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Ex-Asia Head of Facebook Mobile Joins Jungle Ventures As Entrepreneur-In-Residence

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http://techcrunch.com – Jungle Ventures, a VC in Singapore, has added Alon Sobol as an entrepreneur-in-residence (EIR). Sobol was up till last year head of mobile partnerships for Facebook in Asia, and has been an advisor for Asian startups, Mobikon and Viki, in the past year. In Jungle Ventures, he will mentor the VC’s existing portfolio companies in its space, and work together with the company’s other partners to fund and develop his own startups ideas. Amit Anand, co-founder and managing partner of Jungle Ventures, said one area lacking in Asia is expertise in understanding how user interface changes impact (IT news)

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