Investing In Asia
Investing in Asia explores the unprecedented growth across the most populated region in the world. We're talking about Asia outside of China, where 44% of the world's population lives. They are young, they are digital natives, and their buying power is increasing by the day. Join your host Arshad Chowdhury, an investor with the Betatron Venture Group, as he meets investors, entrepreneurs and key players to understand the opportunities and challenges of scaling startups here. Learn more about Betatron Venture Group - https://www.betatron.co/ Hosted by Arshad Chowdhury - https://www.linkedin.com/in/arshadgc/
Episodes
20 episodes
Bangladesh After Overthrow
Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned on August 5, 2024, amid massive protests and violent unrest that had gripped the country for weeks. The unrest began as student-led protests against a controversial government job quota system ...
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Episode 20
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20:43
Robotics in Asia
Companies large and small across Asia are increasingly adopting autonomous robots in warehouses and manufacturing. At the bleeding edge of this is Rahul Nambiar, CEO of Botsync. Botsync helps manufacturers automate their manufacturing facilitie...
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Episode 19
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32:40
Asia’s Funding Winter
Today’s guest is Bhavik Vashi, the managing director for Asia Pacific and the Middle East at Carta. His seat at Carta gives him a perfect view as to what’s happening in the region in terms of startup and VC fundraising and formation. This episo...
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Episode 18
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44:39
Digital Payments
Today's guest is Caesar Sengupta, the CEO of Arta Finance, a wealth management platform built by Caesar and his team of ex Googlers. They came out of stealth in 2022 and announced having raised 90 million in funding. Caesar holds a degree...
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Episode 17
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37:05
Investing In Asia’s AI
Today’s guest is Leo Jiang. Leo is the Chief Digital Officer of Huawei Cloud and AI for APAC and the Founder of the company’s global accelerator, Huawei Spark. He’s been recognised as a Top 10 Most Influential CDO globally by Technology Magazin...
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Episode 16
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32:31
Preventing Ethical Collapse In Startups
Today’s guest is Erika Cheung, a key whistleblower who reported Theranos to health regulators. Her report subsequently led to the shutdown of Theranos’ clinical lab which prevented the company from providing false medical results to thousands o...
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Episode 15
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36:26
The Business of Tree Planting: Bas Fransen from EcoMatcher
Today's guest is Bas Fransen, CEO and founder of EcoMatcher. Originally from Holland, Bas started his career in the Royal Dutch Navy and went on to become a technology executive with long stints at Phillips Semi Conductors, and then IBM.
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Episode 14
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31:50
SOSV’s Portfolio Strategy
William Bao Bean is Managing Director of Orbit Startups the first and longest-running startup program in Asia and General Partner of SOSV the #2 most active venture capital investor in the world and #5 Asia/ROW with US$1.5bn in assets under man...
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Episode 13
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43:47
Navigating Corruption in India's Construction Industry
This episode delves into the issue of corruption within the Indian construction industry while examining how 91Squarefeet is making significant improvements to this sector in India.We learn exactly how “kickback” payments are made, we un...
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Episode 12
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20:42
Pakistan In 2022
Danyaal Abdul Khaliq is a founder and general partner at Teamup Ventures, an early-stage VC Fund investing in MENAPT (middle east, north Africa, Pakistan, Turkey). Danyaal also set up Teamup Angels, a startup networking platform in Pakist...
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Episode 11
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29:12
Are We Doomed? Migration and Adaptation Investing
How is your investment strategy changing in light of climate change? Which regions and industries are poised to survive and thrive, and which face existential threats? Where should you work and live in the coming years?This episode is a...
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Episode 10
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1:07:26
Exploring Turkey
In this episode, we take a look at startups in Turkey. 2021 is shaping up to be a great year for Turkey with twodifferent companies - Getir and Dream Games - reaching unicorn status in the first half of 2021. Here to help us underst...
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Episode 9
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19:19
Investing In Vietnam
In this episode of Investing In Asia, we'll learn about Vietnam, where investments in startups rose by a factor of 8 between 2016 and 2019, and they continue to rise in 2021 even as the country battles Covid. We're lucky to have today's...
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Episode 8
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26:31
Pakistan Rising
Betatron's Website: https://www.betatron.co/Today we'll learn how new tech companies are transforming Pakistan. A young, vibrant, but often misunderstood country, Pakistan has been named one of Asi...
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Episode 7
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32:24
Proptech in Asia
Today we're talking about Property tech, aka Proptech in Asia. Asia is the world's largest real estate market. Investments into startups servicing the industry, from construction to management to sales and rentals, went from half a billion doll...
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Episode 6
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20:40
The Future is Asian
In this episode, we meet Dr. Parag Khanna, a geopolitical scholar and best-selling author of 6 books. He's the Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario based strategic advisory firm. And his most recent book is The Future is Asian: Co...
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Episode 5
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29:26
Sustainability Investing & Family Offices in Asia
In this episode we learn about sustainability investments in Asia. With its population density, massive urbanization, and already-strained access to water and energy, Asia is particularly vulnerable to the early impacts of climate change. <...
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Episode 4
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24:03
Investing in Asia's Maritime Industry
In this episode, we look at Asia's massive maritime industry. Nine out of ten of the world's largest ports are in Asia, where demand for products in and out of China has increased significantly since peak pandemic, and globally the industry is ...
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Episode 3
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23:08
Bangladesh: Navigating A Young Market
Today we look at Bangladesh. It's one of Asia's fastest-growing economies. We'll look at how the country is changing, we'll learn about the demographics, about finding strong startups, what some of the risks are, and where the country is going ...
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Episode 2
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26:25
The Present & Future of Asia's Meat Industry
Today's guest is Jarron Stephens, an investor and serial entrepreneur based in Hong Kong. His resume is incredible, so I'll try to name just a few of his companies. He cofounded Stephens & Hollander, a consultancy that built one of th...
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Episode 1
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