Frank Christiaens
Managing Partner @ Cross Pacific Capital Partners
Vancouver, Canada
Frank Christiaens is a Partner at CrossPacific Capital Partners (XPCP), based in Vancouver, Canada. Mr. Christiaens has more than 20 years of hands-on experience operating, and managing multinational corporations throughout Asia, South America and Europe.In addition to his role in XPCP Mr. Christiaens currently serves as a director at CLEARinkDisplays, SunCentral, and Elix Wireless Charging Systems in Vancouver, China Digital Video in Beijing, and Virgo Ventures in Hong Kong. Previously, he was an advisory board member of Espresso Capital Partners in Vancouver and a founding director of AAMA in Shanghai. From 2002 to 2009, Mr. Christiaens served as the President for Greater China for Euronext listed professional display supplier Barco of Belgium. From 2000 to 2001, he acted as founder, director, COO and then CEO, for data services provider Qala in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia. Mr. Christiaens originally moved to Asia in 1996 to head up the internet division for telecommunications equipment provider Alcatel of France. From 1991 until 1995 Mr. Christiaens worked in Europe and South America as a telecommunications project manager. He founded his first startup in Belgium in 1991.Mr. Christiaens holds master degrees in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, as well as Business Administration, and studied at the University of Leuven Belgium, and at the Imperial College in London UK.Mr. Christiaens speaks English, French, Dutch, and understands a fair bit of Mandarin, Spanish, and German. He lived in Asia from 1996 until 2010.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Frank Christiaens invests in
Stages Frank Christiaens invests in
Countries Frank Christiaens invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Video 1 (25%)
- Battery 1 (25%)
- Wireless 1 (25%)
- Electronics 1 (25%)
- Electric Vehicle 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (75%)
- Series B 1 (25%)
Country
- Canada 1 (25%)
- United States 1 (25%)
Investments
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| CLEARink Displays is a US incorporated venture backed startup, with R&D in US and Canada. CLEARink aims to revolutionize the reflective display industry by developing reflective display modules, based on proprietary technology, that combines the daylight readability of paper with the colorful video performance of digital displays. The companywas formed in 2012 by a number of co-founders who have together started over 10 companies, including Vancouver success stories TIR (sold to Philips) and Brightside (sold to Dolby). The company has also attracted a world-class advisory team, which includes a former CTO from Philips and a former CEO from Barco. | $7M / Series B / Mar 29, 2016 | ||
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SunCentral
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| ELIX began as a spin-out from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2013 to commercialize a fundamentally different wireless power transfer technology. From a proof-of-concept to charge electric campus service vehicles at UBC, ELIX is growing to expand into a wider range of applications and markets such as auxiliary battery charging foremergency vehicles and full-scale EV charging.ELIX is headquartered in Vancouver, BC, Canada and has a presence in Santa Clara, California. Named as one of BC’s top 25 most innovative companies in 2014 and with a global portfolio of investors and partner, ELIX has an international team drawing from a range of science and technology fields, committed to producing the most unique wireless charging systems in the world. | Seed | ||
| CLEARink Displays is a US incorporated venture backed startup, with R&D in US and Canada. CLEARink aims to revolutionize the reflective display industry by developing reflective display modules, based on proprietary technology, that combines the daylight readability of paper with the colorful video performance of digital displays. The companywas formed in 2012 by a number of co-founders who have together started over 10 companies, including Vancouver success stories TIR (sold to Philips) and Brightside (sold to Dolby). The company has also attracted a world-class advisory team, which includes a former CTO from Philips and a former CEO from Barco. | Seed |
Co-Investors
CrossPacific Capital Partners (“XPCP”) is a capital partnership that opportunistically invests in undervalued Canadian and US businesses, that have a strong potential for revenue growth, or profitable exit options when strategically connected to Asian markets, and partnered with Asian companies.
Cross Pacific Capital Partners Contacts
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Andy Wang Han
Analyst
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Beijun Luo
Executive in Residence
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Bojana Turic
Entrepreneur in Residence
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Frank Christiaens
Managing Partner
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Ken Lin
Venture Partner
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What does Frank Christiaens invest in?
Frank Christiaens invests primarily in Video, Battery and Wireless startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Frank Christiaens closed in Mar 2016. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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