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Arnaud Rubeck is an entrepreneur and management professional with over 10 years of experience. Currently, he is the founder & CEO of TripTax. Arnaud’s expertise spans a range of areas including strategic planning, operations consulting, and project management. He also has a strong interest in AI, fintech, blockchain, travel and food tech.

Ignacio Gabaldon is an engineer and entrepreneur. He is now leading Igeneris Ventures, the Venture Builder branch of Igeneris working with a team to create a curated pipeline of startups that serve both Europe and Latin America from their office in Madrid, Spain.

 In this week’s episode of the VB Map Podcast we’re going to dive into the eCommerce venture building landscape in South East Asia and India. 

Our guest is Archit Anand, the founder and CEO of Omnirio, a plug-and-play e-commerce platform serving hundreds of brands. 

Archit has been working in the eCommerce industry in SEA and India since 2015 and has seen first hand how the eCommerce revolution in Asia has transformed society.

Jori Clijmans is a partner of XLR8, a Belgium based accelerator of B2B technology and enterprise startups. He is the co-founder of the Belgium-based venture studio 0smosis, which created and spun off multiple venture-backed startups in collaboration with corporate partners.

Jori has a deep innovation and product consulting background and is uniquely positioned to speak to the challenges of corporate venture building and how to think about setting up innovation capabilities that deliver enterprise outcomes.

Key highlights of the episode: 

• What’s different between venture building in Asia and Europe
• Ways to eliminate corporate startup risk as early as possible in the process 
• The importance of bringing the CEO early on to de-risk the venture after concept validation
• Building a quality label, CEO pool and VC network, as a VB
• The challenges of an investment-first VB vs consulting-first studio model
• How classic consulting services and corporate VB may merge in the future 
• Building stakeholder alignment with consulting-for-equity models
• Tips for working with VCs as a VB
• The challenge of studio focus and separating internal resources for own ventures vs client ventures

Sebastian Mueller is the co-founder of MING Labs, a digital business builder with offices across three continents. They help companies with their digital transformation and occasionally build their own startups.

What are the benefits of venture builder teams? What does the growth and scale of such teams look like? How to balance client consulting with venture building (Corporate venture building, Venture building strategies)? Stay tuned to find the answers to these and many other questions in this episode.