Scaling up the Thai Startup Scene – with Ardent Capital

Dec 13, 2012 Comment 0 comments

photo-18Paul Srivorakul and Piers Bennett are two co-founders at Ardent Capital, a Bangkok-based private capital fund that guides entrepreneurs with high potential and great business ideas down the path of wealth creation.

Thailand’s start-up ecosystem is growing up fast, Paul and Piers tell JFDI.Asia CEO Hugh Mason. That’s why Ardent is now focusing on fixing the distribution and other infrastructure layers of the e-commerce stack to help startups scale.

JFDI.Asia operates the longest-running, most successful seed accelerator program in South East Asia. It takes teams of entrepreneurs from idea to investment in 100 days, with greater than 60% success raising an average S$650,000 per team. There’s more about the program here.