William Bao Bean
General Partner, SOSV
William is a General Partner at SOSV - The Accelerator VC - the #3 most active venture capital investor in the world (Pitchbook, 2020) with US$855m under management. At SOSV he is the Managing Director of Chinaccelerator the first accelerator in Asia and the only active accelerator in Asia to have a unicorn come through its program – Bitmex Fall 2015. He is also Founder and Managing Director of MOX the Mobile Only Accelerator providing startups with free user acquisition helping the portfolio scale to 102m monthly active users with no marketing spend. William joined SOSV from SingTel Innov8 Ventures where he was a founding Managing Director investing in Greater China. Prior to that William was a Partner at Softbank China & India Holdings, a VC backed by Softbank and Cisco, leading investments in China and South East Asia. William started his career in equity research most recently with Deutsche Bank where he was a top ranked analyst for Asia Internet and China Tech, Media and Telecom and worked on IPOs for Alibaba, Kingsoft, eLong (Expedia China), OnMobile, Rediff and Naukri.
