The On Call with Insignia Podcast

Gita Prihanto is the COO of Flip , an innovator and pioneer company in Indonesia’s financial technology space, with now more than 10 million users across the country and beyond doing all types of money transfers from remittances to invoices for micropreneurs. She goes on call with us to share how she has helped the company mature in its approach to organizational prioritization, product scaling, a...

When it comes to agritech, what often comes to mind is the farmer or producer of the goods, as well as the end-consumer and the process of shortening the journey from farm to table. But industries like Indonesian fisheries are more than just about the fishermen or the end-consumers -- there is an entire, complex supply chain of businesses delivering, storing, and processing fishery products from t...

What makes a pivot meaningful for a business? Pivots are part and parcel of a startup’s journey but some are more effective than others. Go behind the scenes of how a business evolved by following the data and their customers in this call with Bakool founders Ivan Darmawan (CEO) and Stephanie Wongsoredjo (COO). Not only do they share learnings from their company’s pivot from quick commerce to soci...

At the turn of the millennium, a Chinese American still fresh into his career and working at the time for the San Francisco County made a fateful decision to fly to Hangzhou and become the first American to join a small company of around 50 other people to build a then little known business marketplace called Alibaba.com. More than twenty years later, Brian Wong , former longtime executive, assist...

“As a marketer, we’re not selling products, we’re selling aspirations...and creating stories," says the Chief Marketing Officer of Indonesian e-commerce enabler Shipper : Jessica Hendrawidjaja on this episode of On Call with Insignia. She shares from a global career spanning more than a decade in marketing what it means to sell aspirations. She also talks about how Shipper’s collaboration and educ...

A masterclass on launching private label brands in rural Indonesia. Hardwon lessons on finding product-market fit in East Java. Stories on thriving as leaders in charge of growth and profitability for rural Indonesia’s leading social commerce platform . Welcoming you back to Season 5 of On Call with Insignia with two women in tech shaping the way everyday goods reach Indonesians, from rice to cosm...

In this episode, join us in the sixth and final installment of our fifth-year anniversary summit recaps where we feature fireside chats with thought leaders and founders across industries sharing their insights on various sectors and trends shaping the future of ASEANnovation. While global macroeconomic situations have dampened venture funding, the growth-stage companies we have represented on tod...

Join us in the fifth installment of our fifth-year anniversary summit recaps where we feature fireside chats with thought leaders and founders across industries sharing their insights on various sectors and trends shaping the future of ASEANnovation. Historically, the rise in massive value creation in Southeast Asia’s digital economy has been mainly driven by massive funding into horizontal ecomme...

Join us in the fourth installment of our fifth-year anniversary summit recaps! This conversation features the increasingly complex ecommerce industry in Southeast Asia, which has gone beyond the horizontal ecommerce marketplaces many are familiar with. Changing consumer preferences on top of ecommerce convenience and tech stack giving rise to a new generation of digital-first D2C brands, new forms...

Join us in the third installment of our fifth-year anniversary summit recaps (see the first on Women in Tech and second on Web3 ). This third conversation features the digital finance opportunity in Southeast Asia, which, while having seen an inflection in terms of the number of fintech startups being funded in the region, still remains in Day 1 with 70% of the adult population in the region still...

We're back with an Insignia Ventures Academy Afterthoughts episode, where we're joined by either the alumni and mentors of Southeast Asia’s first venture capital accelerator program. For this particular IVA Afterthoughts, we have with us an alumnus from the third cohort, of our program, Fannie Soubiele , currently Head of Startup Success at Google Cloud JAPAC and an active angel investor. Fannie h...

Over 2022, Insignia Ventures has had the privilege of partnering with entrepreneurs for the first time from a diverse array of industries, and we’ve had the privilege of going On Call with some of these entrepreneurs on the podcast . What ties the work of many of these companies Insignia has welcomed this year to its growing community of founders is a focus on sustainability -- and while the envir...

In this episode, join us in a new series on our show as we recap fireside chats held at our fifth-year anniversary summit where we featured several thought leaders and founders across industries sharing their insights on various sectors and trends shaping the future of ASEANnovation. And this second part of our series, we're covering the future of Web3 mass adoption in a panel featuring Chin Tah A...

In this episode, join us in a new series on our show as we recap fireside chats held at our fifth-year anniversary summit where we featured several thought leaders and founders across industries sharing their insights on various sectors and trends shaping the future of ASEANnovation. We’re starting things off with our Women in Tech panel featuring two growth-stage CEOs, WIZ.AI ’s Jennifer Zhang in...

In this episode, join us on our call with Qing Gui Huang , CEO and co-founder of Thailand's leading ecommerce platform for beauty brands Konvy . With 1,000+ brands representing an SKU selection of more than 20,000 on its platform, with the likes L’Oréal, Shiseido, Sulwhasoo, Eucerin, La Roche-Posay and many more on their portfolio, we pick the brains of Qing Gui on the evolution of Thailand's ecom...

In August 2022, Fazz Financial, the Southeast Asia group formed out of the merger of rural Indonesia fintech Payfazz and payments infrastructure fintech Xfers back in 2019, rebranded to Fazz , bringing together access to their ecosystem's various entities into one business account offering, and later announced raising US$100 million in Series C to build on this next step for the fintech group. We...

A Southeast Asia pioneer in building a full-stack, closed-loop property transaction platform for first-time home buyers and Indonesia's largest in the market, Pinhome , makes its second comeback with CEO Dara Dayu Permata and CTO Ahmed Aljunied returning on call with us. This time we break down highlights of Pinhome's growth in the past year, as they expanded data-driven automated valuation capabi...

Built to Last. Unlocking Economic Impact. Inspiration Innovation. Leading Opportunity Creation. Dedication to Growth. And amidst today’s turbulent times, now is the time to build great companies. We believe there are many more opportunities for unstoppable founders to emerge in Southeast Asia. And we certainly hope to be their partner of choice in building great companies the Insignia Way. We're r...

Since we first introduced Singapore-based femtech startup Ease Healthcare and founders Guadalupe Lazaro and Rio Hoe back in this Season 3 episode last year , they have grown in more ways than one on their mission to democratize women's healthcare: launching private label products, expanding to the Philippines, evolving their app experience, and driving adoption through enterprise. They talk about...

On Call with us this episode is Jennifer Zhang , CEO and co-founder of WIZ.AI , a conversational voice AI solutions company that has been leading its adoption across use cases and markets starting from Southeast Asia. Beyond WIZ.AI's growth over the pandemic, we also talk about how WIZ.AI has been pioneering voice AI in this field (e.g. voice interface design) with their team of experts and slew o...

We go on call with Indonesian F&B brand enabler Dishserve CEO and co-founder Rishabh Singhi . After sharing with us last year how a series of events led the former Reddoorz COO back to Jakarta to start a dark kitchen, last-mile distribution network for F&B brands, he returns for Season 4 to update us on how Dishserve has evolved and grown over the past year, now shaping up to be an all-aro...

We’re back with another Insignia Ventures Academy Afterthoughts episode where bring on alumni or mentors from the 12-week VC accelerator program . For this episode, we have another alumnus with us from Cohort One, the inaugural cohort of IVA, Harsh Rungta , who goes on call with us to talk about his transition from a decade-plus long career in banking to family office CEO, learnings from angel inv...

With our US$516 million fundraise doubling down on our long-term dedication to building great companies in Southeast Asia ( full press release ), this is as good a time as any for us to have back on call our founding managing partner Yinglan Tan , who shares more about the big ideas, heuristics, and initiatives around Insignia Ventures ' approach to uncovering ASEANnovation. Like the first time Yi...

Generalist Software Engineer. Tech Lead. Cloud Advocate. Podcast Host. Thought Leader. Henry Suryawirawan , VP of Engineering at Indonesia's largest and leading money movement platform (with more than 10 million users) Flip , goes on call with us to share his journey from startup to big tech and now scale up, his leadership approach as VP of Engineering at Flip, how his growth at Flip has impacted...

In this call, we’re back with another leader from Indonesia’s leading logistics-first ecommerce enabler Shipper . In past episodes, we’ve had the pleasure of going on call with CEO Phil Opamuratawongse , then COO Budi Handoko , and most recently CTO Marvin Arif and VP of Engineering Agus Daud . Now we’re introducing a retail, supply chain, commerce veteran who has just joined Shipper in the past f...