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

Leon is an investment professional with a track record of more than 10 years building, operating and investing in category-leading technology companies in Southeast Asia and Europe. He’s currently a Director at Rigel Capital , a Southeast Asia & India focused investment company, as well as Head of Corporate Development at Wingcopter .  Prior to Rigel Capital and Wingcopter, Leon was a Venture...

Valerie Vu was previously 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  Deloit...

Yolanda is a purpose-driven leader with 15+ years of building high-growth startups with companies such as Uber , Deliveroo , and Rocket Internet . Originally from Canada, she has lived and worked in every single continent, with the exception of South America, and is currently based in Singapore. At 18, Yolanda rented an abandoned industrial warehouse in her hometown of Toronto and got artists like...

Nadim Muzayyin is a Singaporean venture investor focused on the Southeast Asian region and its growing consumer market. After three years of consumer venture investing with DSG Consumer Partners , Nadim is now an MBA candidate at Harvard Business School , graduating in the Class of 2024. Nadim is also a member of the Milken Institute's Young Leaders Circle (YLC) where he contributes to consumer, h...

Charlotte is the co-founder and CEO of Jackett , a Singaporean edtech startup - building an operating system for personalised assessments. She grew up in Phuket, graduated Law from London, built a career at Meta and Grab , worked across eight countries in APAC, and is on a mission to make personalized education universally accessible with AI and automation. Jackett is present across eight countrie...

Hsiang Low is Head of Asia-Pacific at SeedLegals , one of the hottest legaltech offerings which provides the legals for creating, funding and running startups. Hsiang oversees SeedLegals' operations and strategy across Hong Kong and Singapore. He is also a qualified solicitor in England & Wales, having trained and practiced for over a decade at magic circle lawfirm Linklaters .  Previously, Hs...

Willy Arifin pioneered Indonesia’s SME focused neobank, KoinWorks , in 2015. As the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of KoinWorks , Arifin is tackling financial inclusion for 65 million entrepreneurs in Indonesia. Additionally, he is a vivid angel investor known across South East Asia through his Alternative Ventures arm, supporting founders with technology centric solutions that disrupt traditio...

Joshua Wang , PhD is the Founder & CEO of VerImmune , an early biotechnology startup company developing a novel virus-inspired particle (ViP) technology platform that can be used as a delivery system to target multiple diseases. VerImmune’s first focus will be in Oncology whereby the ViP will enable the redirection of immune memory from past infections or childhood vaccinations to target cance...

Dr. Reza Abraham is a Persian author, speaker, ultra-high-performance coach, and the founder of InControl Group . He spent the past 20 years studying and working with individuals from different fields and stages of life and concluded that the system to a successful life is the ability to be in control. This results in the launch of his first book entitled INCONTROL. His distinctive ideas on person...

A digital transformation evangelist that loves to build platforms that would enrich people's lives and enhance corporate efficiency. He helped organizations large and small in several countries with their digital transformation. Received numerous awards most notably the prestigious 100 Most Influential Young Entrepreneur Award. Currently, the CEO of Nexible Solutions , a technology company based i...

Thibault is the CEO and cofounder of Capssion . Capssion is an all-in-one influencer marketing platform for e-commerce brands in Southeast Asia. Leveraging 4 years of experience spent in the e-commerce industry at Lazada as Head of Operations to bridge social media and digital commerce across borders in Southeast Asia. In his spare time, he takes black and white street photographs. A huge cinema a...

Proud is Chief Marketing Officer of Zipmex . As a trained economist with both strategy and operational experience, Proud brings deep expertise in tech strategy and marketing to make finance fun. She has worked with private equity firms and multimillion dollar companies across nine countries, as well as invested in and built companies from scratch. She grew her latest manufacturing company by 16x i...

Christophe is the investment director of LEAP201 , a venture philanthropy foundation based in Singapore which focuses on improving the lives of vulnerable households in South East Asia in a sustainable manner. By providing early financial support to impact projects which do not yet meet the requirements of the traditional lenders and investors, LEAP201 fills up a critical missing gap in the South...

Mr. Alvin Tan was elected as a Member of Parliament in July 2020, and was shortly appointed by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as Minister of State for the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, and the Ministry of Trade & Industry. He assumed these appointments on 1 Sep 2020. Mr. Tan has worked in the private, public and non-profit sectors. Before joining the government as Minister of State...

Nurul Jihadah Hussain is the Founder of The Codette Project , which has been operating since 2015. The Codette Project is a non-profit ground-up initiative with a mission to improve access and opportunities for minority and Muslim women in technology. The Codette Project runs classes, workshops, panels, networking sessions and social events regularly, including Singapore’s only women’s hackathon....

Tanya’s 15-year legal career at some of the world’s largest law firms has honed her ability to influence and collaborate with people from diverse disciplines and backgrounds, Tanya spent 7 years in Real Estate legal teams before moving into legal team management. Tanya spent 8 years in Corporate M&A at both Simmons & Simmons and Norton Rose Fulbright in London. Tanya founded the Ladies Inv...

Dr. Sandhya Sriram, PhD is the CEO and co-founder of Shiok Meats , a cultivated meat and seafood company in Singapore. Their mission is to bring delicious, clean and healthy seafood and meats by harvesting from cells instead of animals. Shiok Meats brings cell-based crustacean meats like shrimp, crab and lobster to your table. They have been featured in media including The Economist , Forbes , Wor...

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 VP Business Operations and Corporate Development at NerdWallet , a fintech startup that helps users with a range of financial decisions through content, community and tools. Yiping Goh is Partner at McKin...

Melissa Ng is the CEO of Bravely , a mental health startup that supercharges therapy by making data actionable and learning easy-peasy. Before that, she was the founder of a fully remote product design agency Melewi that worked with clients like Visa , Samsung and McDonalds (She's helped make the McDelivery app available in over 40 countries). She's also been featured on the front page of The Stra...

Michael Milne is Co-Founder of Kaishi Partners , a recruitment firm for the startup ecosystem in South-East Asia that he launched alongside Ben Poh 5 years ago. He started his career in 2007 working in BD for a tech startup in London that was acquired by DHI , before moving to Hong Kong in 2009. In Hong Kong he started his recruitment career focused on hiring for PE funds investing into China, bef...

Former intellectual property litigator turned in-house counsel for an international conglomerate in the areas of telco, utilities, construction, hospitality, land & development, NGOs and more. Host and producer of the So This Is My Why podcast , that features inspiring people about how they found their why and turned them into reality. Past guests include Olympians, Michelin-starred chefs, FAA...

An ex- Google pioneer of 9 years, with an expertise in launching new products and building ecosystems from the ground up (0 to 1 to 10 to 100). These include launching Google Assistant , Progressive Web Apps, Accelerated Mobile Pages and Firebase in APAC from zero to 100s of partners and millions of users. Prior to this, he launched Youtube in APAC . His last role at Google was to Head Google Sear...

Kim is cofounder and Artistic Director of The Improv Company and has taught and performed improvised theatre for ten years. He has studied improv in Chicago, London and Oxford under some of the most venerated instructors still alive, and as a former board member of the Applied Improvisation Network , he is engaged in keeping up with current trends of improv training, facilitation and performance....

Hannah is the author of Founder to PM and the CEO and Founder of TheShareWay . Founder to PM is the first detailed guide on how ex-founders can land their first product management jobs. TheShareWay is a directory of companies that donate food and raffle items to nonprofits. Previously, she worked in Product at Oscar Health and started her career as a management consultant at Deloitte Consulting ....

Todd Schweitzer is co-founder and CEO at Brankas , the leading Open Finance technology provider in Southeast Asia. Todd has held senior roles in private equity and management consulting, spanning technology, the public sector, and financial services. Todd and co-founder Kenneth Shaw launched Brankas in 2016 to address the technology gaps that hindered fintech-bank partnerships. Brankas provides Op...