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Africa Eats is a novel investment holding company that takes 27 graduates from the Fledge accelerator and which answers the question of "how do you build out the food/ag supply chain across Africa to end hunger and poverty?" The answer is a mashup of venture capital, business accelerator, and Berkshire Hathaway.

Victor Chua is a founding and managing partner of Vynn Capital, a Southeast Asia-based VC firm with a core focus on value creation for institutional investors as well as founders of innovative startups through strategic investments into early-stage technology-driven startups.

"Our main goal is to educate clients on the importance of customer retention and why it has to be done together with customer acquisition efforts. We aim to help them understand why retention is more cost-effective when it comes to sustaining revenue."

To be clear, multiple hurdles remain to be overcome, from building the requisite charging infrastructure to support EVs, improving battery technology to make them safer and hold more power, as well as the responsible disposal of batteries at the end of their lifespan. However, the number one barrier to mass adoption right now is range anxiety.

Serial entrepreneur Gina Bianchini, CEO of Mighty Networks, shares a variety of marketing gems as she recounts the journey from zero to 10,000 customers.

These three phases of digitization correspond to the three states of "before service," "in service," and "after service," respectively. Without the digitalization of vehicle condition management, customer relationship management will purely rely on managers and technicians.

Market expansion in ASEAN can be tricky, as each country has different norms and consumer behaviors. Shippit’s regional marketing rep Divya Saraf shares key findings.

"Challenges in DeFi can be addressed through the following: helping users in understanding the product, ensuring an enhanced user experience, and improving transparency in DeFi solutions."

TechNode Global interviewed key members of the Fintech Angel Operators to seek their insights on the growing market for FinTech services in the Southeast Asia region with a particular focus on how the model of an angel investor network can accelerate growth in this space.

There has also been an increase in demand for ESG investments. The demand has led businesses to relook at their business models and move towards sustainable practices. This also adds pressure to businesses and leads them to claim that their products and services are “clean”, “organic”, “sustainable”.