New network launched to support Asian founded businesses
A new network designed to support Asian founded businesses to scale up and innovate is set to inspire businesses around the country after.
The Asian Founders Community Meet will see businesses attend events held at around the country from Scotland to Southampton, run in partnership between Barclays Eagle Labs and De Montfort University Leicester (DMU).
The launch event took place on Wednesday night as entrepreneurs, business owners, mentors and funders came together at Winstanley House in Braunstone.
The Asian Founders Community Meet was devised by Eagle Labs ecosystem manager Poonam Sharma and Nimesh Kanani, city leader for Barclays Leicester to offer targeted support and networking opportunities for businesses owned by or founded by Asian entrepreneurs.
Poonam said: “I’m extremely proud to launch the Asian Founders Community Meet with Nimesh Kanani in Leicester before heading to eight other cities across the UK. Supporting and empowering Asian entrepreneurs is vitally important and for Barclays Eagle Labs to launch the initiative here in Leicester, a city which boasts so many successful Asian businesses, is very exciting indeed.”
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Helen Donnellan, director of Research Business and Innovation at DMU, said the university was proud to be a partner of the Asian Founders programme. She said: “At DMU, we believe that diversity inspires innovation.
“Different approaches are taken, different ideas shared and exciting things happen when you empower people to succeed. That is why Asian Founders Community Meet is so important in showcasing and connecting founders and creating opportunity for everyone.”
Keynote speaker Anuj Ashar, a 22-year-old entrepreneur who has already had more five businesses, said: “I am such a supporter of Asian Founders programme and to hear events will be held around the country is brilliant. It’s so important to come together as a community and supporting each other through sharing our expertise or our contacts or our skills to help each other.”
