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Scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets.

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Michel Friedman

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Investing in B2B and B2B2C startups in emerging markets. If you are an accredited investor interested in explosive growth investment opportunities in high growth economies please connect to me.

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Founder & CEO | Business Strategy, Startups

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As a Network Architect, I've built and transformed networks for major financial institutions and blue-chips for 25 years (CCIE R&S). As a founder, I’ve taken SaaS and fintech startups from inception to market, and led successful VC funding rounds. I’m a team player who excels at execution, business development, product development, and team building. I thrive when delivering solutions and bringing stability in unpredictable environments. I’m looking to expand my network in the IT Networking and NetDevOps space so please do connect.

Eduard Jubany Tur

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Experienced team leader and growth strategist, having managed cryptocurrency exchanges, SaaS startups, venture capital portfolios, and more. After a stint at a leading venture capital firm in Asia and the US, led a team of +30 people in building blockchain infrastructure for cryptocurrency and derivatives exchanges. Growth and retention expertise in emerging markets and European markets for technology and software businesses.

Diana Teoh 张慧凝

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AVPN & AVPA Fellow, Investor Relations & Corporate Innovation, Angel Investor, Venture Partner, Growth, CrossBorder Startups, Gender Lens, Impact Investing, Emerging Markets, Women in VSEA

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Trevor is a multifaceted entrepreneur, author, and early stage startup investor. He is the CEO of Ninjalerts, a Bitcoin & Ethereum data analytics platform, and also serves as the Managing Partner at Bitcoin Frontier Fund, where he invests in exceptional teams building new use cases for Bitcoin through BTC L1 and scaling layers like Stacks and Lightning. Bitcoin Frontier Fund has an extensive portfolio of over 80 startups in the DeFi, NFTs, and Web3 sectors. Prior to this, Trevor played a key role in advancing the Lean Startup movement by spearheading one of the world's largest grassroots entrepreneurship training programs, Lean Startup Machine. This three-day bootcamp has been taught in more than 150 cities and has influenced over 200,000 entrepreneurs. Trevor is also author of the bestselling book on applying Lean Startup methods in large organizations, The Lean Enterprise: How Corporations Can Innovate Like Startups. Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann praised the book, saying: "Owens show us how corporations can leverage lean startup methods and drive innovation through internal incubation, acqui-hires, and strategic investment. The Lean Enterprise provides savvy insights on the organizational structures, systems, and processes that will maximize success odds with corporate entrepreneurship." As an entrepreneur Trevor has worn every functional hat building both service-based and product-based businesses. He previously served as both CEO and CTO of Javelin.com, a software platform for entrepreneurs to test new business ideas with the Lean Startup methodology. Owens's work has been featured in national media outlets including Forbes, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Business Insider, Mashable, and others. He's been a featured guest speaker at Princeton University, Columbia University, the United States White House, and worked with companies around the world including General Electric, Amazon, Microsoft, Huawei, United State Postal Service, and many others.

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Kevin Tan is passionate about creating solutions and embracing challenges and change. He excels at the identification of ideas in their formative stage and realizing their true potential as successful businesses. Gifted to have been part of amazing start-ups and talented teams, he has been lucky enough to share the finer points of what made them special. As its co-founder and founding CEO, Kevin built and operated the audience technology platform company Eyeota, assembling and leading the team that developed one of the industry’s leading marketplaces of audience data, tracking over 5 billion consumers worldwide. He led Adify’s expansion outside of the US and partnerships with hundreds of publishers; set up comScore’s business in APAC; grew Viacom’s multi-channel commercial teams; pioneered digital audience measurement in Asia as Founder and CEO for iamasia; established and managed TNS (now Kantar) in China across 12 offices and 400 staff. His success in raising capital, building innovative solutions/teams, and delivering revenue have been consistent themes in his otherwise diverse career. Kevin advises investors and C-suite executives on data strategy, innovation, monetization, market entry, strategic partnerships, and M&A diligence. He is currently pursuing his passion for supporting and mentoring brilliant start-ups and gifted founders. Kevin is seeking spiritual and intellectual inspiration for his next big adventure. Kevin Tan is an avid supporter of the global digital industry and a recognized industry speaker on data privacy, distributed teams, and the use of digital technology to drive innovation. Kevin’s product philosophy is to design from the needs of the customer, demonstrate measurable value, and deliver in a manner that benefits the employees of the company. He firmly believes that the best teams are built by hiring excellent people with integrity, differing points of view, and strong business acumen.

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Darren Camas has been involved with crypto & blockchain since 2011 advising, building, and investing in multiple projects. Currently he is CEO of IPOR Labs. He is also Co-founder of FoolFarm, the first AI venture builder in Europe. Previously he served as an advisor for the Cardano (ADA) blockchain, headed bizdev for one of the first global crypto exchanges, and has been recognized for his FinTech startups by institutions such as SWIFT and BBVA. On the institutional investor side he served as advisor to Emurgo, the venture arm of Cardano, and is an angel investor in blockchain startups. Originally from the US, he spends most of his time in emerging markets in Asia and Latin America.

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Within organisations or for my own projects, I've always dedicated myself 200% to bring new and bold ideas. Over the past 10 years, I’ve learnt through analysis and empathy how to lead small and large teams by example and vision. Those years brought me to each area any business must master: business, tech & design. From designing, deciding & validating (the why) to innovating, building & testing products or services (the what) to finding ways to market them (the how), I've built products and businesses from scratch and drove business expansion for large conglomerates and startups/SMEs in tech, retail and consumer goods industries, mostly in China/Asia. Specialties: TEAM MANAGEMENT I PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT I STRATEGY I VR/AR I DIGITAL MARKETING I ECOMMERCE I B2B & B2C MARKETING I RETAIL I LEAN STARTUP I DESIGN THINKING I AGILE | SCRUM I DEEP TECH I FUNDRAISING

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I engage with Asian innovation platforms by working with corps & govs to form frameworks to develop the region in the areas of TMT & Market BD. I organised the largest hackathon (Malaysia Book of Records) which led the way for hackathons to be organised in the country, including advising Telenor, and working with Tourism Ministry and Telekom Malaysia for Visit Malaysia Year campaign. This led to TM visiting Microsoft US to sign MoU for technology transfer. During the Malaysia Communications Ministry SEA conf, I worked with AT&T to address the US Ambassador to Malaysia on development opportunities. I worked with MaGIC (Malaysia Startup Ministry) - launched by Obama - to sponsor SEA startups Microsoft software, the largest contribution. My team organised the first Microsoft //build/ conference outside of US, Malaysia's largest, keynote by Prime Minister's department, for national Big Data initiative launch. This led to SG //build/ conf for SEA. I co-organised Asia's first VR hackathon in Beijing with China Government's VR initiative, partnering with Coke. I also advised Malaysia Airlines & AirAsia on their hackathons. During 1997 Asian financial crisis, I founded a startup to offer businesses solutions when MNCs exited. I mentor Asian Americans to be leaders, Antler, SG Tourism Board startups, and Enterprise SG startups. I judge annually Enterprise SG global startups since pre-pandemic to channel innovation to SG corps. I established SOSV SEA office in KL via a partnership with Guoco & partnered with HSBC SG for SOSV SEA Demo Day in MBFC - this was extended with Enterprise SG SWITCH conf. This led to HSBC organising investment workshops for their Private Banking clients. I worked with SG BANSEA to educate angels about investments which led to investments that exited. During the pandemic, SOSV KL offices held remote Demo Days from Shanghai & Taipei inviting KL investors to be updated about global investments - this led to State Fund investing in portfolio iMotorbike Series A with other VCs including Gobi & Sunway. I partner with corp & gov to train VC talent and source deals that led to over 2m invested to raise 10x. I speak at confs for telcos about FinTech, Space Economy with UK Space Agency & NASA, at GSMA Shanghai (about SEA), RISE HK (about SEA), Australia (about CN & SEA), Pakistan (about SEA), SG SWITCH (about SEA) & I'm an advisor to Malaysia Gov. I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for industry technology contribution & my university has awarded me Top 10 Creative Achievers for expanding the horizon of businesses.