Loyal VC: Re-inventing Angel Investing (IPEC Geneva)
February 24, 2021
Join us to hear why top investors include private market assets such as private equity (PE), venture capital (VC) and angel investing in their portfolio. Kamal Hassan, MBA’93D and co-founder of Loyal VC, will describe the fundamental math for making money in private market assets, the pros and cons of each strategy together with the three sobering realities of VC and angel investing. Kamal will also discuss about the differentiating approach of Loyal’s Global Index VC fund, the returns to date, as well as the secrets to their returns. Loyal VC has quickly built a portfolio of over 125 companies in 35 countries in a wide range of industries. Over 30% of its portfolio is headed by women, ~30% are from emerging markets and 80% address an SDG goals.

Speaker: Kamal Hassan, MBA’93D Loyal VC, General Partner  Kamal Hassan is a Founding Partner of Loyal VC, an innovative venture fund that invests in INSEAD graduates worldwide. His career has given him deep insights into angel and VC investing: in 20 years as an entrepreneur he raised funds from over 50 angels, VCs and family offices he spent 15 years as a successful (4.6x realised return) angel, and supported an angel group launch one of his (unsuccessful) startups designed operational software for angel groups and VCs he spent 7 years running and designing accelerator programs for the Founder Institute he led a pro bono project on microfinance for Canadian entrepreneurs as a consultant at Bain

Moderator: Konstantinos Dermanis, MBA ‘13J, Managing Director, Renovative   Konstantinos is the co-founder of a private equity fund investing in visionary European managers. He brings a long experience of advising and investing in European companies having completed more than 50 transactions. Konstantinos holds a BSc and MSc from UK universities and an MBA from INSEAD.