Geeks Of The Valley

1982 Ventures is a Singapore based VC firm focused on investing in early stage fintech start-ups in Southeast Asia.  We have experience leading and executing fintech deals in the region.  Our focus makes us the first port of call for fintech founders and first money in.  Our local networks provide us exclusive deal flow, on-the-ground insights and access to decision makers. 1982 Ven...

Akash Raju is the Co-Founder and CEO of Glimpse, a startup enabling product placements in the real world. He is a Purdue graduate where he led many startup initatives and has past experience at companies like Microsoft and Tesla. Contact: akash@tryglimpse.com LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/akash-raju Twitter: http://twitter.com/akashraju4

Darren Chu, CFA, is the Founder of Tradable Patterns.  As seen on Bloomberg, Refinitiv, Factset, Interactive Brokers and Inside Futures, and downloaded daily by the world's largest asset manager and 4 of the 10 largest hedge funds by AUM, Tradable Patterns publishes 3 newsletters. Today’s Top 3 Trades offers technical analysis on 3 CME/ICE commodity/index futures or spot FX markets (with cove...

We sat down with Michael Catt, founder of the University of Kansas Blockchain Institute. He currently is a business development associate at Nebula Ventures, a fin-tech and property tech accelerator fund based in New York City. He shares his story of how he first discovered cryptocurrency on Coinbase to eventually helping to secure a $2 Million Dollar research grant from Ripple's $50 Million Dolla...

Icey Jiang was a TEDx speaker, a venture capitalist, a former engineering student from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  As a strategic thinker, she is a curious and creative individual with a passion for emerging technology. With an entrepreneurial spirit, an agile and forward-thinking by nature, and an appreciation for digital tools that resolve every day problems, she uses her spare ti...

Jeff is the Co-founder and CEO of Bluenest Pte Ltd. Jeff brings significant venture building experience from his early days contribution in Lazada and Zilingo . He worked on commercial strategy, new market expansion and growth in both ecommerce B2C and B2B space. Prior to his stint in internet ventures, Jeff was working with ERA Realty as a Marketing Director.  Contact: jeff@bluenest.sg Linke...

Darren Chu, CFA, is the Founder of Tradable Patterns.  As seen on Bloomberg, Refinitiv, Factset, Interactive Brokers and Inside Futures, and downloaded daily by the world's largest asset manager and 4 of the 10 largest hedge funds by AUM, Tradable Patterns publishes 3 newsletters. Today’s Top 3 Trades offers technical analysis on 3 CME/ICE commodity/index futures or spot FX markets (with cove...

We sat down with Samson Lee, the CEO of Coinstreet Partners,a Digital Asset & Wealth Management Asset Tokenization Exchange Platform. The firm enables the next generation of decentralized full-integrated investment banks. He shares his story and impact of the STO industry on Blockchain and regulations surrounding it today.  Email - sl@coinstreet.partners Website - www.coinstreet.partners&...

We sat down with Keegan McNamara, who is a Student Venture Partner at Contrary Capital. He shares his story and impact of how he broke into the Venture Capital world. We also discuss the types of innovative projects and trends he’s seen and advice on how to support your ideas. You can reach Keegan at keegan@contrarycap.com and learn more about his project at https://aloud.fyi. Follow him at keegan...

Welcome to “Geeks of the Valley” Podcast, which connects with some of the brightest minds globally, who are leading their respective industries today, to discuss the hottest upcoming industry trends and how their work is affecting the global economy. As a podcast we focus across four unique industry sectors from Venture Capital & Private Equity, to Innovative Minds, Entrepreneurship, and Gener...