00:42:19 Tameem Enam: Hello everyone 00:42:45 Tameem Enam: Good to see you! 00:43:18 Find The Nest: Hello Everyone! Thank you for joining the show! 00:43:37 Zia Ahmed: Hi all - this is Zia from Washington DC 00:45:27 Ayo DAWODU: Ayo from Loystar here. Great to join the show this week. 00:45:40 Sadat Sakif Ahmed: Hello everyone, I am Sadat S Ahmed from Bangladesh. I am co-founding a startup which might have some similarities with bhalo so wanted to see how far they have gone as competition analysis. You can follow us at https://www.facebook.com/agri4.0initiative or on our website http://agri40.org 00:46:33 Padmaja Ruparel: hi I am Padmaja ruparel, cofounder of IndianAngel network and founding partner of IAN fund 00:46:36 Fortunat Diener: Switzerland 00:47:01 Find The Nest: Please introduce yourself here, everyone! 00:47:17 Tosiba Kashem: Hi its Tosiba Kashem from Oxfam in Bangladesh 00:47:25 Nirjhor Rahman - BD Angels: www.bdangels.co 00:47:33 Nirjhor Rahman - BD Angels: Please visit and join our mailing list 00:47:46 Judith Ocansey: I’m Judith Ocansey from Ghana 00:48:02 Themba Sithole: hi,Themba, ProGas Zambia 00:48:12 Kazi | Happihub: Hi, Its Kazi from Happihub (Bangladesh) 00:48:19 Fortunat Diener: AVEC-SAVE AG is a swiss based fintech. CEO from Switzerland, CTO from Bangladesh and CFO from Germany. Our goal is to bring inclusive finance to the bottom of the pyramid…. Focus on savings and focus on Africa… 00:48:26 Kowser Ahmed Nirob: Kowser Ahmed Nirob, CEO, The Kow Company Ltd, Bangladesh 00:48:36 Arefin Zaman - Daktar Bondhu: I am Arefin. Co-founder of DaktarBondhu (your virtual doctor). 00:49:25 Muiz Shahab: Hey, this is Muiz Shahab Uddin fom LegalX ( Uber for lawyer) 00:49:39 Diptha Saha: Hello everyone, This is Diptha, Co-founder of Khamar-e Limited, an agro-tech startup from Bangladesh. I am very eager to learn about the investor's perspective on agro-tech in the countries like Bangladesh. https://khamar-e.co/ 00:49:47 Kazi Jawoad Hossain: ­­­This is Kazi from mPower Social. 00:49:59 Stephanie Kingue: Hi Am Stephanie from Dwelner 00:50:02 Fortunat Diener: contact info: fortunatd@yahoo.com and +41 76 511 30 96 00:51:00 Ernest Beukes: Hi Guys. Ernest from Namibia and South Africa www.airpayglobal.com. 00:51:17 Ayo DAWODU: Jim might be able to save bandwidth by turning video off 00:51:32 Kazi Ayesha: Hello, It's Ayesha from BD Venture ltd. www.bdventure.com 00:52:14 Rafiq Ahmed: Hi everyone I’m part of BD Angels and run a US focused connected hardware/hard tech fund dipaloventures.com 00:52:16 Sharnila Kabir: Hi, I'm Sharnila from Bangladesh. I am a founding member and the former head of partnerships of a Bangladeshi watertech social enterprise. I am currently exploring new opportunities. Would love to connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharnila-nuzhat-kabir/ 00:52:29 June Barasa: Hi I'm June Barasa, Product Manager & BD @ Qhala in Nairobi, Kenya https://qhala.com/ connect with me on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/junebarasa/ 00:52:51 Jonathan Levine - CEO Folia Water: Hi everyone, I’m Jonathan Levine, PhD, CEO of Folia Water: the world’s first water purifier at grocery pricing: 20 Taka for 20 liters. FMCG, sold in tokans to working class Bangladeshi families. We have a patented silver coating process that allows us to manufacture our paper water filters with significant margins. Key partner is Unilever. Investors include Jim Chu. www.foliawater.com, jonathan@foliawater.com and CEO Bangladesh is Md. Rashed rashed@foliawater.com 00:52:54 Tameem Enam: Hello Rafiq Bhai & Muiz. Good to see you guys! 00:53:07 Jonathan Levine - CEO Folia Water: Always great to see Nirjhor 00:53:38 Lamia Hafiz: Hi everyone! I am Lamia Hafiz from Bangladesh representing YY Ventures and Impact Hub Dhaka (dhaka.impacthub.net) as Community Lead and Garbageman (www.garbageman.com.bd) as Business Lead. Happy to meet you all! Best wishes to Bhalo and Shuttle! 00:55:14 Sajjad Kamal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sajjadkamal/ - Sajjad, Dubai / Toronto , primarily interested in Health and Wellness tech 00:55:48 Padmaja Ruparel: adding my contact coordinates for ease of connect : padmaja@indianangelnetwork.com / whatsapp or call : +919810069861 00:55:59 Asif Khan: Hi everyone. My name is Asif Khan. I am the Managing Partner at EDGE Research & Consulting Limited. We are an investment research provider to international asset managers, banks and development entities. We also have an asset management company in Bangladesh. Asif 00:56:48 Ahmed Yusuf | Bangladesh Angels: Hi everyone. Jawad Yusuf here from Bangladesh Angels Network. Happy to connect over LN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmed-yusuf-896394158/ | Good luck to the presenters today! 00:58:47 Tameem Enam: Hello everyone. I am Tameem Enam, based in Bangladesh. I am an entrepreneur & industrialist overseeing businesses involved in export manufacturing, technology, healthcare and education. I am also an angel investor interested in disruptive technology and socially conscious start-ups. 01:00:05 Arefin Zaman - Daktar Bondhu: We (DaktarBondhu) are transforming the traditional healthcare providers (doctors chamber, Hospitals) of Bangladesh. Feel free to reach me at arefinzamansifat@gmail.com to know more. 01:00:22 Md Rashed: Hello Everyone, I am Mohammed Rashed, CEO, Bangladesh. Folia Water. 01:01:45 Andres Velez: Hi everyone, I am Andres Velez from Pittsburgh (US) originally, now based in Madrid - feel free to connect https://www.linkedin.com/in/andr%C3%A9s-v%C3%A9lez-0604a845/ 01:02:24 Zobaer Ahmed: Hi guys, this is Zobaer joining from New York. Interested in Market Research, Agriculture, Climate Change and Rural Development. Feel free to contact me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zobaer-ahmed 01:03:19 Tameem Enam: Awesome pitch Tazin. 01:03:30 Tameem Enam: 👍🏻 01:03:44 Asif Khan: Can you discuss unit economics? 01:03:45 MAXIME SERVETTAZ: My name is Max, Director of Untapped in East Africa, we do leasing of Pay as you revnue generating assets maxime@untapped-inc.com +254 7 48 82 83 97 01:03:48 mizanur rahman: Hi everyone, I’m Mizanur Rahman, M.Sc, CEO of graph-ai 01:03:57 June Barasa: Great solution for women in gig work, takes away a lot of algorithmic bias on gender. My question is whether you have any women in your team? 01:04:29 Mohammed Rashed. CEO, Folia Bangladesh Limited: For more about Folia Water: www.foliawater.com 01:04:37 Malik Sangare: are you also planning to cover deliveries? e.g. food, 01:04:44 Malik Sangare: mails. 01:05:12 Md Ashikuzzaman Sheikh: How these vehicles are utilized in between office times? as TG is office/university going women. 01:05:13 Owen Sakawa: Hello Everyone, my name Owen, Founder of RepairNet.io. I would love to connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osakawa/ 01:05:43 mizanur rahman: graphTrade is a product of graph-ai, which is very beautiful and powerful cloud based B2B marketplace with digital procurement and smart inventory management system. We are trying to contributing from our end specially for COVID-19 to help businesses to online with online storefront or you can also call it e-Commerce 01:06:01 Kazi Ayesha: What's the Shuttle competitive advantage? 01:07:02 NazimFarhan Choudhury: what stops Pathao or Uber having a specialised service? 01:07:46 Sharnila Kabir: Do you plan on moving away from the "bus stop" model in order to make the service more accessible to women who do not feel comfortable waiting in public spaces for their ride? 01:08:35 Sadat Sakif Ahmed: Would it be possible for your system to optimize the routing path? It will be crucial to your operation effectiveness 01:10:09 Zunaed Rabbani: What is the technology behind? Are you coordinating manually? 01:11:43 Anika Tahsin Khan: What is Shuttle's competitive advantage if such services provided by Uber pool and Pathao ? 01:11:45 Kiptoo Magutt: Hello everyone. My name is Kiptoo, co-founder & CTO at Twende Mobility (https://www.twende.app). We built a carpooling platform and are now extending our solution to serve traditional operators in Kenya. 01:13:41 Kowser Ahmed Nirob: 1. What’s your cost per seat? 01:13:59 Sadat Sakif Ahmed: so basically you're a bus service? Is there any difference between you and traditional bus service? 01:14:36 Rafiq Ahmed: 1. What are the main routes they are running. 2. How was Q22020 so good with Bangladesh in lockdown? 3. Little more detail on the corporate program 01:15:02 Sadat Sakif Ahmed: uber and pathao already have the trust factor for individual passengers 01:15:08 Zunaed Rabbani: Do your users get into a monthly contract with you? Or, pay as you go? 01:15:11 Sadat Sakif Ahmed: and females are quite comfortable with those 01:16:24 Jonathan Levine - CEO Folia Water: In early phase startups, the biggest question is not where you are today but the rate that the founders are improving their business. It would help to hear more about where things were a year ago against where things are now and where things will be in one year. 01:17:08 Sadat Sakif Ahmed: I beg to differ. Uber and pathao both give quite accurate timing 01:17:22 Sadat Sakif Ahmed: accurate to the nearest minute 01:17:51 Kazi Ayesha: How you will compete with patho or Uber? what will be your strategy to compete? 01:18:11 Debojit Saha: What is customer acquisition cost? 01:18:19 Mehad Haque: Hi everyone, this is Mehad, Sr. Consultant from LightCastle Partners. If you want to learn more about the Startup Ecosystem, check out our latest report: https://www.lightcastlebd.com/insights/2020/07/12/bangladesh-startup-ecosystem-the-untapped-digital-goldmine-of-asia 01:18:48 Mehad Haque: Hi everyone, this is Mehad, Sr. Consultant from LightCastle Partners. If you want to learn more about the Bangladesh* Startup Ecosystem, check out our latest report: https://www.lightcastlebd.com/insights/2020/07/12/bangladesh-startup-ecosystem-the-untapped-digital-goldmine-of-asia 01:18:53 Md. Fazla Rabby: What is your customer retention rate ? 01:19:08 Tameem Enam: I second Jonathan’s question. That is an important thing to know. 01:19:54 will s: I think you mentioned that your price is about half of Uber pool. From the customer's perspective, how does the cost compare with traditional buses? 01:20:26 June Barasa: Apart from safety for women, what really is your secret sauce? In my opinion, safety, trust etc is easily replicable, and other ridesharing apps can take that up easily 01:21:00 Azam Shafique-ul: your target group is students and office going women who generally need vehicles in the morning and evening/afternoon. Do your vehicles remain idle during rest of the time? 01:21:18 Jonathan Levine - CEO Folia Water: They also have a great OOH advertising revenue stream to a high SES demographic 01:21:40 Arefeen-Sticker Driver Limited: Hello Everyone This is Arefeen from Sticker Driver Limited (Sticker Driver is 1st Bangladeshi OOH Vehicle Ad Tech Startup - We connect Brand with Rideshare Drivers to place wrap advertisement on rideshare vehicles. right now at Sticker Driver we have 2500+ registered vehicle/driver that ready to place wrap advertisement for any Brand ) www.stickerdriver.com 01:21:59 Jonathan Levine - CEO Folia Water: They could have huge ad dollars. There are entire companies putting screens in the back of such vehicles to monetize… Then there’s the data on the users. Many additional digital revenue streams around data analytics and advertising. Would be great for increasing margins. 01:24:17 Jonathan Levine - CEO Folia Water: https://www.vuebox.co/ 01:24:27 Jonathan Levine - CEO Folia Water: friend of mine, happy to connect later if helpful 01:25:22 MAXIME SERVETTAZ: Anyone oin the audience wants to invest or offer intro or services? 01:25:35 will s: lol I agree completely 01:26:01 MAXIME SERVETTAZ: ayano@untapped-inc.com for deals and investment folllow-up 01:28:29 Sadat Sakif Ahmed: i would say that i believe these guys are very sincere in their execution. Wish them the very best and hope that they will grow and thrive 01:32:45 Raihanul Islam: Hi, Raihan here, CEO Ecospear Ltd. Loved the session. We add green value providing certified Bio-degradable solution packaging in Bangladesh. We are Eco-Warrior. If Anybody need awesome packaging for their awesome products, www.ecospearbd.com 01:34:52 Anika Tahsin Khan: Who are the target audience for bhalo ? 01:37:45 Sadat Sakif Ahmed: Im assuming the field support is provided through mpower's operatives 01:38:24 June Barasa: What kind of phones do most of your farmers use? 01:38:35 Anika Tahsin Khan: how are the farmers specially the rural ones, you plan to connect technologicaly ? 01:38:57 Sadat Sakif Ahmed: ahh safe :D bhalo is not in the same modality as agri 4.0 :D 01:41:15 Find The Nest: Here is the Bhalo's LinkedIn page. Please follow :) 01:41:18 Find The Nest: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bhalo-social-enterprises/ 01:41:35 Monir Hoque: whats your pre-money valuation on this raise? 01:41:38 Find The Nest: Subrata's LinkedIn page https://www.linkedin.com/in/subratakumarkundu/ 01:41:58 Daniel Mutambi: very good presentation 01:41:59 MAXIME SERVETTAZ: 1.35mUSD 01:42:02 MAXIME SERVETTAZ: Vakuation is on the slide 01:42:23 Find The Nest: Here is the LinkedIn for Shuttle! https://www.linkedin.com/company/shuttlebd/ 01:43:11 Azam Shafique-ul: MFIs are also giving credit, advisory and technical services. Do you charge any interest for giving credit? 01:43:26 June Barasa: What is bhalo's website please? I can't find it 01:45:07 Anika Tahsin Khan: to ensure productivity of cow's , farmers need technical advice. 01:45:32 Padmaja Ruparel: thank you for inviting me. very interesting session. more importantly great to connect with everyone and hope to stay in touch. thanks Nijhor and Jim. Gr8 going Nest! 01:46:00 MAXIME SERVETTAZ: Thank you Padmaja for your great insights!! 01:46:24 Nirjhor Rahman - BD Angels: @Padmaja thank you for your time and honest feedback. For the benefit of the audience here, Padmaja and BAN are doing a session next week. Will be sending more details to our members. 01:47:31 Sadat Sakif Ahmed: If mridul Chowdhury is with bhalo, they will find one way or another forward. I have personal experience working with them and know their work ethics. Best of luck to bhalo. I am really glad we did not turn out to be competitors. 01:55:44 Kazi | Happihub: Bhalo will be doing really great. 01:56:36 MAXIME SERVETTAZ: Anyone has some offer of sevrice or investment for Bhalo? 01:57:31 Kazi | Happihub: Bye 01:57:36 Sadat Sakif Ahmed: it was a great session bye everyone 01:57:45 Mary Mbugua: Asante sana 01:57:48 Minhaz Anwar | BetterStories: Thank you everyone! 01:57:54 Kazi Ayesha: Thank you everyone 01:58:25 Arefeen-Sticker Driver Limited: bye everyone . Lets connect https://www.linkedin.com/in/arefeen-mostafa-7315b059/ 01:59:03 Zia Ahmed: Thanks everyone, see you next week! 01:59:27 MAXIME SERVETTAZ: Bye everyone! Come back next weel and apply on +1 (515) 417-1452 to pitch! 01:59:44 MAXIME SERVETTAZ: Angels contact investors@untapped-inc.com 02:03:51 Find The Nest: Thank you for joining! I will end this session here. See you next week on July 23rd 7pm Nairobi Time!