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Step to the jungle of new mobile and finance era
Mobile Monday – Be Inspired Tour
September 9 to 11, 2013 - Jouko Ahvenainen
Grow VC Group ++
www.growvcgroup.com ++
@growvcgroup ++
Innovating Investing ++
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Finance and Services Infrastructure Investment Portfolio
Entities ++
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Hong Kong - London - New York - San Francisco - Sao Paolo

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Grow VC Group
Strategic partnerships and group investment
portfolio management
www.growvcgroup.com
Grow Advisors
Consulting and investment bank type services
for crowdfunding ecosystem
www.growadvisors.com
Mutual Seed Fund
Crowdfunding co-investment fund, works with
many crowdfunding services
www.mutualseedfund.com
Growvc.com
leading global marketplace to invest money or
work in early phase startups
www.growvc.com
Crowd Valley
Turn key solution to start crowdfunding for
any asset classes, equity or lending
www.crowdvalley.com
ChangeLab23
Design & build digital product, where
customer experience is at the heart
www.changelab23.com
Startup Commons
A global non-profit initiative that develops
startup ecosystem technology to make
supporting startups effective, cost efficient
and transparent
www.startupcommons.org
Kapipal
A leading global personal crowdfunding
services.
www.kapipal.com
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Core Businesses 2013 ++

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Jouko Ahvenainen ++
Corporates: Entrepreneur:
Other Activities:
Transatlantic
Economic
Council

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Mobile Development Eras ++
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Era #1: Call and SMS ++

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Era #2: Content and Apps ++

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Era #3: Mobile Internet Enablers ++

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Who are next losers and winners ++

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Who is needed to do it ++

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Finance to a new era ++
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Internet has been a distribution channel ++

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Disruption now ++

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Get rid of middlemen ++
Crowd
funding 1
Market
Place
P2P
Lending
Companies /
Assets
Market Places Investors / resources

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New regulation is coming ++

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Get it work with the existing models ++
1. Funding
round or loan
application
• A company opens a funding round or apply a
loan
2. Crowd
funding or
p2p lending
• Crowd, i.e. ordinary people, can offer
an investment or loan, and if enough
money available, the company gets
money
3. Co-
investment or
co-lending
• A bank or investment
company can join to a deal,
i.e. make co-investment or
participate the loan

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Go back to the idea of stock market ++

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We act, not only talk ++
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#1 market place platform ++

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Offer any service in local language ++
ü Easy to use tool to make and
maintain language versions
of web services and mobile
apps
ü Different services levels for
translations, including
crowd sourcing
ü Silicon Valley based
company, with strong
customer demand globally,
including Asia
ü Enable any company to
offer their services easily
in any language
ü www.lostintranslations.com

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Usability is the key - ChangeLab23 ++

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Anyone can offer reading app ++
ü Easy for any publisher to
make its own Facebook or
mobile reading application
ü User can follow several
publications in one place
ü Get publications to be
translated to your language
(machine, crowd-sourced,
or professional level)
ü www.skimmler.com

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Grow Advisors to make new finance models ++

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What do you plan to do ++
It's a jungle out there

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Jouko Ahvenainen
jouko@growvc.com
+1 646 363 6664 (US)
+44 7889 833 165 (UK)
Grow VC Group ++
www.growvcgroup.com ++
@growvcgroup ++
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