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Amarit Charoenphan – Hubba – Bangkok

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Amarit’s passion and life’s work has been to help people realize their dreams and become the most successful startups, entrepreneurs, and freelancers by building a vibrant, supportive startup ecosystem through the best coworking spaces, events, education, media and funding scene.

As the cofounder of HUBBA, Thailand’s 1st coworking space and the Hub of Startups in Thailand, they serve 200+ active members and over 6,000 visitors in their 3 years of existence.

HUBBA is also leader in activating the Thai technology startup ecosystem through events, conferences and media. With experience in organizing over 300 events, HUBBA is best known for as Co-Country Host of Geeks on a Plane Southeast Asia tour in Thailand in 2013 and 2014 as well as organizing Start it Up Conference 2015 (via our media joint venture Techsauce), Thailand’s top tech startup conference attended by over 800 people in 2015.

His ultimate goal is to create a vibrant technology startup ecosystem in Thailand, by providing valuable resources and support to the members and the greater Thai startup community via creating highly collaborative coworking communities, world renowned events and conferences, highly informative and Silicon Valley-style education and workshops and by spreading the world via their media Techsauce, they want to elevate Thai startups to a regional and global level and transform Thailand into a true digital economy and Bangkok into one of the major startup capital of Asia.

1 week left until BDL Accelerate 2015!

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‪BDL Accelerate 2015‬ is now in production mode!
In one week, this 6,000 sqm space will host 2 stages, 2 workshop spaces, 2 startup competitions, 2 hackathons, 200 startups & exhibitors, 100 speakers, 400 investors, and over 5,000 attendees!

The currently registered attendees, the majority of which are entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, advisors, and professors, will be traveling from close to 50 countries to attend BDL Accelerate 2015.

The theme for BDL Accelerate 2015 being “Emerging Startup Ecosystems,” Lebanon’s 2nd international startup conference will be bringing together influential stakeholders from startup ecosystems from 9 key cities – London, Istanbul, New York, Tehran, Berlin, Cairo, Singapore, Madrid, and Beirut. An exceptional set of startups, venture capitalists, accelerators, policy makers, and more will represent the 9 ecosystems that will each have its own pavilion to showcase its institutions.

There will be 2 stages at the conference, one of which will be dedicated to panels, keynotes, and fireside chats as a space for 100 influential speakers from over 40 countries to share their best practices, discuss the challenges they faced during the developing stages of their ecosystems, and exchange their knowledge. The aim of the valuable engagement and knowledge shared on this stage will be a great stepping stone for the Lebanese ecosystem to thrive through learning from the trials and errors of other ecosystems.

The second stage will be dedicated to the startup pitches as part of the two competitions BDL Accelerate 2015 is hosting dedicated to idea stage startups and early stage startups. The aim of these competitions is to educate and provide tools to aspiring entrepreneurs and to assist them in succeeding, as well as to find the best startup in the local scene.

Separately, our Wearables Hackathon and Web & Mobile Hackathon are accepting applications. Each is awarding 6,000 US$ of cash prizes, which should make for worthy challenges to test the best.

If you have not registered to attend BDL Accelerate 2015, you can do so here.

We look forward to seeing you next week!

Ville Miettinen – Microtask – Finland

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Ville is a serial entrepreneur and an angel investor. The last couple of years he has been particularly interested in crowdsourcing, cloud labor, and human computation — disruptive technologies that are transforming the way people work all over the world.

A hacker at heart, he has spent way too many years banging out code in assembler, C, and other languages used by real cowboys. He’s got a long background in computer graphics, and was the CTO and one of the founders of Hybrid Graphics, a pioneer in real-time 3D graphics technologies. They created some of the very first commercial 3D engines and licensed them to games companies all over the world. He was the co-author of the SurRender3D engine & Umbra visibility optimization middleware.

Later on, they wrote the first implementations of OpenGL ES, OpenVG, JSR-184 and other graphics standards, and licensed them to hundreds of millions of embedded devices in the mobile phone and automotive industries. Hybrid was acquired by NVIDIA in 2006.

These days he’s the CEO & founder at Microtask.

He is an angel investor, board member and advisor in several graphics technology, crowdsourcing & games companies in Europe and Silicon Valley. He is actively involved in the Northern European start-up scene, mentoring start-ups at, e.g., Startup Sauna, GameFounders, Nestholma, Founder Institute and HackFwd.

In his free time, he travels around the planet, and over the years have become a semi-professional photographer.

How do VCs look for Success Stories?

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To help entrepreneurs get an idea on how VCs look for the next success stories, we approached two VC firms in Lebanon, Berytech and Leap Ventures.

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Berytech:
Berytech was established in 2001 and is the oldest firm in Lebanon to provide support to startups. It has since grown through the years to become an ecosystem of 3 incubators, 3 finds, 1 accelerator, and coworking support spaces.

Berytech is an exciting community of entrepreneurs who support each other and grow. They provide business support at the different growth stages of the startup, flexible worry-free hosting services where the startups can plug and play and expand flexibly.

When looking for success stories, Berytech believes that Lebanon is filled with lots of great human talent who are often hidden or worried to go through the risky entrepreneurial path. Berytech is there to help them figure out if the path is right for them and to support them every step of the way in terms of training and coaching.

Check their website to learn more.

Leap Ventures

Leap Ventures:
Leap Ventures was founded in 2014 as a venture capital firm specializing in investments in startups. The firm is based in Beirut and is also located in Dubai. It invests in the MENA region with a focus on Lebanon.

Leap ventures was formed by a team of serial entrepreneurs who have decades of startup experience under their belt. They can support entrepreneurs through funding, strategy training, providing operational resources, marketing expertise, global connections, and more.

To find the next success stories, they leverage their extensive entrepreneurial experience: engaging with promising entrepreneurs, providing fresh views and strategic opportunities, and planning for transformative growth.

Check their website to learn more.

Liz Fleming – South Summit – Madrid

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Liz Fleming

Liz has spent most of her career in the early stage venture capital industry. Starting out as an investment advisor with Enterprise Ireland, a public VC investing €40m per annum into 70+ startups following on as programme manager at HBAN, Ireland´s national business angel network, establishing 7 business angel syndicates across the country with an investment capacity of approx. €20m.

As deputy director for the Venture Lab at IE Business School (ranked No.1 in Europe, 13 worldwide by FT ´13) Liz was responsible for accelerating 50 teams and spinning out on average 10 start ups per year connecting teams to over €15m in capital. As managing director of the Venture Network, a weekly pitch slam event, Liz built a community of over 1200 entrepreneurs with 350+ startups pitching to 50+ investors over 3 years. Liz also launched editions of the Venture Network in 11 cities across Spain and internationally in Bogota, Medellin, Johannesburg, Helsinki, Taipei, & Tel Aviv.

While at IE Liz helped design and implement the Spain Startup Co-investment Fund, a €40m seed fund run in collaboration with Enisa, Spain´s leading government agency for innovation. Liz also sat on the steering committee of the Startup Europe Partnership, a platform for scaling startups in Europe launched by the EU Commission.

Now as VP International for Spain Startup, Liz´s goal is to showcase the talent and innovation coming out of Southern Europe, the Mediterranean, and Latin America at The South Summit, one of Europe’s leading startup conferences. Liz is Spain´s only Kauffman Fellow and was listed as one of Europe’s Top 100 Women in Tech by GirlsInTech, and one of the Top 100 Women in Tech on Twitter by Business Insider.