After a six-month hiatus, Bitcoin.co.th has resumed operation after getting the go-ahead from the Bank of Thailand. Back in August of 2013, the national bank ruled that Bitcoin was an illegal, non-currency. And Thailand’s largest online Bitcoin exchange was pressured to halt business. However, the bank has now softened on their position as reported...
Semyon Dukach is an angel investor and former professional blackjack player with the MIT Blackjack Team. He currently serves as Managing Director of Techstars in Boston. Semyon has invested in over 70 startup companies as an angel investor, mostly in the Boston area. In this podcast episode, he shares his tips for people interested...
Keirn O’Connor is an emerging markets investor in Southeast Asia and greater China. He was Managing Director at AIM Capital Management, a boutique investment firm that provided capital to companies in Cambodia and Vietnam. Before that he also served as Managing Director of Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF), managing their Vietnam fund. In this...
Dean Van Drasek is Executive Director of Arch Advisory. Throughout his career, he has shifted between law, investment banking, and fund management. He has a long history of working in Asia since first coming over to work in South Korea as a business lawyer in 1988. In this podcast episode, he talks about investment...
Sergey Gribov is a technology entrepreneur originally from Russia. He has been a founder or top manager in a number of startups over the years in the USA, Russia, and also Israel. He was employee number one at Compugen, and today serves as the Managing Partner at Startup Access. Sergey also sits on the board...
The Singapore-based online shopping site for luxury goods, Reebonz, recently obtained an investment of US$40 million led by MediaCorp, Singapore’s biggest broadcaster. This now reportedly brings the total value of Reebonz to just under US$200 million. Founded in 2009, Reebonz offers high quality luxury goods at steep discounts, which has attracted about 2 million...
Bruce Miller, a Boston based technologist and Angel investor talks about his criteria for making angel investments. He also discusses the problem of packet-loss with mobile communication, and the technology that is being developed to solve this problem. Part 1: Part 2: Today we’re joined by Bruce Miller who is an Angel investor...