Emerging Forward Podcast

How capital truly flows for investors and founders bridging emerging markets including Europe, MEA and APAC. emergingforward.substack.com

Emerging Forward Podcast is a business podcast hosted by Adi, with 13 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Adi hosts Emerging Forward Podcast, a business show with 13 episodes published.

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  Episode #9

  Power Laws at SEA Scale: Why 50–250M Exits Matter More Than Unicorns

  May 12, 202637 minS1

  <p>In this episode of Emerging Forward, I sit down with Kevin Brockland, CFA, Founder & Managing Partner of Indelible Ventures, a seed-stage fund focused on Southeast Asia’s B2B ecosystem. We unpack what power-law investing actually looks like in a nascent region, why 50–250M exits matter more than unicorns right now, and how emerging managers and founders should recalibrate their mental models.</p><p>We cover:</p><p>Why Southeast Asia is still in an extended funding winter – and why each market (Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore) has its own funding “personality”.</p><p>The “single-source funding” trap created by gov...

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  Episode #8

  Rebuilding Early-Stage Capital in Southeast Asia: An Insider Map with Ankit Upadhyay from A2D Ventures

  Apr 20, 202630 minS1

  <p>Rebuilding Early-Stage Capital in Southeast Asia</p><p>In this episode, Adi speaks with Ankit Upadhyay, Founder & GP of A2D Ventures and Senior Advisor at McKinsey, about how early-stage capital in Southeast Asia is being rebuilt in 2026.They cover the collapse of earlier early-stage funds, the rise of accelerators, government grants, and angel syndicates, sector opportunities from fintech to food innovation, and why success in SEA may look more like 1,500 profitable 100–500m companies than a wave of unicorn IPOs.</p><p>- Why 2026 looks “better but different” than 2025 for SEA founders valuations stabilising and resilient teams emerging from a capi...

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  Beyond Earth, Beyond Hype: Alexandra Vidyuk on Frontier Tech That Actually Works

  Apr 13, 202641 minS0

  <p>In this episode of Emerging Forward, I’m joined by Alexandra Vidyuk, CEO and Founding Partner at Beyond Earth Ventures, for a conversation on how deep tech really gets funded and scaled across global markets. We explore what physics teaches us about venture judgment, how a healthy deep-tech cap table is actually built, why geography is often overrated as an investment lens, and where the next generation of frontier companies may emerge.</p><p>We cover:</p><p>- Why a physics background changes how you evaluate frontier companies.</p><p>- How deep-tech funding stacks combine grants, VC, sp...

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  Structured Equity, Secondaries, and the 2% Anomaly: Special investor edition with Gillian Muessig (Mastersfund)

  Mar 30, 202641 minS0

  <p>“Women have been returning an average of 35% higher ROI for more than 30 years of data. Hedge funds go nuts for a point. We’re talking 35. And yet the money doesn’t follow the money.” – Gillian Muessig, Mastersfund​</p><p>This issue is a special investor edition of Emerging Forward, a deep dive into how venture is (and isn’t) evolving for founders who don’t fit the “archetypal” mold, and for LPs/GPs who actually care about both yield and impact.</p><p>1. The 2% anomaly that refuses to die</p><p>Gillian starts with a statistic she can’t let go of: women recei...

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  How a Nordic Industrial-Tech Partner Actually Runs the Funnel, and What Emerging Managers Must Prove in 2026 with Sagar Chandna

  Mar 27, 202628 minS0

  <p>Episode 5 - How a Nordic Industrial-Tech Partner Actually Runs the Funnel (with Sagar Chandna, RunwayFBU)</p><p>About Sagar</p><p>Sagar Chandna is Senior Partner and CTO at RunwayFBU, an industrial tech VC backed by one of Norway’s largest industrial groups. A Top 100 Data-Driven VC Leader, he brings experience from scaling global technology platforms and investing in deep tech companies across Europe.</p><p></p><p>Bullet highlights:</p><p>- Why 2025 was “one of the hardest” fundraising years for European emerging managers.</p><p>- How RunwayFBU uses automation and AI for sourcing and evaluation instead of rely...

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