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A designer and branding specialist, Petr Báča was inspired to develop a smart vending solution to eliminate plastic packaging in supply chains while working with industry clients at Cocoon Prague, a branding and advertising agency he founded in 1996. In 2015, he set up MIWA Technologies in Prague, to realize his smart vending system into a business. He is currently CEO of MIWA and continues to work in packaging design as a partner at Cocoon Prague.Báča graduated from the University of Economics in Prague in 2002. He is also a founding partner of the Intellectual Capital Investors Association that assists innovators to start their own businesses and to help new companies to scale.

Founded in 2017, Oceanpine Capital  focuses on investment opportunities in the TMT, consumption upgrade, advanced manufacturing, and healthcare sectors. Oceanpine Capital  mainly invest in private companies with rapid growth, but also look at some opportunities in public companies. HQ in Hong Kong with offices in Beijing and San Francisco.

LEVO Capital is a US venture capital firm that focuses on seed investment for utility-based tech companies. Founded by real estate entrepreneur Weston Marcum, the VC has exited digital wallet fintech Evenly that was sold to Square.Based in his birthplace Louisville in Kentucky, Marcum built a successful real estate investment and management company Atlas Properties that later became the Atlas group of companies. The Furman University business graduate began investing in SMEs and tech startups through Levo Capital in 2011. Many of Levo's ventures, including downtown cafes, are also tenants in buildings owned by Marcum's Atlas group.

Shenzhen QHFZ Capital Management Co., Ltd. was established in August 2014, with a registered capital of RMB 10 million.

Ribbit Capital is a Silicon Valley VC that focuses on fintech-related startups. Founded in 2012, Ribbit Capital posits that the financial services industry has largely remained unchanged despite the developments in technology in the past decade. The company’s “mantra” states that it is a believer in consumers and businesses moving to mobile, and this will lead to major changes in how financial services are provided in the future.The company has invested in a wide range of fintech startups and technologies, including stock trading app Robinhood, cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase, and Revolut, one of the earliest “challenger banks” that primarily serves retail customers through digital, app-based services. In March 2021, US retail giant Walmart announced a partnership with Ribbit Capital to develop fintech products. Ribbit Capital made its first investment in the Southeast Asia region in that same month, when it led a $65m Series A extension into Indonesian investment platform Ajaib.

GROW is a Singapore-based food and agriculture technology accelerator for global impact-focused startups. It is financially backed by AgFunder, an agrifood tech venture investment through the AgFunder GROW Impact Fund. Grow is also supported by the Singapore Government and is an accredited mentor partner of Startup SG.

Ex-WPP’s youngest head Kevin Mintaraga’s career started when he founded digital agency Magnivate in 2008. In 2012, the company was acquired by WPP, and was renamed to XM Gravity and later Mirum Agency. Kevin remained as CEO of the company post-acquisition, and at 27 years old became the youngest head within WPP’s global network. He moved to a chairman role in 2014 to start Bridestory. Kevin was an avid gamer and had no business or digital media background prior to launching Magnivate. He was born in 1985.

Ex-Djarum employee Frandy Wirajaya Sugianto holds a Master of Management degree in Creative Marketing from the University of Surabaya (UBAYA). He joined clove cigarette manufacturer Djarum’s Sales and Marketing division in 2001 and worked for 10 years before being hired as the CEO of Infokost.id in 2011. In 2013, Frandy became the CEO of Global Visi Media (GVM) Networks, which includes companies such as Opini.id and Bolalob.com. Infokost.id is a company under GDP Venture group, founded and owned by Martin Hartono. The Hartono family also owns Djarum, Indonesia’s biggest cigarette manufacturer.

After graduating in 1997 from the University of Indonesia, Bagus Utama became a long-time player in the events industry. Bagus co-founded RajaKarcis, an online ticketing company in 2003. After nine years as CEO, Bagus left the company in 2012 to set up Concertholic, a website promoting music concerts and events. In January 2016, he became the COO of PT Global Loket Sejahtera. He is also responsible for the business development of Loket, an event management and Big Data solutions company.

Fan was awarded a China Fellowship by the Aspen Institute in 2016 and was chosen as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2017. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Tongji University in 2005, a master’s degree in Architecture from Princeton University in 2007 and a doctorate in Design from Harvard University in 2014. Fan has worked as an assistant professor in Interactive Design at UC Berkeley and as a lecturer at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Named by Andrew Ng as one of the world's best hackers, Lou Tiancheng (b. 1986) holds a BS and a PhD in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, where he joined the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science (now Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences) at Tsinghua University) headed by Turing Award winner Professor Andrew Chi-Chih Yao. Lou began his career at Google X (before it became Waymo), where he worked on autonomous driving technology, leaving Google in 2016. More commonly known by his handle ACRush within the programming community, Lou was named best Chinese coder the TopCoder Open, the Olympics for hackers, 10 years in a row. He is also a two-time winner of Google Code Jam, a global programming competition. Before co-founding Pony.ai, Lou was the youngest T10 engineer at Baidu, where he worked on autonomous driving under Chief Architect and fellow Pony.ai co-founder James Peng. 

Global citizen Mariano Kostelec is an Argentinian native who has lived in Asia and Europe. After earning his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with Management from King’s College London, Kostelec moved to Asia to work at Groupon China (GaoPeng) and Wimbu China. He then moved to Portugal to launch Uniplaces with friends Miguel Amaro and Ben Grech. He is a member of the Entrepreneur Organization in Lisbon and of the Sandbox Network and has appeared on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. 

Graduating with a bachelor’s degree in journalism at the Renmin University of China, Li Yong has worked for various publications like Workers Daily, Finance and Economics Magazine, Southern Weekly and Global Entrepreneur.In April 2012, he resigned as the president of portal business at news portal NetEase to establish an online tutoring platform Fenbi, the predecessor of Yuanfudao. He is currently the CEO at Yuanfudao.Before starting his own business, Li had invested in Tinder-style dating app Momo and business media Huxiu.

Augmentum Capital was formed in 2009 by Tim Levene and Richard Matthews, with the backing of RIT Capital Partners, the investment trust chaired by Lord Rothschild (whose family owns 18% of the trust). Based in London, the investment firm focuses on fast-growing fintech companies in the UK and Europe, typically supporting Series A and Series B funding rounds.   

Unreasonable Capital is a US-based venture capital firm. It focuses on early to mid-stage startups in emerging markets that address social and environmental challenges. The firm does not lead investments on its own, participating only when a local entity participates in financing. Its portfolio includes Nigerian fintech firm Paga, Indonesian automated fish feeder maker eFishery and solar power system producer BuffaloGrid.

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