Primary Job Title Co-Founder & Co-CEO Primary Organization Gozem
Location Singapore, Central Region, Singapore Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC), Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Southeast Asia Gender Male
Website www.gozem.co LinkedIn View on LinkedIn X (Twitter) View on X
Raphael is the Co-Founder of Gozem, Africa’s Transportation App. He has been a Managing Partner of Reengine Ventures since 2016, a venture holding dedicated in investing, accelerating and building technology startups in Africa. Based in Singapore he’s learning from the best success in Southeast Asia to adapt these models to the African continent.
He’s a serial entrepreneur which specialties include corporate finance, blockchain, disruptive business ideas, start-up modeling, go-global strategy, recruitment of growth team, sales and marketing.
In Singapore since 2013 where he founded Galixo, a boutique consultancy specialized in Disruptive Business Strategy, Go to Market Entry and Growth with deep exposure to emerging markets (APAC MEA). Leading client has been Viber (Rakuten) for their market entry strategy in APAC and Africa.
Passionate about Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Markets, Raphael has been a Startup Mentor at Singapore Management University for many years. He also had some experience in the M&A helping entrepreneurs structure there growth and exit.
Prior to moving to Singapore, co-founded a media group in Switzerland specializing in business, finance and lifestyle. Scaled the business through franchising in more than 20 key cities around the world.
Previously co-founded the leading web agency of Switzerland in the web 1.0 era. Recognized as one of the most innovative agencies. Awarded most promising entrepreneur of the new millennium by Bilan magazine in Switzerland in 2000 when Raphael was 26 years old.
Raphael founded the Entrepreneur’s Organization Geneva chapter (www.eo.org) for which he has been its first president and has lectured in several universities about entrepreneurship.
