Jiheup Hosts Conference Bringing Together Venture Capitalists, Startups and Silicon Valley Talent

SAN JOSE, California, May 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- JIHEUP.COM, a SaaS-based human resources solutions provider, on May 9 hosted a high-end talent exchange conference in San Jose, California, with an aim to build a bridge between elites in Silicon Valley, venture capitalists as well as the start-ups they have invested. 

The conference has attracted more than 20 VCs (including GGV Capital, Formation 8 and China Growth Capital), entrepreneurs while drawing in a pool of over 200 high-tech talented individuals in the Silicon Valley.

Riding on the waves of booming internet-plus market in China the emerging industries, such as internet finance, cross-border e-commerce and smart hard-wares, have seen rapid growth in recent years, which has generated strong demand for top talent from Silicon Valley, especially for start-ups.

The event is the first-ever collective talent recruiting activity abroad for Chinese entrepreneurial ventures and Sino-US VCs.

"China's Internet industry has emerged to be a leader on the global stage with 15 years' of rapid development, going abroad for talent recruiting for Chinese start-ups has become an irreversible trend. The conference is committed to assisting Chinese companies to seek elites in Silicon Valley, especially hunting professionals who have a Chinese background," said Jing Zhang CEO & Founder of JIHEUP.COM.

"Most of entrepreneurial team in China are grassroots who know the local market pretty well and have mastered the domestic business operation. I believe it will bring a lot of interesting business models or ventures if they join hands with top talents from Silicon Valley. I hope such event could be held on a regular basis," said Hans Tung, Managing Partner of GGV Capital.

The conference, which is also co-hosted by China America Innovation Network (CHAIN), Hanhai Investment Silicon Valley Incubator and Career Assist, serves as a platform of face-to-face communications for VCs, start-up entrepreneurs as well as candidates from tech behemoths Silicon Valley through keynote speeches, panel discussions as well as networking.

Honored guests in the panel discussions include GGV's managing partner Hans Tung, who has been focusing on the investments in industries of mobile internet, cross-border ecommerce, online education and gaming. Han Shen, Partner of Silicon Valley based venture capital firm Formation 8, has led investments across multiple spaces such as smart enterprise, mobile internet, smart hardware, robotics and connected cars. Michael Liang, Co-Founder of Zamplus, who joined Google in 2005, where he led Asia Pacific advertising product strategy and R&D team, including Google Display Ads and DoubleClick Ad platform. Jia Li, CEO & Founder of Nonda, a smart hardware platform in the U.S backed by CGC.

"China has a friendly environment for start-ups, we have strong interests to be CEO, Co-founder or join in excellent teams. The activity not only offers a lot of job opportunities for Chinese talents in the US, but also help us dispel doubts to return to motherland to start ventures," hailed by one candidate Joe, who is working for Google.

At the conference, more than 200 individuals have intent to join in Chinese start-ups or Sino-US cross-border ventures, another 10 top individuals clinched deals with entrepreneurs on the spot

"To meet the increasing demand, we are planning a series of similar events in Silicon Valley in the future and is also considering to open an office in the world innovation capital to better serve as a bridge," Jing added.

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