The COVID-19 pandemic is pushing businesses around the world to count its mounting costs and damages. With this crisis, the startups are in a hustle mode to deal with the situation. Every start-up is thinking, "what should I be doing right now?"
VCCircle’s upcoming Digital Training on ‘Navigating the COVID-19 Crisis: Lessons from APAC for Startups’ will help startups find answers to many such questions that the entrepreneurs are currently grappling with.
The training that will be conducted by leading experts and thought leaders would provide insights into how startups can do more with the current resources; the new revenue models that can be looked at; fundraising in these uncertain times, investor sentiment globally and some valuation techniques. The training will also bring a rich learning experience for our startups straight from China, who have gone through the pandemic situation, to share insights on how to survive in this situation.
Key takeaways
Who should attend?
By Tejeshwi Sharma, Principal, Sequoia Capital India LLP
By Wallace Guo, Managing Partner, Taihecap (TH Capital)
By Amish Mehta, Partner–Valuation, Modeling & Economics, EY
Wallace Guo is a Managing Partner at Taihecap (TH Capital), focusing on technology, automotive, logistics and enterprise services sectors. He is also in charge of emerging market business, focusing on consumption, logistics and finance sectors. He is responsible for the deal closing in Guazi.com (largest used-car platform), with a total of over US$3 billion in financing since 2016.
As a well-recognized investment banker, Mr.Guo has led top deals including Pinduoduo (NASDAQ:PDD, pioneer of new e-commerce), G7 (Leading intelligent IOT company mainly serving logistics industry), Manbang (Largest freight service provider to maximize the power of big data to improve logistics efficiency), Renrendai (Pioneer of personal financial platform)? ShareChat (India’s largest regional social network), Kuaidi Dache (One of the top two taxihailing apps, merged with Didi in 2015), Aihuishou (Largest platform for recycling and selling second-hand electronic items), Horizon Robotics (Pioneer in AI edge computing for smart mobility), Lixiang Automotive (Leading new energy intelligent vehicle manufacturer), and Xiaozhu.com (Leading short-term rental and home sharing platform)?which are all top leading players in new economy.
Prior to this, he worked in KPMG's Financial Advisory, participating in the investment and M&A transactions of international funds and large foreign-funded enterprises in China. He also served in Accenture, providing Fortune 500 companies with business and strategic advisory
services.
Mr.Guo was honored “Fortune's 2018 40 Under 40” in China, an annual selection of the most influential young people in business. He became the only investment banker on the list.
As a Principal, Tejeshwi Sharma advises on growth stage consumer internet and SaaS investments for Sequoia in India.
He currently serves on the boards of companies such as Moglix, Rebel Foods and Whatfix amongst others.
He previously managed Tencent’s India investments, where he led the investment in BYJUs.
Tejeshwi graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi with a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and holds an MBA from Stanford GSB.
Skills and professional experience
Amish’s key competencies includes equity/business valuation, brand and other intangible valuation for various purposes such as swap ratios/share entitlement ratios, other transactions, restructuring, regulatory requirements, financial and NAV reporting
Some of the marquee assignments are as follows:
Skills and professional experience
VCC Events opens up the avenues for participation. Join hands to be a part of India’s largest gathering of alternative investments leaders, industry stakeholders and Asia’s influential limited partners, general partners and marquee advisors. Your chance to actively participate and augment yourself as thought leaders.
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