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.

INVESTMENT TEAM

Ruzgar Barisik

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Falgu Shah

Partner

Ken Toyoda

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Tiang Lim Foo

Venture Partner (Singapore)

Christopher Schroeder

Co-Founder & Senior Advisor

NETWORK PARTNERS

Piruze Sabuncu

Square Peg Capital

Travis Foxhall

Point72 Ventures

Khaled Talhouni

Nuwa Capital

Luiz Mazetto

Casai

ADVISORS

Lydia Jett

SoftBank Vision Fund

Goldman Sachs

Daniel Mudd

Fortress Investment Group

GE Capital Asia

Rashad Kaldany

Blue Like An Orange Capital

IFC

Katherine Boyle

General Catalyst

Washington Post

Gillian Munson

Union Square Ventures

XO Group (The Knot)