Emerging Markets Entrepreneurs

19/11/2024

How can accelerators better support women-led ventures?

Join us on 4 December 2024, from 10:00 - 11:00 hrs. ICT for a session where insightful speakers will share their experiences with gender-lens acceleration in Asia. Learn what’s working, what needs improvement, and how we can all contribute to more equitable outcomes for women entrepreneurs.

We’ll hear firsthand insights from La Woon Yan, Investment Manager at EME and Program Manager at Cnai Accelerator Cambodia, which is featured in the report (A Decade of Learnings on Gender-Lens Acceleration: Case Studies from Asia) produced by Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs - ANDE and 笹川平和財団　The Sasakawa Peace Foundation.

Speakers include:
- La Woon Yan (Emerging Markets Entrepreneurs, Cnai Accelerator)
- Tom Sebastian (Seedstars)
- Merai Syed (Invest2Innovate)
- Moderated by Abigayle Davidson (Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs)

We’re kicking off the webinar with an opening address by Ayaka Matsuno, Director of the Social Innovation Program at Sasakawa Peace Foundation, who will set the stage for transformative discussions.

This session will dive into gender-lens acceleration strategies, impactful case studies, and key learnings that we can all apply to create a more inclusive ecosystem for women-led ventures.

🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏰ 10:00 - 11:00 hrs. ICT
🔗 Register here: https://andeglobal.org/event/a-decade-of-learnings-on-gender-lens-acceleration-case-studies-from-asia-report-launch/

Read the Report here: https://andeglobal.org/publication/a-decade-of-learnings-on-gender-lens-acceleration-case-studies-from-asia/

16/12/2020

Tomorrow, December 17th @ 2pm MM time, EME will be celebrating two years in business!! We have a jam-packed event featuring our portfolio companies and other Myanmar startups, and our staff sharing some valuable insights. If you haven't already signed up, it's not too late, just head over to https://eme-anniversary-asia.eventbrite.sg to get your free ticket now. **Full Agenda in photo below**

Also joining us will be: CarsDB, Kyarlay.com, MyanCare, How She Did It, Myanmar Women's Self Defense Center မြန်မာအမျိုးသမီး ကိုယ်လုံပညာသင်တန်း, and Joosk!

11/12/2020

EME's work with 笹川平和財団　The Sasakawa Peace Foundation featured recently on the Dutch Good Growth Fund's website. Huge shout out to our portfolio companies that make this work so interesting and especially Ezay and Kyarlay.com who featured in this recent assessment of entrepreneurship and its role in improving the lives of women in Myanmar.

By empowering women and girls, enterprises are creating long-lasting positive impact. In 2018, the SC&BD facility provided a suite of capital vehicles to investment firm Emerging Market Entrepreneurs - Myanmar (EME), which enables them to build an initial portfolio and pipeline track record ready to...

07/10/2020

E-commerce Customer Survey ဖြေပြီး ဖုန်းဘေ ၁၀၀၀ ယူလိုက်ရအောင်
Survey link >> https://forms.gle/5DcsLkmVoSJ5jBZp6


EME(Emerging Markets Entrepreneur) (www.eme.asia) မှ Online မှ ဈေးဝယ်သူများ၏ အခက်အခဲများ အကြံဉာဏ်များ ကိုပိုမိုသိရှိနားလည်နိုင်ရန်အတွက် စစ်တမ်းပြုလုပ်လျက်ရှိပါတယ်။ ဒီစစ်တမ်းဟာ online မှ ဝယ်ယူသူများကို ပိုမိုကောင်းမွန်သော ဝန်ဆောင်မှုများပေးနိုင်ရန်အတွက် e-commerce platform များ Facebook Online Shop များအဆင့်မြင့်မားလာရေးကို အထောက်အကူပေးရန်အတွက် လည်းရည်ရွယ်ပါတယ်
ထို့‌‌ေကြာင့် သင့်၏ Online မှ ဈေးဝယ်ခြင်း အပေါ်တွင် ကြိုက်နှစ်သက်သော (သို့) သဘောမတွေ့သော အချက်များကို သိရှိလိုပါတယ်။
ဒီအတွက် ယခုပေးထားသော Link မှတဆင့်ဝင်ပြီး စစ်တမ်းအား ပါဝင်ဖြေဆိုပေးသွားကြပါဦးနော်...
ပါဝင်ဖြေဆိုသူများထဲမှ ပထမဆုံးဖြေဆို‌‌ေသာ အယောက် (100) ကို‌ေငွဖြည့်ကတ်မေတ္တာလက်ဆောင်ပေးသွားမှာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။
EME သည် start-up လုပ်ငန်းများတွင် ရင်းနှီးမြုပ်နှံမှု ပြုလုပ်သော မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ အခြေစိုက် Venture capital firm ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ EME နှင့်ပတ်သတ်သော information ကို https://www.eme.asia/ or https://web.facebook.com/www.eme.asia တွင် ကြည့်ရှုနိုင်ပါတယ်။

Survey ကိုတော့ ဒီ link မှာ ဖြေဆိုပေးပါ https://forms.gle/5DcsLkmVoSJ5jBZp6

17/09/2020

Increasing cases of COVID-19 in Myanmar and social distancing measures pushes consumers to move online and experience eCommerce services. This is a good opportunity for eCommerce players in Myanmar to capture the market. Understanding the needs of customers and being able to provide a positive experience will keep the customers stay in the long run.

Check out Ko Soe Lin Myat's insightful article on Myanmar eCommerce scene during the second wave of COVID-19 in Myanmar.

While Covid19 lays waste to the public health and the economy, it acts as a change agent to catalyze the adoption of eCommerce both in Myanmar and globally.

10/08/2020

We're a bit late to the party here, but if you're tired of writing out INDEX MATCH MATCH check out MSO 365's new XLOOKUP, easily combined for row and column matching. Sadly, this isn't yet available in Google Sheets :'(

28/07/2020

How many are you using? (EME: 4/6, but we'll definitely start using importfeed!).

Functions are what make spreadsheets powerful. Most Google Sheets users know you about the functions for basic calculations—SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, that sort of thing. But Google Sheets functions can do so much more than math. You can use functions to translate text into other languages, pull in info...

23/06/2020

We would like to help startups that are being on the ground, striving against uncertainties and continuing to provide your service/products to your customers during this time of turbulence.

We are offering 1-hour free guidance sessions in July. If you'd like to talk to us, please send an email to [email protected] answering the following questions:

1) What are three biggest challenges that your company is facing right now?
2) How has COVID-19 impacted these challenges?

01/04/2020

Check out Ezay's e27 interview to learn more about what Ezay is and how its changing the lives of rural shopkeepers in Myanmar.

Ezay connects ‘mom-and-pop’ shops with wholesalers in Myanmar, and products delivered the same day or the next day

26/03/2020

We're thrilled to announce our largest investment to-date: ကျားလေး - Kyarlay.com. Myanmar's leading baby products ecommerce / omnichannel company.

"Good times teach only bad lessons" it's during these volatile times that we all learn the importance of support and determination. We're happy to help Kyarlay deliver to parents across Yangon and contribute to keeping people safe.

EME Myanmar makes its largest equity investment to-date into baby products ecommerce leader Kyarlay

09/03/2020

**Drop us a line today if your business supports women or girls!!** Happy International Women's Day! (for yesterday). We're seeking to speak to businesses that are focussing on women / girls either as customers, suppliers or employees. Together with the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, EME is researching how women and girl focussed businesses are performing in Myanmar with a view to contribute to this sector.