About the Talk: Gain insider investment insights on how to attract and impress early-stage investors.
Date & Time: 2 Dec 2025, 14:00 – 15:00
Venue: Event Room 1 – 4, 8/F, Building 19W
Guest Speaker: Edith Yeung, General Partner, Race Capital
About The Guest Speaker:
Edith Yeung is a General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund investing in all things infrastructure. Edith is the seed investor in Solana (has been dubbed one of the best venture investments of all time), Agora.io (NASDAQ: API), DayDayCook (NYSE: DDC), Goodnotes, Placer.ai, Otter.ai and 60 other amazing startups. Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator which invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies.
Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia Capital - backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk. She frequently speaks on venture capital, women in leadership, China and Silicon Valley technology and investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, The Information, etc.