Pre-Startup Asia Jakarta Meetup: raising funds from local and international investors

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Startup Asia Jakarta, arguably Indonesia’s biggest tech startup conference of the year is happening next week! To kick things off, Tech in Asia is organizing a pre-conference meetup a day before the event. At this meetup, we will bring together a pool of local and international investors who will share their insights on how startups can approach the right VC for them in Indonesia.

The investors who will speak in the pre-conference meetup are Paul Srivorakul from Ardent Capital, Yasuhiro Seo from IMJ Investment Partners, Adrian Li from Convergence Accel, and Sebastian Togelang from Mountain SEA Ventures. The four VCs have seen and worked with hundreds of startups in Indonesia, and can shed some light on a few of the common mistakes fresh founders run into when approaching investors.

Startups who are looking to raise funds will definitely benefit from this meetup. This is the place where you can ask questions and network with potential partners, as well as learn new tricks to impress VCs. Who knows? This meetup could be the very place where you kickstart your startup’s fundraising journey.

When

November 25, 2014 (Tuesday)

Where

Ciputra GEPI Incubator
DBS Tower 9th Floor, Ciputra World I
Jl. Prof. Dr. Satrio Kav. 3-5
Jakarta, Indonesia 12940
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Agenda

• 6.30 – 7.15pm: Registration and refreshments
• 7.15 – 7.30pm: Welcome address from Tech in Asia and GEPI
• 7.30 – 8.30pm: Panel discussion – Raising funds from local and international investors
• 8.30 – 8.45pm: Introduction to Oppo Initiator
• 8.45 – 9.30pm: Networking

Speakers

Paul Srivorakul

Paul Srivorakul is a serial internet entrepreneur and investor based in Thailand. He is currently the Regional CEO of aCommerce, a full service end-to-end E-commerce solutions provider in Southeast Asia. He is also the co-founder and executive chairman of Ardent Capital, an early stage internet private capital fund focused on Southeast Asia.

Paul has raised over US$20 million for his past three internet ventures and exited them at an accumulative value of over US$100 million. Prior to Ardent Capital, Paul was the regional CEO and co-founder of Ensogo Group (ecommerce site acquired by LivingSocial), Admax Network (ad network acquired by Komli Media), and Newmedia (digital ad agency acquired by STW Group). Prior to his entrepreneurial efforts, Paul worked as Inside Sales at Ask Jeeves (ask.com), a search engine based in California acquired by IAC. He holds a B.A. in Anthropology from U.C. Berkeley.

Yasuhiro Seo

Yasuhiro Seo majored in journalism at San Francisco State University and worked as a video journalist mainly in California. In 2007 he joined IMJ. He worked on domestic top makers’ projects such as branding design, production direction, and UX design in a comprehensive manner.

At IMJ Investment Partners, he works on the development of start-ups in the whole Southeast Asian region and strategic support to portfolio companies.

Adrian Li

Adrian is founder and managing partner at Convergence Accel, a Venture Capital fund that invests and accelerates early stage technology companies in Indonesia. He is also a board director at a number of internet companies including Imaginato, which provides consulting and engineering services for Internet and ecommerce clients around the world, and Qraved, Jakarta’s leading restaurant discovery and reservation platform. Previously, as a Rocket Internet MD, he co-founded ventures in both China and Indonesia.

Sebastian Togelang

Sebastian Togelang is the managing director at Mountain Southeast Asia Ventures, a tech
startup accelerator, company builder and early stage investor, a JV with Mountain Partners
Group, a global venture group headquartered in Zurich (Switzerland) with over 200
companies in portfolio and presence in Europe, China, Middle East, India, Brazil, and Latin
America.

Co-founder and investor in the leading financial comparison in Southeast Asia: Compare88
Group (www.cekaja.com) and Qareer Group (www.qerja.com).

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