CoCoon

In this episode, meet Calvin, founder of Wizpresso and see how his company is transforming the way legal and financial professionals take companies public. Connect with us at CoCoon on Linkedin. 

On this episode hear from Shabaz Ali Jamote of TelloTalk and TelloCast to find out how he is building a superapp for his country, Pakistan and why this is so much more than a social network. 

In this episode, Roland interviews Erica to find out how she started as an entrepreneur, her ideas on the future of work and what it takes to find a purposeful and fulfilling role. 

In this episode, we go way back with Roland to hear about his pathway to becoming a technology investor, what he thinks about the future of work and how startups are impacting the way professional services operate. 

In this episode, we go way back and find out about Theodore's early experiences as an entrepreneur, what he thinks about the future of work, and his latest venture, MPower. 

What are the highs and lows like when you are married to an entrepreneur? Alyson Hau, Radio Presenter at RTHK, and her husband, Paul Measor, Director of Strategic Partnerships at FoodPanda come together for their first interview together.

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 Allison Baum Gates, General Partner at SemperVirens Venture Capital and get inspired by her mission to build the future of work landscape. Discover how Allison built her network and pathway towards becoming a venture capitalist. Explore Allison's unique framework on how the future of work is digital, dynamic, diverse, distributed and data driven.    Allison is an experienced investor with unique skillset establishing, raising, launching, and deploying early stage venture capital funds across multiple geographies. Globally recognized thought leader in the future of work featured in Forbes, Pitchbook, Business Insider, Inc., Quartz, Bloomberg Tech, Venture Beat, and Silicon Republic. Active writer, speaker and lecturer on innovation, venture capital, public and private markets, the future of work, and technology startups.   More about Allison:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonbaumgates/  https://www.sempervirensvc.com/    About this Series: Becoming an Investor In this series, hear from women investors on how they got started, what they look for in founders and teams, and how future women in investing should equip themselves. Join the CoCoon Online Community: http://www.hkcocoon.com​  Backstory from Erica:  I watch Shark Tank with my daughters: Sophia (6) and Zoe (4). I wanted to introduce them to kid entrepreneurs so they could see how other kids can turn ideas into reality. One evening Sophia asked, "Mommy why is there only one girl and who is she?" She was pointing at Lori Greiner. "I want to be her when I grow up."   I started thinking of the 100+ college interns I've worked with, many of them women - those with the brightest spark all aim to become an investor one day.  I hope that this series of insights and stories will inspire young girls, teenagers, college students, sisters, daughters, girlfriends to embark on the different journeys that make becoming an investor who can mobilize capital to make a difference in the world possible. Enjoy and tell us who you want to hear from in the comments below.    More about Erica: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericama1​  CoCoon Smart Talk會邀請不同的講者分享各個範疇的專業見解及經驗分享，並致力讓大家擴闊想像力，創造影響力並建立新聯繫。  BRING IDEAS FORWARD.    Follow CoCoon on Instagram: @hkcocoon @cocoonfoundation  Like CoCoon on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/HKCoCoon/ Join our online community on: https://cocoon.mn.co/feed Discover more about CoCoon on: https://www.hkcocoon.com/ Want to watch more Videos from CoCoon: https://www.youtube.com/user/HKCoCoon

In this episode, hear from Samantha Wang, Co-founder & General Partner at RPS Ventures. Discover how she got started at Deutsche Bank and how her journey traversed to startups and investments. Samantha will also share what she looks for in founders and how future women in investing should equip themselves.

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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