William Bao Bean
@williambaobean.bsky.social
Orbit Ventures Managing General Partner Riyadh The Emerging Markets VC. Bitmex, VideoVerse, Elsa Speak, Carota, italki, TappyToon, Dastgyr, Priyoshop
Big congrats to Sumit Sinha & Vijay Goel on OmicsBank's $2.25M Seed round!
They're doing the hard work of building clinical data infrastructure across 90+ hospitals in Asia and the Middle East so global pharma can bring drugs to market faster.
Proud we got to lead their pre-seed from day one.
They're doing the hard work of building clinical data infrastructure across 90+ hospitals in Asia and the Middle East so global pharma can bring drugs to market faster.
Proud we got to lead their pre-seed from day one.
OmicsBank Raises $2.25M to Expand Clinical Data Infrastructure Globally for Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Frontier AI Labs
/PRNewswire/ -- OmicsBank, a clinical data infrastructure company connecting fragmented hospital data for drug development and healthcare AI, today announced...
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September 8, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Big congrats to Sumit Sinha & Vijay Goel on OmicsBank's $2.25M Seed round!
They're doing the hard work of building clinical data infrastructure across 90+ hospitals in Asia and the Middle East so global pharma can bring drugs to market faster.
Proud we got to lead their pre-seed from day one.
They're doing the hard work of building clinical data infrastructure across 90+ hospitals in Asia and the Middle East so global pharma can bring drugs to market faster.
Proud we got to lead their pre-seed from day one.
Across SE Asia, AI must optimize real products, not BE the product.
While SV focuses on foundation models and compute, we focus on unique data to solve real industry problems. The big opportunity isn't building LLMs—it's embedding AI into traditional businesses so they actually make money.
While SV focuses on foundation models and compute, we focus on unique data to solve real industry problems. The big opportunity isn't building LLMs—it's embedding AI into traditional businesses so they actually make money.
September 1, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Across SE Asia, AI must optimize real products, not BE the product.
While SV focuses on foundation models and compute, we focus on unique data to solve real industry problems. The big opportunity isn't building LLMs—it's embedding AI into traditional businesses so they actually make money.
While SV focuses on foundation models and compute, we focus on unique data to solve real industry problems. The big opportunity isn't building LLMs—it's embedding AI into traditional businesses so they actually make money.
Most VCs treat startup traction like a product problem. In frontier markets, that gets companies killed.
Markets reward customer proof, repeatable sales and positive unit economics.
Read our full breakdown on founder patterns investors misread
Markets reward customer proof, repeatable sales and positive unit economics.
Read our full breakdown on founder patterns investors misread
Eight Companies, Eight Exits: The Founder Patterns VCs Consistently Misread
The startup world loves tidy narratives: visionary founders, breakout products, perfect timing. But after eight exits across wildly different categories — e‑commerce, fintech, mobile […]
orbitventures.com
August 31, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Most VCs treat startup traction like a product problem. In frontier markets, that gets companies killed.
Markets reward customer proof, repeatable sales and positive unit economics.
Read our full breakdown on founder patterns investors misread
Markets reward customer proof, repeatable sales and positive unit economics.
Read our full breakdown on founder patterns investors misread
Excited to join the conversation at LEAP 2026! I'll be on the panel "From the Pearl River to the Gulf: What Asia's Tech Giants Can Teach the Next Generation of MENA Builders."
If you're at LEAP from August 31st to September 3rd, make sure to catch this discussion.
If you're at LEAP from August 31st to September 3rd, make sure to catch this discussion.
August 24, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Excited to join the conversation at LEAP 2026! I'll be on the panel "From the Pearl River to the Gulf: What Asia's Tech Giants Can Teach the Next Generation of MENA Builders."
If you're at LEAP from August 31st to September 3rd, make sure to catch this discussion.
If you're at LEAP from August 31st to September 3rd, make sure to catch this discussion.
Wheels down Shanghai! Great to meet Orbit Ventures founders mentors investors and friends including Waka enabling employees, SMEs and corporates like Huawei to send money from around the world especially Africa to China and USHOPAL Asia’s first global brand house recently acquired PAYOT
August 10, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Wheels down Shanghai! Great to meet Orbit Ventures founders mentors investors and friends including Waka enabling employees, SMEs and corporates like Huawei to send money from around the world especially Africa to China and USHOPAL Asia’s first global brand house recently acquired PAYOT
Check out my article in SuperReturn Insights on how to best invest in the emerging markets opportunity. The global economy is expected to grow 2.7% in 2025 with US and Europe struggling at 2.5% and 0.8%. The biggest opportunity is emerging markets informa.turtl.co/story/future...
November 23, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Check out my article in SuperReturn Insights on how to best invest in the emerging markets opportunity. The global economy is expected to grow 2.7% in 2025 with US and Europe struggling at 2.5% and 0.8%. The biggest opportunity is emerging markets informa.turtl.co/story/future...