VB Map Podcast - Venture Building and Corporate Innovation Andries De Vos

Arnaud Rubeck is an entrepreneur and management professional with over 10 years of experience. Currently, he is the founder & CEO of TripTax. Arnaud’s expertise spans a range of areas including strategic planning, operations consulting, and project management. He also has a strong interest in AI, fintech, blockchain, travel and food tech.

Eric Saint Andre is a leading expert in design thinking, innovation, business model innovation, new business design and startup acceleration. He is the Founder and Managing Director of ASA Advisory Services, a leading Innovation Consultancy based in Singapore and also the founder of Augmented Tribe, a tech startup offering an Innovation Platform to support organisations with their innovation and digital transformation initiatives.

Ignacio Gabaldon is an engineer and entrepreneur. He is now leading Igeneris Ventures, the Venture Builder branch of Igeneris working with a team to create a curated pipeline of startups that serve both Europe and Latin America from their office in Madrid, Spain.

In part 2 of our VB Map Podcast with Apoorva Ruparel,, we dig into how philosophical questions and human history can inform the creation of startups in the Web2-Web3 world: 
The role of standardization in scaling anything (religion, F&B, startups!) and the conditions needed for scaling,Categorizing human needs helps product strategists synthesize patterns and good practices in addressing problem statements,How the values system for the internet is broken and the opportunity for Web3 companies,What does a venture look like that builds for a world that transitions from Web2 to Web3?What verticals and problems are Web3 adoption ready? The risks and dangers of having average consumers start with angel investment.

Apoorva Ruparel is a serial Entrepreneur with 3 successful exits, angel investor, 500 Global Mentor. 

Apoorva is a Partner at Venturerock, a digital venture capital platform and ecosystem of founders, backers & builders building the next generation of global tech companies. He has over 20 years of experience in Enterprise Sales, Angel Investing, Fund Raising, Go To Market Strategy and Growth Hacking.
In this episode Slash CEO Andries De Vos and Apoorva Ruparel discuss:
Why startups fail and what the industry can do about it?The challenge of VCs: we don’t have a problem of choice, but a problem of quality.Real Venture Building has been around for a while, but is really only now arriving - but there is no perfect formula yetHow to breakdown the VB process into 70+ milestones, the strategic importance of acquiring building blocks for each, and how to structure your VB team capabilitiesHow much equity should a VB take and what is a fair equity stake for founders? We debated different models for financial inclusions between investors, founders and teams, and how those differ by region.VC-VB fund economics: how much money do you invest per startup, ownership targets, how much more risk can you take or should take

 In this week’s episode of the VB Map Podcast we’re going to dive into the eCommerce venture building landscape in South East Asia and India. 
Our guest is Archit Anand, the founder and CEO of Omnirio, a plug-and-play e-commerce platform serving hundreds of brands. 
Archit has been working in the eCommerce industry in SEA and India since 2015 and has seen first hand how the eCommerce revolution in Asia has transformed society.