Your investors gave you $20M. Your board wants you to "deploy capital aggressively." We help you spend it on things that matter—before someone writes a Netflix documentary about you.
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Hall of Fame
These companies deployed capital at unprecedented velocity. Some made it. Most didn't. All are educational.
Raised $864M. Fabricated $300M in sales. Got caught. Paid $180M fine. Got delisted from NASDAQ. Plot twist: They're now bigger than Starbucks in China. New management. 21,000+ stores. The greatest comeback in burn rate history.
$699 IoT juice press. Cost $750 to make. Bloomberg discovered you could just squeeze the bags with your hands. Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins invested. Shut down 16 months after launch.
One-click checkout. $10M/month burn. $600K revenue. The math never mathed. Tried to raise at $1B, then $500M. No takers. 450 employees laid off in one day.
Jeffrey Katzenberg + Meg Whitman. "Quick bites" of premium content. $6M per hour of programming. Expected 7M subscribers, got 710K. Sold to Roku for <$100M.
Adam Neumann: $60M private jet. Tequila shots after layoffs. Trademarked "We" then charged the company $5.9M to use it. Plane left him in Israel after crew found a box of weed. Got $1.7B to leave.
Unlimited movies for $9.95/month. Tickets cost $11.50. Ran out of money mid-day on July 27, 2018. Literally couldn't buy tickets for customers. Lost 92% of subscribers in one month.
The Problem
They gave you $20M to grow, not to sit in a bank account earning 4%.
You're googling "Shenzhen factory tour" like it's 2015.
You raised Series A. Time for a real office. With a door.
18 months feels like 18 weeks when you don't know what to spend on.
Programs
Pick based on how much capital you need to deploy and how fast.
7 days across Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. Find your manufacturing partner. See why hardware innovation runs at software speed here.
You raised. Time to stop hot-desking. We handle lease, buildout, furniture, IT. You just show up with your laptop.
Concept to 100 units in 6 weeks. Our Shenzhen team manages end-to-end. Don't be the next Juicero.
"Cash has been gone since 2015. Robotics knock on your hotel door. I can sketch a dress and get a prototype in days. This is what I want to show you."
American-Chinese entrepreneur. Spent 4 years building a city in Nigeria. 20 summers in Beijing. Now based in Shenzhen, the epicenter of hardware innovation.
She runs the China Deep Dive because she understands what Western founders actually need: not tourist-friendly campus tours, but real access to decision-makers. The factory owners. The VCs. The founders building things you won't see for another 5 years.
Luckin Coffee came back from a $300M fraud scandal to become bigger than Starbucks. That's Shenzhen energy. Move fast, fail spectacularly, come back stronger. We'll show you how.
Testimonials
"We raised $15M and had no idea where to start with manufacturing. Three weeks after the China trip, we had a partner. Four months later, first units shipped."
"Our board kept asking why we hadn't 'deployed capital.' After the office setup program, we finally looked like a real company. Also, having a door is underrated."
"The Luckin Coffee visit was genuinely inspiring. Fraud, delisting, comeback, now bigger than Starbucks. That's the energy I needed for my pivot."
Apply now. Spend smart. Ship something. Make your investors proud (or at least not embarrassed).
Apply for Q2 CohortPrograms are cohort-based. Small groups (8-12) for real access, not group tour energy. We review every application within 48 hours.