This document provides an overview of Shenzhen's startup ecosystem including: 1. An introduction to the author and their experience founding Startup Salad, one of China's largest startup communities. 2. Key statistics about Shenzhen such as its population of 15 million, history of only 30 years, and tech industry accounting for 40% of GDP. 3. A breakdown of the major players in Shenzhen's startup jungle including global tech giants with offices there, Chinese giants like Tencent and Huawei, and capital sources totaling $350 billion from over 9,000 investment companies.

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 !