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Arturo Venti’s business begins where the map gets complicated
From European resort homes to Florida student housing, Arturo Venti has built a career connecting people with property across borders. At BAI Capital, that work now joins real estate development with families’ plans for a life in the United States.
Andrew Adamovich and the art of building something that lasts
Before founding AdvanCell, Andrew Adamovich invested in companies across Asia. His next act brought scientists, designers and investors together - and eventually meant handing over the CEO’s job while staying to build in Australia.
Mun Yew Wong and the Other Side of the Table
Before founding Imagene Labs, Mun Yew Wong spent years assessing other people’s companies. His career between Singapore, Silicon Valley and China offers a closer look at what changes when an investor becomes a founder.
Carolyn Campbell and the business of staying power
From corporate law in Eastern Europe to cafés, banks and utilities in Africa, Carolyn Campbell has spent her career helping businesses grow. ECP’s co-founder and COO works where investment decisions meet the daily demands of running a company.
Ali Malihi and the business of making introductions
From Paine Webber in 1981 to Back Bay Group and an AI research consortium, Ali Malihi has worked where capital, companies and people meet. His Boston career offers a close look at the practical work behind an investment.
Fred Hu and the price of an open door
A boy from rural Hunan wanted to become a writer. After Harvard, the IMF and Goldman Sachs, Fred Hu built Primavera Capital around a conviction that keeps getting harder to defend: countries gain when they stay connected.
Dmitry Akhanov and the business of trust
From restructuring Russia’s electricity industry to backing Silicon Valley hardware, Dmitry Akhanov built a career around making complicated systems work across borders. Then the borders became part of the problem.
Thomas Park and the work after the deal
Thomas Park helped bring ETF businesses in Canada, Australia and the United States into Mirae Asset’s orbit. His career follows what happens after a deal closes: board seats, leadership changes and a new route into venture investing.
Hurley Doddy and the business of getting closer
From a Salomon Brothers elevator to the boardrooms of African businesses, Hurley Doddy has built a career around a practical question: how do you help a company grow across borders?
We Founder Circle is betting talent has no postcode
An angel network built by founders is turning local relationships into startup capital. Its revealing wager: the next investable company need not live near the people with the chequebooks.
Quest Ventures bets on the space between markets
From a shared workspace in Singapore to $50,000 startup cheques in Kazakhstan, Quest Ventures has made a business of connecting founders to their next market. Its wager is that introductions, local knowledge and patient capital belong in the same package.
888vc wants to put the right people on your cap table
The Bengaluru investor pairs early-stage capital with a cross-border network. Its wager: a useful introduction can change what a young company is able to build.
KK Fund bets on the people who know the way in
A Singapore venture firm connects early-stage Asian startups with capital, industry knowledge and a Japanese investor network. Its most useful lesson: a promising market is easier to enter when somebody already knows the door.
The Company That Knows Which Door Opens Next
Bondi Partners sells something more useful than access: a map of who matters, what changes next, and how an ambitious company turns policy into a contract.
Angel Ventures built a network. Then it followed the money across borders.
The Mexican investor behind early bets on Clip and Kueski grew from an angel club into a regional fund manager. Its next test is turning cross-border knowledge into businesses that can earn their keep.
BEENEXT bets on founders. Even after the bad news.
A wrecked office, a broken database and a pitch that almost never happened: inside the Singapore venture firm that backs entrepreneurs across borders - and now wants to reinvent itself.
Meixin (MX) Global
Meixin (MX) Global is a New York-based cross-border financial technology and wealth-management platform founded in 2015. It connects Asian wealth managers, independent advisors, private funds and family offices with a curated menu of global alternative investments - real estate debt and preferred equity, hedge funds, private equity, private debt and more - backed by tech-enabled infrastructure for asset analysis, due diligence, custody and reporting. Positioned as a turnkey asset-management platform for the Greater China wealth ecosystem, the company has reported over $2 billion in assets under administration and 1,600+ investable products.
Kevin Diao
Kevin (Shengxin) Diao is the co-founder and CEO of Meixin (MX) Global, a New York-based cross-border fintech and investment management company he started in 2015 at age 26. The firm builds technology that gives Asian wealth managers, private funds and family offices access to global alternative investments, aggregating investor subscriptions to lower minimums and costs. A graduate of NYU's Stern School of Business, Diao previously worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Greentech Capital Advisors and Societe Generale. He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list for Finance & Venture Capital in 2017 and to Tatler Asia's Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow list in 2019.
Build Block
Build Block is a Korea-founded real estate company that gives Korean investors and companies a single, end-to-end path into the U.S. property market. What began as a cross-border investment platform lowering the barrier for individual Asian investors has grown into a full-stack operator: brokerage, architectural design and permitting, construction management as a general contractor, and post-investment asset and facility management. Today it also builds the physical backbone of the AI economy - data centers and EPC plants for semiconductor, battery, and advanced manufacturing - for Korean firms reshoring to the United States.
Kimberly Nearing
Kimberly Nearing is the Chief Business Officer of MaveriX Oncology, a Palo Alto biotech building tumor-selective small molecule drug conjugates. She is a Venture Partner at BVCF (Bioveda China Fund) and spent over a decade as Managing Director and Head of Life Sciences at the Hong Kong-based Cedrus Group, building bridges for capital and deals between the U.S., Europe, and Greater China. With early operating years at Amgen, Merck, and IBM Healthcare and a master's from Harvard, she pairs deep biotech operating experience with the relationships that move money across the Pacific.