EZToken welcomes investment expert from Rocket Internet on board
Soheil Mirpour, Senior Vice President Investments at Rocket Internet today joins in the international EZToken Board of Advisors. He is very impressed by the concept of the EZToken project, the team behind it and how fast they were able to execute and sell out the EZToken ICO.
Given years of investing in successful international corporations, he will definitely contribute his expertise to promote EZToken on the global scale.
He is mainly involved in providing investment strategy advisory advisory for the international expansion of EZPOS. In the future he will support EZToken with its international expansion and further growth financing via his global business network among investors and companies.
About Soheil Mirpour
Soheil Mirpour | Professional Profile | LinkedIn
Soheil Mirpour is the Senior Vice President for Investments at Rocket Internet and a Senior Director at the firm’s investment-arm Global Founders Capital. He leads the firm’s Private Equity and Growth Investing, incl. Operational Co-Investments alongside PE funds. Previously, he worked in Private Equity at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and in Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley.
Rocket Internet
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Rocket Internet incubates and invests in Internet companies with proven business models * View our portfolio, career…www.rocket-internet.com
Rocket Internet incubates and invests in Internet companies with proven business models. It provides operational support to its companies and helps them scale internationally across developed and emerging markets. Rocket Internet focuses predominantly on four industry sectors of online and mobile retail and services that make up a significant share of consumer spending: Food & Groceries, Fashion, General Merchandise and Home & Living. Rocket Internet’s selected companies are active in a large number of countries around the world with more than 28,000 employees.
As a case study: Rocket Internet founded Lazada Group in 2011. As of 2014, Lazada Group operated sites in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam and had raised approximately US$647 million over several investment rounds from its investors such as Tesco, Temasek Holdings, Summit Partners, JPMorgan Chase. As of April 2016, Alibaba Group bought US$1 billion controlling 83% stake in Lazada to support Alibaba’s expansion plans in Southeast Asia.
