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Bangladesh Angels
by Bangladesh Angels Network (BAN)
Bangladesh Angels is the nation's first and largest angel investment network created with a mission to nurture innovation & entrepreneurship in Bangladesh by connecting innovative startups to both local & global investors. Keep an eye on this space for insights into angel investing and all things startups from experienced angel investors and startup founders all over the world.
Episodes
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A Crowdfunding Playbook for SGBs
Peter Rostovsky is the Founder & CEO of Raiseway, which makes investment crowdfunding easy and affordable for small business owners with its AI-enabled SaaS platform. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Crowdfunding Professional Association. In the past, Peter worked in Business…
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Startup TNT: Networked Capital
Hailing from the picturesque landscapes of rural Alberta, Canada, Neil's journey has been varied. With a career spanning continents and industries, he initially honed his craft in various operational and leadership roles across four continents within the ever-evolving realm of oil and gas. In a...
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Pointer Strategy: High Performance Startup Sales
Ricky Pearl loves problem-solving. From birthday treasure hunts with his family to complex business challenges, he has never been presented with a problem that he hasn't relished the opportunity to solve -the more creative the solution the better. So when he noticed that many business owners…
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The Startup Landscape in the Caribbean
Javette Nixon is a serial entrepreneur, speaker, and investor. In addition to being the founder of Seaforth Holdings Limited, a boutique investment and holding firm specializing in impact investing and the nurturing of emerging businesses and social enterprises, Javette has three other companies...
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Making Better Investors by Creating Smarter Founders
Mr. Thompson has been active in the start-up venture space for over 25 years as a builder of companies, angel investor, angel group leader and fund manager. In 2017, Mr. Thompson integrated all these roles into Valhalla Private Capital. In his capacity as Chairman and CEO of Valhalla Private...
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Blackbird AI: A Bangladeshi-American Company's Journey in AI
On this episode, Naushad UzZaman discussed cybersecurity, distortion of public opinion, and the use of artificial intelligence and data analysis to combat them. Naushad holds a PhD along has over two decades of experience in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, and has applied...
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Inverted Ventures: Family Office for the Future
Craig D’Cruze is a multifaceted entrepreneur with a passion for investing. In his 25+ years in equities markets, Craig has developed his outlook that emerging technologies will alleviate the largest hurdles facing the human race. Prior to joining Inverted Ventures Craig lead teams of between 22…
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How to Scale a Mental Health Startup
Mainul Mondal is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Member of the Board of Directors of Ellipsis Health. As a skilled healthcare IT business leader, Mondal has deep experience in the technology, healthcare, pharmaceutical, retail and defense sectors. In 2020, he was selected as a Milestone...
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Healthtech Scaling Lessons from America
Tahasin Alam is a VC-backed CTO and Co-Founder of Belong Health. He also has two major startup exits under his belt: one of the largest health insurance companies in the United States acquired his first startup, and his next startup went public in just 3.5 years - a testament to his strategic...
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A Tech Leader's Lessons in Building Unicorns
IQ is an entrepreneur & technology leader, currently the Cofounder of Fenix, and previously CTO of Circ (acquired by Bird). He leads Engineering, Product, Data & Design teams, and has been advising startups in different stages and sectors (including mobility, e-commerce and fintech), with focus…
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Principles in Early-Stage Investing: A Bangladeshi’s Perspective on Global Venture Capital
Tasnia Huque, she’s Principal at Javelin Venture Partners - a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups from a wide variety of industries like cloud, data, enterprise software, education, auto finance, retail, and digital media.At Javelin, Tasnia is focused on new deals and...
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Verishop: Unlocking the power of Independent Brands
Imran Khan is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Verishop, a social commerce company with a mission to create a more joyful shopping experience for its community. In addition, Imran is also the founder and CEO of Proem Asset Management, an investment firm that focuses on the technology...
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Pluto Card: Building the B2B Financial Ecosystem in MENA
Mohammed Ridwan and Nayeem Zen, co-founders of Pluto Card. Mohammed Ridwan is the Co-founder, COO & Chief Product Officer. His core expertise is in go-to-market strategy development and building payment & artificial intelligence infrastructure software products. He has successfully led many...
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Kae Capital: A Conversation on the Early-Stage Investing Landscape
Sasha Mirchandani is Managing Director and Founder of Kae Capital and Co-founder of Mumbai Angels. Kae Capital is a pioneer of early-stage investing in India, focused on tech startups, and has been investing in India for 10+ years. Founded in 2012, and based out of Mumbai and Bengaluru, Kae is a...
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Seedstars International Ventures: Pioneering Emerging Market VC
Patricia Sosrodjojo is General Partner at Seedstars International Ventures, an early-stage VC fund focused on emerging markets. The fund has invested in over 30 countries across Latam, Africa, MENA, CEE and Asia, backing ventures working to solve key societal challenges such as access to…
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Sturgeon Capital: Powering the Digital Transition
Robin Butler is a Partner at Sturgeon Capital, a London-based VC investing in early-stage startups in nascent venture ecosystems. Robin has spent the last 10 years living, working, and studying in emerging markets, including a degree in Arabic and Middle Eastern History, 9 months living in Iran...
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Paklaunch: Connecting Pakistani Talent Across the Globe
We in the Bangladesh ecosystem look at Pakistan's with a mixture of awe and wonder...how exactly have they been able to grow so much faster than ours, when we have comparable economies? Here's a chance to learn from one of their greatest connectors: Aly Fahd from Paklaunch. Aly Fahd is the…
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Lessons from building a 1000+ Angel Syndicate
Jed Ng from Angel School joins us for the latest episode of SCALE. Jed is an Operator who builds tech businesses from the ground up. He built and ran the world's largest API marketplace in partnership with a16z-backed, RapidAPI. As an Angel, he has backed 2 startups from seed to Unicorn, and has…
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Sharetrip: Building the Travel Economy of Bangladesh
Sadia Haque is the CEO and Co-Founder at ShareTrip, the country’s first and leading online travel platform that provides end to end travel solutions and experience. Since its establishment, ShareTrip has served more than half a million travelers and onboarded over 5,000 agents onto its platform.…
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wagely: Financial Empowerment in Frontier Asia
Amrita Vir is the Head of Strategy & Business Expansion, and Acting Country Manager at wagely and Sanjida Tanny is Lead of Community, and Communications, PR at wagely. wagely is Asia's leading financial wellbeing platform providing earned-wage access fintech operating in Bangladesh and Indonesia....
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Secrets of Scaling in Consumer Tech
Amarjit Singh Batra is the Managing Director for Spotify India and joined the company in April 2018 to set up operations and build the business in the country. Before Spotify, Amar founded OLX Group in India and was the country CEO for 9.5 years, where he led more than 500 team members across...
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Merging Social Impact & Tech
Samira Khan has most recently worked at the intersection of social innovation/impact + tech at both Microsoft, where she was a Director on the AI & Sustainability Market Development team, and Salesforce. While at Salesforce, she was involved in piloting a program with the WEF COVID Response...
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The Power of PR in the Changing Media Landscape
Umaila Akhter is the Founder & CEO of Turn Up PR, Producer at The Turn Up Network and Turn Up Studio. She is a Public Relations and Communication Professional with over 12 years of experience in PR, Brand Communications and Advertising. Her passion lies around helping purpose-driven brands/ new...
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Lunchbox: Taking Back Control for Restaurants
Lunchbox is a collection of powerful digital ordering platforms for restaurants, built by restauranteurs. It creates white-label apps, web ordering, and in-restaurant kiosk systems, and more as parts of its modern and creative online ordering solutions for enterprise restaurant chains and ghost...
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Sketchnote Partners Fund: Backing First-Class Entrepreneurs in Asia
Julio Arias is Co-founder at Sketchnote & Managing Director at Sketchnote Partners. He is an expert in Asian markets where he lived for over 20 years, first as a Beijing-based management consultant for clients such as eBay and PayPal, then as an analyst and diplomat for the EU in China, Belgium,...
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Super Capital VC: Bridging France and Asia
In this episode we have with us Francisque Lebrunie, Venture Partner at Super Capital. Entrepreneur and investor, Francisque has over 15 years of experience in running e-commerce companies. He founded Chemise-Homme.com in 2004 and sold it in 2017. Based in India for several years, Francisque is…
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Promoting The Startup Ecosystem in Bangladesh: The DACH Connection
Catch Hannes Kirchhoff from SOLshare, Julian Weber from SELISE and Zahin Razeen from Hydroquo+ in the third episode of The Bridge, where they talk about: - Bangladesh's startup ecosystem and leveraging the DACH connection to create stronger regional corporations and accelerate the startup…
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Epic Angels: Democratizing Angel Investing
Epic Angels is a network of female executives and operators who have built and expanded companies in all parts of the world. Based in Singapore, it's on track to become the largest female-only angel network in Asia. Its focus is early-stage startups in Asia across all verticals. It invests in...
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Investing in Women: Closing the Gender Gap in Southeast Asia
Marie Torres is the Senior Partnerships Manager at Investing in Women, an initiative of the Australian Government, which catalyses inclusive economic growth through women’s economic empowerment in South East Asia. Established in 2016, Investing in Women tackles one of the most critical social and...
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FiBAN: Nordic Angel Investing
In this episode we have with us, Reima Linnanvirta, Chair of the Board at the Finnish Business Angels Network (FiBAN). Structured as a non-profit association of private investors on a mission to inspire private investments, the network is one of the largest and most active business angel…
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Value for Women: Accelerating Gender Smart Investing
Value For Women Ltd. offers holistic and tailored advisory support with a gender lens to a diverse set of organizations, investors, and SGBs (Small and Growing businesses). Increasingly, studies indicate that gender inclusion is not only the right thing to do in terms of promoting gender equality...
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Finprojections: Startup Finance Made Easier | the BRIDGE | Sadaf Sultan
With 10+ years of experience as an investment banker and investor, Sadaf Sultan has worked at the bleeding edge of venture capital and private equity globally. Based in Singapore, he is currently leading a financial advisory firm focused on startup founders and investors called Finprojections. An...
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Constructing Sustainably Diverse Portfolios By Backing Underrepresented Founders
In this episode, we will hear from Vera Elizabeth Baker, Venture Partner at Jua Fund, about the Jua Fund, her experience as an angel investor with the Atomico Angel Programme, diversity in the European tech ecosystem and lessons for emerging markets such as Bangladesh, barriers that...
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Roots of Impact: Scaling Impact Ecosystems
Maxime Cheng is the Lead Market and Capacity Building Programs at Roots of Impact, an Impact Linked Finance advisory firm based in Germany. She is also the programme manager of the impact investing eco-system building programme Biniyog Briddhi in Bangladesh, working with the Embassy of…
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Alma Angels: Supercharging Female Angels & Female Entrepreneurs
Deepali is an advisor to female founders and an angel investor with a keen interest in digital health, femtech, and sustainability. Deepali invests in female founders/mixed teams and some of her investments include LiveBetterWith, PensionBee, Polipop, Parla, PLANERA, Kama Labs, Sano Genetics,...
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Episode 4 | HoriZen Capital: A Saas Operators Syndicate
Akeel Jabber is the Investment Director and GP at Horizen Capital, a leading SaaS operations group consisting of Marketing and Finance experts who specialize in growth marketing and Mergers & Acquisitions. They are focused on partnering up with hand-picked B2B SaaS companies with the aim of…
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Accelerating Asia - Catalyzing High Growth Founders
Amra is the Co-Founder of Accelerating Asia and General Partner at Accelerating Asia Ventures, an award-winning startup accelerator that scouts and propels the best founders in the region and provides pre-Series A startups with the resources and investment to scale their growth. She is the...
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Potential of Deeptech in Europe | the Bridge
Munawar Hafiz is the founder and CEO of OpenRefactory, Inc., an application security company that intends to improve the way developers write secure, reliable, and compliant code. Recently AISI, in partnership with BAN, has led a pre-seed investment into OpenRefactory, which is serving clients...
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Education Innovation Before and After Covid
Deborah Quazzo is the Managing Partner at GSV Ventures. GSV Ventures is a venture fund investing in education and workforce skills technologies that are disrupting the $7 Trillion sector and named to Insider’s inaugural list of top 100 seed investors. In addition, Deborah is the Co-founder of the...
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Building Out a Cross-Border Women's Network in the SEA Region
With 9 years of experience across Ed-tech, Food-tech, Beauty-tech, Media-tech, and Healthcare tech, Deeksha wears many hats as an entrepreneur, consultant, investor, collaborator. She is committed to enabling growth in the startup ecosystem through diversity and sustainability as the driving…
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Saison Capital: Building the Japanese-SEA VC Bridge
Visa Kannan is a Partner at Saison Capital, a single LP fund backed by Credit Saison Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. that invests in Pre-Seed to Series B companies globally, but with a focus on South East Asia and India. Investing across all verticals, including but not limited to SaaS, marketplaces,...
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Sleek: Digitizing the Cross-Border Office
Adrien Barthel is a co-founder of Sleek - Asia's leading corporate services platform with more than 5,000 SMEs under management in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia. Prior to this role, Adrien spent six years in the eCommerce space as CMO with Luxola expanding in Southeast Asia (Sold to the LVMH...
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37Angels: The Untapped Potential of Women Investors
Hear from Angela Lee, Founder of 37 Angels, about the story behind 37 Angels, its initiatives, guiding principles in due diligence, her approach to value creation in getting companies from Seed to Series A, and more. 37 Angels, based out of New York, is one of the leading communities of women...
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Backing Early Stage Frontier Market Companies | Women Startup Leaders Series
Eugenia Shevchenko is an Acceleration & Growth Programs Manager at Seedstars. Seedstars is a global venture capital fund, investing in early-stage tech startups in emerging markets, with over 50 portfolio companies. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, it operates across Latin America, Africa…
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Building & Supporting Women in Startups with BWIT | Women Startup Leaders Series
In the ninth episode of the Women Startup Leaders Series, we have Lafifa Jamal (President @ BWIT), Rezwana Khan (CEO of Star Computer Systems Limited and Secretary General @ BWIT), and Tawhida Shiropa (Founder & CEO @ Moner Bondhu) speaking on the bottlenecks and challenges for women in building...
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Classplus: South Asia's Emerging Edtech Company | SCALE
Welcome to the second episode of SCALE by Bangladesh Angels. In this podcast series, we talk to entrepreneurs and investors who built and invested in businesses that have gone on to raise or generate revenues of millions of dollars, employ hundreds or more employees and serve millions of users in...
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FastScaling: The Growth Handbook for Founder and Investors | SCALE
Welcome to the first episode of SCALE by Bangladesh Angels. In this podcast series, we talk to entrepreneurs and investors who built and invested in businesses that have gone on to raise or generate revenues of millions of dollars, employ hundreds or more employees and serve millions of users in...
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Investing in High-Impact SMEs in Bangladesh
Sharawwat Islam has been leading the Truvalu Bangladesh team for the last 3 years. With more than 15 years of work experience in well-known investment banks and banks in Bangladesh, Sharawwat joined Truvalu in 2018 from her passion to work with impact investments. She is responsible for the…
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Strategic Branding & PR as a Competitive Advantage
Naushaba Salahuddin is the Director, Head of PR & Communications at Zilingo - the largest B2B e-commerce ecosystem in Southeast Asia and South Asia, having raised over $308 million in funding to date. She is a Communications Specialist and has worked across a spectrum of companies ranging from...
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Building a Career in Impact Enterprise
Nitida Wongthipkongka is passionate about social impact and improving the quality of lives around the world. She is currently a Venture Director at Rippleworks, a foundation focused on helping high-impact ventures scale. She works with CEOs, investors, and other partners to help ventures tackle...
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Bangladesh Angels is the nation's first and largest angel investment network created with a mission to nurture innovation & entrepreneurship in Bangladesh by connecting innovative startups to both local & global investors. Keep an eye on this space for insights into angel investing and all things startups from experienced angel investors and startup founders all over the world.
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