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Here is a talk I gave about the Future of Sustainable Financing in Asia I recently gave in Bali @SpeakupMonday @robertianbonnick @tropicalnomadcanggu #sustainability #finance #Asia

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We are on the news again! This time featuring our Climate Investors Summit 2024 by 🌏 The Atlas Capital & Climate Tech Coalition & Altru Institute our partner Think Thank in New York. -On Tuesday, we will be gathering 150+ GPs and LPs from North America, and Beyond… All focused on mobilizing funding to vital innovations for our planet. -South East Asia is seeing a “Green Gold Rush”, and during our event, you will have the chance some of the family offices, conglomerates and entrepreneurs behind it (but not only!). -The climate tech landscape in Southeast Asia shows an upward investment trend, but challenges persist. According to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Southeast Asia received $27.8 billion in climate finance in recent years. -For instance, Vietnam has become a leader in solar energy, with its solar capacity skyrocketing to 16.5 GW by 2020. -The upcoming Climate Tech Investors Summit in New York promises to be a pivotal event for those shaping the future of climate technology. -Sponsored by The Climate Tech Coalition and the Altru Investment Network, this exclusive gathering is a must-attend for family offices, institutional investors, and technologists committed to funding impactful climate solutions and driving sector innovation. Great piece of informations from Climate Insider. Thanks for writing! 🌎⚡️🇺🇸

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For Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem to be self-sustaining, we need some big changes. There are a few key elements I believe can unlock tremendous opportunity in the region. To name a few: ✅ Deep, varied capital stack - Sufficient capital at various stages from angels to growth capital. ✅ Diverse investors - Knowledgeable investors focusing on various industries and models. ✅ Exits infrastructure - Mechanisms for exits from IPOs to M&A. ✅ Strong founders - Awareness of the nuances of SEA and conviction to depart from “tried and tested” models adapted from matured markets like the US With these in place, it will accelerate interest and success for investors and founders alike. That said, I believe our core approach needs to change. Over the last decade, SEAsia has greatly matured. And with any nascent upstart, it’s applied what’s worked elsewhere... Focusing heavily on growth-at-all-cost and other US-inspired strategies. To the surprise of most, the results have not been the most encouraging as a result of this. On hindsight, the pitfalls were clear: - Unrealistic early-stage valuations. - Chasing very large outcomes in a fragmented market. - Applying US playbooks that don't fit our market. Startups will follow suit to match criteria that VCs set. It’s how the game works. With the current market downturn, it’s a good opportunity to reset and intentionally chart our own course for the region. Investors and founders that know how to meander this market with it’s unique strengths / market dynamics in mind, will succeed. As investors and long-time believers in this region ourselves at Tin Men Capital , We believe in working together to develop the ecosystem. Southeast Asia is still learning to walk before it begins to run. Venture capital is a team sport, and together, we can build a stronger, self-sustaining space for startups to thrive. Let's pull in the same direction and make it happen. 💪

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More perspective on our updated thesis via Boris Wertz :)

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Applications are now open for the SEED Inclusivity Program, a groundbreaking initiative from Seedstars and Visa Foundation. The SEED Inclusivity Program is dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs with disabilities and fostering innovative solutions and opportunities for people in Vietnam, India, and Indonesia. Did you know there are over 472 million people of working age in Asia that have disabilities, and nearly two-thirds of them are not in the labor force? The SEED Inclusivity Program aims to change that. Program participants will expand their network globally, learn from experienced mentors and fellow founders, and secure funding to take their startups to the next level. Learn more about the program at seedinclusivity.com, help share the word with friends and colleagues, and apply today! #vietnam #india #indonesia #entrepreneurship #inclusivity

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What SEA Investors Are Focusing On Amanda Cham, Associate Director of Investments 500 Global shares more about the exit landscape in Southeast Asia & what investors are really focusing on. Captured at Epic Angels' Mixer in 🇸🇬 #entrepreneurship #venturecapital #startups

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Our Founder and Managing Partner, @Ivan Nikkhoo, recently published an article in @Startups Magazine on ‘How Startups Can Bridge the Funding Gap.’ Ivan shares strategies for founders to navigate the funding gap, highlighting the importance of extension rounds to extend runway, support growth and maximise value. He also outlines how our portfolio company @ Quincus, a global enterprise SaaS platform for the logistics industry, leveraged an extension round to support its technological advancements, accelerate market growth and extend its runway between funding rounds. 📖 Read the full article: https://bit.ly/3WduG4l #NavigateVentures #Startupsmagazine #startups #Entrepreneurship #VC #venturecapital

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SOCAP Global's unique purpose to serve an ever-growing community of impact financiers often means that we need to take the longer road to ensure we are weaving the right threads to serve that community. In the case of #SOCAPOpen, which accounts for 1/3 of our content, organizing a transparent, fair, and accountable process is a labor of love for the community because it ensures that diverse voices are heard and valued. This approach fosters inclusivity, empowers participants, and builds trust through clear decision-making and communication. In the background, the team reviews every single submission, prepares it, organizes it, categorizes and updates, responds to every query and corrects any typos to give everyone a fair chance. Their friends, colleagues and networks voted for them. Council members set aside their agendas to give them their full focus. This commitment to fairness and transparency reflects a deep respect and love for the people who make the community vibrant and meaningful. 🌟 This was an extremely competitive edition of SOCAP Open. With Over 400 submissions from across the world, only 4% of sessions were selected. I want to congratulate the session organizers who received the fantastic news and also those who were so close to the top ranked sessions, which you can review here ➡ https://lnkd.in/exc2y-YN #CommunityFirst #Crowdsourcing #SOCAP24 #Transparency #Inclusivity #Fairness #QualityContent #CommunityLove Nicole Lasasso Fabienne Blanc Hans G. Amanda Lee Tova Lobatz Jennifer Kongs Jenny Sands Robert Munson

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Over 40 Impact Founders in SEA joined GOOD Karma Club's Learning Circle this Thursday for a Founder's workshop on "Various Funding Types for SEA Impact Startups!" We're thrilled to have Zachary Lee (李惠翔) joined by an incredible panel of experts: Andre Barlian - Head of Investments at Earthcare Group Limited, Cameron Neil - Director at Red Hat Impact & LendForGood, Abbie Jung-Harada - Philanthropic Advisor at Synergy Social Ventures, moderated and hosted by Nelson Ng of Acuie. Please see a few key #takeaways from the panel below: 💡 Types of Capital: Prioritize based on your cost of capital—start with Free Cash Flow from the business, then grants from government or philanthropic capital, followed by concessionary capital, debt, and lastly equity due to it being the highest cost and its dilutive nature. 💡 Investor Considerations: Focus on the team (experience, execution), impact (size and intentionality), and traction (evidence of product-market fit). 💡 Solo Founders: It's okay to be a solo founder, but ensure your team covers all the necessary skill sets for the growth and scaling of your business. Cap table has to reflect the relative importance of these skill sets. 💡 Resource Management: While securing capital is crucial, don’t let it distract you from building a valuable business. Celebrate business milestones achieved (not just funding rounds). 💡 Follow-up Strategy: Use the 5-3-1 rule if investors are not responding: first follow-up in 5 business days, second in 3 business days, and a final follow-up after 1 business day. If there's no reply, move on—they're not the right fit. Thank you Nelson Ng for having us! Join the GOOD Karma Club newsletter here: 👉 https://lnkd.in/gNAiQB32 #GOODKarmaClub #LearningCircle #Fundraising #Impact #SoutheastAsia

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Important takeaways on funding types that’s relevant to our founders!

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In a couple of weeks, we’ll be hosting our first Discovery Webinar. It’ll be our first webinar after some time and I’m quite excited to connect with people from different countries and sectors of the healthcare ecosystem.   At VentureBlick, we’re focused on helping healthcare startups expand globally. So, the topic of our first Discovery Webinar is particularly relevant:   👉🏼 Is Going Global a Necessity or a Privilege for Healthcare Startups?👈🏼   You might already have your own thoughts on this question. I certainly do, but I’m more interested in hearing from our esteemed webinar speakers.   There are many different factors to consider when breaking into an overseas market, especially for healthcare startups.   A big thank you to our speakers: jean-joseph christophe, Dr Andrew Chou, MD, FRCS, Prayank Khandelwal, Dr Hans Joachim Hutt, and Michael Blakey.   I appreciate you all taking the time to share your insights on this important topic.   📅18 July (Thurs), 8:30pm Singapore Time (GMT+8) 🇸🇬 👉 Register now: https://lnkd.in/gxF4M7qa   Here is the corresponding time across different time zones: 🇦🇺 10:30pm Australian Eastern Time (GMT +10) 🇰🇷 9:30pm Korea Standard Time (GMT +9) 🇮🇳 6:00pm India Standard Time (GMT +5:30) 🇫🇷 2:30pm Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) 🇺🇸 8:30am US Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -4)   I hope you will join us. Looking forward to seeing you there.   #VentureBlick #Discovery #DiscoveryWebinar #Startup #Healthcare #Innovation

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The quick commerce space in India continues to see a steady stream of funding news in recent months, and while comparing Southeast Asia with India reveals challenges, it also highlights a lot of opportunities for growth in SEA, as companies here can tap into similar growth by adapting their approach to fit the local market. 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮'𝘀 𝗦𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 In India, quick commerce has become a top-of-mind option for grocery shopping and daily needs, supported by efficient operations and product diversification, including high-margin items like beauty products and electronics. Southeast Asia has the same potential. By optimizing operations, targeting the right demographics, and diversifying products, the demand for quick commerce can be met without compromising bottom line. 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 Having invested in BeepBeep!, I'm confident of the promising future of quick commerce in SEA. From a macro perspective, the online grocery market is set to grow. As cities expand, infrastructure gets better, logistical issues are ironed out, and more people get hooked on the convenience of digital services, demand will go up. Grocery delivery is a permanent trend. Market behavior will keep shifting towards on-demand deliveries as they become more accessible, and as consumers expect more products to be available "instantly." At the same time, people want convenience and deals, and nimble businesses with innovative models (like quick commerce companies) are in a great position to meet these needs. #QuickCommerce #SoutheastAsia #RetailTransformation #BeepBeep #GenesiaVentures #OnDemand #Grocery #VentureCapital

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I had the privilege of sharing Bintang Capital Partners’ gender lens investing work alongside a panel of successful women, each sharing their own unique DEI journey and success stories, from a young and thriving startup to an established institution such as Maybank. At Bintang, Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity (JEDI) is not just a core investment strategy but it also informs the manner we conduct our business operations, from our talent attraction and retention strategy, to our choice of vendors and partners. From an investment perspective, ceteris paribus, companies that champion JEDI (whether formally or informally) are viewed favourably as having a competitive advantage over their peers that do not have similar strategies. Data gathered from our portfolio companies indicate that companies with a diverse and inclusive leadership and workforce are more resilient during economic disruptions, have lower attrition rate and are more likely to experience growth in workforce and revenue. As an impact investor, we are strongly supportive of our porfolio companies pursuing initiatives such as offering employee share option plan, prioritising hiring of local talents and internal promotion, paying living wage (not just minimum wage) and employees upskilling, among others. While such initiatives no doubt require the expense of resources (though manageable through proper planning and assistance from value investors), these are critical enablers for empowering and uplifting employees (especially those hailing from less privileged backgrounds), which will have long term multiplier effect on our economy. This is crucial as Malaysia strives to ascend to high income status by 2030. Thank you again to LeadWomen for the invite, and I look forward to further collaboration in 2025!

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Greatly honoured to have been invited to the Integrating Real World Tech event hosted by STABILITY at the Embassy of the United States in Singapore yesterday. We heard perspectives from Sin Yong Loh, Thorsten Neumann (龚拓思), Stacey-Ann Pearson, Pranav Mehrotra and Steffen Schacher on their and their organisations perspectives, as well of course from Klay Nichol and Juliun Brabon of STABILITY. Consensus seems to be that outside of banking where the use case is obvious, the needle is moving but slowly. Within the realm in which TNETS Global operates, i.e. that of customs and trade, where trust is paramount and risk is high, there is still a tendency to stick with what has always worked. We used to say "No-one ever got fired for choosing IBM". We probably need to update that to "No-one ever got fired for sending unencrytped pdfs attached to email." Panellists generally agreed there is a long way to go to remove exchanges of non-structured data and head towards touchless straight-through processing. The needle is moving as STABILITY are demonstrating but more patience is required with supply chain partners who sense more risk than reward in adopting some of the frictionless technologies that are proving to be stable in other fields. (The Embassy is very strict on no photo-taking so enlisted the help of AI to capture the scene perfectly!)

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We’ve just published the fourth installment in our series on impact in the VC industry, a collaboration between Amasia and Malk Partners. Malk is the pre-eminent advisor on impact and ESG for private market investors. This one is on "impact risk," an especially befuddling topic (and one of the Impact Management Project's 5 dimensions of impact). Here we try demystifying it and unpacking the forms of impact risk most relevant to us. https://lnkd.in/gDirdiJs

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You don't need to be an impact fund to create impact Today, at The Global Impact Investing Network conference in Amsterdam, Saison Capital's parent, Saison International Pte. Ltd. launched our inaugural impact report For us, we don't need to call ourselves an "impact fund" to make a difference. It is already embedded in our everyday operations. We do not stay on the sidelines, but to get our hands dirty in creating positive impact   Featuring companies like BroilerX and StepChange, we believe doing good and making money can mutually co-exist. With US$2.5B of debt and equity capital disbursed to 28M SMEs, of which 69% are women-led - we let the numbers do the talking Read the report at: https://lnkd.in/dPQJfHWs Towards the next 28M & more! Marie Anna Bénard / Rie Mizuno / Visa Kannan / Ziheng Li / Uday P. / RJ Balmater / Sharvin Baindur / Cheng Siong Soon / Lup Soon Soo / Claire Yong / Nicol Ng / TAN PEILING

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While the number of startups and innovative ventures is gradually growing in #CentralAsia, we recognize the challenges they face, particularly limited access to capital. To address this, IFC has invested in the new Sturgeon Capital Fund to support the growth of #tech startups and promote digital economies in the region, marking IFC's first-ever venture capital fund investment in Central Asia.      With IFC's financing, the Sturgeon Capital Fund will provide much-needed funding to fuel the growth and innovation of tech startups. While the fund will primarily focus on investments in Central Asia, it will also explore opportunities in other emerging markets, including #Egypt and #Pakistan. http://wrld.bg/k2z250RFlOY Kiyan Z., IFC - International Finance Corporation, IFC Disruptive Tech, VC & Funds

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Today we’re launching the VentureBlick Super Innovator Search to find and support the next batch of game-changing healthcare innovations! 🔍   From now till 6 August 2024, healthcare startups can apply for the chance to:   🌟 Win non-dilutive prizes valued at US$100,000, including practical support such market validation, mentorship, Europe market access support, and a chance to raise funds with VentureBlick’s global investor network.   🌟 Showcase their innovations to the global healthcare community, potentially opening doors to countless opportunities.   I must caution that this is not for everyone.   The VentureBlick Super Innovator Search is only for promising innovations at proof-of-concept stage or beyond, within these sectors: ⚕️ Medtech 📱 Digital Health 🧫 Biotech or life sciences   Join the Super Innovator Search by 6 August 👉 https://lnkd.in/gEddQ6P7   #SuperInnovatorSearch Dr. Stephan Binder Kalms Consulting JLK Technology Scott Ng Igor Sokół

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