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Asia Pacific
Asia Pacific
Good Afternoon
Asia Pacific
Adrian KohGeneral Manager (APAC)
Asia Pacific
Business-Building
Crowdfunding
Asia Pacific
Stages of funding
Private Investors PE FirmsAngels VCs
Pre-seed Seed A B, C, etc Pre-exit Exit
Business Building Crowd Investment
Crowd Investors
Business Owner
Business Building Crowd Investment
Private Investors
PE Firms
Angels
VCs
Stages of fu
nd
ing
• Campaigns raised over US$16 million over four years;
almost US$10 million in 2014 alone
• Median investment of US$600 per investor, but mean
investment of more than US$4,000 (for reward based
campaigns S$80); investors have been known to invest as
much as US$100,000 per investment
• FundedByMe experienced growth of 600% from Q4 2013 to
Q4 2014
Cool Insights from Our (Short) Four-Year History
What’s Starting in
Asia
Trends Driving the
Asia Revolution • Online marketplace
popularity (explosion of
retail e-commerce)
• Social media penetration
and savvy
• Success and popularity
of crowdfunding
• APAC to outspend North
America by $40bn, 45%
of all buyers worldwide
• 52% of social media
users and 47.6% of
mobile users.
• Singapore top ten
worldwide for
crowdfunding Source: Asia Briefing 2014, Wearesocial 2014.
Asia = Growth
2/3s of global middle class will live in Asia by 2030,
with 3.5bn coming from emerging economies
The Emerging Aspirations
Credit: Eden Strategy Institute 2013
Asia Pacific
• The Social, Mobile, Chat-Obsessed Citizen
• Economics of E-Commerce and E-Finance
• Innovation: From the 99% to the 70%
Important Trends
in 2015 and beyond
Asia Pacific
The Social, Mobile,
Digital Citizen
• Crowdfunding will gravitate to accommodate the mobile user
(shorter, more concise offerings, building credible, long term
relationships)
• Low resistance, high-speed payments
• The rise of the instant micro-investor
What does this mean for us?
Asia Pacific
Economics of
Ecommerce
The New Wallet
Alipay: Now Serving 1T
P2P Lending
P2P Lending
• Prevalence and growth of ecommerce usually predicts
strong growth in online-powered P2P financing services
• Developing world is quickly adopting these new forms, leap-
frogging developed economies
• Governments are just starting to realise this; Asia Pacific
markets are warming to securities-based crowdfunding
What does this mean for us?
Asia Pacific
From the 99% to the
70%
• Trends: Fintech innovations like M-PESA, a Mobile Phone Payment System by Safaricom in Kenya (12.2M active customers compared to 5.4M with bank accounts, 122k agents, 67% has access Oct 2014 compared to 41% in 2009)
• Cryptocurrency Innovations on phones to enable unbanked to hold money
• Social innovations to perform a form of KYC / background checks on people who have no formal credit history
Reaching the Unbanked - 70% of APAC
• Impact crowdfunding will become a powerful empowerment
tool for businesses in developing nations
• As crowdfunding and digital financing services continue to
innovate, it will start to open new opportunities among
unreached / unbanked, e.g. cryptocurrency
• Fintech will trickle back to developed nations from
developing nations
What does this mean for us?
Thank You“How can the crowd
investment industry
overcome the challenges of
breaking into traditional
Asian markets?”
