Getting invested in the tech sector for thirty years throughout frontier markets spanning South The united states to Asia, Dr Cornelius Boersch maintains that all marketplaces exhibit identical dynamics. With this point of view, he initial visited Sri Lanka in October 2021, emerging as one of the earliest world wide tech investors to dedicate to article-COVID restoration via Mountain Lion Ventures, together with its General Companions, Asad Sultan and Love Yadav.
Inspite of tough times, Mountain Lion Ventures has invested shut to a million US bucks of international investments into Sri Lanka, spanning prop tech, electrical mobility, gender-intelligent money, and the advancement of an AI-centered tech system for the Horeca sector.
Revisiting for a 2nd time to evaluate the ground predicament and evaluate investments created by Mountain Lion Ventures, Dr Conny, as he is referred to, alongside Enjoy Yadav, commenced their journey at Hatch Performs, a hub for startups. Addressing a team of outstanding businessmen in dialogue with Mr. Nisthar Cassim, Dr. Boersch shared insights acquired from navigating the COVID-19 pandemic globally around the earlier three several years. Although acknowledging Sri Lankas modern crisis, he suggested in opposition to a prolonged negative way of thinking, citing his expertise in other frontier marketplaces in which article-crisis expansion usually reveals a “hockey stick” sample.
Dr. Boersch engaged with several organizations in which Mountain Lion Ventures has invested, especially highlighting Liwe Communities, a prop-tech platform digitising gated communities, and Sling Mobility, an Electrical power-as-a-Company system for electric autos, which he determined as possessing the probable to come to be Sri Lankas initially unicorn.
Through his 36-hour take a look at, Dr. Boersch met with several startups spanning F&B, Healthtech, and past. Notably, he expended time with Jeevan Gnanam, Co-Founder of Hatch Works, reconfirming his admiration and very long-time period engagement with this entire world-course, homegrown co-performing space and startup ecosystem.
Dr Boersch’s pay a visit to underscores his commitment to supporting the Sri Lankan electronic ecosystem, pledging potential investments in promising startups and facilitating worldwide industry entry and funding for this kind of enterprises.
(From remaining) Advisor & Executive Committee Member, SLING Mobility – Mr. Darshan Maralanda, Running Director Early Phase Enterprise Money, Mountain Capital Management AG – Dr Felix Exner, Team Head of Operations, Risk & Compliance, Lion Ventures – Ms Ramisha Karunaratne, Tremendous Angel Trader, and Financial investment Director, Mountain Partners – Dr. Cornelius Boersch, and Standard Husband or wife, Lion Ventures – Mr. Love Yadav.
Mr. Yadav elucidated the E-Mobility Battery Swapping architecture to Dr. Cornelius Boersch and Dr. Felix Exner.
Dr. Cornelius Boersch, accompanied by Main Operations Officer, SLING Mobility – Mr. Dayan Peiris for a test experience of the SLING RS electrical bike.
