Who We Are
Our Vision & Values
Our Vision & Values
The Asian Business Angel Forum (ABAF) is an independent, non-profit cooperative established in 2008 to promote the establishment, development and collaboration of organised Angel investor communities across all Asian and Australasian countries. It is engendered by the reality that Asia is not the USA, nor Europe and that our countries a
The Asian Business Angel Forum (ABAF) is an independent, non-profit cooperative established in 2008 to promote the establishment, development and collaboration of organised Angel investor communities across all Asian and Australasian countries. It is engendered by the reality that Asia is not the USA, nor Europe and that our countries and communities must develop and champion investment and business models that are most appropriate for our societies and markets.
ABAF champions professional and ethical conduct as an essential basis for the practice of Angel investing.
The primary purpose of ABAF is to facilitate an eponymous annual event that offers Angel investors from every country in the region the opportunity to exchange views, share practices, learn from each other, help each other and promote the relationships that are the foundations for successful cross-border syndication.
At its core, ABAF is a collective of highly motivated individuals, passionate about Angel investing and the impact this asset class can have on the future of our communities.
Our Vision & Values
Our Vision & Values
Our Vision & Values
ABAF pursues a regional Angel investor community that through professionalism and collaboration delivers superior market access for the investors and for their portfolio companies.
ABAF promotes these shared values and behaviours:
- People are more important than money!
- No discrimination, for or against, any person on the basis of ethnicit
ABAF pursues a regional Angel investor community that through professionalism and collaboration delivers superior market access for the investors and for their portfolio companies.
ABAF promotes these shared values and behaviours:
- People are more important than money!
- No discrimination, for or against, any person on the basis of ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, or age.
- Treat everybody with courtesy, consideration and respect. Expect to be treated in the same way.
- Honesty, ethics, integrity and professionalism.
ABAF will facilitate informed debate and critical thinking about emerging technologies and business models, the roles they can and should play in our societies, and how to pursue responsible development and exploitation for the optimal, long-term benefit of our communities.
Better thinking and collaborative dialogue across our region will inform better strategy, planning, policy, innovation and exploitation in the use of transformative technologies with consequential benefits in reshaping Asian economic outcomes, social equity, productivity and national competitiveness.
Our Mission
Our Vision & Values
Our Mission
To operate as an inclusive collaboration that draws strength and insight from the diversity of our members.
To be the most active and effective early-stage investor community in the region, enabling Angel investors to realise substantial economic and social returns for themselves, the founders they support and the communities in which th
To operate as an inclusive collaboration that draws strength and insight from the diversity of our members.
To be the most active and effective early-stage investor community in the region, enabling Angel investors to realise substantial economic and social returns for themselves, the founders they support and the communities in which they live. This will be facilitated by promoting the development of high-value, ethical businesses which exploit technology to realise sustainable, scalable and valuable benefits to the region.
ABAF is committed to providing a professional and collegiate environment and experience for all members and for all participants at ABAF events. By combining this culture with performance ABAF will realise its objectives which, in turn, will underpin the growth and sustainability of the collaboration through member attraction, member retention and measurable impact to benefit the communities of our region.
Each year ABAF celebrates the Angel pioneers in the host country and promotes the pan-Asia ecosystem in the cross-border reality that is the Asian Century.
ABAF has been held in:
- 2010 Singapore
- 2011 Shanghai, China
- 2012 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- 2013 Mumbai, India
- 2014 Hong Kong
- 2015 Queenstown, NZ
- 2016 Seoul, South Korea
- 2017 Colombo, Sri Lanka
- 2020 Busan, South Korea
