Former Managing Director and now an Entrepreneur, Ned Phillips is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bambu, a B2B WealthTech Company. Ned was one of the first online brokers and was promoted to Managing Director at E*TRADE. He was also part of the stock exchange transformation, where he developed two pan-Asian exchanges, one of which is in conjunction with SCX and Chi-X. Ned had the opportunity to experience the first dot-com boom with one of the original FinTech companies and became appointed as a consultant to 8 Securities when they launched the first Robo-advisor in Asia. Every week, he is hosting the Podcast “WealthTech Unwrapped” diving into different topics with his guests - from ideas on what the future of Robo-advisory should be, to the inside scoop of what it takes to run a tech company.
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Few weeks apart, Bessemer Venture Partners and Balderton Capital, two of the largest Venture Capital Funds representing over $25bn of Asset Under Management, opened the discussion to improve the mental fitness of their portfolio companies.
Why?
According to Suranga Chandratillake, General Partner at Balderton Capital The firm hopes that attending to its founders’ wellbeing will help it win more deals, as well as improve its portfolio’s chances of success.
- “We are being quite selfish long term,” he says. “We think it’s in their interest but it’s also in our interest — it’s how we make money.”
This session led by Janos Barberis of Founders Taboo and moderated by founders that have raised over $30million over their careers, will help investors understand:
- Why having empathy towards founders is a competitive advantage for their fund and how it will improve their deal flow?
- What is the size of the problem - how many founders struggle with the taboo of their mental health and why does it affect their performance?
- Where is the opportunity for investors to be an early mover in promoting a new investment thesis where healthier founders generate healthier returns - what is the return of a founder-friendly fund?
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