Bangladesh Angels

Bangladesh Angels

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Bangladesh Angels episodes

  • Epic Angels: Democratizing Angel Investing

    Epic Angels is a network of female executives and operators who have built and expanded companies in all parts of the world. Based in Singapore, it's on track to become the largest female-only angel network in Asia.


    Its focus is early-stage startups in Asia across all verticals. It invests in pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds. As a strong advocate of female leadership, it prefers having at least one woman in the executive team of its pipeline companies.

    About the speaker:
    Maaike Doyer is an entrepreneur, educator, and design strategist with a twisted love for numbers. She studied math, had a career in M&A, and in the past decade, she led a global design firm as the CFO / COO. She personally brought the company from Europe to the US where she founded and scaled their offices in San Francisco and New York. Her company produced the famous business model canvas book, Business Model Generation. She has supported hundreds of organizations of all sizes, all industries, and all geographies with their business model strategy.

    In the end of 2020 she moved to Singapore to learn more about the Asian culture, and launched Epic Angels within a short period of time.

    53 min
  • Investing in Women: Closing the Gender Gap in Southeast Asia

    Marie Torres is the Senior Partnerships Manager at Investing in Women, an initiative of the Australian Government, which catalyses inclusive economic growth through women’s economic empowerment in South East Asia. Established in 2016, Investing in Women tackles one of the most critical social and economic issues of our time: gender inequality. 


    Marie Torres is a highly skilled Program Lead working 20 years at the intersection of finance and international development.  She oversees a portfolio of investment firms and contributes to IW’s learning agenda on blended finance and gender lens investing to accelerate women’s economic empowerment. Prior to IW, she was an Assistant Manager of ICCO Foundation’s (now CordAid) Global Guarantee Fund. Working across Southeast Asia, she led ICCO’s Financial Services Program that delivered grants and investments for small to medium enterprises and cooperatives. In the Philippines, Marie served as a Program Manager at the Foundation for a Sustainable Society, Inc. where she grew their Development investments portfolio by 3x. Marie holds an MBA from Ateneo Graduate School of Business and a BA from the University of the Philippines. She also has a Diploma in Corporate Finance, Certificate in Environmental Management Accounting, and completing her MA in Women and Development. She is passionate about entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and gender equality.

    We will hear from Marie on the work and model of IWA, why angel investors and early-stage VCs should think about applying a gender lens to their investment approach, lessons for the nascent ecosystem in Bangladesh, and how we can get more women investors involved in the ecosystem.

    54 min
  • FiBAN: Nordic Angel Investing

    In this episode we have with us, Reima Linnanvirta, Chair of the Board at the Finnish Business Angels Network (FiBAN). ​Structured as a non-profit association of private investors on a mission to inspire private investments, the network is one of the largest and most active business angel networks in the world with over 650+ approved members. Its three main activities consist of matchmaking of startups and investors, sharing of best practices, and representing the interest of private investors.


    Hear from Reima on the model and focus of FiBAN, its due diligence and syndication process, portfolio companies, and its training program for current and aspiring business angels.

    56 min
  • Value for Women: Accelerating Gender Smart Investing

    Value For Women Ltd. offers holistic and tailored advisory support with a gender lens to a diverse set of organizations, investors, and SGBs (Small and Growing businesses).


    Increasingly, studies indicate that gender inclusion is not only the right thing to do in terms of promoting gender equality but also a key strategy for improving business performance, efficiency, and productivity. In this session, we will hear from Rebecca about the work and model of Value for Women, the four types of gender smart investing, gender forward businesses and lessons for Bangladesh.

    As Chief Executive Officer and Founding Director of Value for Women, Rebecca has spearheaded the growth of the organization into a globally-recognized leader in gender-inclusive business practice. With over 20 years of global expertise, Rebecca leads Value for Women in its efforts to design innovation for gender inclusion with investors, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), banks, financial institutions, development organizations and corporate foundations.

    Under Rebecca’s leadership, the Value for Women team works globally in a collaborative, multidisciplinary manner, applying practical, hands-on approaches to solve business and investment challenges with a gender and inclusion lens. This involves the delivery of advisory services, and the design of research, training and communications.

    Rebecca has also authored and led sector-changing research on the intersection of gender, investment, entrepreneurship and economic development across sectors such as Sustainable Energy, Finance, Agriculture and Entrepreneurship. Rebecca is frequently invited to speak as an industry expert in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

    55 min
  • Finprojections: Startup Finance Made Easier | the BRIDGE | Sadaf Sultan

    With 10+ years of experience as an investment banker and investor, Sadaf Sultan has worked at the bleeding edge of venture capital and private equity globally. Based in Singapore, he is currently leading a financial advisory firm focused on startup founders and investors called Finprojections. An INSEAD alumnus, Sadaf Sultan has honed his experience in world-renowned organizations such as Goldman Sachs and IFC. He is also a mentor at 500 Startups. Finprojections is a financial advisory firm focused on providing high-impact tailored solutions to the startup ecosystem. The firm currently provides financial modeling and virtual CFO services to startups and transaction diligence services to startup investors.

    Hear from Sadaf Sultan about Finprojections, how it was founded, the virtual CFO movement, and how FinProjections helps founders navigate the world of fundraising.


    55 min
  • Constructing Sustainably Diverse Portfolios By Backing Underrepresented Founders

    In this episode, we will hear from Vera Elizabeth Baker, Venture Partner at Jua Fund, about the Jua Fund, her experience as an angel investor with the Atomico Angel Programme, diversity in the European tech ecosystem and lessons for emerging markets such as Bangladesh, barriers that underrepresented founders face in attracting investments, and why it's important to invest in/support more such ventures. 

    Vera Elizabeth Baker is a Paris-based Venture Partner at Jua Fund. Jua Fund is an early-stage, Pan-African fund that invests capital and community into exceptional founders. She invests in European startups as an Angel Investor for Atomico in the areas of sustainable solutions, future of food, future of work and broadening access to care.


    She has also built a global community of women of color (and allies) via For Colored Girls Who Tech, a curated weekly newsletter highlighting entrepreneurship and venture capital in the tech ecosystem.

    54 min
  • Roots of Impact: Scaling Impact Ecosystems

    Maxime Cheng is the Lead Market and Capacity Building Programs at Roots of Impact, an Impact Linked Finance advisory firm based in Germany. She is also the programme manager of the impact investing eco-system building programme Biniyog Briddhi in Bangladesh, working with the Embassy of Switzerland and LightCastle Partners to address both supply and demand side of the Bangladeshi Impact Investing pipeline.


    Throughout her 10+ years of experience working in the sector of impact entrepreneurship, she gathers expertise in impact measurement and is a skilled translator of the subject to both impact entrepreneurs and investors and facilitated over 10 Impact Linked Finance transactions globally as of today.

    In this episode, Maxime talks about Roots of Impact, impact linked finance in the Bangladeshi context, the Biniyog Briddhi program in Bangladesh, challenges Bangladeshi entrepreneurs face in raising institutional impact funds, and more!

    59 min
  • Alma Angels: Supercharging Female Angels & Female Entrepreneurs

    Deepali is an advisor to female founders and an angel investor with a keen interest in digital health, femtech, and sustainability. Deepali invests in female founders/mixed teams and some of her investments include LiveBetterWith, PensionBee, Polipop, Parla, PLANERA, Kama Labs, Sano Genetics, Shellworks, SideQuest, JunoBio, FLOWN, Okko and yhangry.


    She is also a co-founder at Alma Angels (www.alma-angels.com), set-up to democratize and demystify angel investing and create more female angel investors that invest in female founders. She is also an Atomico Angel and a Venture Partner at Speedinvest (where she focuses on female founders). Deepali is the UK Business Angels Association's Angel Investor of the Year.

    In this episode, we will hear from her about Alma Angels, supporting early-stage tech founders with the right tools, barriers that female founding teams face in attracting investments, investing in early-stage tech startups and more!

    49 min
  • Episode 4 | HoriZen Capital: A Saas Operators Syndicate

    Akeel Jabber is the Investment Director and GP at Horizen Capital, a leading SaaS operations group consisting of Marketing and Finance experts who specialize in growth marketing and Mergers & Acquisitions. They are focused on partnering up with hand-picked B2B SaaS companies with the aim of helping founders maximize company growth with the help of their data-driven approach. In addition, through the help of their global network of investors and strategic acquirers, they also help companies raise funds or undertake M&A processes. The 4 core values of Horizen Capital are Integrity, Autonomy, Commitment, and Personal Development, and their entire team strives towards living up to these values by continuously seeking partners who share them.


    Akeel is a growth marketing expert who also specializes in business operations. He started his career as an engineer before entering the world of digital marketing. He then took on the role of CEO at 2 different digital marketing firms - $99 Social and Increase Visibility Inc. Before joining HoriZen Capital, Akeel was a partner and operations director at Wire Investors, a private equity firm specializing in digital asset acquisitions.

    46 min
  • Accelerating Asia - Catalyzing High Growth Founders

    Amra is the Co-Founder of Accelerating Asia and General Partner at Accelerating Asia Ventures, an award-winning startup accelerator that scouts and propels the best founders in the region and provides pre-Series A startups with the resources and investment to scale their growth.


    ​She is the Southeast Asia Lead for Impact Capital and Outgoing Curator for the Global Shapers Singapore Hub, an initiative of the World Economic Forum and is the host and creator of the Doing Good Podcast. She has been interviewed and featured as a guest author on industry blogs, including The Straits Times, Techcrunch, Reuters, is a regular guest on 938Now’s national radio show and named as one of Harpers Bazaar’s Women Who Inspire Others. Amra regularly speaks about the intersection of business and impact, including at global events such as Money 20/20 (Singapore), Singularity University Impact Challenge (Poland) and the Asia Corporate Sustainability Summit (Philippines).

    1 hr

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Bangladesh Angels is the nation's first and largest angel investment network created with a mission to nurture innovation & entrepreneurship in Bangladesh by connecting innovative startups to both…