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About Orbit Ventures

Orbit helps scale breakthrough startups from around the globe across emerging and frontier markets.

About Orbit

Orbit Ventures helps scale breakthrough companies across emerging and frontier markets in Southeast and South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. Orbit invests through its fund SOSV, a US-based venture capital firm with US$1.5 billion in assets under management. Notable investments include VideoVerse, technology partner to the Olympics and the UK’s Premier League; fintech pioneer BitMEX; ELSA Speak, Google Gradient’s first investment in Asia; and Dastgyr, Pakistan’s aspiring Alibaba Group.

William Bao Bean

Managing General Partner at Orbit Ventures

Long BIO:

William is Managing General Partner of Orbit Ventures the Emerging Markets VC the longest running emerging market startup program in the world with over US$125m in investment value managed. Orbit invests in technology startups that digitize traditional industries, boost earnings potential, and drive sustainable growth. Sectors include ecommerce, fintech, travel, media, health, education, and logistics across emerging markets in Asia, Middle East, Africa and LATAM. Orbit provides hands-on support for user acquisition, sales, partnerships, and fundraising. Orbit’s consumer ecosystem has helped our startups scale to 175 million monthly active users as of 3Q25. Magnitt named Orbit #4 most active VC in Emerging Markets in 2025. William joined Orbit from SingTel Innov8 Ventures where he was a founding Managing Director. Prior to that William was a Partner at Softbank China & India, a VC backed by Softbank and Cisco, leading investments across Asia. William started his career in equity research most recently with Deutsche Bank where he was a top ranked analyst for Internet and Software in Asia and worked on the IPOs for Alibaba, Kingsoft, eLong (Expedia), OnMobile and Infoedge Naukri.

William was ranked #3 stock picker in Hong Kong/China and #1 for Technology, Media and Telecom by Thomson Reuters Starmine as well as #3 equity research analyst in Asia for Software and IT Services by Institutional Investor Magazine. William has done over 400 early stage investments including Bitmex in blockchain, UShopal in ecommerce, italki in edtech, VideoVerse in media, Carota in mobility, Flickstree in media, ELSA Speak in edtech, Tappytoon in media, Priyoshop in ecommerce, and Dastgyr in ecommerce. He currently sits on boards including Scantrust, Boost Capital, Pandabus, Fleksy, Goama, and italki as well as Blair Academy. He holds a BA from Bowdoin College.

SHORT BIO:

William is Managing General Partner of Orbit Ventures the Emerging Markets VC with over US$125m in investment value managed. Orbit invests in technology startups that digitize traditional industries, boost earnings potential, and drive sustainable growth. Sectors include fintech, ecommerce, mobility, media, health, education, travel and logistics across growth markets in Asia, Middle East, Africa and LATAM. Orbit supports its investments with sales, user acquisition, monetization, partnerships, and fundraising. Orbit’s ecosystem has helped our startups scale to 174m monthly active users as of 3Q25. The Magnitt MENA Investment Report named Orbit #4 most active VC in Emerging Markets in 2025. William joined Orbit from SingTel Innov8 Ventures where he was a founding Managing Director. Prior to that William was a Partner at Softbank China & India. William started his career in equity research most recently with Deutsche Bank where he was top ranked in Internet and Software in Asia and drove the IPOs of Alibaba, Kingsoft, eLong (Expedia China), OnMobile and InfoEdge Naukri.

Oscar Ramos

Managing General Partner at Orbit Ventures

Oscar is Managing General Partner at Orbit Ventures and a Venture Partner at SOSV. A full-stack innovator with expertise ranging from product development to corporate strategy, he leads investments across the Global South with a focus on B2B and deeptech startups.

A Telecom MEng and Biomedical PhD dropout, he started his career more than 20 years ago as an R&D engineer at Ericsson and Telefónica before transitioning into startups after discovering business model innovation. After several years in a MedTech startup, he moved to China to launch his first venture.

Oscar’s connection to emerging markets began early in his career, during his graduation thesis, where he leveraged space technologies research to address and implement solutions to rural challenges in developing economies. Since then, he has built over 15 years of on-the-ground experience across Asia, living in China since 2008 and witnessing firsthand the rapid digitization and transformation of emerging economies.

Since relocating, Oscar has been deeply involved in innovation across emerging markets—leading product launches, go-to-market strategies, venture capital investments, and M&A transactions for both startups and multinational companies.

Oscar is a regular speaker on innovation and entrepreneurship at global conferences and serves as a learning facilitator in MBA programs, focusing on entrepreneurial management, innovation, and venture capital.