"Foreign Angel" in Zhongguancun: more and more reliable entrepreneurs

Icori said: "Zhongguancun environment most let me feel comfortable." "In the summer of 2005, when the Greek Chris Evdemon first came to Beijing, he did not expect to stay here for seven years and had a Chinese name" Icori ". In these seven years, Icori invested 7 companies in China, and three years ago, with Kai-Fu Lee and other people co-founded the Innovation Factory, become an active in Zhongguancun angel investors. Looking back over the last seven years, Icori that he was lucky because he was at the right time (the mobile internet sprang up) and came to the right place (Zhongguancun, Beijing) and did the right thing (making Angel Investments). It is the greatest pleasure in Icori work to grow and progress with Chinese entrepreneurs every day. "I hope to continue to be an angel investor in China and help more young people realize their dreams," he said. "Icori said. Ji "Yang Angel" first broke into Zhongguancun 2005, Icori with his first bucket of gold in Greece to go to Singapore MBA, when there are two alumni have graduated in Beijing Zhongguancun Venture, invited Icori to take a vacation to China to see, just came to Asia, Icori think anything is very fresh, to China is more curious, So he agreed to the invitation of the alumni. Icori came to the "village", found that the degree of modernization is completely beyond his imagination, and he immediately liked the atmosphere, "I can feel the Chinese young people that strong entrepreneurial passion and the desire for success." In countries such as Greece and Singapore, where young people live comfortably and without pressure, many young people in China are working hard, a quality that entrepreneurs should have. "In this way, Icori joined the alumni of the start-up company, while looking for some investment opportunities in China," I have joined an angel investment club in Singapore, a few companies, the harvest is good. The Chinese market is so big that the opportunity is certainly much greater than in Singapore. "Angel investors like Icori, who are investing in start-up companies, are relatively small and risky, but if the investor is successful, the return of the angel investor is very high, so how to find a reliable entrepreneur is very important to the angel investor." "When I first came to China, I did not speak Chinese, the entrepreneurs who contacted were mainly foreigners, returnees or Chinese expatriates in China, and the circle was narrow, so I began to study Chinese and expand my social network." "Soon, Icori found that China's entrepreneurial market has a lot of space, so he quit his job, concentrate on Zhongguancun as an" angel.