Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA

Kemi Ajumobi

February 24, 2026

Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA
Founder & Managing General Partner, REFASHIOND Ventures: The Industrial Transformation Fund

Brian Laung Aoaeh and Lisa Morales-Hellebo first met in June 2016, and their first conversation led them to the thesis that is the foundation on which they are building REFASHIOND Ventures: The Industrial Transformation Fund. Starting in October 2019, they decided to explain their thinking for many others who told them their thesis was wrong, or did not make sense at all. Barely 6 months later, the COVID-19 Pandemic led to a complete shutdown of the world economy.

Today, they are telling another story. Starting with a rolling fund launched on AngelList in July 2021, REFASHIOND Ventures has closed 81 investments in 72 startups.

REFASHIOND Ventures: The Industrial Transformation Fund invests in early stage startups refashioning legacy industries through data and AI, advanced materials, advanced manufacturing, and next generation supply chains, defensible through economic moats.

They believe that climate crisis and industrialisation are opposite sides of the same coin. Therefore, they are in the early-stages of the largest sector-driven investment opportunity of our lifetime – the technology-driven refashioning of industrial supply chains to mitigate the climate crisis.

Brian’s personal vision is to become the obvious investor of choice for early-stage technology startups building the future of industrial transformation and global supply chains, and to help in attracting more innovation capital to the builders of early-stage technology innovations for global supply chains.

As the Founder & Co-Organiser of The Worldwide Supply Chain Federation, they are a collaborative, and mutually supportive, coalition of grassroots communities focused on technology and innovation in the global supply chain market. The New York Supply Chain Meetup is its founding chapter. Their community brings together startups, large corporations, small and medium-size businesses, technologists, supply chain professionals, investors, journalists, corporate treasurers, regulators, academics, and research and development specialists – for the purpose of helping them navigate the complex, evolving, and changing supply chain landscape through conversations, and subsequent partnerships, with one-another.

He bagged his BA, Mathematics & Physics (Double Major) in Connecticut College and MBA in Financial Instruments & Markets, General Management from NYU Stern School of Business. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).