How do women become investors? In this series, hear from investors on how they got started, what they look for in founders and teams, and how future women in investing should equip themselves.

Meet Frances Kang, Project Director, Horizons Ventures and Co-Founder, We Lab and get inspired by her prolific journey as an investor and entrepreneur solving for financial inclusion. Discover how Frances evaluates founders and why she is very hopeful about the future.

Frances leads the Fintech and frontier markets investments of Horizons. She has led investments in multiple early stage fintech & insurtech companies that are unicorns today, such as N26 (led B round, unicorn today), Hippo Insurance (led A round, unicorn today), Airwallex (invested in B round, unicorn today), and WeFox (led A round, unicorn today). She is also championing consumer tech investments in frontier markets, mainly Indonesia, and led investments in Kopi Kenangan and Bobobox for Horizons. Before her Fintech and SEA investments, she has been deeply involved in socially-conscious technology companies and was founding Board member of several seed stage companies such as Perfect Day and BlueDot, helping entrepreneurs getting off the ground. http://www.horizonsventures.com/

Frances is also a Co-Founder of WeLab. Founded in 2013 in Hong Kong, WeLab is reinventing traditional financial services by creating seamless mobile lending experiences. With its proprietary risk management technology, WeLab effectively analyzes unstructured mobile big data within seconds to make credit decisions for individual borrowers. WeLab operates Wolaidai (我来贷), one of China’s leading mobile lending platforms, and WeLend.hk, Hong Kong’s leading online lending platform. https://www.welab.co/en/

More about Frances: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceskang/?originalSubdomain=hk

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