Anchorless VC: Why & How Angels Can Prepare Portfolios For VC

Rahat Ahmed from Anchorless Bangladesh provides an insightful primer for active and aspiring angels exploring angel investing opportunities in 🇧🇩

As the 9th largest mobile user market in the world, the largest registered population of online freelancers, one of the fastest-growing economies and a middle class that is now in the tens of millions, Bangladesh’s startup ecosystem has been garnering much interest in recent years. Check out this snippet from our exclusive fireside chat with Rahat Ahmed, the Founding Partner & CEO of New York based VC fund Anchorless Bangladesh, as he talks about angel investing fundamentals, especially in the context of the Bangladesh market, and how angels can actively screen for and prepare their portfolios for follow-on funds from VCs like him.

Hear from him on: 
🔴 Where do angels fit into the funding cycle?
🔴 Finding the right “startup” investment
🔴 Current issues in the Bangladesh angel investing scene
🔴 Managing portfolio risk
🔴 Key metrics for startups at each round of funding

🚀 To learn more about angel investing in Bangladesh, check out Rahat’s comprehensive article on how to go about it and Nirjhor Rahman’s featured write-up on how to better manage your angels as a founder.

About the speaker:
Rahat was born in Bangladesh and emigrated to the United States at the age of 8. He went onto graduate from New York University's Stern School of Business, after which he joined Prince Street Capital and invested throughout emerging and frontier markets with a focus on emerging technologies. There, he also started covering Bangladesh, leading their investments in the Dhaka Stock Exchange.

In 2016, he helped seed Pathao, Bangladesh’s #1 superapp, in what would become his first engagement with the country's startup ecosystem. Previously, he also co-founded a virtual reality startup for professional sports and was the primary strategist at a healthcare non-profit.  Anchorless Bangladesh is a New York-based venture capital fund that's solely focused on investing in Bangladeshi startups. Since launch, they’ve made investments in various key sectors, including education, fintech, logistics and healthcare.

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