Digital Mission Ventures Community Newsletter - Q3

Welcome to the Digital Mission Ventures Community Newsletter, where we share activities and opportunities in the Digital Mission community. 

Contents

1. DMV Pitch Day

2. DMV Redemptive Labs Cohort 4

3. DMV Fellowship Lunch

4. Exploratory Trip to Myanmar

5. Startup Updates

6. DMV Activities

7. Joint Activities with Partners

8. Sponsorship

1. DMV Pitch Day

Accredited angel investors are invited to join Pitch Day at 7 pm on 27 August to find exceptional start-ups, support enthusiastic entrepreneurs in the broader DMV community and consider investing. Participants in pitch sessions benefit from access to investment opportunities in companies connected to DMV. Sessions will be conducted via Zoom. Register here or for more information send an email to info@digitalmissionventures.com.

Pitch Day is presented in collaboration with Dream Bigger and Faith Driven Investor.

2. DMV Redemptive Labs Cohort 4

You’re invited to apply for Redemptive Labs Cohort 4.

DMV Redemptive Labs is a mentor-centric accelerator for early-stage tech founders seeking to leverage the power of business for the good of their neighbours and the renewal of culture. Through a high-touch program anchored on the Redemptive Frame from Praxis, founders will have access to content taught from a Biblical worldview, support from fellow entrepreneurs, and mentoring from seasoned builders who believe in the power of redemptive entrepreneurship.

Founders can apply if they are running an early-to-mid-stage tech start-up , intentional about growing God’s Kingdom through an innovative and scalable model, keen to collaborate with other missional companies and working full-time on their venture.

DMV Redemptive Labs will run from 8 Nov 2024 to 13 Apr 2025 and will consist of 3 Gatherings, a monthly virtual check-in with a mentor and the DMV team, and a Showcase Day where founders will share about their companies with the wider DM community.

Apply here! Applications must be received by 31 August 2024.

Apply for DMV Redemptive Labs Cohort 4!

3. DMV Fellowship Lunch

Join fellow members of the DMV community at our monthly DMV Community Lunch. The next Lunch will be at noon on Friday, 23 August at Marina Square. For more details about this Lunch and to be added to the WhatsApp group for future Fellowship Lunches, please email Allan at allan.chin@digitalmissionventures.com.

4. Exploratory Trip to Myanmar

You’re invited to join Jeshua Soh for a 4-day, 3-night exploratory trip to Myanmar from 28 September to 1 October 2024. Guided by Jeshua, who founded a successful HR business there in 2018 and has traveled to every state and region of the country, this trip offers a unique blend of cultural immersion, business networking and spiritual fellowship. For an all-inclusive cost of $580-$700 SGD (flights, accommodation, transport and meals inclusive), participants will enjoy engaging activities with the landscape and an introduction to opportunities. For more details, please contact Jeshua at jeshua.soh@gmail.com.

5. Startup Updates

BGE 12:30

After completing DMV Redemptive Labs, the BGE team launched BGE 12:30, inspired by Mark 12:30-31. BGE runs initiatives in Building, Growing and Educating communities with various projects, and it has initiated talks with a well-established NGO in the Philippines, Center for Community Transformation, to start a mentorship programme for MSMEs with a faith driven entrepreneurship mindset. BGE has also partnered with a local church to conduct weekly meetings with team members to discuss Leadership, Integrity, Faith and Excellence. The company has continued to grow in both in people and accounts. The 1st half of 2024 has seen 18 new brand partners across the firm’s ecosystem of services. To find out more more about BGE, visit https://beglobalecommercecorp.com/. BGE is also looking for like-minded faith-driven mentors and investors who share a vision for redemptive impact in the Philippines and can help BGE grow as a company so it can touch more lives. 

GoKampus

GoKampus (DMV Redemptive Labs Cohort 3) says it has become the de facto Learning Management Platform for the Indonesian province of Maluku. Centrally coordinated by the provincial government, more than 800 villages with a combined population of about one million people will have access to high-quality continuing education in a province where 94% of the population does not go past middle school. GoKampus is providing relevant and targeted learning material to SMEs, housewives, Gen Z and industry workers. Maluku is a province that was stalwartly Christian due to early influence from Catholic and Protestant missionaries. It is also one of the poorest and most remote provinces, and concentrated efforts have resulted in the Northern Maluku islands converting away from Christianity. This mission is deeply personal to co-founder Nathan Santoso, who was born in Maluku while his parents were missionaries there. GoKampus is looking for opportunities and partnerships with individuals in the DMV network who share in the mission and vision to help the brothers and sisters of Maluku. For more details, please contact Nathanael Santoso at nathan@gokampus.com.

Bonfire

Bonfire says most parents are overwhelmed when it comes to choosing the right care plan for their special needs child’s brain development and mental health needs. Assessment evaluation reports for ADHD and autism can be as thick as 40 pages, and psychologists spend hours extracting key highlights and recommendations from the ocean of data. The engineering team at Bonfire recently converted an anonymised 5-page intake report written by a PhD-level psychologist into a fractal care pathway diagram in seconds using AI. The goal is to make recommended care pathways intuitive to understand for parents, while reducing time for psychologists to summarize lengthy reports. You can read more about Bonfire and the insights from the fractal care pathways process here.

6. DMV Activities

DMV Lunch Fellowship – June 2024

The June 2024 lunch fellowship featured Eric Lam as the panel speaker. Eric, a seasoned serial entrepreneur and investor, has over two decades of Zero-to-One startup experience. He successfully founded and raised more than SGD 20 million from institutional and angel investors for one of his early ventures and achieved a rapid exit with another startup in Australia within just two years. Eric is also the author of the bestselling book, "The Fast Founder: From Startup to Exit in 36 Months." The group’s time with him was truly blessed, and it was filled with engaging Q&A from the participants in the lunch.

DMV Peer Circles - August 2024

Peer Circles are small fellowship groups for the Fellows from DMV Redemptive Labs, for mutual support as they build their redemptive ventures. The August session saw Fellows and Mentors discussing on the theme of Imagination from Praxis’ Rule of Life.

7. Joint Activities with Partners

FDE Watch Party

Come join an annual gathering to watch Faith Driven Entrepreneur’s conference: 21 Sep, 9am-12pm, Gospel Light Christian Church. Co-hosted with Dm360 and FDE. You can view more details and RSVP through the link: https://lnkd.in/gPQqRPii

All of the proceeds from the signup fee will go towards the Faith Driven Entrepreneur ministry. If the fee is a barrier to your attendance, please reach out to us at allan.chin@digitalmissionventures.com — we'd be happy to assist.

FaithX

Food, music, entertainment and tech (FMET) are the major forces that determine our culture. How do we steward them to shape culture that is very good and glorifes God? FaithX blends Christian live worship, inspiring faith stories from the marketplace, good food, prayer and fellowship, with a group-dining format for a community experience.  Time: 9am-1:30pm, 21 Sep (Sat),  Location: The Mason's Table, 23A Coleman Street, Singapore. Co-organized by: Awaken Generation, Creator Community Nights, CW3, Digital Mission Ventures, Global Resource, Thir.st, United Records and 3:16 Church. More info at faithx.tech. Get your tickets here!

Redemptive Imagination Dinner

Are you curious about integrating faith x work? Come learn more about the Redemptive Frame from Praxis. This will be held on Wed Sep 11th in Jakarta, 630pm-9pm JKT and co-organized by Resource Global Indonesia. Details to be announced. For more information: chris.yeo@digitalmissionventures.com

8. Sponsorship

We are looking for corporate or individual sponsors to partner with us for Labs and other DMV events. For more information and details about the sponsorship opportunities and benefits, please contact us at info@digitalmissionventures.com.