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Are you looking to raise funding for your startup or planning to raise in the future? Join our exclusive Ask Me Anything (AMA) event featuring top investors from Japan. In this session, you'll get insider insights on how funding works, how investors evaluate pitches, and what they're really looking for in founders. Whether you're preparing for your first round or still refining your business idea, this AMA is your chance to ask real investors your burning questions. Come ready to learn and engage! Our investors are here to help you take your startup to the next level.

If you want to understand how global CVCs really think, beyond your local ecosystem, don’t miss our “AMA with CVCs Featuring Andy Cheng (GrandTech Cloud Services Inc.)”. With over 20+ portfolio investments and 4 GP commitments, and a track record of writing $500K–$1M checks for Series A–C stage startups, Andy brings rare cross-border insight shaped by years of operating across China, the US, India, and Southeast Asia.

Now serving as Head of Japan at GrandTech Cloud Services Inc. (TPEx: 7747), Andy works inside one of Asia-Pacific’s fastest-growing cloud and FinOps-focused companies. GrandTech Cloud Services, operating across Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Japan, is known as “A Friend to Startups,” helping founders scale through multi-cloud optimization, cost control, and cloud aggregation models built specifically for the APAC new economy.

In this AMA, Andy will share candid, practical insights at the intersection of venture capital, cross-border growth, and cloud-driven scaling, including:

  • How cross-border VCs identify, assess, and support high-potential startups
  • What investors look for in founders entering global markets
  • How early-stage companies can prepare for international scaling
  • The biggest challenges in cross-border fundraising and how to navigate them
  • The role of strategic capital in M&A, exits, and portfolio growth
  • How FinOps and multi-cloud strategies (core to GrandTech’s model) give startups execution advantages

This session is a rare opportunity to learn directly from an investor who bridges venture strategy + cloud infrastructure scale across APAC.

❯ 🎙 Speaker

A cross-border early-stage investor with deep experience in full-cycle VC operations, legal structuring, due diligence, portfolio scaling, and M&A execution—now driving cloud innovation and startup enablement across the Asia-Pacific region through GrandTech Cloud Services.

❯ Moderator:

  • Erdinc Ekinci - Founder, Investment Lead of Co-capital.vc, Co-Founder, CEO of Openfor.co, Managing Director of Founder Institute Japan/Korea/Taiwan

❯❯ This is a live, interactive online event, so be sure to RSVP at https://fi.co/e/385675/meetup to receive the Zoom URL to join us live!

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