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

Vinay Palathinkal is Regional Head, Wise Platform at Wise . Formerly known as TransferWise, Wise is a leader in cross border money movement, processing nearly $100 billion every year and employing 2300 people across 14 global offices. Wise Platform is the third and newest pillar of Wise ’s products, allowing platforms like Google Pay and banks like Monzo to integrate and benefit from Wise ’s power...

An avid triathlete, Bernard is the co-founder of Hatio Group - a technology business based in South Korea specialising in digital warehousing & network distribution. Since 2012, Hatio has a proven track record of envisioning and delivering major transformational change, cost reduction and operational improvement programs in a KRX top 5 blue chip organization. As the group COO, Bernard plays an...

Farand Anugerah is the cofounder of Segari , an Indonesia-based fresh produce grocery commerce upstart that he founded during the onset of COVID outbreak. Started with a simple mission to help his mom - who suffers acute asthma - to buy groceries, Segari later got seed funded and has been growing at a high double digit growth rate month to month since then. Segari is well positioned to enable thou...

Sadaf is the Founder of Finprojections.com , a financial modelling resource hub for startup founders. Finprojections seeks to make financial modeling accessible by providing standards-based, rigorous Excel-based templates that can be used to build any kind of startup projections irrespective of industry. Sadaf brings his extensive experience working as an investor and advising startups in the regi...

Michi has spent over five years working in social enterprises across the United States, Africa and Southeast Asia, with a focus on education and the future of work. Her most recent full-time role was at the African Leadership University , where she was part of the founding team that built and launched a 6-month intensive work readiness program for recent college graduates in Kenya. Currently, Mich...

Adzmel is one of the Co-Founding Partners of Piva Capital , a venture capital firm based in San Francisco investing in deep tech and climate tech companies across North America and Europe. The firm is currently investing from its inaugural $250 million fund, backed by PETRONAS . As one of the founding Partners of Piva , Adzmel was instrumental in setting up the firm’s investment strategy. Piva foc...

Zelia is the Co-Founder of PraisePal - The Peer Recognition tool for companies with global teams to grow employee engagement and build stronger culture. No matter where or how their employees work. She also co-founded travel curator Anywhr , which was part of Google For Startups' Blackbox Scholarship and Google Demo Day Asia. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/zelia-leong You can find th...

Co-Founder and CTO of Strive Education (YCS21) , teaching K12 math through code via live 1:1 online classes. Tamir is a 3x startup founder, namely Quillo South Africa's largest online 2nd hand textbook marketplace and Insupply, where Tamir worked with the South African presidency to get PPE to front line workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/tamir-shkla...

Amra is Co-Founder of Accelerating Asia and General Partner at Accelerating Asia Ventures, an award-winning startup accelerator that scouts and propels the best founders in the region and provides pre-Series A startups with the resources and investment to scale their growth. Amra is passionate about working to close the gap between commercial and social sectors and supporting for profit businesses...

An established Market Research expert and a known face amongst Asian clients, Rajiv Lamba holds an invaluable accumulative experience of more than 20 years in the field of market research spanning across the FMCG segment and with proven records of building ‘Quality Leaders for Tomorrow’ Rajiv founded Neurosensum in 2018 which led to an impressive transformation in the world of market research by c...

Calvin Chu Yee Ming is Managing Partner of Eden Strategy Institute , an award-winning strategy consulting firm that specializes in social innovation. Over the past decade, Eden has advised corporations like Bell Labs, General Electric, and Samsung; multilateral organizations such as UNDP, UNESCO, and UN Women; as well as governments in Singapore, New Zealand, and Saudi Arabia co-create sustainable...

Joseph is a 1x exit founder, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and a father of a beautiful daughter. He runs his family business that operates in technology, infrastructure, bio-technology, and natural resources industries. He is also involved as an advisor to several startups, as well as launching his own new startup venture in the social commerce space to help non-formal ecommerce sellers sel...

Raimie is the Co-Founder and CEO of dateideas , a mobile app that provides couples with unique date experiences for their every date. Today, Raimie runs the largest community of couples in Singapore. Raimie graduated with a double degree in Engineering and Business from the National University of Singapore . As an NUS Overseas Colleges Scholar, he spent one year in Silicon Valley working with the...

By leveraging his experience as a former investment banker and FMCG corporate manager, David co-founded Red Ideas to create JaGaApp . JaGaApp is a mobile application product developed and distributed by Red Ideas Sdn. Bhd ., a tech startup company based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Since its launch in December 2015, and subsequent listing on Bursa Malaysia LEAP board in 2017, the company has reached...

Nellie Wartoft is the CEO and founder of Tigerhall , a social learning platform that helps professionals — regardless of their backgrounds and circumstances — achieve their career and life goals by learning directly from Asia’s most successful people. As CEO, Nellie is responsible for planning and executing the overall strategic direction, growth and expansion, leadership and future vision for Tig...

Prantik Mazumdar is an award winning Entrepreneur, marketer, venture investor and acts as a Digital Transformation Catalyst in organizations to drive sustainable change and impact. He started his entrepreneurial journey with Happy Marketer in 2011 where he spent a decade building & scaling up one of the best and most awarded independent digital marketing services firm in the region that served...

Aaron is the co-founder & CEO of Privyr , a mobile CRM built for salespeople who work off their phone and use apps like WhatsApp, SMS, and iMessage to interact with their customers. He's a third-time founder across Silicon Valley and Singapore. Prior to starting Privyr, he built and launched CRMs at the world's leading financial institutions, as a Vice President at GIC and APAC CRM Lead at Bla...

Mo is a serial entrepreneur, Goldman Sachs alumni and a guest lecturer at Monash University department of computer science discussing AI & entrepreneurship. Mo holds several degrees and is an alumnus of London School of Economics , UCL and King College London. His work has been featured in Forbes, Billboard, Adage and Mindshare and has won awards at Cannes Lion. He is currently the co-founder...

Tulika is the co-founder of SunGreenH2 , a startup disrupting green hydrogen production with its high performance, low cost electrolyser technology. Originally an electrical engineer who started out working on offshore oil rigs in Kazakhstan and Norway, she pivoted towards clean energy in 2007 and has never looked back. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/tulika-raj You can find the commu...

Hayley Bakker is a Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Diversely , an HR SaaS platform that helps businesses attract more diverse applicants and remove bias from their hiring with smart (AI driven) tools, diversity analytics and bite-size unconscious bias training. Prior to that she founded Colibri Growth , a Tech Offshoring company that helps tech startups in Singapore to set up and manage th...

Yuk Chi is a published space lawyer, startup founder, On Deck alumnus, and former Army logistics officer. He is currently working on a stealth-mode project that will democratise access to orbit by uncomplicating the space mission planning process. He is also (in no particular order) a high school dropout, the survivor of a ruptured lung from his days in the Service, and a published science fiction...

Vu Trong Nghia (Vince) is currently CEO and co-founder of Bizzi , a VC- backed startup providing intelligent accounts payable & receivable automation platform. Before his MBA in the US, Nghia had an established career with different positions at multinational companies, including brand manager at GlaxoSmithKline and Unilever, and marketing manager at Dairy Queen where he successfully led the l...

Jonathan Eg is the Founder & CEO of Partipost . Partipost is a platform that allows brands to connect with influencers across all tiers, from your nano influencers aka everyday people to your macro influencers, at scale and with speed. Since the launch of the Partipost platform in the beginning of 2018 till 2021, Partipost now has over 500,000 influencers and worked with more than 1700 brands...

All his life, James has been searching for the best ways to change himself and change the world. He started as an entrepreneur at age 6 and since has co-founded or helped build 9 businesses and 16 organizations, including the premier conference for the effective altruism movement, the world’s first global lifehacking event series, Southeast Asia’s first social innovation hackathon series, and a un...

Bernadette is the General Manager at Entrepreneur First (EF) Singapore , the world’s leading talent investor, helping the most impactful people build startups from scratch. Before EF, Bernadette served as the Chief of Staff at Funding Societies and at Grab . She started her career in Australia at the Boston Consulting Group , before moving to Singapore with Linkedin to lead Product Marketing. Bern...