VentureGrab, Malaysia’s first business matching portal aims to connect business owners, young entrepreneurs, industry observer, franchisee and investors through its business matching event held at Atria SoFo Suites, Damansara Jaya
The event was held with the aim to introduce business start-up opportunities, expansion, partnership, franchising and acquisition at the business matching event.
Venture Grab is Malaysia's first SME business matching portal that provides a convenient and easy way for business owners and young entrepreneurs to start up or expand a business and to explore new business opportunities.
Venture Grab is designed to facilitate the growth of SMEs in Malaysia and assist entrepreneurs to achieve their entrepreneurship goals.
With a strong support from Entrepreneur Magazine, VentureGrab co-organised the business matching event together.
The event features three main programme highlights including; sharing session from five experienced keynote speaker, a business showcase and a service showcase.
This business matching event is supported by Selangor Information Technology and E-Commerce Council (SITEC) as well as TusStar Malaysia (Startup business incubator).
this event is also sponsored by Vivo Malaysia as gadget sponsor as all the photos capturing and video recording is via their newly launched phone model, Vivo V15.
Additionally, VentureGrab also work closely with TraderMalaysia to covers the whole SME ecosystem.
“We want to open doors of opportunities to everyone whether finding new business to venture in, networking with industry players or just by gaining new knowledge and see what the current market has to offer, realising that not many people know where to start and what to do, VentureGrab dedicated to create a day where everyone will be able to search for available business opportunities and the participants stand a chance to showcase their business.
“It’s a win-win situation for everyone as you get the first-hand opportunity in front of you,” said Venture Grab founder, Eden Tang.
As an effort to promote as wholesome business event, VentureGrab has also invited five notable keynote speakers from various industry players to impart their knowledge and skills while engaging with the participants.
Among the invited speakers is My Startr founder and SITEC Academy director, Goh Boon Peng who will be sharing his knowledge on “Smart Business Transformation and mastering the future of e-commerce in the next 30 years” focusing on the widespread use of the internet as a commercial tool to conduct business marketing innovatively and the challenges faced by the users in the computer-mediated environment.
Bryon Ho and Wilson Ho from Attorney and Solicitors of Ho Partnership will be speaking on the topic of “Legal Framework for Business Partnership in Malaysia” with the hope to educate business owners on the legal environment of business and commercialisation.
A certified HRDF trainer and EI Media media brand consultant, Wenddi Teng will be sharing on the topic of “Corporate business etiquette”.
Shangdao Academy founder and lecturer, Allan Thong will be sharing his valuable experience on “Being a boss is not difficult”.
Last but not least, PineTree founder, Adam Teh will be sharing on “The process between business buying and selling and how to evaluate the transaction value”.
Besides that, business owners listed on VentureGrab website will be invited to showcase their business during the events.
Each of the participants are given the opportunity to pitch and impress potential investors or buyers.
Service provider who offer professional services such as legal, due-diligence, digital marketing and business evaluation will also participate in this meaningful event and given a space to exhibit their products to all the attendees.
One of the key highlights during this event is the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between VentureGrab and EI Media as strategic partnership, offering both online and offline marketing services in the hope to assist business owners who wish to expand, exit or startup a business to increase their business listings exposure.
“We want to gather passionate people looking a platform grow and find opportunity by being visible and getting noticed by the right person.
“What we have is not just any regular networking event, we help you to build your reputation by surrounding with knowledgeable and supportive group having like-minded and intention as you.
“Just like VG is all about, we help you (business owners) to connect to the right people whether it’s investor, business lookers or even potential franchisee.” said Venture Grab co-founder, Siti Salwa.