Artificial intelligence (AI) is a new era for educational solutions as the incorporation of AI further improves the value propositions for its users. Joni.AI Co-Founder Hazel Wei talk edtech and data science.
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Meet Jennifer Villalobos, Accelerating Asia Mentor and Investor. Why did she decide to become an angel investor? To pay it forward and create a legitimate portfolio for the future.
Read MoreIn his first piece in the How To Build a Successful Early Stage Startup Portfolio, Co-Founder Craig discusses getting started as an investor and building a reputation as a good angel so the best startups seek you out.
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Meet Accelerating Asia Mentor, Alex Smith. His one piece of advice for startups - do it with passion, or not at all. Find out more about Alex’s role leading the Customer Success Unit for Microsoft Azure's businesses in the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam and his role as a Mentor with Accelerating Asia.
Read MoreThe world’s most prominent startup ecosystem, Silicon Valley, has chosen SAFEs to be the de facto document to use for early-stage startup investment as they are more streamlined, cheaper to execute, and easier to due diligence than other options. At Accelerating Asia we agree and also use SAFEs for our own startup investments and we also facilitate other investments in our portfolio companies through SAFEs.
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There’s a fundamental shift happening globally across all industries. Social impact is not just a ‘nice to have’ anymore, it’s expected. As a venture fund and startup accelerator, we’ve experienced a shift in the conversations that we’re having with our partners and investors. Impact is no longer considered only a philanthropic endeavour but something that adds real value to the commercial deals and partnerships that we are part of and that we facilitate with our startups.
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Earlier this week, Y Combinator Founder Sam Altman lost a US$100k bet about the 2015 bubble. He might have lost on some things but he was right about 2/3 - the growth of mid-stage companies and the YC batch. Entrepreneur in Residence, Nesh Sooriyan explores what this means in the SEA context & how investors can gain from investing in early-stage companies.
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Accelerating Asia, a startup accelerator and early stage venture capital fund headquartered in Singapore, has formally unveiled its second cohort. The ten startups that comprise Accelerating Asia’s second cohort hail from six countries including Australia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Myanmar, Indonesia and Singapore. They have already raised over S$2 million in funding ahead of the programme, employ close to 200 people and have an average monthly recurring revenue of over S$40,000.
Read MoreIn case you missed it, Accelerating Asia has opened applications for our Gender Advisory Group. Why have we decided to appoint a Gender Advisory Group? Well, for our first year of operations, we think we’ve done pretty well in promoting a safe, inclusive and diverse ecosystem, as well as initiatives that drive this forward.
Read MoreThe year is almost over and it’s being a big one for Accelerating. We’re really looking forward to launching our next cohort in 2020 but in the meantime, here are some of our and our portfolio company highlights. We launched applications and graduated our first cohort of 10 pre-Series A startups who each received S$100,000 investment and supported 40 percent female-led ventures.
Read MoreApply now to join our inaugural, Accelerating Asia’s Gender Advisory Group which provides strategic advice and support to the Accelerating Asia team on gender initiatives. Members will be experienced professionals and come from a cross-section of industries and backgrounds such as tech, investment, private or public sector, academia or not-for-profit.
Read MoreLet us get delve into the reasons and process for incorporating a holding company abroad first. First things first: unless you meet a local investor with access to funds in the local country, foreign investors will mostly prefer investing in a holding company abroad for reasons ranging from transparency, accountability and security of their money.
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Introducing David Ng, one of the awesome Mentor at Accelerating Asia who has been highly engaged with startups in our accelerator program!
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Let’s get the facts straight, Bangladesh is a hot topic right now, primarily because of these core figures: A population of 170M crammed within a geographical area of 147,570 km², 274B USD generated from GDP and an economy that is growing at 8% per year.
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With such growth and upskilling over the coming years, we will see adept employees of these firms venturing out on their own to propagate future tech giants. Much like the multiples generated by the PayPal founding team diaspora. The aforementioned is creating a shortage in the available domestic supply of skills which is being supplemented by remote workers and immigration without sufficient avail. This naturally creates opportunities for savvy minds to innovate on the delivery of recruitment, human resource management, and for this post, education…
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