VC | Founder & Startup Advisor | Empowering Founders to Scale | Global Citizen & Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Bridge Builder

I work with two types of people:

⚡Founders and business owners preparing for capital, acquisition, or exit
⚡Investors seeking curated access to high-quality opportunities and communities 

I sit in between - connecting the right capital with the right opportunities, globally.

WHO I AM

I’m Anna C. Mallon - a serial entrepreneur, investor, and ecosystem builder with 25+ years operating across Asia, Europe, and the U.S.

I split my time between Singapore, London, and Amsterdam, after spending 15 years building companies and ecosystems in Asia.

My edge is internationalisation, scale through partnerships, and exit strategy - seen from both the founder and investor side.

TRACK RECORD (CURATED)

• Founder of 5 companies
• Involved in a $289M exit transaction (2010)
• Supported 330+ startups, raising $500M+ collectively
• Formerly led VC & Startup Ecosystem partnerships at AWS
• Led innovation programs with Meta, Google, Shell, Daimler, Bosch
• Invested across startups, private businesses, and real estate
• Worked with and alongside leading funds including Sequoia, Northzone, and global VCs
• Ran and advised venture builders, accelerators, and investor-backed programs
• Board member of a publicly listed company
• Featured in Forbes, Channel NewsAsia, Web Summit, and global media

WHAT I DO NOW

Today, I build and steward global wealth ecosystems connecting:

📍Investors seeking curated deal access
📍Founders preparing for investment, scale, or exit
📍Operators and acquirers seeking quality businesses
📍Ecosystem partners bringing capital, deals, or distribution

My work spans venture, M&A, property, and private capital — with a focus on cross-border scale, partnership-led growth, and exits.

HOW I WORK

I don’t pitch deals publicly. I don’t run mass-market funnels. LinkedIn is where I share:

✨ how investors and buyers actually think
✨why good businesses struggle to scale or exit globally
✨how partnerships compound faster than capital alone

The actual work happens outside.

In parallel I’m also a mother of two teenagers - fuelled by strong coffee ☕️and a high tolerance for complexity.

WHO THIS IS FOR

👉 Exited or near-exit founders transitioning into investors
👉 Angels, HNWIs, family offices, and allocators
👉 Operators, acquirers, and ecosystem builders

If this resonates, please reach out here or at the link below. I would be delighted to connect and hear more. 
https://www.annacmallon.com/more

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Most business owners don’t really own a business.
They own a job. And it’s usually not one a buyer wants.

I learned this the hard way.

For a long time, I thought I was building a company.
What I’d actually done was build myself into it (a cage).

Every decision came back to me.
Clients want me.
If I step away, things slowed.

But that’s not ownership and not transferable...
...the business is leaning on one person

When I started working with owners who wanted to sell - and when I looked honestly back at my own earlier businesses - I kept seeing the same thing.

Good businesses on the surface.
Very shaky underneath.

Buyers notice it straight away. If 

📍 the owner is the bottleneck.
📍the knowledge sits in one head.
📍the business only works when someone is constantly jumping in.

That is not something they (or we) want to buy.

That’s why these businesses get discounted.
Not because they’re bad.
Because they are risky.

The fix isn’t fancy.
And it’s rarely comfortable.

You...

👉 Hand things over.
👉 Write things down.
👉 Set it up so the business runs when you’re not there.

...Build it so you can step back.
Not so you have to save it every day.

When you do that, a lot changes.
The value improves.
The stress eases.

And the business finally starts to give some freedom.

Many owners never make that shift.
Which is why most businesses never become sellable.

5x Entrepreneur & Investor | M&A | Investor Communities I Private markets & exits | UK • EU • Asia

Exit Carousel

Born during the holy shift of the pixelated eighties. Raised in the screeches & whistles of the digital infiltration. Reached consciousness just as we all became officially connected. Spent a decade figuring things out under various trees and in big dark rooms. Fell in love. Started to floss. Helped bring someone new to Earth. Made HireHunt. Joined AWS.

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Basil is an experienced software developer, product manager, technology entrepreneur, published author and international speaker with over 15 years experience. Throughout his career, he has worked on a variety of challenging and creative products with increasing levels of responsibility, complexity, impact and scale. His tech marketing strategies and executions have reached over 4 million people online organically and he has appeared on numerous media outlets such as BBC and OnTV. Furthermore, Basil is passionate about mentoring startups and has given talks and presented at over 50 events around the world. Basil finds it strange to write in the third person.

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All 12 included stacks can be used as standalone full-stack applications...

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This is for:
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Try it and let me know what you think!

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“We’re living with an alien roommate.”
That’s how Scott Galloway describes AI, and I couldn’t agree more.

If you feel I’ve been quite lately, it’s because I’ve been spending time with our new roommate.

And with others who are pioneering our future with it.

From Wael Salloum shaping AI roadmaps at MENAT’s unicorns.
To Kate Kamarchuk taking GenAI to market and unlocking ROI.
From Nour Al Hassan building Arabic language models at Tarjama AI.
To Dr. Srinivas Telukunta leading Agentic AI globally at PepsiCo.

What’s becoming clear is this:
We’re no longer all sharing the same reality.

Once it clicks beyond the hype, progress goes exponential.
If it doesn’t, the gap grows fast...and quietly.

But for it ‘to click’, you need the right mindset and the right tools to cut through the noise.

Prototyping, evals, context, human-in-the-loop...it’s a lot to take in.

Starting tomorrow, I’ll share what I’ve been building for 6+ months to help developers accelerate their AI engineering journey.

Plus the lessons I’ve picked up from those already living in the future.

Stay tuned.

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