HEC MBA Private Equity & Venture Capital Club

This episode gives an in-depth view of how one entrepreneur founded and scaled a leading digital marketing startup, successfully overseeing its acquisition by a strategic investor. Prantik Mazumdar shares his 10-year journey of growing a company, and how the skills he acquired as an entrepreneur have helped him as an active investor in Singapore and South-East Asia. Candid and personal, Prantik also shares the importance of being open to opportunities, why failure is important, what makes a good co-founder, and how students can prepare themselves to thrive as entrepreneurs or investors.

Dr. Scherer is CEO of CoFeS France and its sister company CoFeS China (previously known as TVM Capital China). Previously he consulted for MPM Capital focusing on deal sourcing for MPM in Europe. Mirko was also a co-founder and partner at KI Kapital which specialized in consulting in the life science industries. ​ Prior to working in the venture capital industry, Mirko co-founded GPC Biotech (Munich, Princeton and NJ) and served as its CFO for a decade. Prior to GPC Mirko worked as a consultant at the BCG. He has served on the Board of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Quantapore Inc., the Stichting Preferente Aandelen QIAGEN, and is currently a board member of Aptorum Inc.​ Mirko holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. He also earned a Doctorate in Finance from the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel/Germany.