Andy Tian, Co-Founder of Asia Innovations Group, Passes Away

Andy Tian, the CEO and co-founder of Asia Innovations Group (ASIG), a number one cellular social leisure firm, handed away in Beijing on February 6 on the age of 47 resulting from a sudden sickness, regardless of medical efforts.

Tian began his profession in Silicon Valley and co-founded one of the world’s earliest social app firms in 2008, which he offered to Zynga in 2010 to turn out to be Zynga China. Tian subsequently served as General Manager and led Zynga China’s enlargement. He was additionally an early member of Google’s Greater China division, the place he established the corporate’s cellular enterprise and launched the Android working system in 2006. Prior to Google, Tian labored for Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the place he specialised in technique consulting for Chinese cellular carriers and banks.

Founded in 2013, ASIG is headquartered in Singapore and has 18 workplaces worldwide, with greater than 1,000 workers from 23 international locations throughout 5 continents. Since its inception in 2016, ASIG’s flagship product Uplive has turn out to be one of the world’s hottest stay social platforms. Uplive connects lots of of thousands and thousands of customers throughout rising markets through its wealthy, progressive options corresponding to multi-party stay video and voice chat rooms, actual time translation, and high-fidelity 3D avatars with actual time movement monitoring.

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ASIG signed a enterprise merger settlement with Magnum Opus Acquisition Limited, a particular function acquisition firm (SPAC), and expects to record within the US within the first quarter of this yr.

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