The Founders Peak Podcast

Our speaker today is Kunal Shah, Founder & CEO of CRED in India. Kunal is a philosophy major turned two-time fintech entrepreneur. His Delta 4 theory of innovation is often quoted by entrepreneurs as a success framework. He is a prolific angel investor who believes in the power of entrepreneurs transforming lives at scale. His company CRED is a lifestyle platform for India's most creditworthy....

Our speaker today is Rahul Shinghal, Co-founder & CEO of Tazapay - a cross border payment platform backed by marquee investors including Sequoia and PayPal, enabling local collections in 70 countries. Rahul has been in fintech for about 25 years, starting out in Fintech well before it was called Fintech. He has held leadership positions at PayPal and Stripe before starting Tazapay in 2020. He...

Our speaker today is Matthew Spacie, Founder & Executive Chair of Magic Bus. Matthew is an India-based British entrepreneur, humanitarian, and a former international rugby player. He is co-founder of ClearTrip.com, India’s second largest travel portal, and now the co-founder and CEO of Magic Bus. Matthew has extraordinary insight into how social entrepreneurship can be used to help children ou...

Our speaker today is Biogirl MJ, Science teacher-turned-content creator raising eco-awareness on climate change. Her channel Just Keep Thinking Sg won the Content Creator of the Year Award this year. Her channel also has its own mini wildlife documentary series. Their videos are a big hit amongst mummies. MJ is a slave to her cat, Qwerty. While she wanted to be a lawyer when she was younger, MJ is...

Our speaker today is Manu Chopra, CEO of Karya. Karya is named after the Sanskrit word for "work that gives you a sense of dignity". Karya was on the cover of Time Magazine for their work in using AI to move people on a pathway out of poverty. Manu was named by Time Magazine among the 100 Most Influential People In AI, but even more excitingly, at the Time 100 Gala in San Francisco, he got to hang...

Our speaker today is Dr Loretta Chen, Co-founder & CEO of Smobler. Smobler is made up of turnkey metaverse architects and pioneers, funded by The Sandbox and Brinc. They created the first phygital wedding, and launched the Kingdom of Bhutan into the Metaverse. They are powered by IDEALS -inclusion, diversity, equity, access, love and sustainability. Dr Loretta is regarded as Singapore's Anna W...

Our speaker today is Ned Phillips, Founder & CEO of Bambu. Bambu used to be called Cache - they raised too much but not enough money. It was a decision between Bambu and an endurance coconut ice cream business when Ned started. Ned likes to run till he almost passes out. Ned can also catch his own food. All in, Ned is a risk taker, and believes in its power to transform. No surprise that Ned c...

Our speaker today is Kaidi Ruusalepp, Founder & CEO of Funderbeam. Kaidi was the first IT lawyer in Estonia in the late 90s. She is the advisor to the President of the Republic of Estonia, Mr Alar Karis, on startup and venture capital matters. Funderbeam closed a $40m investment this Spring which was one of the top 2 investments in London in May. Funderbeam was selected as the best fintech com...

Our speaker today is Julian Teicke, Founder & CEO of wefox. Julian is a serial entrepreneur who loves founding, building and scaling companies that create a positive impact in the world. He founded wefox in 2015, which today is the largest insuretech in the world. wefox has raised more than $1 billion USD in funding since it was founded. We were delighted when Julian chose to shares with us Th...

Our speaker today is Dr Deng Yaping, Olympic Champion & Table Tennis Grand Slam Winner. Yaping still holds the Guinness record of "Longest time consecutively ranked as the table tennis world number one (female)" and "Most table tennis Olympic gold medals won by a female". Yaping is also the founder of DYP Sports Investment Fund. In her inspiring talk, she urges us all to Never surrender - and...

Our speaker today is Antonio Separovic, Co-founder & CEO of Oradian. Oradian provides cloud core banking software as a service to banks and fintechs – enabling high performance at scale. They are live with 65 banks in 12 countries, who serve 15 million end clients. In his talk, antonio tells us what is the flip side of the gold medal.

Our speaker today is Amit Shah, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Wylth®. Forget Silicon Valley sequels, our next entrepreneur's career is a box-office-breaking franchise. After co-founding India’s largest Wealth Management Firm, he is now piloting a Wealth-Tech venture that's set to revolutionise the B2B2C wealth management space. No surprise that Amit is talking about the Success paradox,...

Our speaker today is Joanna Yeo, CEO of Arukah Capital. Joanna has lived and worked across finance, data science and technology, in roles focused across food, clean water, climate and financial inclusion. Her first full sentence as a child was “no I do not want” in protest to being pushed into a swimming pool before she could swim. It worked, and she’s been vocal and active against any form of coe...

Our speaker today is Vidit Agrawal, CEO of GajiGesa. Vidit was the first employee of Uber in Asia, where he led partnerships for APAC. He is an active angel investor with over 25+ investments. Today, GajiGesa is South Asia’s biggest employee wellness app with the core product of Earned Wage Access. Serving over 300+ enterprises and 250,000 blue-collar workers in Indonesia, GajiGesa has helped save...

Our speaker today is Aditi Sholapurkar, Co-founder of SALT. Aditi is ridiculously good at ordering dessert. She’s also super introverted so the best way to hang out with her is to get a dog and then set up playdates with her dogs Jamun and Misri. In fact, her startup SALT has the highest pets to human ratio of any tech startup. This company also has zero chill when it comes to Fonts, quiz night or...

Our speaker today is Abdallah Abu-Sheikh, Founder of Astra Tech and CEO of Botim. Abdallah is a serial entrepreneur, known for kick-starting ground-breaking innovations that are ahead of time. He is the man behind the MEA region’s first-of-its-kind Ultra platform. While it seems obvious that making ground-breaking innovations is a tough road to to take, Abdallah tells us what it takes to be Anti-f...

Our speaker today is Jenny Au, Founder & CEO of FundFluent. She was born in Hong Kong, grew up in Sydney, worked in the US, China, Singapore and Malaysia. Don’t ask her where home is. Jenny has launched over 10 corporate-backed startups. She almost did not finish university! Her pandemic-born startup has been beating the odds since day one. FundFluent is a platform that helps small businesses...

Our speaker today is Zack Yang, Co-founder of FOMO Pay. Zack founded his company because of fear of missing out (FOMO). He has FOMO all the time. He went to Stanford business school, only to learn that entrepreneurship comes from within. FOMOPay is Asia's First Licensed Gateway Connecting Fiat & Crypto Currencies Zack has been with the Singapore FinTech Festival for 7 years, moving his booth f...

Our speaker today is Prashant Aggarwal, CEO & Board Member of MoneyHero Group. Prashant is a tabla-playing, globetrotting executive known for accidental luck with spilled coffee leading to major deals. MoneyHero Group thrives on adaptive renaming, welcoming back talent, and boasts a diverse workforce with 48% female, 42% male, and 10% non-binary or other gender identities, fostering a creative...

Monika Martinsson's journey kicked off in the dynamic realm of FinTech, where she dazzled as a developer and sharp-witted analyst. Over 12 years in global capital markets, she commanded high-octane trading software and led thriving teams across EMEA. In 2017, she took a bold leap alongside three visionary colleagues, birthing the brainchild that is Deedster. This powerhouse is on a relentless miss...

Growing a company “from zero to hero” is no easy task. It requires consistency, hard work, and the right mindset. But what’s needed to maintain the “hero” level once the “zero” phase is over? Our next speaker knows a lot on this one. Toms Jurjevs is the founder and CEO of Sun Finance, which he has grown from a two-people startup to a multi-million dollar international company that successfully ope...

Haukur Skúlason is the spirited CEO and Co-founder of Indo, Iceland's trailblazing challenger bank. Championing a radical shift in banking's DNA, Haukur is on a mission to reinvent trust. As the mastermind behind Indó, he is gearing up to bring an end to "bullshit banking", striving for a relationship where customers not only trust but genuinely like their bank. Backed by a spirited team and armed...

Morten Møgelmose, the founder who wants to give his customers the best experience in physical fashion stores all over the world. Morten is the co-founder and CEO of Zliide, a tech startup that is revolutionizing physical fashion retail. Morten's embarked on his journey during his High School days, when a dreadful experience in a fashion store in London sparked the idea for his transformative ventu...

Gioia is an unorthodox millennial who transitioned early on from economics to design. For the past 4 years, by day, Gioia Arieti worked as a Human-Centered Designer fostering Danske Bank's digital transformation. Recently, she changed focus to work in digital transformation consulting for life sciences. For the past 4 years, by night, she has been working on creating a new time unit inspired by lo...