WHY I MOVED FROM SWITZERLAND TO NIGERIA

WHO WE ARE

ANNUALCONFEREN

CE ON EM

3000+

ENTREPRENEURS55+

COUNTRIES

300+INVESTORS

1000+

INNOVATORS

EXCLUSIVE STARTUP

COMPETITION

GLOBAL ENTREPRENEUR NETWORK

STARTUP INVESTMEN

T CLUB

FINDING THE WORLD’S BEST STARTUPS

2500+STARTUP APPLICATIONS

800+LIVE PITCHES

55+WINNERS

2015 ITINERARY

LATAM11 regional events

CEE & MENA17 regional events

Africa12 regional events

Asia & Oceania16 regional events

EMERGING MARKETS OVERVIEW

By 2030, 87% of the world

population will live in Emerging

Markets

Source: World Bank 2014

By 2020, 80% off all

smartphones will be

located in Emerging Markets

Source: IDC 2014

THE WORLD AS YOU SEE IT

$250 - $1,300

$1,301 - $3,500

GDP per capita

$3,500 - $7,800

$7,801 - $22,000

$22,000 – $117,000

THE WORLD AS WE SEE IT

>80%

60% - 80%

% people with no internet

40% - 60%

<40%

PEOPLE WITHOUT

INTERNET 4.3B

Source: internetlivestats.com

430M new internet users in the next 4 years, only in these 10 countries

Source: internetlivestats.com

Source: www.itu.int

THE SPEED OF INNOVATION

2014 2015

China India

United States China

Japan Indonesia

Brazil South Africa

United Kingdom Brazil

Germany Pakistan

India Nigeria

South Korea Egypt

Russia Vietnam

Italy Bangladesh

Source: World Bank

TOP 10 SMARTPHONE MARKETS FOR GROWTH BY

VALUE

3 GLOBAL TRENDS

LEAPFROGGING

Source: www.e-education.psu.edu

MOBILE PHONE

Source: http://www.gsma.com

MOBILE MONEY

In Kenya, 40% of the

GDP is processed through mobile money

(m-pesa)

Source: www.techweez.com

You can collect payments for goods and services online instantly on your website

SAVING FROM CHINA-LATAM TRANSFERS

Cross border payments: clients can create a profile, verify, and send a local transfer from the comfort of their own home.

Source: www.rocketinternet.com

MOBILE RETAIL

1’200 people per retail outlet

in USAVs

90’000 people per retail outlet

in APAC

E-commerce platform where you can compare product prices.

Solar products affordable to low-income households on a pay-per-use installment plan.

INTERNET PENETRATION

#onlinegaming

#e-commerce

#e-traveling

#onlineadvertising

E-COMMERCE

15Bthe size of the

b2c e-commerce market in

MENA by 2015

Online gaming in LatAm grew 60% between

2012-2014

Mobile/social games studio that creates storytelling in-episodes games, based on the model that made successful TV Shows and Series.

Source: statista.com

E-TRAVELLING

Travel crowdsourcing platform where users can see and book what other people in the network did.

ONLINE ADVERTISING

IN CEE

Source: statista.com

DISRUPTING TECHNOLOGIES

China 35th 29th

Indonesia 100th 87th

Nigeria 123rd 110th

Mexico 79th 66th

Vietnam 76th 71st

Turkey 74th 54th

Source: som.yale.edu

CHANGE IN GLOBAL

INNOVATION RANKING FROM 2012 TO 2014

CHANGE IN GLOBAL

INNOVATION BETWEEN 2012-2014

Zero pollution process that converts wastes into clean petroleum oils and gases.

Indigodrones, is a software that analyzes and processes aerial images and videos data.

The MIDI Jackets: a wearable technology which can reproduces different types of sound based on the body movements.

Hardware device that transforms the sign language into written words and then into sounds.

“People will remember this as the year emerging markets take half of the global GDP.” Zhu Min

WHY DID I MOVE FROM SWITZERLAND TO NIGERIA?

Because of overwhelmin

g opportunitie

s &

amazing talents

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