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Hippolyte Genet

Founder of Catch Ventures

Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Hippolyte Genet is the Founder of Catch Ventures, a venture partner at A2D Ventures, and a Senior Investment Analyst at AVV (Ascend Vietnam Ventures). With a background in management and international relations, he has invested in notable companies such as Motif and what3words, focusing on sectors like Wellness & Fitness and FinTech. His career highlights include founding Catch Ventures and investing in successful companies like Motif and what3words, showcasing expertise in venture capital and strategic investments in various sectors. Currently, as a Senior Investment Analyst at AVV, he continues to make impactful contributions to the Vietnamese market and beyond.

Work Experience 

  • Manager, Private Equity

    2025 - Current

    Scaling Dialectica's private equity business in APAC and managing the investment research platform focusing on target origination for PE clients.

  • Founder

    2024

    Catch Ventures is a boutique advisory based in Vietnam operating across private equity and private credit. We bring to our trusted partners a unique and extensive experience from the US, Europe, and Asia, from early stage startups to Fortune 500 companies. Catch Ventures can invest anywhere between $150k-300k into equity or debt funding rounds with its partners in Thailand. Previous investments include: Samsara (IPO), Turing (unicorn), Motif FoodWorks (unicorn), Moonshot Brands (YC), buildspace (a16z), nOps, Scratchpad (Craft Ventures), Lumos (a16z), and more.

  • Venture Partner

    2023

    A2D is Southeast Asia's fastest growing investment syndicate

  • Senior Investment Analyst

    2023 - 2024

    A venture capital firm on a mission to help Vietnam's exceptional teams in building iconic companies. Our current flagship seed fund, AVV Alpha, is a $64M fund backed by investors across Asia, Europe, and the U.S.

  • Senior Account Executive

    2021 - 2022

  • Cloud Account Executive

    2021 - 2021

    Founding member of the EMEA business, scaled Elastic Cloud products into mid-market and enterprise accounts. Elastic is now a public company (NYSE:ESTC) with a >$10bn market cap and generates +$1.4bn in revenue.

Elastic builds software to make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.

Raised $161,999,996.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund.

  • Senior BDR

    2020 - 2021

  • Business Development Representative

    2019 - 2020

    Samsara is the market leader in Cloud Connected Operations. Early employee hired to launch and scale in EMEA and was strategic in enabling Samsara to become a very successful (>$20 billion market cap) publicly traded (NYSE: IOT) company. Samsara generates +$1.4bn in ARR and has raised +$900M from VCs (a16z, Sequoia, General Catalyst, and more)

Samsara is digitizing the world of physical operations.

Raised $930,000,000.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund and Raison Wealth.

  • Client Services Associate

    2018 - 2019

    - Relationship management with S&P Capital IQ clients across EMEA - Provide and analyse valuation and credit models to investment banks, funds, and corporates - Coordinate with Sales and Account teams to provide new client leads - Develop deep knowledge of Capital IQ as well as financial and market data - Underwent training on credit rating and Excel

S&P Global is a market intelligence company that provides financial information and data analytics services.

Raised $750,000,000.00.

  • Investment Banking Summer Analyst

    2017 - 2017

    - Developed IPO valuation models (comps and DCF), including for the largest IPO in Vietnam which raised c.$500m at a $2.5bn valuation - Analysed the credit risks of a $150m private placement of a leading Vietnamese FMCG company - Found a buyer, by cold calling, for a $10m cross-border acquisition of a cosmetics company initially only valued at $5m - Worked with investors in Viet Capital's own IPO, which raised c.$30m, on Share Purchase Agreements - Devised information memorandums for the 10 biggest industry leaders in Southeast Asia - Coordinated with a team to devise and deliver an IPO pitchbook of a leading retail group set to become the next all-time high IPO in Vietnam

  • Global Strategy Intern

    2016 - 2016

    - Devised a market entry strategy for the millennial demographics of Indonesia; strategy was approved by management within 2 months and allocated US$50,000 for a pilot launch in Jakarta - Created a large scale market research document outlining the top 10 global markets for 2025 - Selected to participate in a special task force to strategize breakthrough ideas in smart laundry - Led the incubation of a global project in coordination with a consortium of offices, consultancies, and start-ups - Spearheaded a global project gathering entrepreneurs for their ideas and feedback with Unilever's innovation lab, The Foundry

  • Market Access & External Affairs Intern

    2015 - 2015

    - Devised Merck’s first EU lobbying tool of healthcare stakeholders in Belgium and Luxembourg; facilitated the subsidy of a cancer drug that costs $100,000 per treatment - Analysed institutional partnership risks for a $15mn investment to reduce maternal mortality in Haiti (800 mothers die giving birth every day) - Spearheaded the digital communications campaign of Merck’s new cancer drug alongside agencies

Merck is a biopharmaceutical company that offers medicines and vaccines for various diseases.

Raised $5,586,000.00 from Private Capital Advisors.

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