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as in the marketplace i thank you all for being here with us today
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that's great um so in a moment's will be shifting before we shift over to
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our keynote presentation um i uh i have an opportunity to actually
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presents a a little bit about the investment sort of context and work
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of orphan networks the organisation that i'm with and uh well the shifting over
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in a moment and i'll be walking around just checking that this works if it's working
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great thank you all thank you very much
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so i'm i'm i'm switching hats from m. c. of the
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event today to uh presenting a little bit about uh arthur networks
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and um my own um uh work in uh impact investing for the last fifteen years
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and uh i have five minutes to share what it is that uh we do um
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ah okay just a moment i think we are
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a little bit early
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ah thank you great so i'm i'm coming out all of this from the perspective of an active
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impact investor and we've been to playing capital in india uh for fifteen years on behalf of a family
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and we are completely are aligned with the narratives of
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collaboration and colour investment and shared discovery because it's hard
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to do this work to find the projects to do the due diligence to do the investment appraisal et cetera
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so what i'm sharing with you today is a little bit about our investment journey and how it's brought us
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to realising that we need on some level tools and
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infrastructure infrastructure to support what it is that we do
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so we built a platform in two thousand eight platforms are uh proliferating
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uh as my friend arthur would like to say faster than rabbits on via grow
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there are many many platforms out there we're one of them but we're one
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of the early ones and we're not trying to make success fees per se
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uh on transactions were trying to cull gets folks to actually get into
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the mechanics of collaborating on due diligence which as many of you know
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is part of the the big challenge of understanding how
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to up you know up to appraise and and execute
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in emerging markets so um we have built this platform and the dashboard and now we offer it to others
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um this is a slide which i think will win me the price for the busiest slide
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here i'm i'm actually gonna try to commands the stage that you don't even look at that slide
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uh and to share that we've been on this journey now for fifteen years we started in two thousand seven uh with
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formulating the initiative starting to make investments and putting together a
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tool that would help us actually share the pipeline that we found
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uh find others who are like minded investors those who seek to work with
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us and allow them to come into our due diligence process sees our work flows
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uh we started to license the tool to the inter american development bank
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because the big bank relies that there's private wealth that's willing to come in
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increased the wheels on smaller transactions that to the development bank at look at
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so that was a great experience uh for us that took probably twenty years
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of our lives but we did um we did manage to learn a lot
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and it brought us to the conclusion that we would have to license the tool uh adam
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much it a faster rate and much more likely and much more cheaply so that is kind of
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where we've come to today uh and it really comes out of the experience of uh
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you know designing something for investors by investors are model is very simple it's a license model
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the technology we have we operate our own system in india with their
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own architecture but the software the services available to anyone else who seeks
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to have an infrastructure that they don't have to build themselves because that's been done before and it's
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you suddenly become a technology company without wanting to be a
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technology company um we unlicensed accelerators in incubators to investor networks
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to um ecosystem builders and also channel partners
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those who already have big associations and numbers
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it doesn't matter what the format is it's all about using a similar like
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consistent infrastructure so one week after deal flow that deal flow can travel across networks
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there are many others who work in the space but a good many of these our
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pure play technology providers and what we bring what we focus on is what we're
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an investor in when impact investor and we know a lot of our peer investors
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and that is the kind of the database and the relationships that we bring to make things a bit easier ultimately it's
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about making life easier for the entrepreneurs that we find on the ground those whose to we support and we're trying to
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offer them access and just ease and and the prospect of
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liquidity uh as they raise their various forms of capital over time
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uh in terms of our impact uh well our goal is to cut lies more capital like everybody else in this room
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uh we just using a technology tool to to support
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that uh so we have a an investor database that
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comes out of the breakfast that we've been touring for the last thirteen years our breakfast network which is informal
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free coffee uh there is such a thing as free coffee and and frequent so
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and no membership fees we just have conversational learning this is been now happening for um
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uh oh several hundred sessions we have seventeen set chapter
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cities uh and about two thousand five hundred people involved
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so it's a decent investor network that's our own and our waiter database is much bigger than that
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we have a number of instances of the use of the technology in different geography is in
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different cities in different sector areas and it's all about inter operability for us our team is
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uh comprised of myself kind of heinz uses evelyn and and i've i just even call tight but
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we also have a family office behind all of this which is a big a key difference cheering components
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and also a a developer team in india that we've been working with closely for thirteen years
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uh we support a wide range of networks um we've worked
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with uh at the con and setting up a a small
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platform to um to support accelerate prosperity uh we also
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work with groups like phil grow and good investors and someone
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today uh what we're doing is expanding the proposition we're raising equity
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uh for those who believe in the power of infrastructure in
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the importance of technology in powering collaboration so i'm i'm here
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all day as you know you know where i am sitting on the stage doing the i'm seeing thank