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Duane is a founder and Managing Director of Qiming Venture Partners, a Shanghai, China based venture capital firm launched in February, 2006. Prior to founding Qiming, Duane Kuang was the Director of Intel Capital China. During his 6 year tenure at Intel Capital, Duane was in charge of all of Intel Capital¡¯s investment activities in China. Prior to Intel Capital, Duane spent over 5 years at Cisco Systems in China, holding various senior management positions in the sales and marketing organizations in Beijing and Guangzhou. Before returning to China in 1994, Duane had a successful engineering and management career in both startup and large global companies in Silicon Valley, including Kalpana Inc (acquired by Cisco) and 3Com Corporation. Duane was born in China and educated in the United States. He holds an MBA degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master¡¯s degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.
About Qiming
The Chinese name Qiming means starting, enlightening and it also signifies the beginning of a new day. Based in Shanghai and in partnership with Ignition Partners in the U.S, Qiming aspires to be a premier venture capital firm with primary focus in technology investment in China. Qiming¡¯s partners are proven business leaders and venture capitalists with strong operational background in both the U.S and in China. Qiming will seek out early to expansion stage companies in high growth technology sectors servicing the large domestic market in China as well as the robust export sector. While striving to be the investor of choice for entrepreneurs, Qiming will also work closely with other leading venture capital firms in China to deliver the investor value that young Chinese companies require.
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