Launching Advisor Community, AC Ventures has involved professionals from Google, OVO, Samadhi Ventures, 8020CTO, and CARSOME.
Heaptalk, Jakarta — Indonesia’s leading early-stage venture capital firm, AC Ventures, has established its latest value creation through an expert advisor community to support startups in achieving business operational excellence since early stage.
Advisors on ACV’s roster will work closely with founders to provide strategic advice and consultations freely. On the other hand, AC Ventures will continue to augment the number of experts in this community by cooperating with multiple executives and well-known leaders from diverse facets of the region’s digital economy. The professionals involved are:
- Managing Director at Google, Paula Wang
- Founding Partner at Nbs and Partners, Natasha Nababan
- Former Head of Corporate Communications at OVO, Harumi Supit
- Founder of Samadhi Ventures, Deeps De Silva
- Founder of 8020CTO, Jeffrey Scholz
- Chief People Officer of CARSOME, Sergio Salvador
- Independent Commissioner and Committee Member at multiple publicly listed companies, Herwan Ng
Through the advisor community establishment, the experts involved will execute several strategic roles to boost the startup founders abillity, consisting of providing advice and consultations about their business – marketing, financial, and technology development strategy-, contributing to startup businesses to encounter business challenges, delivering strategic insights and connections to support startup businesses, and helping startup practitioners to access additional resources and business network.
“Our growing, curated group of expert advisors is tasked to back ACV’s portfolio companies grow via valuable guidance across various disciplines. Our startups can interface with these advisors on an ongoing basis. As a hands-on propulsion system for our portfolio to succeed in the market, ACV’s value creation team will continue building a vibrant and useful advisor collective,” voiced the Head of Value Creation of AC Ventures, Samira Shihab.
Further, Samira recognized startup practitioners need advisors for their expertise, guidance, and networks in bolstering them to navigate the coming challenges of starting and developing a business. This matter could also help them enhance the subsequent funding round and generate a higher assessment.
Since 2022, ACV has been on a bold mission to provide hands-on guidance and support to its portfolio companies. This firm is the only tech investment firm in Indonesia to offer a full-fledged value creation division to the startups it backs. The underlying idea is that if AC Ventures can contribute to its portfolio, companies achieve operational excellence from their early days to raise capital and achieve tremendous success in the market.
