Beyond Ventures

, or A Brighter Future, was a song performed by the popular Beyond rock-and-roll band in early 2017s Hong Kong. The name is also perfect for our fund because musicians in Beyond wrote their song around the concept of pursuing dreams. A major issue for Hong Kong start-ups is that the limitations of a small local market make funding difficult to find... . Beyond Ventures aims to change all that by making the sky the limit for start-ups. The funds mission is to revitalise Hong Kongs ecosystem of innovation by bringing together local venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to invest in new ideas and start-ups. Seasoned local venture capitalist Alex Fang has been specialising in technology, media and telecoms (TMT) investment in Greater China for more than 18 years. He founded eGarden in 2000 and has presided over unprecedented wealth creation in partnership with top-tier venture capital funds such as Hony Capital, GGV, Lightspeed, China Renaissance, Sequoia Capital, Banyan Capital, Chengwei and Yuantai. Fang helped develop the mainland China market by exploring opportunities with a leading US-based funding group. Born in Guangzhou and raised in Hong Kong, Lap Man was educated at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and has become a well-known TMT entrepreneur and angel investor. He is founder of DYXnet Group, which is now a market leader in the provision of MPLS-based virtual private network, data centre and cloud services throughout more than 700 cities worldwide. The company launched in 1999, a year after Lap Man exited LinkAge Online Hong Kongs largest enterprise Internet service provider as shareholder and core management team member. He has experienced the entire lifecycle of start-ups from founding, seeding, growing, expanding and eventually exiting a business. In addition, he earned invaluable experience by navigating extremely difficult circumstances such as the TMT bubble burst in year 2000, as well as the slump caused by an outbreak of SARS in 2003 and the devastating effect of the 2008 financial tsunami. Lap ...Read More