What do we offer

DaD Asia’s objective is to help entrepreneurs to achieve the next milestones of their businesses.  Depending on the stage and the specific project this might mean building a prototype, prove the business model or break even.

In order to do so, DaD Asia provides entrepreneurs the necessary funds but, what makes our model more    unique, is the support in the key areas.

DaD Support starts already during the project evaluation phase. In the different interviews we will ask the entrepreneurs to prepare some documents that will allow us to evaluate the investment opportunity, such us an executive summary, a financial forecast…In case the founder team is not familiar with this kind of documents we will help the entrepreneurs to prepare them and in all cases we will always give them relevant feedback to improve their documentation.

Right after our investment we organize a kick-off meeting with the founding team to understand better their vision of the project, define a plan with realistic milestones and identify where can we help them. During this meeting we help the entrepreneurs to organize their ideas into an explicit plan.

During the evolution of the project we meet regularly with the management team, quarterly, monthly or even weekly according to their needs. This continuous support is divided in three areas:

Management: Setting the right KPIS and monitoring them is a key management area. Efficient management systems can also help, specially those entrepreneurs that are facing specific problems for the first time. DaD does not involve operationally in the project but will advice in case the entrepreneurs have doubts.

Product: Nobody knows better a product that the founders but building a successful product takes time and consumes a lot of resources. An efficient management of this creation and development cycle might not only save resources but help to create a better product for the users. We help the founding team defining that development strategy, which is very important for a startup that needs to do many things at the same time. .

Marketing: We promote efficient management of the different channels to reach customers as a key in a very competitive industry. Reducing the user acquisition cost is critical in a market where the ARPU tends to be very low. Additionally, we help entrepreneurs to design an execute PR campaigns to attract users, partners or customers together with traditional media, bloggers…

Based on the network of contacts of DaD Asia we also help entrepreneurs to find initial customers and/or partners and raise funds once the project has achieved their milestones.

Additionally, the ecosystem of DaD Asia companies is a very good environment for the development of new ventures. We encourage cooperation among the different companies in both advice (for example, sharing best practices) and joint actions (such as joint marketing campaigns)