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Dusan Stojanovic

Founding Partner and Director at True Global Ventures 4 Plus

Singapore

Overview

Work Experience

  • Founding Partner and Executive Director

    2018 - Current

    True Global Ventures 4 Plus (TGV) has invested in 4 global market leaders namely Ledger, Animoca Brands, The Sandbox, Forge Global. TGV GPs are investing their own money between 20%-35% of the total AUM. TGV is licensed under Monetary Authorities of Singapore and is actively deploying out of 2 funds dedicated to Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Blockchain companies: - TGV Opportunity Fund (TGV 5), launched in June 2022, a 146M USD fund investing in external opportunities mainly in late stage AI companies, as well as selected portfolio companies of TGV 4 Plus Base Fund, investing from Series B onwards. - TGV 4 Plus Base Fund (TGV4), a 113M USD fund has deployed into 16 portfolio companies to date including: Ledger: Global market leader in self-custody, cold storage hardware wallet solution with 20% of the world’s crypto assets secured, services supporting trading, buying, spending, earning, staking, etc. The Sandbox: Global market leader in gaming metaverse empowering artists, creators, players to play, build, own, monetise virtual experiences on blockchain Animoca Brands: Unicorn global market leader leveraging gamification & blockchain to develop and publish a portfolio of games Forge Global (NYSE: FRGE): Global market leader in secondary private market shares transactions, with over 12 B USD transaction volume, in > 500 companies Chromaway: Creator of relational blockchain protocol Chromia ($CHR), powering Metaverse game My Neighbor Alice ($ALICE), Mines of Dalarnia ($DAR), etc Coinhouse: Leading French regulated digital assets platform for individuals, companies & institutions GCEX: Regulated digital brokerage & end-to-end trading platform bringing Tier 1 liquidity for Institutional clients bridging gap between traditional finance & digital assets SATO Technologies Corp (TSXV: SATO): Bitcoin mining company based in Quebec utilising 100% renewable energy Others: Chronicled, Quantumrock, Enjinstarter, Printler, Bookit N Go, Forza Football, Iomob, Dedoco

  • Observer Board Member

    2023

  • Board Member

    2022

  • Board Member

    2022

  • Board Member

    2022

  • Board Member

    2019

  • Founder and Director

    2010 - 2024

    Innovator Founders’ Capital 1,2,3 (F.K.A. True Global Ventures 1,2,3) Investment vehicles set up by serial entrepreneurs investing in serial entrepreneurs in Bay Area, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Berlin, Paris within mainly B2B Fintech & Fintech related companies: Investments: Forge Global NYSE: FRGE (US - SF) Initial investment SharesPost, Pre-IPO online secondaries marketplace for late stage VC-backed private companies. Board Observer. Merged with Forge Global. IPOed on New York Stock Exchange in 2022. Animoca Brands (Hong Kong) Initial investment Stryking (Berlin). Free-to-play sports games, teamed up with Sports Media Partners providing innovative monetizing combining real & virtual worlds. Sold to Animoca Brands in 2019. The Blockchain Group (EURONEXT: ALTBG) Initial investment Bountysource (US-SF) bounties marketplace with 100,000+ open source developers. Clients: IBM, Ripple, Facebook. Board Member. Sold to the Blockchain Group in 2020. Aptiv.io (US-NYC) Revenue AI enterprise SaaS for salespeople. Translates data into smart decisions based on cognitive computing, AI & ML. Bluerider Software (Bialystok) AI workflow process software house. Formerly technology team of Opentopic (US-NYC), platform for content discovery & distribution for marketers. Key partnership with IBM Watson 2015. Exited: Goswiff (Singapore) payments company present in 26 emerging markets offering MPOS, authentication, wallet & payment processing solutions. Sold to PaySwiff in 2017. PaySwiff was then sold to CHOLA Group in 2022. Bluzelle (Singapore) offers a fully integrated stack of blockchain applications, middleware, data services - payment network, smart insurance & KYC-Identity. Key clients: Maybank, AIA, MSIG; Partners: Microsoft, British Telecom & Temenos. Board Member. Exited 2022. 4GSecure (Paris) payment solution for mobile apps with authentication system using 2D bar codes, NFC, OTP enabling mobile payments with vouchers. Sold to SCCP Group in Singapore June 2012.

  • Board Member

    2021 - 2022

  • Business Angel

    2005 - 2015

    ProwebCE.com (France) - Full Exit to Edenred 2015 Market Leader with 14% market share (7000 merchants and 5 millions employees) of E-Commerce/Software to the HR Benefits community in France ("the Zenefits of Europe").About 230 employees across France. Turnover 2014: 90 MEUROS and 8 MEUROS EBITDA. One of the fastest growing companies in Europe with a growth rate of 1994%% over 4 years (period 2006 to 2010), It ranked at the 1st place ranking of NYSE Euronext, which rewards the highest growth company listed on NYSE Euronext. Buy Out to Edenred in May 2015. Dibs.se (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland) IPOed. - Full Exit 2009 Market Leader with 35% market share in Nordic Countries of the E-Payment Service Provider Market. 11 300 merchants in 17 countries. IPOed on First North, Stockholm Stock Exchange. Transaction Volume: 6 billion euros. 33 % Profit margin. Organic growth of 25 %. Investment made in 2005. Full exit end of 2009 Payson.se (Sweden) - Full Exit to Svea Ekonomi 2012 The leading P to P e-payment Nordic company with more than 1,8 million accounts growing by 7400 a week and having in total more than 5 500 merchants. Highly innovative including e-invocing and mobile payments. Sold to Svea Ekonomi in June 2012.

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