William Bao Bean
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Managing General Partner
Orbit VenturesWilliam is Managing General Partner of Orbit Ventures the Emerging Markets VC the longest running emerging market startup program in the world with over US$125m in investment value managed. Orbit invests in technology startups that digitize traditional industries, boost earnings potential, and drive sustainable growth. Sectors include ecommerce, fintech, travel, media, health, education, and logistics across emerging markets in Asia, Middle East, Africa and LATAM. Orbit provides hands-on support for user acquisition, sales, partnerships, and fundraising. Orbits consumer ecosystem has helped our startups scale to 169m monthly active users as of 2Q25. Magnitt named Orbit #6 most active VC in Emerging Markets in 2023, 2024 and 1H25. William joined Orbit from SingTel Innov8 Ventures where he was a founding Managing Director. Prior to that William was a Partner at Softbank China & India. William started his career in equity research most recently with Deutsche Bank where he was a top ranked analyst for Internet and Software in Asia and worked on the IPOs for Alibaba, Kingsoft, eLong (Expedia), OnMobile and InfoEdge Naukri.