Sophie Liao's guest appearances

Sophie Liao

The Silicon Valley Insider Show with Keith Koo

Investor Connect Podcast

Mike McDerment

Gary Boomershine

David Meltzer

Matthew Sullivan

John Livesay

Grace Lee

William Davis

Bruce Wayne

Doug Smith

Tim Campos

David Bach

Matt Johnson

Elizabeth Edwards

Peter Lazaroff

Lane Kawaoka

OwlTail

On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Sophie Liao, Founding Partner at Oyster Ventures.Oyster Ventures is a seed-stage-focused venture fund based in San Francisco, New York, and Hong Kong. They target companies that bring liquidity and efficiency to antiquated industries and with massive potential to scale. Since 2016, they have launched three funds and deployed capital into 80+ startups. Their checks start at $25k to $200k, from Pre-Seed to Series Seed. They typically continue to invest in their portfolio companies from Series A to C and beyond, and they can write checks up to $5M+. Oyster Ventures generally doesn’t lead rounds, but when they do, they will invest $500k to $2M. When they lead, they join the board as a director or observer. They happily invest in companies anywhere in the world but have a preference for standard jurisdictions and structures (e.g., Delaware C Corps, Hong Kong or Singapore Limited companies, SAFEs, etc.) They don’t invest in markets they don’t understand well or markets that require deep specialization to evaluate. While they do invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain companies, they very rarely invest in crypto-tokens without an equity component. They don’t invest via SPVs, by mandate, they don’t invest in mainland China, and they don’t invest in uncapped notes and SAFEs. Sophie is a three-time fund manager with a top-performing record by IRR. She was MD at Rothenberg and VP at Draper Dragon before setting off on her own to found Oyster Ventures as a solo GP in 2017. Prior, she co-founded and sold a VFX startup to a large media company in 2015. Before that, she ran M&amp;A strategy and started her career by launching joint ventures for U.S-Asia cross-border businesses in the TMT sector. Sophie discusses her investment thesis, advises entrepreneurs and investors and describes some of the challenges they face. You can visit Oyster Ventures at , via LinkedIn at , and via Twitter at .    Sophie can be contacted via email at , and via LinkedIn at .  _____________ For more episodes from Investor Connect, please visit the site at:    Check out our other podcasts here:   For Investors check out:   For Startups check out:   For eGuides check out:   For upcoming Events, check out    For Feedback please contact info@tencapital.group    Please , share, and leave a review. Music courtesy of .

On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Sophie Liao, Founding Partner at Oyster Ventures.Oyster Ventures is a seed-stage-focused venture fund based in San Francisco, New York, and Hong Kong. They target companies that bring liquidity and efficiency to antiquated industries and with massive potential to scale. Since 2016, they have launched three funds and deployed capital into 80+ startups. Their checks start at $25k to $200k, from Pre-Seed to Series Seed. They typically continue to invest in their portfolio companies from Series A to C and beyond, and they can write checks up to $5M+. Oyster Ventures generally doesn’t lead rounds, but when they do, they will invest $500k to $2M. When they lead, they join the board as a director or observer. They happily invest in companies anywhere in the world but have a preference for standard jurisdictions and structures (e.g., Delaware C Corps, Hong Kong or Singapore Limited companies, SAFEs, etc.) They don’t invest in markets they don’t understand well or markets that require deep specialization to evaluate. While they do invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain companies, they very rarely invest in crypto-tokens without an equity component. They don’t invest via SPVs, by mandate, they don’t invest in mainland China, and they don’t invest in uncapped notes and SAFEs. Sophie is a three-time fund manager with a top-performing record by IRR. She was MD at Rothenberg and VP at Draper Dragon before setting off on her own to found Oyster Ventures as a solo GP in 2017. Prior, she co-founded and sold a VFX startup to a large media company in 2015. Before that, she ran M&amp;A strategy and started her career by launching joint ventures for U.S-Asia cross-border businesses in the TMT sector. Sophie discusses her investment thesis, advises entrepreneurs and investors and describes some of the challenges they face. You can visit Oyster Ventures at , via LinkedIn at , and via Twitter at .   Sophie can be contacted via email at , and via LinkedIn at .  _____________ For more episodes from Investor Connect, please visit the site at:    Check out our other podcasts here:   For Investors check out:   For Startups check out:   For eGuides check out:   For upcoming Events, check out    For Feedback please contact info@tencapital.group    Please , share, and leave a review. Music courtesy of .

Investor Connect - 677 - Sophie Liao of Oyster Ventures

This week while Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo is in China speaking at several conferences in the greater Shanghai region of China the show is releasing a rebroadcast of "Cross Border Venture Capital and M&amp;A with Sophie Liao of Oyster VC" Don't miss next week's show as he does a recap of his week speaking at several cross-border business summits in Shanghai, Zhejiang &amp; Jiangsu provinces: 1 3rd Annual International Trade Fair &amp; Inaugural Tongxiang Elite Development Convention, Tongxiang, Hangzhou, China. (Tongxiang is the permanent site of China's world internet conference.) 2) European and American High Technology Exchange and Summit - Shanghai 3) European and American High Technology Exchange and Summit - Suzhou His guests will include: Wendy Yang: President of Zion Shanghai Investment Company Deborah Magid: Director of Strategy, IBM Ventures Edgar Munoz, CEO of Commercial Drone Startup Aeronyde of Melbourne, Florida Each will share their points of view on how companies in the USA and China are still trying to do business with each other given the tariffs and tensions between the two trading partners. This week's rebroadcast show notes: Silcon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo and Special Guest Sophie Liao, Founder and Managing Partner of Oyster Venture Capital celebrate Chinese New Year  - 新年快乐 (Xīn Nián Kuài Lè)!  by discussing the many challenges and rewards of cross border business. Hear how Sophie went from documentary filmmaker to selling her first business which then led to her to becoming a successful venture capitalist (VC). Sophie and Keith discuss Venture Capital and Mergers and Acquistions and how their deep understanding of business goals while balancing that with inherent cultural differences led to their successes in leading cross border M&amp;A projects. Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Uber all have one thing in common... They didn't succeed in China. Find out why and how you can avoid their fate by listening to this show!  First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: www.svin.biz https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&amp;source=sh VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Wildfires

This week while Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo is in China speaking at several conferences in the greater Shanghai region of China the show is releasing a rebroadcast of "Cross Border Venture Capital and M&amp;A with Sophie Liao of Oyster VC" Don't miss next week's show as he does a recap of his week speaking at several cross-border business summits in Shanghai, Zhejiang &amp; Jiangsu provinces: 1 3rd Annual International Trade Fair &amp; Inaugural Tongxiang Elite Development Convention, Tongxiang, Hangzhou, China. (Tongxiang is the permanent site of China's world internet conference.) 2) European and American High Technology Exchange and Summit - Shanghai 3) European and American High Technology Exchange and Summit - Suzhou His guests will include: Wendy Yang: President of Zion Shanghai Investment Company Deborah Magid: Director of Strategy, IBM Ventures Edgar Munoz, CEO of Commercial Drone Startup Aeronyde of Melbourne, Florida Each will share their points of view on how companies in the USA and China are still trying to do business with each other given the tariffs and tensions between the two trading partners. This week's rebroadcast show notes: Silcon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo and Special Guest Sophie Liao, Founder and Managing Partner of Oyster Venture Capital celebrate Chinese New Year - 新年快乐 (Xīn Nián Kuài Lè)! by discussing the many challenges and rewards of cross border business. Hear how Sophie went from documentary filmmaker to selling her first business which then led to her to becoming a successful venture capitalist (VC). Sophie and Keith discuss Venture Capital and Mergers and Acquistions and how their deep understanding of business goals while balancing that with inherent cultural differences led to their successes in leading cross border M&amp;A projects. Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Uber all have one thing in common... They didn't succeed in China. Find out why and how you can avoid their fate by listening to this show! First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: <a href="https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show</a> iTunes: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2</a> Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: <a href="http://www.svin.biz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.svin.biz</a> <a href="https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&amp;source=sh" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&amp;source=sh</a> VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Wildfires

Encore: Cross Border Venture Capital and M & A with Sophie Liao of Oyster VC