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Understanding What Impact Investment Truly Is, w/ Ilaria Chan, Advisor on Tech & Social Impact for Grab

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In this episode, we are joined by Ilaria Chan, Advisor on Tech & Social Impact for Grab, one of Asia’s most prominent tech unicorns. Having started her career in investment banking with Goldman Sachs, today Ilaria is a global keynote speaker, private investor, and serves on the Board of Trustees of several humanitarian organizations. We talk all about impact investment and socially conscious startups and the investment ecosystem that revolves around them.

SHOW NOTES

03:14 Introduction to Ilaria Chan

07:04 Ilaria’s expertise in Impact Investment

09:32 Understanding the reality of Impact Invest and Difference between East & West

14:50 Impact vs Profitability: The quandary for social entrepreneurs for raising funds

20:09 How Tech Unicorns are making social impact a big of their proposition

26:05 Tangible impact vs Intangible Impact: Is one less important than the other?

30:22 The “green-washing” trend in impact investment

34:41 Flow of innovation from East to the West

43:44 Connect with Ilaria

Many thanks to our guests Ilaria Chan; host Oscar Ramos; producers Eva Shi and Sagar Chaudhary; editor David; organizer Chinaccelerator; and sponsor People Squared. Be sure to check out our website www.chinaccelerator.com

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In this episode, we are joined by Ilaria Chan, Advisor on Tech & Social Impact for Grab, one of Asia’s most prominent tech unicorns. Having started her career in investment banking with Goldman Sachs, today Ilaria is a global keynote speaker, private investor, and serves on the Board of Trustees of several humanitarian organizations. We talk all about impact investment and socially conscious startups and the investment ecosystem that revolves around them.

SHOW NOTES

03:14 Introduction to Ilaria Chan

07:04 Ilaria’s expertise in Impact Investment

09:32 Understanding the reality of Impact Invest and Difference between East & West

14:50 Impact vs Profitability: The quandary for social entrepreneurs for raising funds

20:09 How Tech Unicorns are making social impact a big of their proposition

26:05 Tangible impact vs Intangible Impact: Is one less important than the other?

30:22 The “green-washing” trend in impact investment

34:41 Flow of innovation from East to the West

43:44 Connect with Ilaria

Many thanks to our guests Ilaria Chan; host Oscar Ramos; producers Eva Shi and Sagar Chaudhary; editor David; organizer Chinaccelerator; and sponsor People Squared. Be sure to check out our website www.chinaccelerator.com

Share, subscribe, review, enjoy!

To join our listener group on WeChat, please add SOSV Helper (WeChat ID: sosvhero) and ask for the group invitation.

To subscribe to our newsletter, please visit www.asiastartuppulse.com

Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asia-startup-pulse

Email us: asp-team@asiastartuppulse.com

  continue reading

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