The Founders Peak Podcast

After losing his father at 13, his determination to support his family sparked a powerful ambition. Patrick arrived in Singapore with only 3 months’ rent in his pocket and started his first venture from scratch. They scaled from two founders sleeping under desks to a 1000-person, multi-market company in just four years. Patrick co-founded Southeast Asia’s largest online food delivery platform whil...

Our guest today is the very dear Ai-Boon Ong , Director, The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS). It is so special to have the OG, one of the pioneers of Singapore’s banking industry on The Founders Peak. Mrs Ong was appointed in 1982 and has since led the ABS since with her extensive regulatory and operational experience in the banking industry. Mrs. Ong has had direct involvement with severa...

Ravi started Qapita with co-founders who he knew for decades, believing that trust and respect between cofounders are essential. He lives in Singapore with his wife and kids aged 13 and 8, and who are both memory champions who can recite thousands of digits of Pi. After a career as a banker and a founder, he aspires to add “writer” to his journey, with a passion for fiction and poetry. In just fou...

Martin is a seasoned business leader and entrepreneur, specializing in commercial strategy, sales, and business development. As the Co-founder & CCO at Uniify, Martin helps scale companies by simplifying customer onboarding journeys for B2B/B2C clients. With experience in multiple startups, he excels at growth, customer retention, and teaming up with diverse talent.

Thomas Krogh Jensen is CEO of Copenhagen FinTech – a leading FinTech Hub in the global financial services industry supporting and catalyzing the next era of technology-led corporate and startup innovators. He is a member of the investment committee, Upfin – Nordic VC specializing in early-stage fintech investing in pre-seed and seed stage, and a board member of many established academic, financial...

Markus is the owner of TickrMeter.com and a creator of innovative physical products. His latest project, TickrMeter, is a physical stock ticker for your desk, which gained significant traction after raising $550K on Indiegogo as a solo entrepreneur. Markus thrives in the world of E-commerce, designing, developing, and selling products online. He is passionate about bringing ideas to life and helpi...

Oliver is the co-founder of Froda, a leading SME lender and embedded finance player in Europe. With extensive experience in sales, finance, and payment solutions, he played a pivotal role in launching Froda Embedded. This technical platform offers banks, fintechs and payment companies innovative embedded financing solutions, such as card-based embedded lending in collaboration with Visa.

CEO and Co-Founder of Pluto Markets, a tech company Joakim is building after previously co-founding nBoard. With an MSc in Economics and a background as a former trader at Goldman Sachs, Joakim leverages his expertise to drive innovation in the tech and finance space. He is also an alumnus of Y Combinator, bringing entrepreneurial experience and a passion for creating impactful solutions in indust...

Albert Geisler Fox is the CEO and Co-founder of Performativ. Before Performativ, he led a data science team at the asset management consultancy Kirstein A/S and previously worked as a financial researcher at the Danish television station TV 2 Business. Albert holds a degree in economics from the University of Copenhagen and The London School of Economics (LSE). As part of Performativ's growth jour...

Stine is the CEO of Dreamplan, a Copenhagen-based Fintech focused on democratizing financial advice through AI and human-centered design. With a background in digital innovation and business development, Stine specializes in product development, agile project management, and optimizing UX through data and service design. She has undergone a fit & proper assessment by the Danish Financial Super...

Axel is one of the co-founders at Gilion and in charge of everything related to the company's groundbreaking startup loans. Before starting Gilion, Axel was a pioneering force in startup lending, through his role as Head of Startup and Growth at Nordea. In this role, Axel was one of the first people in Europe to offer non-diluting loans to tech companies, and with over 200 startup loans under his...

Simon is the co-founder and CEO of Januar. He was the first non-technical hire at Chainalysis, where he started out as an account executive and ended up as Lead Training Specialist, training European FSAs & FIUs, the majority of the top 10 exchanges, as well as several well-known international banks and law enforcement entities all over the world. Simon is thus one of the top experts on crypto...

Kurt is the President and Co-Founder of Partisia Blockchain and CEO/Partner at Partisia, where he drives innovation in decentralized infrastructure and distributed cryptography. With a background as an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Kurt combines academic expertise with entrepreneurial experience. His work focuses on strategic decision-making, applied information economics, a...

Conny's story is as intriguing as it can get. A passionate reader, she's delved into over 20 biographies of Winston Churchill but admires his wife, Clementine, the most. Her life mantra is, "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." Conny recently tied the knot after 27 years of being single, turning her wedding day into a masterclass on dining, wining, dancing, and career...

Michael’s entrepreneurial journey is far from conventional. He once took the stage as a stand-up comedian and has only been hired once in his life for a 6-month stint as a receptionist and sports guide, back in 1992. A true serial entrepreneur, Michael has co-founded successful ventures like Toni Digital and Descartes Finance, all still thriving today. His passion lies in creating new ventures wit...

Olga is an entrepreneur at heart, hailing from an entrepreneurial family. She funded her first startup at just 17, her second at 33, and now, SmartPurse is her third venture. Joining forces with her co-founder Jude Kelly, who is over 20 years older than her, Olga started SmartPurse in her 40s while Jude was in her 60s. Fun fact - Olga is also trained as an aerobics and hip-hop dance teacher. Now,...

David earned a PhD in Information, Technology & Management from a joint Harvard program and is an enthusiast of Japanese gardens, fluent in Japanese, having visited Japan over 100 times. His passion for organization theory and corporate governance even led him to teach an economics seminar at Harvard titled “Unnatural Persons: The Company in Historical and Social Context.” ModuleQ is making wa...

For Sandra , music is life – she sang in a band for many years. Despite never planning to be an entrepreneur, she realized it was the only path for her. Not many people know that Sandra is 50% blind, which she considers her secret superpower as it sharpened her other senses. Futurae's team is a melting pot of over 21 nationalities and 45% women. Though unplanned, they now specialize in payments an...

At 20, Dr. Luba moved from Bulgaria to Switzerland to study Economics, inspired by a best friend...who unfortunately didn’t quite end up studying in Switzerland. Dr Luba worked 30 to 40 hours a week at McDonald's during the first three years of university to finance her studies and living expenses. Passionate about natural sciences and technology, her curiosity led to explosive teenage experiments...

Before Jeremy got into payments, he was the COO of a music company, searching for musicians to stream their songs during the MTV era, pre-YouTube and pre-Spotify. He is a firm believer that public policy drives outcomes, and hence, he holds a Master's in Comparative Politics. In Jeremy’s life, things come in threes – he has 3 siblings, 3 kids, and Liquid is his 3rd payment company. With 20 years o...

Tenke competes as an elite distance runner, having run for Columbia University, won the Hungarian National Mountain Running Championship, and even competed in the World Championships. She also traveled to Antarctica on a research vessel to study environmental change and seek investment opportunities to combat it. Tenke has helped world-renowned investors deploy $2 billion dollars into impact inves...

Here is a fun fact about Sophie - she holds a skydiving license for solo jumps! She recently relocated to Saudi Arabia and learned Italian in just three weeks to take a semester of business classes in Italian. Talk about embracing fear and leaping into new adventures! Sophie has helped launch and grow five companies, including her own. She launched HelloFresh in the UK, making the first deliveries...

Raffael’s journey is fascinating - he studied Software Engineering and completed a diploma thesis at a startup in California, where he met his wife. He then transitioned from engineering to business with an MBA, helping to secure funding for his company. Raffael even spent two years in Asia Pacific opening NetGuardians' office. Netguardians, a spin-off from a Swiss University, grew from a team of...