Mai Gang

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Mr. Mai Gang serves as an Advisor at Boosto. He is a Founder and serves as Producer at VenturesLab. He started his venture capital career back in the mid-90s and co-founded Shanghai Pudong Ventures, one of China's first venture capital firms. He was also the venture partner of DFJ Dragon fund in Silicon Valley in the early 2000s. He started his entrepreneur career by starting his first venture eFriendsNet in 2003, which was the earliest and became the largest social network at the time in China. The company was later acquired by the French public company Meetic. Subsequently, he founded VenturesLab in 2005, China's first internet-business incubator, along with legendary venture capitalist Tim Draper. He co-founded four additional technology companies after eFriendsNet, including TongCard, China's largest social CRM provider, later acquired by Tencent; Docin, the largest document-sharing website in China; Togic, the largest smart TV content aggregation service and hardware provider in China; and OKCoin, world's largest Bitcoin exchange. He was named the top angel investor in China numerous times by different renowned organizations including China Ventures, CYzone, TheFounder, Zero2IPO, iResearch, Zhongguancun Angel Alliance, etc. He co-founded the China Young Angel Investor Association (CYAIA) in 2013 and served as the current president. CYAIA is now the biggest and most influential angel investor organization in China. He graduated from Renmin University of China with a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and received his MBA Degree from UCLA Anderson School of Management with a focus on Entrepreneurship and was awarded the first prize winner in the Knapp Venture Competition at UCLA.