Having capital is only the beginning of angel investing. The harder question is what to do with it. A promising startup can look compelling in a pitch deck and still fail to build a durable business. A strong founder can enter the wrong market. A large market can prove difficult to monetize. A fast-growing company
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Every generation invents new ways to move capital. The caravan merchant needed financing for a journey across the desert. A merchant in a marketplace needed working capital to purchase goods. An industrialist needed capital to build a factory. Today, an entrepreneur may need millions of dollars to develop software, build a biotechnology platform, or scale
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Unity Grammar is an Islamic school in Australia. It has no Arabic in its name, no Islamic calligraphy, nothing that signals its identity at first glance. That’s not an oversight, it’s a deliberate branding decision, and according to brand strategist Mohammed Hassan, it’s often the right one. Should a halal startup use an explicitly Islamic
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Angel investors and venture capital both exchange startup equity for funding, but they differ sharply in size, stage, and control: angel investors put in 10K–1M of personal money at the earliest stages with light involvement, while venture capital firms invest 1M–20M+ of institutional money once a startup has traction, in exchange for board seats and
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In 2021, 354 startups reached unicorn status i.e. a $1 billion-plus valuation. By early 2025, only six of them had made it to an IPO. That gap between “billion-dollar valuation” and “actual business that survives” is the entire argument behind the camel startup, the idea HASAN.VC explores within their debut episode of their podcast Camels
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A compelling idea can attract capital. Converting that capital into durable enterprise value is a different task entirely, and this falls on the founder – the entrepreneur who started the startup, and typically also its leader and CEO. Today, there are even one-person startups supported by AI. Whether its one person or a team of
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Venture capital firm HASAN.VC has concluded the final cohort of its accelerator under Fund I with a Demo Day in Bandung, Indonesia, on June 17, marking the end of a four-cohort run that took 120 startups and close to 500 founders from 10 countries through the program. The Bandung event followed a three-day virtual Demo
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HASAN.VC has marked the completion of its inaugural Fund I accelerator programme with the Demo Day for Accelerator Cohort 004, held at Block71 Innovation Factory in Bandung, Indonesia, on 17 June 2026. The milestone concludes four accelerator cohorts that have supported 120 startups and nearly 500 founders from ten countries, with Cohort 004 comprising twenty
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Key Takeaways: Redefining Growth: The Rise of Camel Startups in Southeast Asia The venture capital landscape in Southeast Asia is shifting from a growth-at-all-costs mindset to a focus on operational durability. HASAN.VC’s Demo Day for Cohort 004 in Bandung, Indonesia, highlights this structural pivot toward backing early-stage companies built to withstand economic cycles. Rather than
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In Singapore’s high-stakes financial landscape, Muslim investors have often felt caught in a Values vs. Growth paradox. They often need to choose between values or growth. In 2026, this has been effectively dismantled. Shariah-compliant investing is no longer a niche, restrictive discipline; it has evolved into a sophisticated, multi-asset class strategy that provides options for
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