BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)

In this episode of Brave, Jeremy Au and Shiyan Koh discuss the 2023 Southeast Asia's winners (region vs. Singapore), losers (overcapitalized vs. middle-stage startups) & Contrarian Beliefs (tech-first innovation vs. green & ESG startups). Show notes at: www.jeremyau.com/blog/2023-southeast-asia-winners

Koh Shiyan is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Hustle Fund , a venture capital fund that invests in pre-seed software startups in the U.S., Canada, and Southeast Asia. Prior to that, she was the VP of Business Operations and Corporate Development at NerdWallet , a fintech startup that helps users with a range of financial decisions through content, community, and tools. Show notes at: www.je...

Eugene Cheah, is the founder of Uilicious.com - which helps automate UI testing at scale for development teams, with AI assistance. He was a software engineer, who dived early into the startup scene, before spending time in the enterprise financial space, before returning to the startup scene as a founder. All while working on his own set of opensource projects behind the scenes. Show notes at: ww...

Brian is a 3x founder turned investor now spending the majority of his time as General Partner of Iterative Capital . Brian was previously the founder and CEO of Divvy Homes ($2B valuation), Weave (YC S14, acquired), and Decide (Series C company, acquired by eBay). In non-existent spare time, Brian enjoys dog parks with his German Shepherd mix, rides on his motorcycle, and aping into interesting c...

Kai Yuan Neo is the founder and CEO at Rocket Academy , a live-online coding bootcamp based in Singapore that helps career switchers become software engineers. Launched in 2020, Rocket has trained over 1000 students in its intro coding courses and over 100 students in its career conversion Bootcamp course. To date, 100% of Rocket's Bootcamp graduates have received software engineering offers withi...

Kathryn Cross is the founder of Anja Health , which she founded in memory of her brother, Andrew, who had cerebral palsy. Kathryn has cultivated a pregnancy and cord blood banking community on TikTok as @kathrynanja, where she raises awareness about the importance of cord blood banking and other issues related to pregnancy. Originally from Los Angeles, Kathryn graduated from Wellesley , where she...

Florian is the co-founder & CEO of Midstay , a platform helping companies and individuals relocate easily to dreamy locations and work remotely. He is Belgian, formerly a product UX & UI designer and entrepreneur, and graduated from the College of Advertising and Design in Brussels. He founded a music festival in Belgium that reached 20k+ festival goers at the age of 23. He has traveled th...

Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology , technology, and business. Nir previously taught as a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. Nir co-founded and sold two tech companies since 2003 and was dubbed by The M.I.T. Technology Review as, “The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology ....

Raagulan Pathy is the Vice President, Asia Pacific for Circle . Based in Singapore, his responsibilities include the go-to-market strategy, sales and representing Circle in the region. Raagulan was previously the Head of Enterprise for the Asia Pacific region at Zoom , and he brings over a decade of business and sales leadership experience within the Cloud and technology sectors. Prior to his role...

Jed is the Founder of AngelSchool.vc : the only program helping Angel investors build & grow syndicates. He is an active angel investor who has backed 2 seed stage startups to unicorn status. His syndicate is backed by 1000 LPs. As an operator, he built & ran the world's largest API Marketplace with a16z backed RapidAPI. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/jed-ng

Jeremy and Adriel reflect on 250 episodes of the Brave SEA Tech Podcast Adriel Yong joined the BRAVE Podcast team in the COVID summer of 2020 and has worked across multiple roles including co-authoring the BRAVE10 anthology, running community events, editing audio & transcripts and creating cover art.  Adriel is a senior at Yale-NUS College , majoring in Global Affairs. He is an analyst at Orv...

Herston is a Co-founder and Managing Partner at 1982 Ventures . As one of the most active fintech investors in Southeast Asia, he has led and executed notable investments across Southeast Asia and South Asia. Prior to founding 1982 Ventures, he was a Principal at tryb Group in Singapore and created and executed their early stage investment strategy. Before entering the private equity and venture c...

World Traveling Storyteller, Author & Entrepreneur. Graham Brown is the founder of Pikkal & Co – Award Winning Podcast Agency – an AI Powered, Data Driven B2B Podcast Agency in Singapore. He is a published author on the subject of The Digital Transformation of Communication, works including “The Human Communication Playbook”, “The Mobile Youth: Voices of the Connected Generation” – documen...

Jeremy presents a question and answer session at the Singapore University of Technology & Design about the fundamentals of pitching. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/sutd-qna

Jakob Rost is founder and CEO of Ayoconnect , Southeast Asia’s largest open finance API platform and the only licensed open finance player in Indonesia. Founded in 2016, Ayoconnect makes open finance accessible for businesses in Indonesia, the world’s fourth most-populated country.   Under Jakob’s leadership, the company has become a pivotal player in the Indonesian economy. Ayoconnect is building...

Huiting is a Partner at Altara Ventures and likes investing in founders solving real problems, that have the ability to positively impact millions of lives. She has led investments in the Consumer, Fintech and Enterprise/Deep tech space such as Tonik, Stashfin, Senseye, Sampingan and SATURDAYS. She is also a newbie angel investor and has invested in almost twenty startups across Southeast Asia and...

Goh Wei Choon is the co-founder and artist at The Woke Salaryman . He trained as an animator but when he graduated with a hefty university debt, he waded into the world of personal finance to understand how to better chip away at his debt. In the process he learnt not just about money but also history, sociology, psychology and much more. He now uses his visual storytelling skills to communicate t...

Chia is an Investor at Pantera Capital , one of the first institutional investors in crypto.   He was previously Principal at Saison Capital , a FinTech-focused venture capital fund Previously he was the fifth employee for Antler , the leading global pre-team venture builder. He also both invested and launched markets for them in Europe. He was also at Rocket Internet where he helped build out an...

Jeremy moderates a Clubhouse question and answer session about tech diversity, inclusion & accessibility Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/diversity-qna

Amanda Cua is the Founder and CEO of BackScoop , a free daily newsletter that makes it fun and easy to stay informed with everything Southeast Asian business and startups in minutes. Launched late last year, BackScoop is read by thousands of SEA’s top founders, execs, VCs and startup operators. Born and raised in the Philippines, Amanda is 20 years old and was previously the first employee at YC-b...

Jeremy presents a question and answer session about social enterprise incorporation Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/incorporation-qna

Arne is the Co-Founder and CEO of Parcel Perform , the leading delivery experience platform for businesses covering 950+ logistics carriers worldwide. Before founding Parcel Perform, Arne was Vice President for Business Development at DHL eCommerce Asia Pacific, where he led the development of e-commerce logistics products as well as market entries throughout Asia. Prior to that, he was Vice Presi...

Jeremy presents a Question and Answer session at Singapore Institute of Technology Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/sit-qna

Yuying Deng is the CEO and founder of Esevel . Esevel is an all-in-one IT platform that helps companies with distributed teams manage their people, devices and applications on one platform. Esevel helps clients on/offboard employees, procure devices and manage and support their teams’ IT needs across 8 countries in APAC. Yuying started Esevel during COVID, and together with her team, grew revenue...

Jeremy presents a Marketing New Ventures question and answer session at National University of Singapore (NUS) Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/marketing-qna