How Venture Capitalists Choose Companies to Invest in with Sequoia MD

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Are you an entrepreneur looking to potentially raise funds from a Venture Capital in future? Or are you just curious about what a venture capitalist looks out for when they choose to invest in top performing and high growth companies?

Join us for a fireside chat with Michele Ferrario, CEO and Co-Founder of StashAway and Abheek Anand, Managing Director at Sequoia Capital for a discussion on what VCs look for in companies and why they chose to invest in StashAway

Speakers & Moderator:

Abheek Anand (Managing Director at Sequoia Capital, Singapore)

Abheek is a Managing Director with Sequoia Capital based out of Singapore, where he focuses on early stage investments in Southeast Asia in sectors including consumer internet, financial services, and deep tech. Previously Abheek was co-founder of Tagtile, a technology startup in San Francisco that was acquired by Facebook. Prior to joining Sequoia, he was a product manager at Facebook in Menlo Park, where he led teams building several advertising products. Abheek has a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Delhi, an MSCS from the University of Maryland and an MBA from Stanford University.

Moderator: Michele Ferrario, Co-founder and CEO of StashAway

Michele spent half of his career in and around financial services, as a consultant to large financial institutions at McKinsey & Co., and then as a Private Equity investor.

He then spent the second part of his career building consumer internet companies, most recently as Group CEO of ZALORA, where he was responsible for it growing 15x and becoming the undisputed leader in the market. Michele holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and in 2016 was invited by Singapore’s Minister of Finance to be a member of Singapore's Committee for the Future of the Economy.

About StashAway

We’re Asia’s leading digital wealth manager, and in November 2020, we launched in the MENA region. We recently raised $25 million USD in Series D funding led by Sequoia Capital India, and our clients trust us with more than $1 billion USD under management. We’re here to build your wealth.

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