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Patrick Liu is the Venture Partner at Lanchi Ventures. Patrick Liu is a serial entrepreneur in social networks, gaming and AR. He started out at Motorola Labs in 1999, where he worked on data communications in 3G. In 2003, he co-founded eFriendsNet Entertainment, one of the first social networks in China. As President, Patrick oversaw strategy, products and financing. After eFriendsNet was acquired in 2006, he founded Rekoo Media, which pioneered social games in China, Japan and Korea. Rekoo became the top social gaming company in Asia in 2009-2012 with more than 35 million daily active users. In 2012, Rekoo pioneered smartphone games in China and expanded to Europe and North America, growing to be a top 3 mobile game publisher in China in 2013-2015. Rekoo was acquired in 2017. After that, Patrick co-Founded AR company PhotonLens which was acquired in the middle of 2021. Patrick received his BA from Peking University, a Masters in Computer Science from UIUC, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
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Liu Ji
Liu Ji is an operating partner of Lanchi Venture Capital and graduated from Peking University Guanghua School of Management. He is fully responsible for the structural design, fundraising, operation management and investor relations of Lanchi Venture Capital’s US dollar and RMB funds, and is deeply involved in fund investment and post-investment management. Before joining Lanchi, he worked at Jiuding Investment and has many years of experience in the establishment, fundraising and operation management of US dollar and RMB private equity funds.
Ramu Arunachalam
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Jacob Yang
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Vance Gong
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York Zhu
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Imran Khan
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Mohamed Fouda
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Yuan Sun
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Symington W. Smith
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