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In this episode meet Sarah Garner, founder of Retykle, a platform revolutionizing the circular economy with the most delightful customer experience. Find out how she turns her values behind sustainability into products and processes throughout her business. Sarah also shares her experience fundraising and how the venture capital climate is changing.

In this episode, meet Yoona Kim, founder of Arine. Her entrepreneurial journey traces back to her middle school years. Today Arine is a medication optimization AI platform. Beyond that, Yoona shares her perspective on the social determinants of health and whole patient care. Discover how she became an entrepreneur and grew Arine to over 100 team members and recently closing their series B.

In this episode meet Maarten Hooft, Managing Partner at Quest Venture Partners. Hear how he started as an engineer in hardware and evolved to become an early stage investor in Silicon Valley while working with investors in Asia. Don't miss his highlights on Amplitude (public unicorn) and Neurable (brain and computer interface).

In this episode meet Dr. David Gething, an iron man, a vet, founder of veterinary group - Creature Comforts and now a pet commerce platform - Vetopia for Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area. Hear Dr. David's distinction between taking risk and being adventurous. Find out how he is relentless in every venture he embarks on and what are the values that have powered his veterinary group for over 20 years. 

In this episode, meet Vishal and Emma and find out how they are reimagining work, building teams and engagement around the world and in the Sowork metaverse. Drop by their metaverse office and say hi!

In this episode, meet Florian, founder of Soundbrenner and hear about how he is building a wearable for musicians and carving out a whole new era for the music industry to socialize and create. Get behind the scenes on how he moved from Germany to Asia to set up shop in Hong Kong and Shenzhen to sell to a global music community. 

In this episode, meet Calvin, founder of Wizpresso and see how his company is transforming the way legal and financial professionals take companies public. Connect with us at CoCoon on Linkedin. 

On this episode hear from Shabaz Ali Jamote of TelloTalk and TelloCast to find out how he is building a superapp for his country, Pakistan and why this is so much more than a social network. 

In this episode, Roland interviews Erica to find out how she started as an entrepreneur, her ideas on the future of work and what it takes to find a purposeful and fulfilling role. 

In this episode, we go way back with Roland to hear about his pathway to becoming a technology investor, what he thinks about the future of work and how startups are impacting the way professional services operate. 

In this episode, we go way back and find out about Theodore's early experiences as an entrepreneur, what he thinks about the future of work, and his latest venture, MPower. 

Welcome to the CoCoon Podcast. Here you will find conversations we have with founders and investors on topics that include the future and sustainability of work, the development of new economies and how businesses are transforming towards new opportunities. Find more resources and connect with us online by searching for CoCoon - Born to Fly on Linkedin. We'd love to connect there. Be sure to follow us as well. Download more episodes or subscribe via Spotify and Youtube.

How do women become investors? In this series, hear from investors on how they got started, what they look for in founders and teams, and how future women in investing should equip themselves.   Meet Allison Baum Gates, General Partner at SemperVirens Venture Capital and get inspired by her mission to build the future of work landscape. Discover how Allison built her network and pathway towards becoming a venture capitalist. Explore Allison's unique framework on how the future of work is digital, dynamic, diverse, distributed and data driven.    Allison is an experienced investor with unique skillset establishing, raising, launching, and deploying early stage venture capital funds across multiple geographies. Globally recognized thought leader in the future of work featured in Forbes, Pitchbook, Business Insider, Inc., Quartz, Bloomberg Tech, Venture Beat, and Silicon Republic. Active writer, speaker and lecturer on innovation, venture capital, public and private markets, the future of work, and technology startups.   More about Allison:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonbaumgates/  https://www.sempervirensvc.com/    About this Series: Becoming an Investor In this series, hear from women investors on how they got started, what they look for in founders and teams, and how future women in investing should equip themselves. Join the CoCoon Online Community: http://www.hkcocoon.com​  Backstory from Erica:  I watch Shark Tank with my daughters: Sophia (6) and Zoe (4). I wanted to introduce them to kid entrepreneurs so they could see how other kids can turn ideas into reality. One evening Sophia asked, "Mommy why is there only one girl and who is she?" She was pointing at Lori Greiner. "I want to be her when I grow up."   I started thinking of the 100+ college interns I've worked with, many of them women - those with the brightest spark all aim to become an investor one day.  I hope that this series of insights and stories will inspire young girls, teenagers, college students, sisters, daughters, girlfriends to embark on the different journeys that make becoming an investor who can mobilize capital to make a difference in the world possible. Enjoy and tell us who you want to hear from in the comments below.    More about Erica: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericama1​  CoCoon Smart Talk會邀請不同的講者分享各個範疇的專業見解及經驗分享，並致力讓大家擴闊想像力，創造影響力並建立新聯繫。  BRING IDEAS FORWARD.    Follow CoCoon on Instagram: @hkcocoon @cocoonfoundation  Like CoCoon on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/HKCoCoon/ Join our online community on: https://cocoon.mn.co/feed Discover more about CoCoon on: https://www.hkcocoon.com/ Want to watch more Videos from CoCoon: https://www.youtube.com/user/HKCoCoon

In this episode, hear from Samantha Wang, Co-founder & General Partner at RPS Ventures. Discover how she got started at Deutsche Bank and how her journey traversed to startups and investments. Samantha will also share what she looks for in founders and how future women in investing should equip themselves.

How do women become investors? In this series, hear from investors on how they got started, what they look for in founders and teams, and how future women in investing should equip themselves.    Meet Frances Kang, Project Director, Horizons Ventures and Co-Founder, We Lab and get inspired by her prolific journey as an investor and entrepreneur solving for financial inclusion. Discover how Frances evaluates founders and why she is very hopeful about the future.    Frances leads the Fintech and frontier markets investments of Horizons. She has led investments in multiple early stage fintech & insurtech companies that are unicorns today, such as N26 (led B round, unicorn today), Hippo Insurance (led A round, unicorn today), Airwallex (invested in B round, unicorn today), and WeFox (led A round, unicorn today). She is also championing consumer tech investments in frontier markets, mainly Indonesia, and led investments in Kopi Kenangan and Bobobox for Horizons. Before her Fintech and SEA investments, she has been deeply involved in socially-conscious technology companies and was founding Board member of several seed stage companies such as Perfect Day and BlueDot, helping entrepreneurs getting off the ground.  http://www.horizonsventures.com/  Frances is also a Co-Founder of WeLab. Founded in 2013 in Hong Kong, WeLab is reinventing traditional financial services by creating seamless mobile lending experiences. With its proprietary risk management technology, WeLab effectively analyzes unstructured mobile big data within seconds to make credit decisions for individual borrowers. WeLab operates Wolaidai (我来贷), one of China’s leading mobile lending platforms, and WeLend.hk, Hong Kong’s leading online lending platform.  https://www.welab.co/en/   More about Frances: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceskang/?originalSubdomain=hk

How do entrepreneurs balance life as a parent? @sarahalgarner Founder of @retykle and @jerometam228 Founder of @rushhourmedia & Our Big Day play #GameofTowers while sharing insights from their entrepreneurship experience. Listen, Play-Along and Get Inspired! Also available on Youtube.  #founders #innovation #startups #bethechange #2020 #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #parents #parenthood

Derek Yeung, the Co-founder of she.com and Chef Nic Holdings Limited, and Keith Rumjahn, the Founder of OliveX, accept the challenge of Game of Towers and share some thoughts and insights going through COVID-19. How has COVID-19 impacted their businesses? How can entrepreneurs adapt and evolve during the pandemic? Check out this episode to hear more about their stories! Watch this on youtube as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp5PqLben8E

A dream is created by many thoughts，夢想是由無數想法創造出來的。   很多正在打工的人都有自己的理想，亦想創一片天，卻只停留在「想」的階段，而沒有踏出多一步去做 ...... 首先要改變打工求安穩的狀態，把個人生活層面的事業，擴展到整個香港市場的前進，才會有創業精神。   不要因為失敗而感到丟臉！ 創業，應該接納挫敗、錯失感，反而應該把失敗說出來。年紀輕輕便多次成功創業的創業達人 Andy Ann，原來也經歷過大大小小的失敗，才造就現在的成就。透過本書，他毫不吝嗇地分享他的成功與失敗，讓年輕人能以此為鑒，走出屬於自己的成功路。   Andy Ann (安宇昭) Founder NDN Group shares the ups and downs behind his entrepreneurship journey.  More about Andy Ann.   Andy's latest book 創業不困難 is available at Cosmo Books and My Book One. 

How do women become investors? In this series, hear from investors on how they got started, what they look for in founders and teams, and how future women in investing should equip themselves. Meet Cheryl Cheng, General Partner, Blue Run Ventures, and get inspired by her investor journey from new products and innovation at Chlorox to funding digital health startups.

How do you turn your ideas into action and build the future? In a time where there is more sensationalism and polarization than ever, we want to highlight people and teams that are bringing positive change to their community and making real impact on the ground. Meet Mike Kim, Board of Director, Korea Legacy Committee and get inspired by how he leverages social media and the youth to feed the elderly in Korea. Find out how this playbook can be applied in your community as well. thttps://en.korealegacy.com/   Meet Mike Kim, Currently Head of Google for Startups APAC. Mike is passionate about empowering and supporting the next generation of entrepreneurial pioneers in Asia. Prior to Google, he led Global Business Development for LinkedIn's Profile & Higher Education product teams. He also served as Senior Director of Corporate Development for Baedal Minjok ( 배달의민족 ), Korea's largest mobile food ordering application, and spent time leading business development for Monster Worldwide and social gaming giant Zynga. More about Mike here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekim/