Sketchnote Partners Fund: Backing First-Class Entrepreneurs in Asia
Sketchnote Partners Fund is focused on enabling and empowering entrepreneurs through an all-in-one learning, productivity, and collaboration platform. It aims to facilitate access to finance to first-time entrepreneurs. Julio Arias is Co-founder at Sketchnote & Managing Director at Sketchnote Partners.
Sketchnote debuted its first investment in Bangladesh earlier this year with Arogga, a leading digital health platform offering medicine delivery nationwide across Bangladesh, where it co-invested in the $1.3m seed round alongside Hyper, Ratio Ventures, SRB Ventures, Demand Curve’s CEO Julian Shapiro, IDLC, and others.
In this episode, Julio talks about:
✨ Sketchnote's screening/due diligence process and portfolio companies
✨ Approach towards the Indian and SE Asian ecosystems, and how Bangladesh compares
✨ Thoughts on the Bangladesh tech ecosystem and its opportunities
This episode is also available on Anchor.
About the speaker:
Julio is an expert in Asian markets where he lived for over 20 years, first as a Beijing-based management consultant for clients such as eBay and PayPal, then as an analyst and diplomat for the EU in China, Belgium, Indonesia, and Japan. Julio is a prolific angel investor and advisor to 50+ startups. He's an early member of Angel Investment Network Indonesia, Partner at Cupido Capital and Chairman of Trevol Labs. Julio received an MSc from the LSE and a BA from Durham University, and a scholar at the EU-China Young Managers Training Program in Beijing.
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