Happy Holidays!  The F50 team appreciates all of your support and participation in our conferences and programs in 2017 and we wish you great success in the New Year!

We are excited to announce that our bi-annual flagship conference, the Global Capital Summit™(GCS) 2018 will be held on Thursday, May 3rd, and Tuesday, October 2nd in Silicon Valley.

Global Capital Summit™ connects the most impactful next-generation companies with global capital and partnerships to power their long-term success. GCS features extraordinary startups as well as over 500 attendees from the Venture Capital and Global Investment community. The guest list includes VC executives, long term investors, corporate ventures and corporate executives, asset management companies, and high potential local CEOs.

2018 marks the third year for Global Capital Summit! This year, we want to take this flagship event to new heights and reach greater successes. We are looking for qualified professionals to become key figures in our network, so F50 is launching the the Global Capital Insider Program (Beta) in January 2018. GCIP is an exclusive program for VCs, Founders, and Executives to gain entry to all F50 Conferences at the VIP level, attend speaker dinners, private receptions, be kept up to date on what’s happening at F50 and more!

More ways to get involved:

• F50 is hiring an Executive Assistant
• Join our Entrepreneur or Investor Residence Program
• Become a Sponsor
• Become a Corporate Member
• Demo at Connect Lounge

We look forward to welcoming you into the program, and making 2018 the most prosperous year yet!

David Cao, CEO, F50

Bruce Ge, Secretary General, GCS Organizing Committee

Our past speakers and VIP guests

Myron Scholes, Professor, Stanford GSB, Economic Nobel Prize Winner
Aaref Hilaly, Sequoia Capital
Ravi Viswanathan, General Partner, NEA
Alaa Halawa, Senior Principal, Mubadala Capital
Hilary Gosher, Managing Director, Insight Venture Partners
Peter Hebert, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Lux Capital
Keith Krach, Chairman, DocuSign
Paul Holland, General Partner, Foundation Capital
Gaurav Tewari, Citi Ventures Managing Directo
Jagdeep Singh Bachher, CIO, University California, Office of President
Connie Chan, Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Hans Tung, Managing Partner, GGV Capital
Long Jiang, CEO, GoerTek
Dr. Ashby Monk, ED, Stanford Global Projects, Sr. Adviser, AustralianSuper
Ethan Kurzweil, Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
Xiangjun Guo, CIO and EVP, China Investment Corporation
Qimin Wu, CEO, E-house Capital
Chris Evdemon, Partner, Sinovation Ventures
Jacques Benkoski, Partner, U.S. Venture Partners
Camille Samuels, Partner, Venrock
Steve Stevanovich, Board of Governors, U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory
Vitaly Vanshelboim, COO, UNOPS
Tim Draper, Founder, Draper Associates
Saeed Amidi, Founder, Plug & Play
Mark Siegel, Managing Director, Menlo Ventures
Roy Geva Glasberg, Founder & Global Manager, Google Global Accelerator
Dave Munichiello, General Partner, Google Ventures
Duncan Logan, Founder & CEO, Rocketspace
Lei Jun, CEO, Xiaomi / Shunwei
Fang Wan, Chairman, PingAn Assets
Qunbin Wang, CEO, Fosun Group
Michael Cai, CEO, Meitu
Sheng Fu, CEO, Cheetah Mobile
Feng Qin, CEO, China Resource Capital`
Tuck Lye Koh, CEO, Shunwei Capital
Richard Liu, Managing Partner, Morningside Capital
David Zhang, Funding Partner, Matrix Partners China
Kevin Li, Founder, Hundun University
Daisy Cai, Managing Partner, Baidu Ventures
Zehui Liu, Managing Director, Legend Capital