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Is AFRICA the next China?
Are Korean/Asian Companies well prepared to tap into Africa’s opportunities?
In this episode, I speak to Eman Wahby, General Partner, Grow In Africa Fund (GIAF), to listen to her insight and advice how Asian investors can tap into Africa’s huge growth potential. we should not miss out on the opportunities in the last emerging market on earth as we did in China 30 years ago. Eman is ex-World Bank, ex-Correspondent Dow Jones, The New York Times and Thomson Reuters

In this episode, I speak to Martin Tang, Co-Founder & Partner of Genesis Alternative Ventures based in Singapore to demystify Venture Debt and Venture Lease.Genesis Alternative Ventures is Southeast Asia’s leading private lender to venture and growth stage companies funded by tier-one VCs. Genesis is founded by a team of venture lending pioneers who have backed some of Southeast Asia’s best loved companies. Armed with a strong reputation among entrepreneurs and investors, Genesis is a trusted partner in empowering corporate growth while minimising shareholders’ equity dilution. Genesis was founded by Ben J Benjamin, Dr Jeremy Loh, and Martin Tang in 2019.

In this episode, i speak to Adrian Li. Adrian Li is Founder and Managing Partner at AC Ventures, a merged fund between Agaeti Ventures and Convergence Ventures. AC Ventures is an early stage Indonesia focused technology venture capital fund. Prior to this, Adrian was an entrepreneur. In 2006, he founded the online English training company Idapted(later acquired by American education company Eleutian). After successfully exiting, he joined the German Internet giant Rocket Internet as the managing director, working in Beijing and Indonesia. In 2015, Adrian was selected as one of the 40 under 40 elites in Indonesia by Forbes & the well-known luxury magazine Prestige Indonesia. Adrian is also involved in non-profit work. He founded and chairs a UK Charity called CNYTrust, which supports children in rural China continue schooling. He is a business mentor at several organizations including Endeavour, Founders Institute and Antler. He has served on the board of Entrepreneurs Organization is several roles including Beijing Chapter President and Regional Communications Director. He is also a member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO) in Indonesia. ACV managed 3 funds with a portfolio of over 80 businesses. Notable investments include, Payfazz, Koinworks, Julo, Carsome and M17. Previously, he co-founded several ventures in China and Indonesia.

In this episode, I speak to Rachel Lau is Managing Partner at RHL Ventures. RHL Ventures is a Southeast Asian-based private investment firm that focuses on growth capital investments in Southeast Asia and the US region. Rachel was previously Vice President at Heitman Investment Management in HK and Australia. Rachel helped manage USD$4bn of global long-only and absolute return equity strategies, focused on the APAC region. Prior to this, Rachel worked as an investment analyst with Dutch investment manager, NN Investment Management, which manages USD$225bn. Rachel serves on the board of directors for GNC Holdings (NYSE: GNC) and as President of the Malaysian Gymnastics Federation. Previously, she served on the Leadership Team of the Hong Kong chapter of Ellevate (formerly 85 Broads); and sits on the Program Committee of EMpower, a global not-for-profit organization that supports at-risk youths in developing countries. In 2018, Rachel was named as 50 People who are Redefining the Way We Live by Business Times Singapore and was selected as Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle. Rachel graduated from Australian National University with a Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction and received a Master of Law from the University of Sydney. In addition, Rachel represented Malaysia in rhythmic gymnastics internationally.

Geraldo Melzer, is Founding Partner at AB seed Ventures, a Seed fund focused on helping SaaS B2B and other innovative, scalable business models to thrive.
ABSeed is a venture firm focused in SaaS b2b Brazil.Runned by SaaS operators, with deep network and industry knowledge.We invest in ambitious founders that are creating or transforming markets through the SaaS business model.

Fledge is a global network of business accelerators that focus on and invest in mission-driven for-profit companies. I.e. companies that solve real problems like poverty, hunger, climate, and inequality. Africa Eats is a novel investment holding company that takes 27 graduates from the Fledge accelerator and which answers the question of "how do you build out the food/ag supply chain across Africa to end hunger and poverty?" The answer is a mashup of venture capital, business accelerator and Berkshire Hathaway. Luni is a 29+ year serial entrepreneur and investor, most recently: Fledge, a global network of impact-oriented accelerators; Africa Eats, a pan-African holding company focused on feeding Africa; Realize Impact, a public charity making it easy for anyone to make an impact investment; and The Angel Accelerator, teaching early-stage impact investing. Luni is an Entrepreneur in Residence Emeritus at the University of Washington’s CoMotion, the author of The Next Step series of guidebooks and podcasts on entrepreneurship, and with The Pinchot Impact Index, he solved the question on how to measure impact across a collection of companies.