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ANGIN’s Angel Investor: Bastian Purrer

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Welcoming our new Angel, Bastian Purrer

Bastian Purrer is a Jakarta-based Entrepreneur & Start-up Advisor, working director with early-stage startups and nonprofits. Until recently, Bastian was the Founder and CEO of LYKE, an Indonesia mobile fashion marketplace with almost 2M users, which pioneered the use of visual recognition in e-commerce. LYKE was acquired by Chinese Unicorn JollyChic in January 2018. Before starting LYKE, Bastian attended Harvard Business School, worked in Silicon Valley, was an early employee at Groupon as well as Zalora’s first Chief Marketing Officer. Bastian has build teams in half a dozen countries, and is passionate about South-East Asia, and using technology as a global resource for good.

 

Find out more about him and get connected: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bastianpurrer/

ANGIN’s Angel Investor: Florian Holm

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Welcoming our new Angel, Florian Holm

Florian Holm is an economist by training and started his career in consulting with the Boston Consulting Group. For the past five years, he has worked in e-commerce in various roles and geographies, last as Lazada Indonesia’s country CEO from 2016 – 2018. Currently, Florian is working on his own startup and is active as an Angel Investor and mentor.

 

Find out more about him and get connected: https://www.linkedin.com/in/florianholm/

ANGIN’s Angel Investor: Mardianto E. Danusaputro

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Welcoming our new Angel, Mardianto E. Danusaputro

Mardianto E. Danusaputro is Chief Executive Officer of Mandiri Capital Indonesia (MCI), the corporate venture capital subsidiary of PT. Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk. MCI aims to provide equity funding for regional start-ups, with focus on the fintech sector. Eddi has more than 20 year’s working experience in various sectors, including consumer goods (at Procter & Gamble), management consulting (at AT Kearney and Booz Allen Hamilton) and financial services (including Morgan Stanley), whereby the majority of his work experience was in Singapore. In addition to working at large corporations, Eddi also has experience as an angel investor and social entrepreneur. Eddi graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta and also has a MBA degree from Duke University, USA and a Doctorate in Management from Universitas Indonesia.

[RECAP] An Emphasis on Women, Tech, and the Future of Entrepreneurship: Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2017

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1’500 delegates from 150 countries gathered in Hyderabad for this year’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES). The air buzzed with excitement as entrepreneurs, investors, and government officials mingled and connected with one another.
With the theme, “Women First, Prosperity For All,” GES 2017 brought in a variety of inspiring women figures and honed in on women-focused panels. Master classes such as “Success! Keeping and Nurturing Women in STEM” as well as an all-female panel discussing the future of artificial intelligence kept audience members engaged, while speeches from the likes of Ivanka Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi honed in on how investing in women could lead to a positive ripple effect and how India plans to continue as a prime location for innovation.
Meanwhile, the GIST Catalyst Pitch Competition was held throughout the summit, with 24 semifinalists competing for over $400,000 worth of prizes. Indonesian-based startup Humanitree – an app-based platform that improves access to education by connecting those who want to donate to a child’s education with child sponsorship NGOs and providing a secure payment method, updates, and impact dashboard – was among the semifinalists in the digital economy category. An Indian-based startup, Frontier Markets, took the grand prize: Frontier Markets is a last mile distribution solution for energy products with a focus on solar technology that empowers women by giving women in India the tools they need to teach their communities about the benefits of solar power and sell solar products.