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

Jaime Ng is the Founder and CEO of MatchCasts , Asia's first audio podcast advertising and analytics platform for brands. Founded in 2019, Matchcasts is funded by Entrepreneur First [EF], a global talent investor, supporting the world’s most ambitious individuals. EF is backed by some of the world’s best investors, including the founders of LinkedIn , DeepMind and PayPal . MatchCasts makes audio p...

Su-Ren Neo is currently the Senior Director for Marketing, for Twilio in the Asia Pacific and Japan region, where she is responsible for driving Twilio's marketing and brand strategy. Twilio is an American cloud communications platform, as a service company based in California. Twilio allows software developers to programmatically make and receive phone calls, send and receive text messages, and p...

Bryan is the founder of Asian Hustle Network (AHN), Crushing it in Real Estate (CIIRE), HateIsAVirus , and a venture partner at Outlier Fund . He is passionate about bringing together communities of like-minded individuals through growing AHN to over 65,000 members in a little over 10 months and managing an active CIIRE group of over 2,000 investors. Managing a team of 25 people, Bryan seeks to up...

On 29 November, we talked to founders and venture capitalists on emerging technology trends in Southeast Asia. We learnt about which startups to join, emerging country and regional trends, and fresh takes on the latest founder, VC and investment news. Interested in joining us on our next episode of SEA Tech Clubhouse? Sign up on jeremyau.com . Nominations are limited and approved on a rolling basi...

Jimmy Ku is the COO of MixerBox , the premier provider of mobile media applications with over 300 million downloads and users who have spent over 120 billion minutes. MixerBox is backed by investors such as Y Combinator , Initialized Capital , Infinity Ventures , and more. Previously, Jimmy was the General Manager of Fundraise Concierge at Atrium where he helped startup founders with the process o...

Shaun Hon is currently a Director at Rainmaking , a corporate innovation venture studio that has built, invested and accelerated over 900 ventures globally and has a combined portfolio value of more than USD2 billion. The team has worked with over 100 Fortune 500 leading organisations such as Allianz , Barclays , HSBC , IKEA , Intel , Jaguar Land Rover , Maersk , Visa to deliver technological inno...

Niels Wielaard is the Founder and CEO of Satelligence , a satellite-based forest, agriculture, carbon and water monitoring service provider based in the Netherlands. Founded in 2016, Satelligence has over 60 clients and partners, including Mondelez , Unilever , Bunge , the World Wildlife Fund , Rabobank , Robeco , the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and others. Satelligence aims to...

Peter Gumulia is currently an MBA candidate at Harvard Business School . Previously, he was Chief of Staff and VP of Strategy and Growth at GoPay , one of the largest fintech companies in South East Asia.  Growing up in Indonesia, Peter experienced life as a cycle of “school, athletics, homework, and repeat." In his own words, "Discipline played an important role early on in [his] life.” This push...

Chua Ee Chien is the owner of Jekyll & Hyde , one of Singapore's premier cocktail bars. The bar has been featured in various publications such as Channel NewsAsia , The Business Times and The Straits Times . He is also currently a Manager in the Investments & New Business team of Grab where he works on special projects for the Grab Financial Group. Ee Chien was previously the Head of Vehic...

Shawn Low is a co-founder at Better.com and part of the core leadership that built and integrated home ownership tech company (mortgage, real estate, insurance) from zero to over 500 million in annual revenues. Since its inception, Better has originated over 15 billion in loans and made home ownership more accessible for thousands of Americans. Better.com is backed by a story investor group, inclu...

Haresh Tilani is a Singaporean writer, director, actor, and cofounder of Ministry of Funny , one of Singapore's top comedy brands. To date his videos have been viewed more than 26 million times and have received coverage by mainstream media around the world. He was talent scouted for the starring role in HBO's first comedy in Asia, " Sent ", as Lead Actor and Associate Producer. Haresh has also co...

Bhargav Sosale is the cofounder of Medios Technologies , a startup building AI tools for screening retinal conditions. It deploys its algorithms on portable retinal cameras that every general practitioner can afford. Using Artificial Intelligence to analyse images of the human eye, Medios is able to safely detect Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) in its earliest stages to prevent vision loss in patients,...

Benjamina Bollag is the founder and CEO of HigherSteaks , a London-based food technology startup that uses state-of-the-art culture techniques to grow meat products from sample animal cells. Founded in 2017, HigherSteaks has already begun to make its mark on the agritech industry with multiple features in Forbes , Business Weekly and Yahoo Finance .  Previously, Benjamina co-founded a London-based...

Jeffrey Andika is CEO & Co-Founder of OtoSpector , Indonesia’s #1 online platform for used cars inspection, certifications and warranties. In one of the world’s largest car markets, OtoSpector has conducted the most retail and B2B vehicle inspections, and is currently building the largest dealer network of certified used cars with warranty protections. Their strategy is similar to rapid-growth...

Pranjal Kanwar headed international growth at Xto10X , a company founded by prominent entrepreneurs, Binny Bansal , former cofounder and CEO of the unicorn Flipkart , and Saikiran Krishnamurthy , former McKinsey senior partner and Ekart executive. Xto10X helps startups transform initial business momentum into at-scale impact and turns them into world class organizations. Previously, Pranjal co-fou...

Dr. Sandhya Sriram is the CEO and cofounder of Shiok Meats , a cell-based clean meat company in Singapore. Their mission is to bring delicious, clean and healthy seafood and meats by harvesting from cells instead of animals. Shiok Meats brings cell-based crustacean meats like shrimp, crab, and lobster to your table. They have been featured by The Economist , Reuters , Forbes , World Economic Forum...

The Insider's Guide to Venture Capital is a podcast series hosted by Chia Jeng Yang, Venture Capitalist, and myself, Jeremy Au, a serial exited Founder. 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 su...

Anthea Ong is the former Nominated Member of Parliament for the 13th Parliament of Singapore . In a term as NMP between 2018 and 2020, she spoke on behalf of youth activists and sex workers, proposed a national suicide prevention strategy, conducted a public consultation on the mental health landscape, made recommendations for closing our digital divide, and advocated for greater work injury compe...

Saurabh Chauhan is a Rocket Internet veteran who has led two of the portfolio ventures in Asia. As Managing Director, he built and launched Daraz Sri Lanka from zero to over sixty employees and achieved 3X growth in gross merchandise value every year in this frontier market in partnership with strategic brands, such as Unilever and Hutch . Daraz Group was one of the fastest growing e-commerce mark...

Frederick Daso is a LinkedIn Top Voice and has written 100 startup profiles for Forbes.com . He has profiled startups ranging across enterprise tech, eSports, Fintech, HRTech and EdTech. These startups are backed by renowned VCs such as Y-Combinator , 500 Startups , Accel and Craft Ventures . He has over 350,000 followers on LinkedIn and his LinkedIn newsletter, The Startup Conversation , has over...

Nisarg Shah is the cofounder and CEO of Affable.ai . Founded in 2017, Affable.ai is a Singapore based startup leveraging artificial intelligence to run highly effective influencer marketing campaigns. Their Machine Learning and platform helps brands like Shopee , Huawei , and Chanel engage with the most authentic and relevant influencers. Affable is backed by Decacorn Capital , SGInnovate , Entrep...

Jeremy reflects on his journey from personal loss in high school, studying SATs in the army, to securing a spot at UC Berkeley and the experiences there that culminated in his decision to attend Harvard Business School. He also shares his most formative lessons such as meeting Clayton Christensen , the professor who developed the theory of disruptive innovation , consulting for a large Turkish ret...

Looi Qin En is the co-founder and former COO of Glints . Founded in 2013, Glints is now the number one tech-enabled recruitment platform in Asia for employers to build successful teams. Their mission is to help all people and organizations to realize their full human potential. They were the youngest founders to have raised venture capital in Southeast Asia. They are backed by VC firms such as Mon...

Successful founders and investors have shared their reflections in other episodes. This podcast is a time capsule from 2018 where I shared my personal journey with GroundBreakers on tackling America's childcare shortage and founding CozyKin , an early education platform for new and expecting parents. We grew rapidly across Boston and New York and raised $8 million of venture capital funding from p...

Professor Randy Howard Katz , the Vice Chancellor for Research at UC Berkeley and the United Micro Electronics Corporation Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. He is a pioneer who helped develop many of the wireless tools and fast, reliable, computer storage, we take for granted today. Katz is well known in the computer industry for his develop...