Bright Ideas

By DAVID SPARKES

Sonny Wu has a mission. He wants to find the toptech entrepreneurs in the country and back them.The managing director of GSR Ventures is sittingin his offi ce, wearing a shirt with no tie and his hair notparticularly combed down: He looks less like a traditionalChinese businessman, and more like a new-agefinancier. Wu is one of a new breed of investors capitalizingon Chinas rising technology sector.