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Rose Gong, from farmer’s daughter to the ‘dragon girl’ of China tech (Infographic)
She pulled herself up from poverty in rural China, got into one of the best universities, and then took her first startup to IPO.
24 up-and-coming tech founders to watch in China
The Chinese entrepreneurs on this list are rising stars. Some have already had successes, while others are just starting out.
The evolution of China’s dating apps
With the fall of China’s biggest dating site comes renewed opportunities for other players
Baihe, a Chinese dating site where users flaunt their financial standing, bags $241M
Baihe approaches dating from an empirical and practical – some might say materialistic- perspective, with the end goal being marriage.
The face recognition startup that Jack Ma wants to use for selfie payments just got $25M in funding
Face++ makes a cloud-based API and an SDK so developers can incorporate face recognition into their on apps. The startup has over 30,000 developers on board.
Gong Haiyan: plain jane factory worker to founder of China’s biggest dating site
Gong is one of the most celebrated female tech entrepreneurs in China, having successfully founded Jiayuan, China’s answer to Match.com.
China’s biggest dating site now has 100 million users, but you’ll be surprised how few are active
China’s biggest dating website, Jiayuan (NASDAQ:DATE), has revealed today that it now has 100 million registered users. The site claims to have helped 12.3 million people find love in the
Dating site Jiayuan sees slow growth in earnings and users, looks to youngsters with new flirting app
China might be a land of tens of millions of bachelors due to the gender imbalance, but that doesn’t mean it’s an easy ride for an online dating business. That’s
91Waijiao Connects Chinese With Foreign English Teachers, Gets $4 Million Funding
Education site 91Waijiao is a learning platform that connects Chinese of all ages with foreign English teachers. It’s a neat idea to disrupt China’s ‘English as a foreign language’ (EFL)
Check Out the Biggest Winners and Losers among Chinese Web IPOs (CHART)
One is worth thousands of percent more today than when it IPO’d, while another is worth a mere dollar per share. Oh, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. 2013




