Aldi H•••

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Aldi is the Partner at Arise, an early-stage VC fund in partnership with Telkom Indonesia-backed MDI Ventures and Bank BCA-backed Finch Capital. Arise enabling the next generation of startup founders to scale up and build a real business with interesting tech in Southeast Asia. He is also the Vice President of Investments at MDI Ventures, an $830 Million AUM Global Multi-Fund VC Firm investing in local founders. Aldi is leading the overall global investment activities to focus on seed-to-growth equity stage startups across 5 Funds and 3 Offices (ID, SG, USA). MDI portfolios represent 12+ Countries including 3 Unicorns (Nium, FinAccel, and MPL) and leading Centaurs such as PayFazz (YC S17), aCommerce, SiCepat, ObserveIT (Exited to Proofpoint), Wavecell (Exited to 8x8), RDP (Exited to PayU Naspers), Whispir (IPO at ASX), and Geniee (IPO at TSE). Before MDI Ventures, he was in charge of setting up, leading, executing, and managing investments of a Silicon Valley-based Venture Capital firm in the SEA region and #1 fintech-focused VC arm of Indonesia's largest Corporate Lender. Some of his SEA top portfolios include Alodokter, Investree, Koinworks, Amartha, Bridestory (Exited to Tokopedia), Moka (Exited to Gojek), Urbanindo (Exited to 99.co), Jurnal ID (Exited to Mekari), Talenta (Exited to Mekari), and Cashlez (IPO at IDX). Recently, Aldi received an award as the only GCV Powerlist Top 100 from the SEA region among other top global CVCs such as Softbank, Intel Capital, GV, M12, Naspers, Tencent, and Alibaba. If you are building something with conviction in Southeast Asia, we would love to hear from you. Drop us a line at aldi.H•••@mdi.vc