AI-driven Strategy: 10-year Track Record

We keep learning, evolving and developing:

• 2013: Participated in the setup of a Green Finance initiative for Vietnam (GSAF Fund), through the Green Growth Action Alliance (G2A2) Working Group of World Economic Forum in Agriculture and Environment.
• 2015: Started Cross-border Trade business in Private label and OEM Manufacturing in Health Food, BioPharma, BioBeauty, and Wellness industry.
• 2016: Started Venture Studio business. Incubated the first Venture with theme “Machine Learning and Cross-border Commerce”. 
• 2017: The Machine Learning MVP was selected as International Innovators Initiative of New York City Economic Development Corporation, sponsored by the City of New York.
• 2018: The Machine Learning MVP predicted correctly consumer behaviors and trends, and the data analysis pointed out a type of food ingredient toward digestive issues. Notable case – Launched a Plant-based beverage line with Prebiotic infusion in 02/2018 in our testing market, which was 8 months earlier than Nestle, who launched similar line in 10/2018. Result was presented at the International B2B Forum by U.S. Small Business Administration, under the topic of “Machine Intelligence and Cross-border Commerce”. Exited a number of businesses in Cross-border Trade.
• 2019: Started Venture Commercialization business. Pivoted the MVP to our in-house AI Prediction Tool. Predicted correctly economic potential in Virtual Office (VO), and potential inflation risk. Notable cases – Commercialized the VO idea and launched a VO service in 05/2019.  In addition, to De-risk the inflation, we invested in residential condo-apartment property chain (our Opportunity Fund III). The VO business has surged since the pandemic in 2020, while the cashflow from the property chain has been stable. Furthermore, for rebalancing purpose and reducing liquidity risk, we also used our AI Tool to capture public interest via “social listening” techniques on certain tech ventures and businesses. As a result, we allocated a portion of capital to invest in those selected public traded equities (Opportunity Fund II). Note – the Fund II was exited at 3x in 2021.
• 2020: Ventured in Food vertical. Predicted correctly hustle economy behaviors toward small side business with minimum cost. Notable case – Launched a Foodservice Brand and an income-generating side hustle model via Franchising distribution of beverage kiosk chain in 06/2020. In 2021, a number of big F&B chains had to adjust their traditional model to similar kiosk model. 
• 2021: Ventured in Agri-Food-Tech vertical. Predicted corrected the trend on Plant-based Protein. Built out a trusted Network of almost 50 affiliated plant agricultural farms and processing factories in Vietnam. Built out Partnerships with top Manufacturers in Food & Health Science business. Exited Fund II successfully at performance growth of 50% – 150% for the 3-year period. 
• 2022: Ventured in Agri-Food-Bio-Tech for Health spectrum on Capacity Building side, and Fintech-in-Web3 for Capital Raising side. Built out Global Partnerships with a number of Accelerators and Incubators in Health Science & Biotech, e.g. in CUNY system, in New York. 
• 2022: Built out an APAC Agri-Food-Tech Ecosystem to facilitate our own Strategic Expansion and also those of global partners to Asia-Pacific. 
• 2022: Exited a Plastics Manufacturing business. Started venturing into Solar Energy & Carbon map in AgriTech to empower small-scale farmers and increase their livelihoods.