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

Ilya Kravtsov is an experienced professional within the mobile/internet space with more than 15 years of experience split between TMT Management Consulting, Telecoms and IT Startups  He was formerly Founder and CEO of PouchNATION , a Singapore based tech company specialised in guest management solutions. Ilya is currently a Mentor at Plug and Play Accelerator Indonesia , Advisor at Antler whilst r...

Hon Weng Chong is the founder and CEO of Cortical Labs , a Deep Technology startup looking to fuse biological material with computing chips resulting in a proto-AGI device. Previously he was the founder and CTO of CliniCloud ; a medtech startup that built full-stack connected medical devices that was backed by Tencent and Ping An ventures. Hon Weng trained as a medical doctor at The University of...

David Thian is a former management consultant who helped to start Conjunct Consulting in 2011. Today, he is one of 300 Administrative Officers transforming and building capabilities in the Singapore Public Service. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/david-thian You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/david-thian

Jeep Kline is a Partner of MrPink VC , an impact venture fund targeting South American entrepreneurs. She recently founded SeaSky Lab , a project that bridges knowledge and resources from Silicon Valley to Asia for tech entrepreneurs. An advisor to several incubation programs, she is UC Berkeley Skydeck’s lead ambassador to 48 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. She is also a guest lecturer in t...

Fandy Santoso is Co-founder and CEO of Giladiskon , a social buying club where 2m Indonesian members get exclusive discounts at restaurants and lifestyle retailers. Besides helping their members saving money every day, they also help retailers to get instant exposure to millions of millenials through social media. Fandy started his entrepreneurial journey in 2013 when he started an IT consulting b...

Michael Lints has over 20 years of experience helping innovative businesses obtain the resources, insights, and expertise they need in order to be successful. Michael has been a startup operator, investor, and mentor, and is currently a Partner at the Singapore-based venture capital firm Golden Gate Ventures . He joined the firm in 2013 and is currently leading growth venture efforts, which includ...

As the Global Head of Circularity at SecondMuse , Simon leads programs focused on strengthening circular and regenerative economic systems and processes. This work currently includes The Incubation Network in South and Southeast Asia, and the Ocean Plastic Pollution Accelerator (OPPA) in Indonesia, both of which are built around addressing ocean plastic pollution. Simon is a systems architect, res...

Projjal Ghatak is the CEO & Co-Founder of OnLoop , a pre-launch VC-backed seed stage SaaS start-up in a new category called Collaborative Team Development (CTD) to reinvent how individuals and teams of knowledge workers develop in a new hybrid future. Prior to founding OnLoop in 2020, Projjal spent three and a half years at Uber in a variety of roles including leading Strategy for Business Dev...

Joshua spearheaded The SG Boys podcast to create a platform for gay stories in Singapore. Outside of co-hosting the podcast, he is a radio presenter in Singapore, known for his interviews with the world’s biggest stars, from Katy Perry to Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds. Joshua’s interviews have crossed millions of views on YouTube. Joshua is also an independent singer-songwriter whose debut album,...

Anita Hossain is Co-founder and CEO of The Grand , a learning and development platform to help people navigate transitions at the intersection of work and life through the support of group coaching and community. Anita has extensive experience as an executive coach and group facilitator, supporting clients on their journeys to become the most effective and intentional leaders they can be. She prev...

As a tech ecosystem builder, connector and investor, Elise's mission is to bring the global ecosystem closer together and nurture the next generation of entrepreneurs who will change the world for the better. Currently, she is Director of Communications and Community at Vertex Ventures. Previously she was VP of Investor Relations and Partnerships at LongHash Ventures , a blockchain-focused fund an...

Brian Toh is a Singaporean software engineer and entrepreneur. He is the Founder & CEO of AskDr , a health information platform aiming to make reliable health information accessible to all, and is involved in product management, growth, remote culture, partnerships, and fundraising. Prior to that, he ran a digital product agency as the lead engineer focused on building, designing, and marketin...

With 15 years experience in the industry, Hazel is a music-tech lifer, guitarist and CEO/Co-Founder at Musiio . She started her music-tech journey as an early employee at Shazam and spent time understanding the pain points of the industry at Pandora , Universal and HMV before launching Musiio in 2018.  Hazel travels the world speaking at conferences and educating catalogue owners about the value o...

Karen Tay was formerly Smart Nation Director in Singapore's Prime Ministers Office and Regional Vice President at the Economic Development Board, based in the Bay Area. She started and grew the Singapore Government's global tech talent recruiting function, boosting its pipeline by 20X, and was later hired by EDB to build its global talent platform for the tech sector in Singapore. She's passionate...

Spencer Yang is a Senior Product Manager at Coinbase . He is an active angel investor with investments in various early-stage startups. He was the VP of Growth, Operations and Revenue at CoinMarketCap , the largest cryptocurrency information site. He led the business areas of spanning across data, content and revenue. He was part of the executive team and led the company through a successful acqui...

Reginald Koh is the founder and host of The Financial Coconut, the first podcast network in Singapore dedicated to personal finance. What started as a dining table project, grew to become a series contender in the finance content space. At the core, he is a creative and explorer, avid backpacker, serial failed entrepreneur, and now a champion for personal finance. He is quite a rebel and failed to...

Jingjin is co-founder and CEO of ZaZaZu, the first personalized sexual wellness hub in APAC that synergizes education, digital services and products to help women own their sexual wellbeing. Prior to ZaZaZu’s inception, Jingjin spent more than 10 years in the entrepreneurial and automotive scene. During her previous tenures, she has led global product management teams, driven portfolio turnarounds...

Grace Sai is the Founder and CEO of Ravel Innovation , an innovation agency that helps corporations and governments innovate by working with startup and social good ecosystems globally. She is also the Managing Partner of Found Ventures, a seed fund investing in early-stage tech companies. She is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD, TEDx Singapore speaker and a Kauffman Fellow. She resides in S...

Andre 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: http...

Jason 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 Sch...

Mark 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 intelligen...

Wally 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 Sing...

Stefanie 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 20...

Jun 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.j...

Michelle 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 te...