Investor Conversations Show Featuring World Business Angels Investment Forum

The World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF) is an international organisation aiming to ease access to finance for businesses from start up to scale up to exit. As an affiliated partner of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI), it is committed to collaborating globally to empower world economic development by creating innovative financial instruments for innovators, startups, scaleups, entrepreneurs, and SMEs and to promoting gender equality and women’s participation in all sectors of the world economy.

Mariana Kou, Senator for China at WBAF, says, that innovation and technology advancement are key to social and economic development and encourages all stakeholders in the public and private sectors to collaborate and contribute to the startup economy in China, Asia, and globally.

She gives an overview of WBAF and talks about:

• The organisation’s structure, their members, partners and key stakeholders.
• The angel investor ecosystem in China.
• The key investment themes and trends into 2022.
• As an angle investor, what she looks for in entrepreneurs and companies
• Some of the mistakes learnt as an angel investor
• Advise for new budding investors

Guest: Mariana Kou, Senator for China, World Business Angels Investment Forum

Host: Brian Fernandez

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