William Bean

William Bean serves as General Partner & Managing Director of Chinaccelerator & MOX at SOSV. He is also an Advisor at Luxchain. He is a Managing Director of The Mobile Only Accelerator & Chinaccelerator, China's first startup accelerator based in Shanghai. A prominent practitioner, innovator and thought leader on tech investing in Asia, he founded MOX, SOSV's Mobile-Only Accelerator, in partnership with Mobi, the largest mobile platform for Southeast Asia and India. He also serves as a Board Observer at Fleksy. In addition to his work at SOSV, William is an active angel investor with 39 investments between 2004 and 2014. He co-founded and served as the Board Member at Kineticone. William holds a BA from Bowdoin College and began his career as an equity research analyst, most recently with Deutsche Bank, where he was responsible for Internet and Telecom Equipment across Asia and China technology, media and telecom. In addition, he covered Digital Media and Telecom Equipment companies at Bank of America Securities in San Francisco and PCs and Enterprise Hardware at Bear Stearns in New York. Prior to joining SOSV, William was the Managing Director at SingTel Innov8, where he led investments in Yodo1, Gmobi, Lekan and Massive Impact, among others. Previously, William was a Partner at Softbank China and India Holdings, an early stage venture capital firm backed by Softbank of Japan and Cisco. In 2006 he was ranked #3 All-Asia analyst for Technology/Software and IT Services by Institutional Investor Magazine Asia. In 2005, he was ranked #1 stock picker in Technology, Media and Telecom and #3 overall for Hong Kong/China by Forbes/SCMP/Starmine. He currently sits on the boards of advisors/directors for a number of companies including GMobi, Silk Road Telecom, Massive Impact, Socbay, iTalki as well as organizations including Angelvest, the largest and most active angel investing group in China, AAMA Shanghai and the Techyizu, Beijing Hive, Digital Matters and AdTech: China events. He also served as Board Member at Shanghai Cai Yang Network Technology. He serves as Steering Committee Member at AngelVest Group. He also served as Advisor at Digital Asset Network.