Anchor Roundtable: Women in Venture (V)

At the moment women still make up only less than 10% of the venture capital private equity world. Join us if you are the minority who are passionate about venture investing (both institutional & angel investors welcome).

👉 This time our guest speaker is Susan Wu, an entrepreneur, angel investor and start-up adviser. Her early investments include Twitter, Canva, Reddit, and more. She was also named as one of the "Most Influential Women in Technology" by Fast Company. See her full bio below and RSVP before we are full!


Date: Wed, Jan 15, 2020
Time: 19:00 - 22:00

* 20-30 people salon style roundtable.
* Invite & investors only. Limited spots open for public (priority will be given to investment professionals).
* Please apply here: https://forms.gle/ft8krpLYFZhksW9D9
* Venue info will be released to those invited/approved.
* Cost: minimum order at the venue (drink or meal - TBD).

* 女性投資人聚會
* 邀請制 - 特殊小型圓桌活動，聚會地點將會通知審核通過的朋友


🚩 ABOUT OUR SPECIAL GUEST:

Susan Wu | Investor and startup advisors

Susan Wu is an entrepreneur and investor who splits her time between Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, and California. Although this is her first time in Taiwan since she was 2 years old, she considers herself a proud 10th generation Taiwanese.

Susan is passionate about building a more human and humane future, and has had a diverse career building high growth, scaleable software infrastructure that have reached billions of people worldwide.

Susan is a co-founder of Project Include, a non-profit group focused on accelerating diversity and inclusion outcomes in the technology industry. She is also a co-founder of Luminaria, a guild of educators, innovators, and scientists, who are reimagining our education systems to empower children to thrive in and build a future world that is anchored in humanity, and realized through invention.

Previously, Susan was one of the earliest employees at Stripe, and helped build the company from 30 employees to over a thousand, and from two countries to over a dozen. Susan helped develop and launch Stripe’s international organisation and business, establishing Stripe’s go-to-market playbook from Europe to APAC, and directly managing a multi-billion dollar business unit.

Susan has been an active developer in the open source and esports communities. She is a member emeritus and former CMO of the Apache Software Foundation. As an angel investor and/or advisor, she has been involved with a few high growth startups, including Square, reddit, Medium/Obvious, Canva, Color Genomics, Twitter, Notion, and others.

Susan is delighted to be an Edmund Hillary Fellow, a community of high impact entrepreneurs, investors, and changemakers, building solutions to global challenges from New Zealand, and leading the way to a better world. She has also been a founding team member for high impact communities such as YC 120 and Above All Human. YC 120 is a community organised by Y Combinator that brings together 120 emerging scientists, researchers, and entrepreneurs.

Fast Company named Susan as one of the "100 Most Creative People in Business" and "Most Influential Women in Technology." She was named by the San Jose Mercury News as one of the "10 Most Influential People in Silicon Valley." Susan is a writer and vocal leader of building a more ethical technological future, and has been published or quoted in journals such as Wired Magazine, the Atlantic, the New York Times, and many others. She is also a Board Trustee of Harvey Mudd College.

🚩 ABOUT ANCHOR TAIWAN

Anchor Taiwan is a platform for world-class entrepreneurs and professionals to experience and succeed in Asia through Taiwan. Since its inception in 2017, it has hosted top founders and executives from Y Combinator, 500 Startups, UBS, Deutsche Telekom, Warner Bros., Uber and Intel, to name a few. Specializing in curation, mobilization and execution for win-win cross-border collaboration, Anchor Taiwan provides business advancement and market/cultural immersion for its members while engaging and empowering local communities. Find out more: anchortaiwan.com

Anchor Taiwan 透過商業對接、社群交流和文化體驗，吸引國際新創和科技人才在台駐點，提升台灣的能見度，並增加廠商合作和資金人才往來的機會。目前已經參訪配合過的企業及社群夥伴包含宏達電、光寶、緯創、雪豹科技、大型加速器 MOX、AppWorks、Girls in Tech、TAVAR、工研院快制中心、外貿協會等等。成立至今，Anchor Taiwan 已經帶進全球加速器龍頭 Y Combinator 以及 500 Startups 投資的團隊，以及來自華納兄弟 (Warner Bros.)、德國電信 (Deutsche Telekom)、瑞銀 (UBS)、Uber、Intel 等國際人才，舉辦過的科技論壇以及創業沙龍含括物聯網、設計思考、群眾募資、農業科技、教育、虛擬實境、循環經濟等。Anchor Taiwan 於2019年開始 Anchor Venture Partners 的佈局，希望透過早期投資為創新創業帶來更多動能。| anchortaiwan.com