Published on 25, Nov 2022

VC Powerhouse Kanin Asva Talks the Future of ROBUST

NEW YORK – Kanin Asvaplungprohm ('Asva') is the founder of ROBUST, a venture capital firm with an unbound approach to industry. 

Starting as a Venture Partner at a small firm, Kanin has worked with some of the most dynamic founders and prominent investors, with every experience helping to realize a deeper potential. 

Since starting ROBUST, Kanin has used every comment from a skeptic or detractor of his success as fuel to the fire, eventually realizing his vision of helming his own venture capital firm. "My only regret is not starting sooner," he said in a recent interview.

With experience managing over $200m while working with companies Dynafolio and Oyster Ventures, Kanin developed a better understanding of business. Helping bring countless businesses back from the brink, he learned the ins and outs of why they falter and how they recover. Holding an unflinching determination paired with understanding the "worst-case scenario," he balances practicality, thoughtfulness, and unbreakable focus.

Funding Innovation Worldwide

Backing revolutionary rising companies Offsight and Symbiome, the construction SAAS and R&D-focused life sciences brands are respectively making big waves in their industries as they provide novel concepts to solve common issues. Utilizing dynamic approaches in the IT and bioscience spheres, ROBUST identifies itself by the company it keeps. 

Despite the high risk of providing seed capital for starting brands, Kanin has shown an unflinching determination to passionately support innovators bringing on the new wave.

Within a year with ROBUST, Kanin has proven adept in identifying emerging business concepts, so establishing a reputation for working smarter not harder, funding innovation, and throwing support behind the next big thing rather than today's hot trend.

Taking an Incisive Approach to the Industry

Success in early-stage boutique fund management isn't commonplace, and Kanin has found his place in the industry chiefly through relentless self-determination. 

Providing advisory services to firms and startups hoping to branch out into Asian markets, Kanin understands the region's geopolitical landscape, economic developments, and ever-changing market characteristics. 

In his work with ROBUST, Kanin is committed to enacting paradigm shifts across industries, investing in ideas that work to build a better future. Having developed a global perspective through balancing sensibilities between the US and Southeast Asia, he has an adaptability characteristic of an individual split between cultures.

Taking after grandfather Pichit and father Prachaks, Kanin is the latest in a long line of businessmen. His incisive mind, analytical approach, and strong determination to get things right the first time are characteristic of a decades-long family background in government contracting and infrastructure. Kanin applies these qualities to ROBUST, offering the same determination to bolster the success of every partner the firm works with. 

The Future of ROBUST

ROBUST is focused on supporting ventures that boast advances to potentially benefit humanity. With brands boasting cutting-edge technologies, new concepts, and a humanist lens that holds people at the center, Kanin circumvents the typical approach to venture capital in favor of affecting economic and scientific outcomes directly. He is not trying to live comfortably in the future; he's trying to build a better future for all.

With a career built on experience and resources, ROBUST is not slowing down anytime soon as the team continues to expand its portfolio. Kanin's prime directive is to build ROBUST as a true success story in the venture capital world.

Website: https://www.robust.vc/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kasva/
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