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

Joseph Ling is the Founder and CEO of Vouch , an award-winning technology start-up that creates engaging digital concierges to help hotels streamline operations and enhance guest experience. Since launching, Vouch has steadily garnered recognition for its work in catalysing digital transformation in the hospitality industry, receiving the Singapore Tourism Awards’ Best Business Innovation award in...

Chris Shen (沈偉士) is the co-founder of Revere , where he jointly oversees all investments, asset management, strategic initiatives and operational activities. Chris is also a managing partner of all Revere-managed fund products. Chris is also a Founding Partner (non-executive) of West 22nd Capital Advisers , a Hong Kong-based single family office and investment firm that is licensed by the Secur...

In this special episode, Jeremy takes on questions from listeners on Compatibility, Role Negotiations & Minimum Viable Relationship. Jeremy Au (区汉辉) is a VC at Monk's Hill Ventures who invests in fellow founders who will transform millions of lives. He also spearheads MHV's key initiatives from venture scouts to thought leadership. Jeremy hosts the BRAVE podcast and interviews trailblazing...

Chia is a Principal at  Saison Capital , a leading FinTech-focused venture capital fund, who has done especially well in emerging markets like Southeast Asia and India. Their direct investments include  Grab, Southeast Asia's largest startup and super-app , as well as  ShopBack, Southeast Asia's largest shopping and cashback rewards platform . Their limited partner investments include some of the...

Co-Founder & CEO Of Galileo - The Innovative Online Global School Where Students Can Choose What To Learn & What Skills They Need To Thrive in the 21st Century 👩‍🚀 Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/vlad-stan You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/vlad-stan This episode is produced by Kyle Ong .

Jeremy answers listener Q&A from Robert Jomar Malate on Harvard Turtle, Southeast Asia Talent Crunch and Immigrant’s Dilemma. Robert Jomar Malate is a 4th-year undergraduate at Harvard University concentrating in Mechanical Engineering. During school, he is active in the engineering community, having worked and managed projects with the robotics team and aeronautics club. His engineering skill...

Rovik Robert is a public servant, content creator and community advocate. He has founded a social enterprise, The Hidden Good , as well as The Singapore Club on Clubhouse. He also hosts the SGExplained podcast which explores institutions, histories and events in Singapore such as secret societies, hawker culture and SARS in Singapore. He currently leads the content team at better.sg , a tech for g...

Ryan Galloway has been building companies in Southeast Asia for more than 10 years, with a focus on corporate development and enterprise sales. As of March 2021, his teams have raised more than 250 million USD, and have created more than 1x year-on-year revenue jumps on several occasions.  In the technology space specifically, his most notable venture was iCare Benefits , Vietnam's first BNPL wher...

Sarayu is a venture capital investor and executive with a special focus on sector-agnostic technology and technology-enabled companies in the US and emerging markets. Sarayu has had a long career in technology as an investor, operator and founder helping young companies grow and innovate. Prior to serving as a Fellow, Sarayu was the Founder & CEO of KAARGO, a mission driven consumer-to-consume...

Poesy Liang is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in architecture, luxury design & media. She is an innovator on the social front, founding 2 Facebook movements – Helping Angels & Bald Empathy Movement, and has won numerous media awards in South East Asia for her humanitarian projects. An early adopter of technology since 1999, long before the terms ‘blogs’ and ‘cloud storage’ e...

John is the founder of  Saturday Kids - a curiosity school for children - and Doyobi - an edtech startup setting out to become the 21st century skills framework adopted by every school. He is also an investor in tech startups, in particular startups reimagining the future of work and learning such as Padlet, Galileo, Contra and Beanstalk. Saturday Kids runs Code In The Community , a Google and gov...

Wing Vasiksiri is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of iSeed SEA , a venture capital firm that invests in founders building software and technology-enabled companies across Southeast Asia. The firm is sector agnostic and focuses on seed stage investments in Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand. Limited partners in the fund include global founders like Naval Ravikant (Founder & Chairman o...

A serial entrepreneur and CEO operator with a track record of 0 to 1 growth and a strong focus on building healthy unit economics early on in a venture's life-cycle. He founded Postr , a leading lock screen advertising SDK in 2014 (exited to Play2Pay in 2021). He currently works with MonksHill Ventures and Kickstart Ventures , building out ivs.tv , SEA's largest B2B video player and advertising de...

Aldi is the Partner at Arise , an early stage fund initiative by MDI Ventures and Finch Capital with a mission to empower the 3rd Generation of Entrepreneurs in the post-pandemic era who's building a R.A.B.B.I.T. (Real Actual Business Building Interesting Tech) through his Backward Investment Thesis which is powered by multi corporations and venture funds backers.   He is also the VP of Investment...

Robbie Crabtree started his career working inside of the courtroom where he developed and refined his speaking, strategy, and storytelling as a trial lawyer. In 102 jury trials he tested and validated his system in murders and child abuse cases. As these skills grew, he was asked to coach the national mock trial team at  SMU Law School  in Dallas, TX which he has done for the past 4 years. Robbie...

Gregory Van is CEO of Endowus.com, Asia’s leading fee-only wealth management platform. Headquartered in Singapore and backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Softbank Ventures Asia, Endowus is the first digital advisor to span both private wealth and public pension savings ( CPF & SRS ). Endowus focuses on providing expert advice, institutional access to financial solutions, at low & fai...

Janine Teo  is the CEO of  Solve Education! , an education technology not-for-profit with the mission of delivering quality education to everyone, focusing on the bottom of the pyramid demographic. She is the first Asian to receive the International Intellectual Benefits to Society Award by  Mensa  International. Janine is also an advisor to  ADB’s Digital Technology for Development Unit , and a f...

Melvin Sumapung is the Co-Founder & CEO of  Justika (www.justika.com) . Justika is a legal services marketplace, aiming to make justice more accessible to Indonesians. They helped tens-of-thousands of Indonesians seeking help on divorce, inheritance, criminal, land and property, and also businesses. The platform also partners with the public sector such as the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs...

Mark is a software entrepreneur, business development expert, startup advisor, community builder, and author of Community-in-a-Box. He currently works at  AWS  as a Principal Startup Advocate advising founders and technical teams on how startups across Asia-Pacific successfully build and scale their startups on AWS. As a community builder, Mark founded  DEVBIZOPS , a long standing newsletter and b...

Karthik Gandhi is an engineering leader at Stripe . His current role is to help Stripe expand into SEA and India. Before Stripe, Karthik worked at Grab, where he managed critical economic levers such as Pricing, Surge Engine, Forecasting, Demand Shaping, Supply Shaping, and the ML platform that powered it all. Karthik built his career in Silicon Valley before moving to Singapore. He started his ca...

Nat is an Investment Associate at Monk’s Hill Ventures , a venture capital firm investing in early-stage tech companies, primarily Series A, in Southeast Asia. She is based in Thailand and is responsible for deal sourcing and execution, investment analysis and portfolio management. With a strong passion for financial inclusion, Nat brings in a decade of experience in fintech, capital markets, and...

Gorick Ng is author of  THE UNSPOKEN RULES: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right (Harvard Business Review Press) , a guide on how to become a top-performing employee, based on 500+ interviews with professionals across geographies, industries, and job types. Gorick's book is quickly becoming required reading for new grads and new hires across universities, Fortune 500 companies, tech startups,...

Kei Shibata co-founded Venture Republic Group in 2001 and has been serving as CEO since the foundation. The company runs a group of online travel websites and apps across Asia including LINE TRAVEL jp , Japan's largest online travel metasearch/media (26 million monthly users on Web + 22 million followers on LINE app), Trip101 , a Singapore-based global online travel media for modern travelers, and...

John-Simon Purcell (‘JSP’) is Senior Director, Product & Technical Strategy at Prosus Group / Naspers where he advises on new venture investments and provides operating guidance to Prosus’ worldwide portfolio in the areas of product, growth, and technology. Prior to Prosus, JSP was Technical Director at Medialets , where he scaled systems to collect & analyze data for a product that was at...

Koh Shiyan is the 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. Over the course of six years at NerdWallet, s...