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BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Andre Lorenceau: Deeptech Founder Learnings, Mental Health & Sticking Fingers Into The Machine - E116Andre Lorenceau is the CEO & Founder of DiviGas. A serial entrepreneur and a "Forbes 30 Under 30" listmaker, he has built, funded and scaled multiple B2B companies. He grew startups to beyond series B with millions in revenue and raised over $15m in VC capital. He has worked in a variety of sector such as media software, consumer products and now heavy industrial hardware.
Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/andre-lorenceau
You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/andre-lorenceau
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2021-12-0646 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Jason Ho: Strengths-Based Coaching, Elephant Riders & World-Class Leadership - E115Jason is the founder of Strengths School™ and Performance Capital™, who has over 13 years of Training and Coaching Top Leaders in MNCs, SMEs; to optimise team development and drive PERFECT PERFORMANCE™.
His work spans organisations across Asia, Canada and the UAE. Some of many include Ubisoft, DHL, Johnson & Johnson, Lee Jeans, Vans, VF Corp, National University of Singapore, NUS Business School and Singapore’s Ministry of Education.
As SouthEast Asia's 1st Gallup Certified StrengthsFinder® & Platinum Coach, Jason was invited as a keynote speaker for an ASEAN Future Leaders Summit.
2021-12-0252 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Mark Shmulevich: Startup C-Suite, Executive Coaching & Angel Investing - E114Mark Shmulevich is a senior executive in technology business and early-stage investor. He is an avid supporter of education, talent development, science and technology as key drivers of societal progress.
Mark’s professional track record includes both public and private sector experience, while the industry domains he has worked in range from space and quantum technologies to artificial intelligence (AI).
Dr. Mark Shmulevich has been COO and SVP at TAIGER, an NLP AI software company, since 2018. Headquartered in Singapore, TAIGER pioneers AI products that use human-like logic to automatically re...
2021-11-2945 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Wally Tham: Singapore Dream, Storytelling Catharsis & Harnessing Empathy - E113Wally is an award winning filmmaker and runs a brand content company www.bigredbutton.com.sg
As an ontological coach and organisational development practitioner, Wally uses storytelling to help people/corporations/government agencies tackle emergent and persistent issues in Singapore.
Wally also leads a ground up initiative: https://m.facebook.com/StandUpForSG/, to find ways to contribute to Singapore’s narrative on what kind of country she could be and how are the best ways to contribute to one another.
In his spare time, Wal...
2021-11-2538 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Stefanie Irma: Female Founders, Indonesia Scaling & Launching Philippines - E112Stefanie Irma is currently Co-Founder of DishServe - an asset light network of ghost kitchens in Indonesia, which took the opportunity in the midst of pandemic to start the company. She is based in Jakarta, Indonesia and with the others 3 co-founders she build DishServe since October 2020.
Prior to DishServe she was a Country Head in RedDoorz Philippines, started the first expansion there since 2017 until managing the whole country business and operations, and grew the Philippines to become the second biggest country operations for RedDoorz in South East Asia after Indonesia.
2021-11-2247 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Jun Ming Yong: DeFi Winners & Losers, Asset-Backed Stablecoins & Regulator Dynamics - E111Jun Yong is the Protocol Lead at HaloDAO- Enabling the next phase of crypto expansion via asset backed stablecoins issued by regulated emoney issuers by providing decentralised infrastructure that other innovators can build on to optimise crypto trading, fx and payments.
Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/jun-yong
You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/jun-yong
This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.
2021-11-1841 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Michelle Chan: Half-Million User Student Founder, Product Growth & SCMP Publisher Digitalization - E110Michelle led the product growth team at South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong based news media company owned by Alibaba Group. Before that, she was the founder of Weava, an ed-tech productivity tool startup that allows users to highlight, organize, and create their own research documents all in one place.
Before that, she did UX design at Amazon in Seattle, where she worked in the Core Design team focusing on Amazon’s core shopping experience on web and mobile. She was also a venture fellow at True Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm...
2021-11-1545 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Rahul Thayyalamkandy: Overcoming Failure & Understanding VC via Podcas - E109Rahul is the host of the Understanding VC podcast where he talks to Venture Capitalists to learn how they work. The aim of the show is to provide entrepreneurs with experiential and actionable insights to have a collegial working relationship with VCs. He is also a serial entrepreneur who has built multiple startups in the E-commerce and 3D printing industry and has spent time with a Venture Capital fund, Cocoon Capital as an Associate.
Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/rahul-thayyalamkandy
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2021-11-1129 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Mark Johnson: Choosing SE Asia, Startup PR & Selecting Agencies - E108Mark Johnson is Co-Founder of SEED Strategies, a communications and public relations consultancy for startups and companies that are scaling. Founded in 2019, since its inception, SEED Strategies has worked with a range of companies seeking to deliver a positive impact across a multitude of industries and geographies.
Prior to establishing SEED Strategies, Mark worked as Head of Customer Experience at INSEAD, where he helped drive digital transformation in the degree programmes and implemented structures that helped embed the need to focus on the customer in all levels of decision-making.
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2021-11-0850 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Jeraldine Phneah: Creator Learnings, Personal vs. Audience Growth and Regret Minimization - E107Jeraldine Phneah (彭嘉琳) is a Millennial Content Creator who cares about the challenges and aspirations of her generation. To empower them, she creates content around how Millennials can cope with the high cost of living, build rewarding careers, strive for the best for their families, and lead meaningful lives. She also pushes for policies to uplift her generation.
When Jeraldine first graduated, she quickly realized that the job market, economy, and the world we live in today are just radically different from that of the previous generation. Jobs were being displaced due to technology, there were ca...
2021-11-0454 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Bradian Muliadi: Stubborn Vision, Exit vs. Sustainability & Info Bell Curve - E106Bradian is the Co Founder & CEO of Hawksight.co, an AI Trading Assistant for retail investors to make smarter investment decisions in stocks, cryptocurrency, and forex through crowdsourced & AI-optimized trading signals. For his latest venture, the three-time startup founder is backed by a global deeptech accelerator called Entrepreneur First, but prior to this, Bradian has bootstrapped global technology businesses from Indonesia - one of which got acquired, and another scaled to profitability.
After immersing himself in the B2B startup scene in Los Angeles and graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Business Economics from...
2021-11-0156 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Joel Leong: Serial Founder Lessons, Relational Mindfulness & Making The Call - E105Joel is the Co-Founder & Country Head at Aspire, the #1 all-in-one finance platform for growing businesses in South East Asia. Prior to starting Aspire, Joel was a multiple-time entrepreneur in the E-commerce space.
Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/joel-leong
You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/joel-leong
This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.
2021-10-2844 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Yiping Goh: Bicycle Factory to Warrior Founder, VC Partner Reflections & Fear of Failure - E104Yiping Goh is a Partner at Quest Ventures, a top venture capital fund in Asia. Prior to this, Yiping was Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of MatahariMall.com, the largest omnichannel fashion ecommerce site in Indonesia backed by the Lippo Group. Lippo Group also acquired All Deals Asia, the Southeast Asia ecommerce aggregator and group-buying platform co-founded by Yiping.
Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/yiping-goh
You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/yiping-goh
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2021-10-2542 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Rachel Wong: Startup Lawyers, Fundraising Contracts & Legal Tradeoffs - E103Rachel graduated from King's College, London (LL.B.) in 2013 with First Class Hons. Since then, she has worked as a corporate M&A lawyer in leading international law firms such as White & Case LLP, Hogan Lovells Lee & Lee and Allen & Gledhill LLP in Singapore and London. She is also a committee member of The Law Society of Singapore (Corporate Committee and the CPD Committee).
Whilst helping a founder in his series fundraising process in Singapore, she was impressed by how 'founder-friendly' certain venture capital funds and law firms in Silicon Valley were – in particular, Fou...
2021-10-2147 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Galvin Widjaja: Consultants vs. Founders, Computer Vision AI & Digital Privacy - E102Galvin is the CEO and Co-founder of Lauretta.io, a profitable Techstars company that builds bleeding edge military grade computer vision technologies that are now available to commerical buyers with no AI capability of them own.
Prior to this, Galvin wore two hats as a data strategist in DBS, building RegTech products, while also running Es Teler 77 Singapore, a chain of quick service restaurants serving nostalgically authenic Indonesian food to our migrant population. He was also CFO of a New York based Uber-for-everything startup as well as first local employee of a boutique management...
2021-10-1854 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Aditya Mehta: Creative Side Hustle, Two-Sided Marketplaces & Escaping Batman's Pit - E101Aditya Mehta is the Founder CEO of Art&Found™ — a curated marketplace for South Asian artists making art accessible to global buyers and brands like WeWork, Levi's and Starbucks: www.artandfound.co Prior to Art&Found, Aditya worked as a Senior Art Director at Ogilvy & Mather Mumbai driving creative and social impact campaigns for Mondelez International (Cadbury), Castrol Asia-Pac and Cancer Patients Aid Association. If this solo founder gets any time off work, it goes into CrossFit, graphic novels, memoirs, mountains, films, craft beer.
Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/aditya-mehta
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2021-10-1447 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Mika Reyes: Kumu Employee #8, Philippines Diaspora & Product Career - E100Mika Reyes is currenty building something new in the creator economy, as part of the South Park Commons Founder Fellowship.
💼 She was Previously PM @ LinkedIn Jobs, Kumu & Ripcord through the KPCB Product Fellowship. She also started the Filip[in]os @ LinkedIn group & was a Women in Product executive member.
🎓 She graduated B.A. Economics, Psychology, Data Analysis from Wesleyan University, Phi Beta Kappa & a summa cum laude equivalent and is a proud Philippine Science High School scholar.
🇵🇭 She's most passionate about broadening access through tech in emerging market...
2021-10-111h 00
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Alfa Bumhira: Family Funeral Business to Apple, Africa vs. SE Asia & Workforce Learning - E99Alfa is a lifelong entrepreneur, adventurer, and a technology enthusiast. As the CEO & Co-founder of ProSpark, he is mainly focused on the company’s growth in SE Asia and in other emerging markets.
Prior to forming ProSpark, Alfa has worked for technology companies in the United States in Silicon Valley such as Apple Inc. and Rockwell Automation. He also has extensive commercial and engineering experiences across multiple industries in the CPG, Manufacturing, Energy, Consulting, Health Care and E-commerce sectors with multinational companies such as Proctor & Gamble & Johnson & Johnson. Additionally, Alfa founded two other ventures in...
2021-10-0749 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Paulo Joquiño: VC Content Machines, Thought Leadership Algorithms & Picking Battles - E98Paulo Joquiño is a writer and content producer for tech companies. He shares the stories and insights of founders and investors in Southeast Asia as the senior content strategist of Insignia Ventures Partners, through the firm's official publication Insignia Business Review and podcast On Call with Insignia Ventures. Last year, he co-authored and published a book with Yinglan introducing the region’s startup ecosystem and their views on company building in Southeast Asia -- Navigating ASEANnovation.
As a university student, he took up multiple work opportunities in content and marketing for startups in Asia...
2021-10-041h 03
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Xi Liu: Sexual Health, China vs. US Culture & Diving Without Knowing How To Swim - E97Xi Liu is the founder and CEO of Ferne Health, a women-focused healthcare insights platform that delivers at-home screenings and consultations for sexual health. Xi started Ferne Health to challenge the stigma around women's private health concerns in Asia.
Xi was a product manager at the Alexa Voice Service team of Amazon prior to starting Ferne. Working closely with the industry giants such as Lenovo and Facebook, her team was to design and deliver Alexa voice assistant's integration experience in third-party electronic products. They successfully launched the Lenovo Smart tab and Facebook Portal, both sh...
2021-09-3040 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Mao Ching Foo: Running Quant Funds, Data Science & IQ vs. EQ - E96Mao Ching Foo is the Co-Founder at RealVantage, a property co-investment platform bringing access and enables users to easily own investment grade properties without the traditional hassles of being a landlord.
Previously Mao was the CTO & Chief Data Scientist of Funding Societies | Modalku, leading and growing the technology and data teams while working closely with the business teams to scale the platform for users. Prior to Funding Societies, Mao founded QVantage, a startup empowering equity traders to make smarter decisions using professional quantitative insights. He has also served as Chief Data Scientist of Paktor...
2021-09-2745 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Cheng Zishuang: Bad Silicon Valley Advice, Hustle P*rn & SE Asia Media vs. Creators - E95Zishuang is currently spending time writing about tech startups in South-East Asia at https://zishuang.substack.com/ . More than the act of putting out his thoughts, he appreciates the feedback he gets from it.
He's also spending time as a Venture Scout with Saison Capital which is an early stage venture fund with a focus on SouthEast Asia and India. In this capacity, he works with the fund to fund the best startups and understanding what verticals we should bet on.
Prior to this, he was the Country Launcher at Circles.life, a startup backed...
2021-09-231h 35
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Jes Min: Malaysia & Indonesia Marketplaces, Consulting to Founder & Pandemic Leadership - E94Jes Min is Co-Founder and CEO of The Recommend Group, South East Asia's #1 Home and Property Platform operating in Indonesia (Sejasa.com) and Malaysia (Recommend.my). The company connects customers and businesses to tens of thousands of the top-rated service professionals in categories like renovations, interior design, cleaning, aircon servicing, electrical repairs and pest control.
Recommend Group is unique in its vision of building technology that turns services into products, by standardising prices and quality, creating a layer of trust so that services can be transacted safely online. It has served 1,000,000 homes to date...
2021-09-201h 10
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Reuben Noronha: Consultants vs. Founders, From Failure To Zilingo & On Deck vs. Entrepreneur First - E93Reuben Noronha has spent the last few years building and scaling businesses in Asia. He founded his first company, Nivaasa, a co-living startup in India, in 2016 and ran it for a few years before selling it. He then had the opportunity to move to Southeast Asia to build and scale new business verticals at Zilingo. He enjoys the 0 to 1 phase the most and love building teams up. When not working, he spends his time podcasting, DJing, and trying to understand the cryptocurrency world.
Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/reuben-noronha
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2021-09-1648 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Crystal Widjaja: GoJek Early Days, Organizational Debt & Learning from Mistakes - E92Crystal Widjaja is the Chief Product Officer of Kumu, a social live streaming superapp platform that amplifies Filipino creativity, community, and commerce. She is currently the cofounder of Generation Girl, a non-profit for young women in STEM fifelds, an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Reforge, an educational program for product and growth practitioners, and an angel investor through the Sequoia Scout and Monk's Hill funds, where she works with startups across South East Asia and the Bay Area. Previously, Crystal was Chief of Staff and SVP of Growth and Data at Gojek. She has been recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 and HerWorld's Woman...
2021-09-1348 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Q&A: On Deck Fellowship Benefits vs. Cost, Maximizing Your Experience & Finding Cofounders - E91Cathy Liu is an analyst, designer, and aspiring entrepreneur. Her most recent projects included building the open-source platform, Help With Covid, with Sam Altman, Radu Spineanu, and a team of core volunteers. Over three months, Help With Covid attracted the work of 800+ projects and 17,000 volunteers who aimed to quickly solve some of the most hard-pressed problems during the pandemic.
She was born and raised in California in the United States where she currently calls San Francisco Bay Area home. Currently, she is pursuing building her own startup. She most recently joined On Deck’s Fo...
2021-09-091h 12
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Harvard MBA Unbundling, Anti-Marketing and Q&A - E90In this special Q&A episode, Jeremy unbundles his experiences from Harvard's MBA program.
Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/harvard-mba-qna
You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/harvard-mba-qna
This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.
2021-09-0655 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Valerie Vu: Vietnam Startups, Entrepreneurial Parents & VC as Career - E89Valerie is Vietnam Country Head of Venturra Capital, a Southeast Asia focused venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology-based businesses headquartered in Jakarta. Venturra’s primary investment focus is on internet companies, in sectors such as e-commerce, financial technology, marketplaces, healthcare and education amongst others.
Valerie began her career at Deloitte U.S. where she provided clients in the asset management industry with the tax and deal advisory services. Raised by an entrepreneurial family, Valerie is fascinated by breakthrough technology and product innovation. She then joins the digital transformation of Southeast Asia by joining Venturra to empower and...
2021-09-0253 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Anna Haotanto: Founder Ordeals, Failure Stigma & Financial Security - E88Anna Haotanto is the Partner & COO of ABZD Capital and the CMO of Gourmet Food Holdings, an investment firm focusing on opportunities in the global F&B industry. She is also the founder (former CEO) of The New Savvy – Asia’s leading financial, investments and career platform for women.
Anna is part of the founding committee of the Singapore FinTech Association and was in charge of the Women In FinTech and Partnership Committee. Anna is the President of the Singapore Management University Women Alumni. Anna is also part of the Singapore Chinese Chamb...
2021-08-301h 03BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Q&A: Clubhouse vs. Podcasts, Moderating & Mentors - E87In this bonus episode, Jeremy answers Q&A from his four interns, Adriel Yong, Tan Yong Quan, Lyndon Lee & Pooja Sinha on Clubhouse and the future of Audio storytelling.
Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/clubhousevspodcasts
You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/clubhousevspodcasts
This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.
2021-08-2628 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Jenna Hua on Environmental Toxins, PHD to YC Founder & Citizen Science - E86Jenna Hua is the founder and CEO of Million Marker, a health-tech company that empowers people to detox their lives through mail-in test kits, lifestyle audits, and counseling. Harmful chemicals are present in food and drinks, plastics, and everyday products. These chemicals have been linked to infertility, IVF failure, child development, obesity, diabetes, and cancer. Million Marker is the first and only company that makes it easy for everyday consumers to learn about their toxic chemical exposure, and provides scientific and actionable solutions to minimize future exposure.
A registered dietitian and environmental health scientist...
2021-08-1957 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Dalia Katan on 4 Million MySpace Users, Celebration Psychology & Retention vs. Virality - E85Dalia Katan is the CEO and Founder of Presently, a leading group celebration startup that helps groups collaborate around special occasions. At Presently, Dalia is working to create meaningful and sustainable opportunities for communities to connect regardless of proximity, leveraging over 15 years of experience in design, business strategy, and inclusion.
Before Presently, Dalia worked as a management consultant at Deloitte and as an independent consultant. She worked closely with leadership at over 30 companies, ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune-10 corporations, to design consumer-led growth strategies, go-to-market approaches, and new product innovation. She also spearheaded...
2021-08-1652 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Joseph Ling On Civil Service to Founder, Pivot Psychology & Hospitality Digitalization - E84Joseph Ling is the Founder and CEO of Vouch, an award-winning technology start-up that creates engaging digital concierges to help hotels streamline operations and enhance guest experience.
Since launching, Vouch has steadily garnered recognition for its work in catalysing digital transformation in the hospitality industry, receiving the Singapore Tourism Awards’ Best Business Innovation award in 2019, as well as being named one of PhocusWire’s “Hot 25 startups for 2021”. The company has also been shortlisted to participate in Facebook’s prestigious Startup Station Accelerator and the Amadeus Next Startup programme.
Joseph is a gover...
2021-08-1252 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Chris Shen & Eric Woo on Disrupting Venture Capital and Global Silicon Valley - E83Chris Shen (沈偉士) is the co-founder of Revere, where he jointly oversees all investments, asset management, strategic initiatives and operational activities. Chris is also a managing partner of all Revere-managed fund products.
Chris is also a Founding Partner (non-executive) of West 22nd Capital Advisers, a Hong Kong-based single family office and investment firm that is licensed by the Securities & Futures Commission of Hong Kong (SFC). Among other roles, Chris established the firm’s operations, served on the investment committee, and led venture capital and external asset manager investments.
Chris also currently serves on the advisory boards of tech c...
2021-08-091h 00BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Q&A: Cofounder Compatibility, Role Negotiations & Minimum Viable Relationship - E82In this special episode, Jeremy takes on questions from listeners on Compatibility, Role Negotiations & Minimum Viable Relationship.
Jeremy Au (区汉辉) is a VC at Monk's Hill Ventures who invests in fellow founders who will transform millions of lives. He also spearheads MHV's key initiatives from venture scouts to thought leadership. Jeremy hosts the BRAVE podcast and interviews trailblazing founders, investors and rising stars in Southeast Asia tech. His mission is to inspire thousands to build the future, learn from our past and stay human in between. He is also an angel investor in multiple startups across...
2021-08-0559 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Chia Jeng Yang on Local vs. Foreign VCs in SE Asia, Transactional vs. Relational, Winners vs. Losers - E81Chia is a Principal at Saison Capital, a leading FinTech-focused venture capital fund, who has done especially well in emerging markets like Southeast Asia and India. Their direct investments include Grab, Southeast Asia's largest startup and super-app, as well as ShopBack, Southeast Asia's largest shopping and cashback rewards platform. Their limited partner investments include some of the top- performing funds in Southeast Asia, like East Ventures and Beenext, as well as global funds like Quona Capital and Antler.
Previously he was the fifth employee for Antler, the leading global pre-team venture builder. He also both invested an...
2021-08-021h 14
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Vlad Stan on Global Homeschooling, Education System Tradeoffs & Job Guilds - E80Co-Founder & CEO Of Galileo - The Innovative Online Global School Where Students Can Choose What To Learn & What Skills They Need To Thrive in the 21st Century 👩🚀
Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/vlad-stan
You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/vlad-stan
This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.
2021-07-291h 01
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Q&A: Harvard Turtle, SE Asia Talent Crunch & Immigrant’s Dilemma - E79Jeremy answers listener Q&A from Robert Jomar Malate on Harvard Turtle, Southeast Asia Talent Crunch and Immigrant’s Dilemma.
Robert Jomar Malate is a 4th-year undergraduate at Harvard University concentrating in Mechanical Engineering. During school, he is active in the engineering community, having worked and managed projects with the robotics team and aeronautics club. His engineering skills go beyond mechanical engineering, having done software engineering at Google and research at the Wyss Institute. Ultimately, his goal is to work on cutting-edge robotics and aeronautics systems. Outside of engineering, he also enjoys learning about wo...
2021-07-2655 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Ryan Galloway on Vietnam Tech, Cultural Borders & Teaching MBAs - E77Ryan Galloway has been building companies in Southeast Asia for more than 10 years, with a focus on corporate development and enterprise sales. As of March 2021, his teams have raised more than 250 million USD, and have created more than 1x year-on-year revenue jumps on several occasions.
In the technology space specifically, his most notable venture was iCare Benefits, Vietnam's first BNPL where he was business model co-founder. In charge of corporate development and enterprise sales, Ryan's teams between 2014 and 2016 raised more than 150 million USD across equity and debt, and acquired more than 1,400 corporate clients across 7 dif...
2021-07-1959 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)John Tan on Education Disruption, Angel Investing & Spirit of Learning - E74John is the founder of Saturday Kids - a curiosity school for children - and Doyobi - an edtech startup setting out to become the 21st century skills framework adopted by every school. He is also an investor in tech startups, in particular startups reimagining the future of work and learning such as Padlet, Galileo, Contra and Beanstalk. Saturday Kids runs Code In The Community, a Google and government supported initiative that is the largest free coding programme in Singapore. John is an Obama Foundation Asia-Pacific Leader, Transcend Fellow and Ashoka Changemaker. He sits on the board of Ninja Van a...
2021-07-0854 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Milan Reinartz on Founder Growth, Flipping Cars and On-The-Job CEO Learning - E72A serial entrepreneur and CEO operator with a track record of 0 to 1 growth and a strong focus on building healthy unit economics early on in a venture's life-cycle.
He founded Postr, a leading lock screen advertising SDK in 2014 (exited to Play2Pay in 2021). He currently works with MonksHill Ventures and Kickstart Ventures, building out ivs.tv, SEA's largest B2B video player and advertising delivery platform, serving over 120 million unique users, across over 1.2bn pages per month.
Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/milan-reinartz
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2021-07-0152 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Aldi Adrian Hartanto on Overcoming Family Challenges, Indonesia VC Partner & Passion to Succeed - E70Aldi is the Partner at Arise, an early stage fund initiative by MDI Ventures and Finch Capital with a mission to empower the 3rd Generation of Entrepreneurs in the post-pandemic era who's building a R.A.B.B.I.T. (Real Actual Business Building Interesting Tech) through his Backward Investment Thesis which is powered by multi corporations and venture funds backers.
He is also the VP of Investments at MDI Ventures, an $830 Million AUM Global Multi-Fund VC Firm investing in local founders, mainly backed by Telkom Indonesia. Aldi is leading the overall global investment activities w...
2021-06-2858 min
BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)Gregory Van on Endowus Investing Accessibility, Family Entrepreneurship & Early Days at Grab - E69Gregory Van is CEO of Endowus.com, Asia’s leading fee-only wealth management platform. Headquartered in Singapore and backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Softbank Ventures Asia, Endowus is the first digital advisor to span both private wealth and public pension savings (CPF & SRS). Endowus focuses on providing expert advice, institutional access to financial solutions, at low & fair fees to everyone, in a delightful digital-first experience.
Greg started his career in investment banking at UBS, advising and fundraising for private equity and venture capital firms in the Asia Pacific region. Greg then joined Grab in...
2021-06-2139 min
Andrew Ong - Connoisseur of quality underground dance music. Join me monthly as I curate a fine selection of House and Techno, mixed together in my own style. Leave a comment and follow me on Soundcloud. http://soundcloud.com/andrew-ongMix 011 - Late Night SleazeKeeping things on the low and sleazy in this mix, I had lots of fun building the energy up and bringing it down again.
Tracklist:
1. Rodriguez Jr. - Kerazouek Amm (Original Mix)
2. Cipy - And The Warmth Comes Up Feat. Kara Square (Original Mix)
3. Cosmic Cowboys - Enlight (Original Mix)
4. Etapp Kyle - Aurora (Original Mix)
5. Francesco Chiocci, Black Soda - Black Sunrise (Original Mix)
6. Kollektiv Turmstrasse - Melodrama (Original Mix)
7. Francys - Nibiru (Original Mix)
8. Re.you - Very Very (Butch Remix)
9. Luciano, Jaw - 7direction(s) (Dennis Ferrer Remix)
10. Fabio Giannelli - Grinder (Original Mix)
11. Bjarki - I...
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