VC panel with Pahrada "Mameaw" Sapprasert (500 TukTuks), Prakhar Khanduja (Legend Capital) and William Bao Bean (SOSV & MOX).
時間 | TIME: 2/22 (Fri/五) 6:30-9.30pm
地點 | PLACE: MOX @ TTA, No. 2號, Section 4, Nanjing East Road, Songshan District, Taipei City, 105
捷運 | MRT: Taipei Arena Exit 2 （捷運小巨蛋站二號出口)
For this MOX happy hour, we are thrilled to welcome Pahrada "Mameaw" Sapprasert , Prakhar Khanduja and William Bao Bean.
Pahrada (Mameaw) Sapprasert
Forbes 30 Under 30 Honoree 2018 — recognized by Forbes as one of the most influential Venture Capitalists of age under 30 in Asia Pacific. Mameaw is currently Director of 500 TukTuks - a micro-fund focused on promising Thai startups in seed stage. 500 TukTuks I and II have invested in over 57 companies in the past 40 months and is also the most active investor in Thailand. Other than making investments, 500 TukTuks also empowers startups with best of Silicon Valley’s education, thinking, talent to provide unfair advantage in the local market. Previous to joining 500 TukTuks, Mameaw was a Money-Market Dealer at Bangkok Bank and graduated from Imperial College London with MSc Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Management.
Prakhar Khanduja
Prakhar is a seasoned tech Entrepreneur. He was the founder of world's first livestreaming app InstaLively. His last two companies were acquired by India's largest messaging app: Hike Messenger(Tencent), where he was led product growth for the company. Prakhar was also the VP Product for HOLLA Group(Top #5 Social app US App store). He currently works at Legend Capital, China and looks after India and SE Asia investments.
William Bao Bean
William is a General Partner at SOSV - The Accelerator VC - with US$300m under management and the #4 most active seed investor in the world 2017. At SOSV he is the Managing Director of Chinaccelerator the first accelerator to launch in Asia and the first to have a unicorn – Bitmex in Batch 8 – go through its program. He is also Founder and Managing Director of MOX, the Mobile Only Accelerator with 167m smartphone users on its platform helping mobile startups expand globally. William joined SOSV from SingTel Innov8 Ventures where he was a founding Managing Director supporting China investments. Prior to that William was a Partner at Softbank China & India Holdings, a venture capital firm backed by Softbank and Cisco, leading investments in China and South East Asia. Previously, William spent 11 years as an equity research analyst most recently with Deutsche Bank where he was responsible for Internet and Telecom Equipment in Asia and China Tech, Media and Telecom.
MOX Friday Happy Hours
The MOX Friday Happy Hour series is an open community event for Taipei’s tech startup community. Speakers include local thought leaders and international experts from MOX’s international mentor network, but we also have the best beer and social networking in town, so hope to see you there!
ABOUT MOX
MOX — SOSV’s “Mobile-Only Accelerator” located in Taipei — enables mobile apps, platforms and services from around the world to reach hundreds of millions of mobile-first, mobile-only users. Through strategic partnerships in the mobile industry, MOX maintains a competitive advantage that allows its participants rapid penetration into emerging mobile markets. We aim to bring best in breed mobile solutions from mature markets to the next 4 billion smartphone users who most need them. MOX is the Mobile Only Accelerator within SOSV, the 3rd most active lead investor globally and and 5th most active seed investor in female-founded startups (Crunchbase 2018). We are also the first accelerator fund in Asia and third in the world to have a unicorn go through the program (BitMEX).
