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NBV is a venture capital partnership investing in startups serving the next billion digital consumers and small businesses across global emerging markets.

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Who We Are

The Next Billion Ventures team is a group of investors and operators from all over the world, passionate about championing venture capital as a means to deliver outsize returns and catalyze impact in emerging markets.

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Throughout our careers, we have built unique, global networks of like-minded technology investors and operators, and NBV represents our vision to bring that network together to accelerate the inevitable wave of startup successes coming from these regions.

Team
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Ruzgar Barisik

Managing Partner

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Ken Toyoda

Managing Partner

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Falgu Shah

Partner

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Tiang Lim Foo

Venture Partner

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Christopher Schroeder

Senior Advisor

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Our Portfolio Companies

Our Companies
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