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

Charmain Tan is the Founder & CEO of QuickDesk which provides one-stop digital sales and marketing solutions as well as digital training for SMEs and business professionals. She made Forbes Asia’s 30 Under 30 list for Enterprise Technology in 2019 and Singapore’s inaugural top 100 Women in Tech List in 2020 . Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/charmain-tan

Ser En is a film producer, and also the co-founder of Sendjoy , a Singapore-based startup that allows consumers to book content creators to make video messages for their loved ones. As a film and TV producer over the past 10 years, her live action and animated short films have been screened and won awards at over 100 international film festivals, and one of her animated short films, " Poles Apart...

Derek Handley is a futurist, entrepreneur and an aspiring civilian astronaut signed up to visit space with Virgin Galactic . He created the Aera Foundation in 2014 as a charitable studio catalysing social innovations to reframe the status quo for a sustainable future. Global venture fund Aera VC followed and has been backing global radical climate solutions and frontier breakthroughs for humanity...

Cherilyn is driven by her quest to empower people and businesses and to help them make better decisions to emerge stronger. The companies that she has founded are testaments to this fact. As Founder and CEO of Interstellar Group , she started Asia Law Network in 2014 out of frustration at being unable to find a suitable and affordable lawyer at a time when she needed one the most. Over the last si...

Andrew Senduk started his career in both consulting and banking at top-tier firms but found a true passion in e-commerce. He holds 12+ years of entrepreneurial experience building ventures across Europe and Southeast Asia. He co-founded Orami , Southeast Asia’s #1 online destination for mums & babies. Orami raised $20M+ in venture funding and employed 600+ people. Prior to this, Andrew spent 1...

Ren Yi Hooi is the Founder and CEO of Lightning Social Ventures , a Fintech for Good startup which enables charities and public sector institutions to verify and accelerate support for people in financial hardship. A globally recognised impact award winner, Lightning launched in Feb 2021 and is now revenue generating with multiple national partners in the UK. Prior to this, Ren was the Product Dir...

After starting her first storytelling company as a teenager, and then sailing around the world with a UN Global Climate Expedition as a documentary filmmaker; Jacqui came to realise that the best ESG solutions exist already, but these visionaries needed more visibility. Hence, she moved to Singapore to become a serial systems entrepreneur — building B Corp certified companies that work with multin...

Tammie is the CEO and co-founder of Revery , a Sequoia Capital and GGV Capital backed startup using mobile gaming to deliver mental wellness. Revery’s mission is to make mental health affordable, accessible, and fun. Prior to launching Revery , she was an investment associate at Sequoia Capital and a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group . Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blo...

Elena is the Founder of ConnectOne who since 2013 have partnered the early stage technology startup ecosystem to build and optimize teams for growth. In doing so, she and her team have met, coached and built a robust community of entrepreneurial minded individuals. Prior to ConnectOne , she had spent 15 years at Procter & Gamble . She is a proud mum of 4 kids aged 14 to 24. Outside of work, sh...

Daniel is founder & CEO of Nimbus , an office facilities management platform. He is a former LSE & Oxford philosopher turned entrepreneur. He aspires to build a company that impacts lives and helps the most vulnerable in society. He was recently featured in the 2021 Gen. T list of young leaders shaping Asia for his work in social entrepreneurship. His company, Nimbus , helps office decisio...

Elaine Kim is a medical doctor, entrepreneur and educator. With over a decade of medical practice in palliative care, caring for terminally ill patients, she now serves as a clinical consultant for the Singapore Ministry Of Health . A passionate advocate for involved parenthood alongside career success, she is the CEO of Trehaus , an integrated co-lifestyle space for families with a preschool and...

Gita Sjahrir is the Co-Founder and CEO of RFitness , Indonesia’s largest online and offline boutique fitness brand. She started her journey into wellness when she was diagnosed with Still’s disease, an autoimmune condition that affected her joints and lungs. She began a fitness community in 2015 after wanting an inclusive, equitable and non-judgmental space for those who exercise for the joy of mo...

With more than 10 years of experience in impact investing, consulting, and most recently venture capital, Samantha has worked with over 200 founders and social sector leaders to help them achieve their vision and goals. She is currently the founder and CEO of Stonesoup Partners , which helps build companies that do well by doing good through connecting them with funding and talent. She was a found...

Rachit Dayal is the Founder of Happy Marketer . Born in India, educated in NUS Singapore and based in Singapore. Rachit Dayal started his marketing agency out of the gate of University with minimal funding before growing it to $10 million in sales in 9 years and later acquisition by Japanese media conglomerate Dentsu . Happy Marketer is Singapore’s most awarded digital agency, clients and partners...

Jiezhen is a connector, collaborator, and changemaker. She was most recently an Equity & Inclusion Fellow and part of the Mindful Leaders Collective at Harvard University - where she completed her Masters in Education with a focus on leadership, inclusion, and organizational transformation. Before Harvard, she worked in social innovation and social impact - leading The Hidden Good , a social e...

Dom Clonen is the Founder and CEO of TechBridge Market , a tech-enabled recruitment services company Headquartered in Singapore. Their mission to reinvent traditional recruitment services. Instead of charging large commissions for a role, they have developed a highly optimised talent acquisition process that guarantees predictable hiring outcomes at a fraction of the usual cost. Dom is from the UK...

Raymond is the CEO and cofounder at Lumina , a hardware company building AI-powered devices that make you look and sound good. Raymond is also the founder at Scalable , a 300-person ecommerce infrastructure company that empowers sellers in emerging markets. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/raymond-lei

Liyana Sulaiman is a Singaporean entrepreneur who has been a technology advisor, mentor and founder across the US and Southeast Asia startup ecosystems. Currently, she is the CPTO and Co-Founder of Pollen , Asia’s first B2B Liquidation marketplace designed for sustainability. She is recognized as a technology product leader in Singapore, Top 30 Women in Product Management for APAC 2019 by PMF, and...

Jane is the CEO and Founder of Pawjourr (Powered by Woof Agency), the world’s first self-serve marketplace created to reward pet owners to co-create with their favorite brands. Pawjourr is supported by Antler and alumni of Ngee Ann Polytechnic , Sandbox. Prior to starting her own business, Jane spent 3 years in top advertising agencies, working closely with clients such as Tiffany & Co., Borne...

Cliff is a serial entrepreneur of enterprise & tech startups. He’s currently a Cofounder & CEO of Multiverse.ai , a blockchain-powered ideation & funding platform for early-stage startups. He previously was at Merrill Lynch , IBM , mobile engineering lead at Google and founder of Fanpop . He’s a Stanford graduate in Computer Science. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/cliff-s...

Zabrina Chew was previously the Co-Founder and CEO of Soda, a community-centric social discovery platform. Prior to that, Zabrina spent almost a decade in thought leadership, gaming, and start-ups. At Singapore's Economic Development Board , she has collaborated with Fortune 500 companies, McKinsey , BCG and The Conference Board . At the global gaming giant, Ubisoft , she led and guided strategy,...

Sean Si does speaking engagements throughout the Philippines. He is the CEO and founder of SEO Hacker and the host of the LeadershipStack podcast . He has led his team through a decade of the chaos of starting up and the upward slog of scaling up. Today SEO Hacker is a multi-million peso company that has weathered times of crisis time and again. He has shared the stage and worked with some of the...

Gaby is the cofounder and CEO of Bolu , a Jakarta-based social enterprise that empowers MSMEs in Indonesia to sell online by providing them the education, mentorship, and support they need to grow their businesses through WhatsApp courses, webinars, and mentorship sessions. She is passionate about education and sees its potential to help overcome socioeconomic inequality, especially in Southeast A...

Jonathan Ng is the CEO and Founder of Iterative Scopes , a pioneer in the application of artificial intelligence-based precision medicine to gastroenterology with the aim of establishing a new standard of care for the detection, and ultimately, treatment of gastrointestinal (GI) diseases. Iterative Scopes is a startup that spun out of MIT , recently raised $150 million in Series B financing to acc...

Benjamin Loh is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) and Professional #Millennial Speaker. As the youngest Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) in Asia, an accolade accorded to top 12% of professional speakers globally, an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF), Benjamin has empowered over 120 senior leaders individually in topics like strategic communica...