Spencer Deng, founder of Shenzhen-based robotics and AI start-up Dorabot Inc., wants to build a Silicon Valley startup with Shenzhen speed to fully automate the whole logistics sector. Ever since being put into an internship as a teenage delivery boy at EMS, the 30-year-old entrepreneur has been thinking about how to solve this complicated puzzle making machines do all the boring and repetitive logistics work. Read an interview Q&A below. Also subscribe to China Money Podcast for free in the iTunes store, or subscribe to our weekly newsletter.

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In this episode of China Money Podcast, listen to all the news headlines in the China venture and tech sector for the week of November 19 to November 23, 2018, with Eudora Wang sitting in for Nina Xiang.

Topics covered include Chinese intelligent electric vehicle start-up Leap Motor raises RMB2 billion (US$290 million) in series A round of financing, JD Finance forays into stock-breeding with facial recognition technology for pigs, and China’s Shenzhen city launches two funds worth US$360 million.

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As moviegoers were mesmerized by the futuristic stories in Christopher Nolan’s science fiction film Interstellar, Harvard University’s theoretical physicist Lisa Randall says the high-grossing movie – even though "technically accurate" – failed to illustrate the type of extra dimensions she tries to picture in her own mind.

"They have to make it [the fifth dimension] visible to people looking at the screen, which means that some of the subtle effects – that are on scales that you’d never be able to see with your naked eyes, won’t be shown in the movie," Randall explains in a recent interview with China Money Network in Hong Kong during her trip in Asia.

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In this episode of China Money Podcast, listen to all the news headlines in the China venture and tech sector for the week of November 5 to November 9, 2018, with Eudora Wang sitting in for Nina Xiang.

Topics covered include China-focused venture capital firm H Capital's plan in raising US$700 million fifth fund, Kai-Fu Le's Sinovation Ventures closing RMB2.5 billion (US$361.40 million) RMB-denominated fund, and Chinese e-sports team IG's 3-0 sweeping victory at the 2018 League of Legends World Championship.

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In this episode of China Money Podcast, listen to all the news headlines in the China venture and tech sector for the week of October 29 to November 2, 2018, with Eudora Wang sitting in for Nina Xiang.

Topics covered include Chinese President Xi urges to boost China’s development of the new-generation artificial intelligence technology, U.S. charges Chinese firms for stealing Micron trade secrets, and Chinese Fortune Venture Capital launches a new RMB fund worth US$667 million.

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In this episode of China Money Podcast, listen to all the news headlines in the China venture and tech sector for the week of October 22 to 26, 2018, with Eudora Wang sitting in for Nina Xiang.

Topics covered include Bytedance is completing a US$3 billion pre-IPO round of financing, Tiger Global Management raises a US$3.75 billion technology-focused venture capital fund, Bridgewater files first private equity fund in China, and Tencent teams up with supermarket chain operators ParknShop and Yonghui to form a joint venture.

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n this episode of China Money Podcast, listen to all the news headlines in the China venture and tech sector for the week of October 15 to 19, 2018, with Eudora Wang who is sitting in for Nina Xiang.

Topics covered include China Life Insurance Company sets up a US$2.17 million fund, cross-border venture capital firm GGV Capital closes US$1.88 billion-worth new funds, and Chinese online, mobile advertising firm Panshi raises a US$320 million series D financing round, and Alibaba injects a US$290 million series C round of investment to Chinese liquor e-commerce retailer 1919 Wines & Spirits Platform Technology.

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After 10 years as a managing director at Chinese sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corporation (CIC), Winston Ma started his own investment firm earlier this year.

As chief investment officer of newly established China Silkroad Investment Capital, Ma plans to seek investment opportunities along a buzz phrase: Digital Silk Road.

After Chinese president Xi Jinping first raised the concept in 2017, Digital Silk Road has become part of what Beijing hopes to alleviate the negative perceptions related to traditional infrastructure projects that the Belt and Road Initiative has been financing in the past several years.

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In this episode of China Money Podcast, listen to all the news headlines in the China venture and tech sector for the week of October 8 to 12, 2018, with Eudora Wang who is sitting in for Nina Xiang.

Topics covered include Chinese viggie-selling app Meicai raises US$600 million, Chinese Airbnb copycat Xiaozhu.com raises $300 million, Tencent Music’s U.S. IPO delay, and Chinese telecom-maker Huawei launching self-developed AI chips.

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Our guest of this episode of China Money Podcast, Hao Jingfang, is one of the authors of a report on AI's impact on Chinese labor forces. Hao is also a science fiction writer and won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "Folding Beijing" in 2016, becoming the first female writer in Asia to receive the award. Hao, a PhD graduate from Tsinghua University with degrees in both physics and economics, is concerned over the difficulties China will face transitioning from "technology adopters" to "technology originators."

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