Danny Lui
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Danny Lui (Lui Tam Ping) is a Hong Kong entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He won the Hong Kong Young Industrialist Award in 1992 and maintains working relationships with governments in China and Hong Kong. He also has a network of venture capital connections on both sides of the Pacific.
Lui was co-founder of the Legend Group (now known as Lenovo) in Hong Kong. In 1994, he led Legend through a successful IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The company is currently the largest PC manufacturer in China.
In 1997, Lui founded APTG Ventures, his first venture fund focusing on high-tech investments in Silicon Valley and China. The fund has successfully identified star companies, with strong exit records and impressive returns through IPOs as well as mergers and acquisitions.
Lui founded his second fund, Authosis, in the year 2000. The fund focusing on both IT and semiconductor industry and invests mainly in early-stage software and fabless IC design companies targeting the internet, e-commerce, wireless and mobile solutions, consumer electronics, computing and communication markets.
In 2005, Lui co-founded a new venture fund, Startup Capital Ventures, with John Dean], former Chairman and CEO of Silicon Valley Bank, and several other partners. The fund emphasizes on investing early-stage companies in Silicon Valley and China.
Liu graduated from Imperial College in the UK.
