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For investors, entrepreneurs, and tech enthusiasts who want in-depth, full-context unique perspectives and takeaways on China tech. Subscribe to our biweekly free podcast ("Tech Buzz China") or our paid invite-only community (email us: [email protected] for access) and immediately start learning and analyzing! Our two co-hosts are bilingual and bicultural Silicon Valley based professionals who both lived in China and worked in the technology sector as an investor and entrepreneur respectively for the better half of a decade. They also both spent half their careers in Silicon Valley in technology, making them part of the small group of tech professionals with extensive networks in both the US and China as well as firsthand investment and operational experience.
Overview
Location
United States, California, San Francisco
Employees
1-10
Founded date
2018
Mentions in press and media 12
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| Mar 20, 2026 | OpenClaw fever grips China | Participants hold their laptops as they line up to install and set up OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent, outside the Baidu offices in Beijing. Florence Lo/Reuters Fan Xinquan, a retired electronics worker in Beijing, has recently started ra... |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Anthropic joins OpenAI in flagging ‘industrial-scale’ distillation campaigns by Chinese AI firms | Anthropic accused three Chinese AI firms of engaging in concerted “distillation attack” campaigns. U.S. companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are concerned with ceding a competitive advantage to such firms, who can reproduce the performance o... |
| Jul 10, 2025 | State of Freight Trump’s trade war led Amazon’s low-cost Asian rivals Temu, Shein into retreat, but it may be temporary | President Trump intensified his trade war this week with new tariffs outlined in letters sent to Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and Thailand, among other nations. The U.S. also recently signed a deal ... |
| Jun 9, 2025 | The Fall of Fast Fashion Giants: Shein and Temu Face New Realities | The landscape of e-commerce is shifting. Fast fashion giants Shein and Temu, once riding high on waves of consumer demand, are now feeling the sting of new tariffs and tax regulations. Their decline in the U.S. and South Africa is a wake-up... |
| Jun 5, 2025 | Shein and Temu see U.S. demand plunge on ‘de minimis’ trade loophole closure | Low-cost e-commerce giants Temu and Shein have slowed significantly in the U.S. amid tariffs and the closure of the de minimis loophole. Temu’s U.S. daily active users (DAUs) dropped 52% in May versus March, while Shein’s were down 25%, acc... |
| May 30, 2025 | Shein’s embattled IPO signals mounting troubles for fast fashion giant | A fresh roadblock in Shein’s long-anticipated IPO marks the latest blow for the fast fashion giant as it battles ongoing scrutiny. Analysts said the e-commerce behemoth’s reported shift from London to Hong Kong was unsurprising. A London li... |
| Mar 17, 2022 | It’s a crazy world out there! Rui Ma on this week’s wild stock market fluctuations in China | |
| Jul 25, 2021 | Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years | Rui Ma Contributor Rui Ma is a partner with 500Startups based in Beijing. More posts by this contributor Factories Aren’t Dying To Take Your Order And Other Hardware Startup Follies Working With A Chinese Factory, Hardware Entrepreneur Edit... |
| Jan 19, 2021 | How Douyin created a product that gets 1 billion views a day | CommunityStartups Rui Ma · 20 Jan 2021 · 13 min readHow Douyin created a product that gets 1 billion views a day The speech below was given by Kelly Zhang, the original head of Douyin and, as of March 2020, CEO of ByteDance’s China business... |
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When was Tech Buzz China founded?
Tech Buzz China was founded in 2018.
What has the press written about Tech Buzz China?
Parsers VC has collected 12 articles mentioning Tech Buzz China, among them “OpenClaw fever grips China” (Mar 20, 2026) and “Anthropic joins OpenAI in flagging ‘industrial-scale’ distillation campaigns by Chinese AI firms” (Feb 24, 2026).
Is Tech Buzz China still active?
Yes, Tech Buzz China is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Apr 20, 2026.