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

Rahul is the host of the Understanding VC podcast where he talks to Venture Capitalists to learn how they work. The aim of the show is to provide entrepreneurs with experiential and actionable insights to have a collegial working relationship with VCs. He is also a serial entrepreneur who has built multiple startups in the E-commerce and 3D printing industry and has spent time with a Venture Capit...

Mark Johnson is Co-Founder of SEED Strategies , a communications and public relations consultancy for startups and companies that are scaling. Founded in 2019, since its inception, SEED Strategies has worked with a range of companies seeking to deliver a positive impact across a multitude of industries and geographies. Prior to establishing SEED Strategies, Mark worked as Head of Customer Experien...

Jeraldine Phneah (彭嘉琳) is a Millennial Content Creator who cares about the challenges and aspirations of her generation. To empower them, she creates content around how Millennials can cope with the high cost of living, build rewarding careers, strive for the best for their families, and lead meaningful lives. She also pushes for policies to uplift her generation.  When Jeraldine first graduate...

Bradian is the Co Founder & CEO of Hawksight.co , an AI Trading Assistant for retail investors to make smarter investment decisions in stocks, cryptocurrency, and forex through crowdsourced & AI-optimized trading signals. For his latest venture, the three-time startup founder is backed by a global deeptech accelerator called Entrepreneur First, but prior to this, Bradian has bootstrapped g...

Joel is the Co-Founder & Country Head at Aspire , the #1 all-in-one finance platform for growing businesses in South East Asia. Prior to starting Aspire, Joel was a multiple-time entrepreneur in the E-commerce space. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/joel-leong You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/joel-leong This episode is...

Yiping Goh is a Partner at Quest Ventures , a top venture capital fund in Asia. Prior to this, Yiping was Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of MatahariMall.com, the largest omnichannel fashion ecommerce site in Indonesia backed by the Lippo Group. Lippo Group also acquired All Deals Asia , the Southeast Asia ecommerce aggregator and group-buying platform co-founded by Yiping. Show notes at: htt...

Rachel graduated from King's College , London (LL.B.) in 2013 with First Class Hons. Since then, she has worked as a corporate M&A lawyer in leading international law firms such as White & Case LLP , Hogan Lovells Lee & Lee and Allen & Gledhill LLP in Singapore and London. She is also a committee member of The Law Society of Singapore (Corporate Committee and the CPD Committee).  W...

Galvin is the CEO and Co-founder of Lauretta.io , a profitable Techstars company that builds bleeding edge military grade computer vision technologies that are now available to commerical buyers with no AI capability of them own. Prior to this, Galvin wore two hats as a data strategist in DBS , building RegTech products, while also running Es Teler 77 Singapore, a chain of quick service restaurant...

Aditya Mehta is the Founder CEO of Art&Found™ — a curated marketplace for South Asian artists making art accessible to global buyers and brands like WeWork, Levi's and Starbucks: www.artandfound.co Prior to Art&Found, Aditya worked as a Senior Art Director at Ogilvy & Mather Mumbai driving creative and social impact campaigns for Mondelez International (Cadbury), Castrol Asia-Pac and C...

Mika Reyes is currenty building something new in the creator economy, as part of the South Park Commons Founder Fellowship. 💼 She was Previously PM @ LinkedIn Jobs,  Kumu  &  Ripcord  through the  KPCB Product Fellowship.  She also started the Filip[in]os @ LinkedIn group & was a Women in Product executive member. 🎓 She graduated B.A. Economics, Psychology, Data Analysis from  Wesleyan U...

Alfa is a lifelong entrepreneur, adventurer, and a technology enthusiast. As the CEO & Co-founder of ProSpark , he is mainly focused on the company’s growth in SE Asia and in other emerging markets. Prior to forming ProSpark, Alfa has worked for technology companies in the United States in Silicon Valley such as Apple Inc . and Rockwell Automation . He also has extensive commercial and enginee...

Paulo Joquiño is a writer and content producer for tech companies. He shares the stories and insights of founders and investors in Southeast Asia as the senior content strategist of Insignia Ventures Partners , through the firm's official publication Insignia Business Review and podcast On Call with Insignia Ventures. Last year, he co-authored and published a book with Yinglan introducing the regi...

Xi Liu is the founder and CEO of Ferne Health , a women-focused healthcare insights platform that delivers at-home screenings and consultations for sexual health. Xi started Ferne Health to challenge the stigma around women's private health concerns in Asia.  Xi was a product manager at the Alexa Voice Service team of Amazon prior to starting Ferne. Working closely with the industry giants such as...

Mao Ching Foo is the Co-Founder at RealVantage , a property co-investment platform bringing access and enables users to easily own investment grade properties without the traditional hassles of being a landlord. Previously Mao was the CTO & Chief Data Scientist of Funding Societies | Modalku, leading and growing the technology and data teams while working closely with the business teams to sca...

Zishuang is currently spending time writing about tech startups in South-East Asia at https://zishuang.substack.com/ . More than the act of putting out his thoughts, he appreciates the feedback he gets from it. He's also spending time as a Venture Scout with Saison Capital which is an early stage venture fund with a focus on SouthEast Asia and India. In this capacity, he works with the fund to fun...

Jes Min is Co-Founder and CEO of The Recommend Group , South East Asia's #1 Home and Property Platform operating in Indonesia (Sejasa.com) and Malaysia (Recommend.my). The company connects customers and businesses to tens of thousands of the top-rated service professionals in categories like renovations, interior design, cleaning, aircon servicing, electrical repairs and pest control. Recommend Gr...

Reuben Noronha has spent the last few years building and scaling businesses in Asia. He founded his first company, Nivaasa , a co-living startup in India, in 2016 and ran it for a few years before selling it. He then had the opportunity to move to Southeast Asia to build and scale new business verticals at Zilingo . He enjoys the 0 to 1 phase the most and love building teams up. When not working,...

Crystal Widjaja is the Chief Product Officer of Kumu , a social live streaming superapp platform that amplifies Filipino creativity, community, and commerce. She is currently the cofounder of Generation Girl , a non-profit for young women in STEM fifelds, an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Reforge, an educational program for product and growth practitioners, and an angel investor through the Sequoia...

Cathy Liu is an analyst, designer, and aspiring entrepreneur. Her most recent projects included building the open-source platform, Help With Covid , with Sam Altman , Radu Spineanu, and a team of core volunteers . Over three months, Help With Covid attracted the work of 800+ projects and 17,000 volunteers who aimed to quickly solve some of the most hard-pressed problems during the pandemic. She wa...

In this special Q&A episode, Jeremy unbundles his experiences from Harvard 's MBA program. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/harvard-mba-qna You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/harvard-mba-qna This episode is produced by Kyle Ong .

Valerie is 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 Deloitte U.S. where sh...

Anna Haotanto is the Partner & COO of ABZD Capital and the CMO of Gourmet Food Holdings , an investment firm focusing on opportunities in the global F&B industry. She is also the founder (former CEO) of The New Savvy – Asia’s leading financial, investments and career platform for women.  Anna is part of the founding committee of the Singapore FinTech Association and was in charge of the Wo...

In this bonus episode, Jeremy answers Q&A from his four interns, Adriel Yong, Tan Yong Quan, Lyndon Lee & Pooja Sinha on Clubhouse and the future of Audio storytelling. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/clubhousevspodcasts You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/clubhousevspodcasts This episode is produced by Kyle Ong .

Jenna Hua is the founder and CEO of Million Marker , a health-tech company that empowers people to detox their lives through mail-in test kits, lifestyle audits, and counseling. Harmful chemicals are present in food and drinks, plastics, and everyday products. These chemicals have been linked to infertility, IVF failure, child development, obesity, diabetes, and cancer. Million Marker is the first...

Dalia Katan is the CEO and Founder of Presently , a leading group celebration startup that helps groups collaborate around special occasions. At Presently, Dalia is working to create meaningful and sustainable opportunities for communities to connect regardless of proximity, leveraging over 15 years of experience in design, business strategy, and inclusion. Before Presently, Dalia worked as a mana...