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Emerging Markets Startups
by Dianna Yau
Venturing through 90+ countries, we’ve discovered one commonality. From Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East to Eastern Europe, there are growing tech startup ecosystems transforming the world. Emerging market startups are generating market-creating innovations, leapfrogging Silicon Valley’s innovations, and solving local problems faster than governments. Join us to hear from startup ecosystem champions, entrepreneurs and investors in emerging markets. We discuss what makes these markets culturally unique, local trends, challenges consumers and founder face, and the opportunities.
Episodes
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The Growth of Latin America’s Superapp ft. Rappi’s Product Lead
Rappi is one of the largest superapps in Latin America with over 15M users. The company started out as an on demand delivery service and today has become an everything store across Latin America’s population of 650M people. We’re joined by Rappi’s Product Lead, David Vanegas, who attributes…
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Scaling Southeast Asia’s largest Superapp, ft. Grab’s Head of Product
Grab is the largest superapp tech company in Southeast Asia with over 250M downloads in a region with 600+ million people. Grab first started out as a ride sharing company but quickly grew into food delivery, payments and so much more. In this episode, we speak to Grab’s Head of Product for...
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Nigeria's Fastest Growing Fintech w/ the COO of PiggyVest
Like many emerging markets, saving money in Nigeria was expensive. Then came PiggyVest, a free savings and microinvestment product, that's now one of the fastest growing fintech startups out of Nigeria. PiggyVest built a strong following and grew to millions of people by word of mouth. Seriously,...
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Using Localization to Innovate with Bykea's COO
Bykea is a ride sharing and delivery startup in Pakistan and the fastest growing startup in a country of 220 million people. Founded by serial entrepreneur Muneeb Maayr, Bykea is taking on the juggernauts Uber and Careem. The 5 year old startup is quickly growing due to its obsession with...
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Philippines | The Startup Islands
Have you ever noticed all your Filipino friends seem to have family all over the world? That’s because so many of them have migrated all over the world in the last century. Hence when Filipinos return home to build a startup, they bring a diversity of ideas and experience from all over. In this...
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Malaysia | How Malaysia’s diversity makes its startups excel at building global products
Since its early days, Malaysia has been a key part of the globalization trend. Malacca, a city in the Malay peninsula, was historically an important destination along the Silk Road trade route. This meant its had a history of a melting pot of cultures. Today it has enabled Malaysian entrepreneurs...
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Building a startup for emerging markets from Silicon Valley| Mark Heynen VP @ Stellar, co-founder of Payjoy
Over the last episodes, we’ve focused on people and companies in emerging markets building for their markets. There’s also been a wave of companies in Silicon Valley building for emerging markets. Those include Payjoy which focuses on selling smartphones via loans and Branch, Tala and Kiva who…
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Lithuania | The rise of the Baltic startups
On this episode, we venture into the Baltics and more specifically, Lithuania. Although the Baltic states are small, what they lack in size they make up in innovation. Even during the Soviet Union era, the Baltics served as the innovation hub. And today countries from this region serve as models...
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Thailand | Southeast Asia's 2nd largest economy
In this episode, we take you to Thailand, known globally as the ultimate vacation getaway. But did you know it’s also Southeast Asia’s second largest economy by GDP and has a population of 67 million people? These are some factors that prime it to be a key startup ecosystem in the region. We’re...
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Myanmar's startup ecosystem
With 55 million people, Myanmar transitioned from 5% to 85% internet penetration in just 7 years. That’s more than 65% of the population that has access to electricity! This transition started 2 years after the country ended its militaristic rule in 2011 to become a democracy. The opening up of…
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Iran | How constraints breed innovation
With 88M people, Iran’s startup ecosystem is one of the best examples of “constraints breed innovation.” Politically, sanctions have limited Iran’s participation in the global economy including limiting the use of everyday products like the Apple and Google Play store. With limited foreign...
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Egypt | The startup revolution
With over 100 million people, Egypt makes up ¼ of the 400 million population in the Middle East. 60% of these people are under 30 years old. With a 70% internet penetration rate, highly skilled developers, and tons of local challenges that serve as opportunities, Egypt is one of the most robust...
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Bangladesh | How the density dividend scales startups fast
You haven't seen city density till you've been to Bangladesh’s capital city, Dhaka. It's one of the densest cities in the world in a country of 165M people. This density presents challenges like terrible traffic, sprawling slums and incomplete infrastructure. Bangladeshi startups have taken...
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Pakistan | Using tech to tackle social problems
With 220 million people and 70% of the population under 30 years old, Pakistan is prime for technological innovation with its highly talented developers and tech hungry consumers. This ecosystem transitioned from being an outsourced R&D center for companies like Kayak years ago to building Daraz,...
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Indonesia | 6 unicorns in 4 years, one of the fastest growing startup ecosystems
Indonesia is the world’s 4th most populated country with almost 280 million people. Its enormous size plus strong economy has enabled its exploding tech ecosystem with 6 unicorns in just 4 years. The largest being ride hailing superapp, Go-jek, valued at $10B. No surprise given Indonesians are...
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How emerging market startups are beating Silicon Valley's tech giants
85% of the world’s population or 6 billion people live in emerging markets. Thus growth for Silicon Valley’s tech giants is often synonymous with building for emerging markets. Building products for the next billion requires a deep understanding of local cultures. And in recent years, the local...
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Ethiopia | 10% GDP Growth & 10 Years of Startup History
What comes to mind when you think of Ethiopia? Did you know they’re one of the fastest growing economies with a 10% average annual growth rate for the last 15 years? Or what about the fact that Ethiopia is the second most populated country in Africa with 115M+ people? Don’t worry if you didn’t…
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Kenya | The AI Revolution in Africa
On this episode, we take you to Kenya in East Africa. With 54 million people it is smaller than Nigeria (200M) and Egypt (100M). However, according to Disrupt Africa, Kenya has received more venture capital investments than any country in Africa. It might have something to do with being the first...
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South Africa | How payments innovations tackle inequality
On this episode, we take you to South Africa. South Africa is one of the richest countries in Africa but also the most unequal country in the world. Marcello Schermer joins us as the Head of Expansion at Yoco, the “Square” of Africa. We discuss how innovations in payments are unlocking entirely…
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Zambia | Prince Harry visits BongoHive’s thriving startups
On this episode of the Emerging Markets Tech Startups podcast, we take you to Zambia. Zambia is a country of 18 million people in Southern Africa. The country is famous for the world’s widest and largest waterfall, Victoria Falls. Simunza Muyangana joins us as the co-founder and Director of...
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Nigeria's Startup Ecosystem Ft. Kola Aina of Ventures Platform
Nigeria's population will explode to 400 million people by 2050. Today, Nigeria is the startup epicenter of Africa. Hear from our guest, Kola Aina who founded Ventures Platform to invest in the future of Africa. Kola talks about the most innovative companies from Nigeria, and how he sees the…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Venturing through 90+ countries, we’ve discovered one commonality. From Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East to Eastern Europe, there are growing tech startup ecosystems transforming the world. Emerging market startups are generating market-creating innovations, leapfrogging Silicon Valley’s innovations, and solving local problems faster than governments. Join us to hear from startup ecosystem champions, entrepreneurs and investors in emerging markets. We discuss what makes these markets culturally unique, local trends, challenges consumers and founder face, and the opportunities.
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Dianna Yau
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