan Hongxin. Singapore’s Minister for Education Mr Heng Swee Keat was also present at the occasion as a Guest-of-Honour.
Alongside him was Singapore Minister of State for Trade and Industry and ACE Chairman, Teo Ser Luck. The signing ceremony was attended by representatives from ACE, Tsinghua University, HDC and Coway, as well as the China and Singapore business communities.”
QuestVC managing partner James Tan joins Jeff Clavier of SoftTech VC and Ali Partovi, co-founder of iLike & LinkExchange and an angel investor in Dropbox; and other notable investors and entrepreneurs at the IE Venture Day held in Madrid, Spain.
This week, we talked to James Tan from QuestVC, a venture capitalist firm based in China. QuestVC is China’s leading seed to angel fund for technology companies that have scalability and replicability in large internet communities. The founders…
Willis Wee spoke with James Tan, the co-Founder of 55tuan who we have written about before and managing partner at QuestVC. James discussed his own experiences going to China to do business there, and explained that while his experience there has been a fruitful one so far, that it can often be an arduous process for foreign startups to adjust to the market there.
Our guest speaker, as well as a Jury member for the event will be Mr. James Tan, a well-known Angel investor based in Beijing and Singapore who will address the group on Startup Activity in China.
