Mr. Danny Lui has accumulated more than twenty years of experience as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He won the Hong Kong Young Industrialist Award in 1992 and maintains excellent working relationships with governments in China and Hong Kong. He also has a strong network of venture capital connections on both sides of the Pacific.

Mr. 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, Mr. 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 & acquisitions.

Mr. Lui founded his second fund, Authosis Ventures, in the year 2000. The fund focusing on both IT and semi-conductor 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, Mr. Lui co-founded a new venture fund, Startup Capital Ventures, with Mr. 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. The fund’s managing partners collectively possess over 100 years of experience in investing in and building successful companies.

Mr. Lui graduated from Imperial College, University of London, with a bachelor’s degree in Computing Science.