Podcasts by Emerging Markets Startups
Venturing through 90+ countries, we’ve discovered one commonality. From Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East to Eastern Europe, there are growing tech startup ecosystems transforming the world. Emerging market startups are generating market-creating innovations, leapfrogging Silicon Valley’s innovations, and solving local problems faster than governments.
Join us to hear from startup ecosystem champions, entrepreneurs and investors in emerging markets. We discuss what makes these markets culturally unique, local trends, challenges consumers and founder face, and the opportunities. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dianna-yau/support
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The Growth of Latin America’s Superapp ft. Rappi’s Product Lead from 2021-04-22T07:25:46
Rappi is one of the largest superapps in Latin America with over 15M users. The company started out as an on demand delivery service and today has become an everything store across Latin America...
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Scaling Southeast Asia’s largest Superapp, ft. Grab’s Head of Product from 2021-04-22T05:42:59
Grab is the largest superapp tech company in Southeast Asia with over 250M downloads in a region with 600+ million people. Grab first started out as a ride sharing company but quickly grew into ...
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Nigeria's Fastest Growing Fintech w/ the COO of PiggyVest from 2021-02-23T08:14:08
Like many emerging markets, saving money in Nigeria was expensive. Then came PiggyVest, a free savings and microinvestment product, that's now one of the fastest growing fintech startups out of ...
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Using Localization to Innovate with Bykea's COO from 2021-02-11T08:22:19
Bykea is a ride sharing and delivery startup in Pakistan and the fastest growing startup in a country of 220 million people. Founded by serial entrepreneur Muneeb Maayr, Bykea is taking on the j...
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Philippines | The Startup Islands from 2021-01-28T06:46:26
Have you ever noticed all your Filipino friends seem to have family all over the world? That’s because so many of them have migrated all over the world in the last century. Hence when Filipinos ...
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Malaysia | How Malaysia’s diversity makes its startups excel at building global products from 2020-12-31T20:49:13
Since its early days, Malaysia has been a key part of the globalization trend. Malacca, a city in the Malay peninsula, was historically an important destination along the Silk Road trade route. ...
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Building a startup for emerging markets from Silicon Valley| Mark Heynen VP @ Stellar, co-founder of Payjoy from 2020-12-31T16:25
Over the last episodes, we’ve focused on people and companies in emerging markets building for their markets. There’s also been a wave of companies in Silicon Valley building for emerging market...
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Lithuania | The rise of the Baltic startups from 2020-12-31T03:45:49
On this episode, we venture into the Baltics and more specifically, Lithuania. Although the Baltic states are small, what they lack in size they make up in innovation. Even during the Soviet Uni...
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Thailand | Southeast Asia's 2nd largest economy from 2020-12-30T17:30:23
In this episode, we take you to Thailand, known globally as the ultimate vacation getaway. But did you know it’s also Southeast Asia’s second largest economy by GDP and has a population of 67 mi...
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Myanmar's startup ecosystem from 2020-12-21T07:00
With 55 million people, Myanmar transitioned from 5% to 85% internet penetration in just 7 years. That’s more than 65% of the population that has access to electricity! This transition started 2...
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Iran | How constraints breed innovation from 2020-12-20T07:00
With 88M people, Iran’s startup ecosystem is one of the best examples of “constraints breed innovation.” Politically, sanctions have limited Iran’s participation in the global economy including ...
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Egypt | The startup revolution from 2020-12-17T07:00
With over 100 million people, Egypt makes up ¼ of the 400 million population in the Middle East. 60% of these people are under 30 years old. With a 70% internet penetration rate, highly skilled ...
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Bangladesh | How the density dividend scales startups fast from 2020-12-07T04:45:14
You haven't seen city density till you've been to Bangladesh’s capital city, Dhaka. It's one of the densest cities in the world in a country of 165M people. This density presents challenges like...
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Pakistan | Using tech to tackle social problems from 2020-11-06T06:20:21
With 220 million people and 70% of the population under 30 years old, Pakistan is prime for technological innovation with its highly talented developers and tech hungry consumers. This ecosystem...
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Indonesia | 6 unicorns in 4 years, one of the fastest growing startup ecosystems from 2020-10-18T04:28:30
Indonesia is the world’s 4th most populated country with almost 280 million people. Its enormous size plus strong economy has enabled its exploding tech ecosystem with 6 unicorns in just 4 years...
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How emerging market startups are beating Silicon Valley's tech giants from 2020-10-11T22:42:08
85% of the world’s population or 6 billion people live in emerging markets. Thus growth for Silicon Valley’s tech giants is often synonymous with building for emerging markets. Building products...
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Ethiopia | 10% GDP Growth & 10 Years of Startup History from 2020-08-16T00:10:38
What comes to mind when you think of Ethiopia? Did you know they’re one of the fastest growing economies with a 10% average annual growth rate for the last 15 years? Or what about the fact that ...
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Kenya | The AI Revolution in Africa from 2020-08-12T08:24:44
On this episode, we take you to Kenya in East Africa. With 54 million people it is smaller than Nigeria (200M) and Egypt (100M). However, according to Disrupt Africa, Kenya has received more ven...
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South Africa | How payments innovations tackle inequality from 2020-08-08T07:28:42
On this episode, we take you to South Africa. South Africa is one of the richest countries in Africa but also the most unequal country in the world. Listen
Zambia | Prince Harry visits BongoHive’s thriving startups from 2020-08-02T23:12:04
On this episode of the Emerging Markets Tech Startups podcast, we take you to ...
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Nigeria's Startup Ecosystem Ft. Kola Aina of Ventures Platform from 2020-07-30T07:23:36
Nigeria's population will explode to 400 million people by 2050. Today, Nigeria is the startup epicenter of Africa. Hear from our guest, Kola Aina who founded Listen