JANUARY MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
KW PROFILE SPOTLIGHT: RAMEL KABBANI

The founder of Fluence, Ramel is a brand and marketing guru who is known for his leadership abilities as well as strong business and financial acumen. He has an extensive background advising CEOs, key decision makers, board members, and business leaders of blue-chip companies in more than 15 countries, including those across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. For more than 20 years, Ramel has worked with clients in a variety of industries, ranging from telecom, energy and hospitality to government, real estate, transportation, aviation, and retail. Prior to starting Fluence, Ramel was Executive Director at global brand consultancy Landor Associates in Dubai. His unique cross border skill sets allow for opportunities for companies to grow into the MENA region and for MENA companies to come to America.

RAMEL KABBANI of FLUENCE
WHAT'S PANGAEA ABOUT?

Based on our team's broad capital markets experience and successful track record
of bringing companies to a NASDAQ listing
(NASDAQ: SEED, HYRE, HJLI, TRCH, CODX & 50%-plus returns cash on cash in past 12 months),
the KW Pangaea United Fund invests in businesses that bring innovative,
commercial products to market. We strongly believe in ' collaborative diversification ' across verticals
and society-building values, such as meritocratic, diversity-based cultural, and
conservative family-centric values, are good for business.

Thus, was born the idea of the Pangaea United Fund.
There are a great many, paradigm-shifting ideas and talent
that simply needs the benefit of some knowledge, mentorship, and
experience. Not all ideas and talent turn out to be great, but we feel the under-exploited
& unexploited opportunity in ones that were overlooked or blocked for
lack of both human and financial resources was potentially great. We built the
fund with the same values we aim to foster and support — action-oriented,
simple, lean, and clearly focused.



OUR DEAL BENCHMARKS:

Utilize NASDAQ Capital Markets Expertise

Ability to Scale Globally

USA Based HQ

Applications based in & promoting Meritocracy, Diversity & Family Values

Net Positive Social Impact



Belonging to this fund is more than just being an investor— it means
being part of a community of shared beliefs beyond ethnicity,
gender, or affiliations. We are beyond a pooling our resources under a group that
knows how to evaluate and develop good ideas. Our founding
team have all been involved in investments, management, and start-ups and
have a tried and true academic and professional track record. Our community of
investors and advisors believes in the entrepreneurial experience is the heart of
the American dream and is still the greatest chance that people possess to
improve their life. We enjoy running profitable projects and companies and
being successful and we take great pride and pleasure in helping nurture
entrepreneur endeavors to be successful .
RECENT NEWS & EVENTS
DIVERSITY INITIATIVES
Please click on the button to the left to learn all about our diversity initiatives thanks to PledgeLA and Pluto.life.


ACCELERATION & GLOBAL Pathways
As exemplified by our partner, Rogerio Ramos (spotlighted earlier) and Ramel Kabbani (above) and Najib Sayegh (to the left), the proof to the wonderful power and benefits of diversity, we have begun to open up acceleration and global pathways with new partners and partnerships. Also, we work with our partners from Latin America and the MENA region (Middle East North Africa) to build similar bridges. Stay tuned.


DARI Awards (Korean Government)
We also participated in a fabulous 15th Annual DARI Awards Banquet sponsored by KOCCA event where notable individuals and companies were honored in assisting in the cross-border efforts in developing commerce between USA and Korean. Notable award recipients were Parasite (the recent foriegn film Golden Globe award winner), the Masked Singer, and NetMarbles (a large gaming company). Needless to say, it was a great event for all those participating.


SCORE Speaking Engagements
KWCP in the form of our own Irving Kau spoke at several venues including Newport Beach and Garden Grove for the national organization SCORE on Raising Capital for your Business. This was an event geared toward companies of all stages and more are slated for the new year in 2020. Please contact us if you wish to attend.


LEVERAGE Options
As finance professionals at our heart, we find that having more capital options for companies. In addition to our existing pool of institutional debt options, we have worked on earlier stage options also for the venture world.


SYNDICATE Opps w/TVCA & HKVCA
We recently visited by the HKTDC, whom we met at the HKTDC (pictured left), HKVCA, Taiwanese government and TVCA (Venture Capital Association) who wishes to syndicate relevant deals with us, especially those with founders with Asian backgrounds or markets or companies looking to locate in the USA.


LP OFFICE HOURS
We recently visited Pledge LA LP Office Hours held in Marina Del Rey, CA. It was a great event and where we understood more about the movement and met with Calvin Selth and Celeste Shields of The Annenberg Foundation, tech arm. Pledge LA has put together of initiatives to assist funds be intentional about incorporating diversity in policies and their portfolio companies.


OC GATEWAY HOUSING
We attended a coffee that hosted by OC Supervisor Andrew Do and learned that some of the major issues plaguing Orange County. Some of our partners are involved in great housing charities such as Hope Through Housing and OC Gateway to Housing (pictured left) as non-profits which hold answers to those problems. If anyone is looking to get involved in board positions, impact volunteer opportunities, or even coming to speak to an after school program, please feel free to contact us directly.


Riverside County Innovation Centers
We also visited the Murrieta Innovation Center (pictured left), an incubator based in Riverside County. The facility is home to Murrieta Genomics and a group of other biotech-related firms spurring the local businesses and partnering with UCR. The area is headed by Jay Goth and John Powers who have done a great job of building a solid incubator to grow local businesses. Look forward to more partnership opportunities with Murrieta Innovation Center.


Other Events
We also supported and attended several other events in the Orange County area. We attended the Alzheimer's Association Delegate Day in which they were successful a few weeks later in passing funding to address the issues affecting this terrible disease and other dementia related diseases. We also met at the KPMG and later at the Stradling Yocca Carlson Rauth offices with legendary VCs and experienced managers discussing trends arising in both investing and the general public today. in both cases it was an interesting and vigorous discussions with many applications arising from the talks. Lastly, we also attended the OC Supervisors' holiday party where we were able to meet and visit all the Orange County Supervisors at their offices.

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