By Yan Yan, Co-Founder, Startup Salad

1. Shenzhen’s Startup Jungle
Yan 晏琰
Co-founder, Startup Salad
Wechat: mncfjzg
Email: yan@salad.cool
Big Fan of Rui Ma
April. 8th, 2016

2. Welcome to Shenzhen!

3. Agenda
• Me & My Shenzhen Story
• Numbers about Shenzhen
• Overview of local startup Ecosystem
• The key players in the jungle
• Investing in Shenzhen
• Fun Facts
• Questions?

4. About Me
• Co-Founder
• China’s No.1 Startup Commnunity
• In 2015, 15000 Paticipants, 100 Startups still
alive, 20 funded.
• Before that, Tech Temple/Startup
Grind/Startup Weekend/Bafo/Doing nothing.

6. Shenzhen Numbers
• 15 Million Population
• History shorter than US (30 years)
• No Local, everyone is local
• Super young, highest housing price in China. (USD
100 per Square Foot)
• No Agriculture, Big on Manufacturing (100 B in
2014), Big on Service （150 B in 2014)
• In 2015 Tech industry has 100 Btakes 40% of
GDPm

7. 1.Global Players in Shenzhen/China
• Google/Facebook/Snapchat/Tinder
• Apple
• Uber/Linkedin/Airbnb
• Amazon/Ebay/Yelp

8. 2.Giants
• Tencent （USD 15 B income in 2015)
• Huawei ( USD 64 B income in 2015)
• DJI (USD 1 B income in 2015)
• Wanke (USD 40 B income in 2015)
• BAT

9. 3.Capital
• 9000+ investment companies
• USD 350 B registered Capital
• Seed investment range from 0 to USD 300K
• Qianhai Mother Fund: USD 33 B (Take it easy)
• SZVC，Dacheng，Songhe,Dongfangfuhai, A+
• Qifu，Chuangxiang, Zhicheng,Dexun
(ZengliQing）
• Character of Shenzhen investors.

10. 4.Supporters
1. Tencent Space.
2. Simplywork
3. Hax
4. Chaihuo
5. InnoValley
6. Startup Plaza

11. 5. Startups
• Compare to Beijing and SV.
• Numbers, opinion on money, story-telling).

13. Investing in Shenzhen
• Hardware? Careful.
• Online to Offline, Sexy Salad/Super Monkey
• Turbulant time/Cash is the king.

14. Some Facts
• Programmer Salary, SZ VS SV, 1:5, not easy to
hire.
• Only one College in SZ
• 15 million hustlers
• Only Major City with OK air
• Only Major City with no one smoke in public

15. Enjoy !