The On Call with Insignia Podcast

We go on call with Christian Schneider (CEO) and Clare Leighton (COO), co-founders of Singapore-HQ'ed data processing and workflow automation platform bluesheets . They talk about how bluesheets is changing the way businesses globally process and manage data, with the global data integration software market size on track to reach $29 billion by 2029 according to Fortune Business Insights forecasts...

We go on call with a returning guest, Huy Nghiem , CEO and Founder of Vietnam's leading digital investment platform Finhay . Fresh from announcing their acquisition of VinaSecurities to launch their stock trading product, then a US$25M Series B round co-led by Openspace Ventures and VIG , he's back on the how to talk about the ecosystem of investment products they now offer which contributed to 15...

We went On Call with Eric Barbier , the CEO and founder of TripleA , B2B crypto payments solutions company headquartered out of Singapore, that helps businesses globally increase their revenue by enabling crypto payments and payouts. In this jampacked call, we do not only talk about crypto and TripleA’s work in pioneering business payments use cases, but also Eric’s entrepreneurial journey, being...

For this week's call, we're debuting a new format, where show host Paulo will be narrating most read articles on Insignia Business Review as well as sections from the book Navigating ASEANnovation . The narration features relevant snippets from past calls on the show, to bring more life to the ideas and insights in these articles. If you miss our regular programming -- don't worry, a new call's co...

Meet a new set of non-founder tech startup leaders in the second compilation of our spinoff, social media series "A Leader A Minute." Transcript Timestamps (00:52) Introductions to Leaders and their Roles; (10:09) Company cultures and how the company has shaped its leaders; (17:26) What excites these leaders about the future of their company and their role in it; About our guests See openings : Na...

From running a small fisheries SME to founding a startup to enable an entire US$14 billion+ industry. From enabling B2B cold chain transactions to building the operating software for Indonesian fisheries. From working in an industry facing the threats of supply chain and labor sustainability to leading the way for a powerful industry of value and job creation to emerge. Join us on our call with Fi...

Quick commerce. E-groceries. Sectors that saw investors pouring millions in 2021, but for Ivan Darmawan and his team at Radius Groceries (YC W22) , building quick commerce for rural Indonesia amidst the pandemic is about more than just riding on a bandwagon. It’s about solving long-standing economic development gaps in second-tier and third-tier cities worsened by the pandemic. The CEO and co-foun...

What does bringing Indonesian ecommerce logistics to Amazon-level efficiency look like from the tech perspective? How do tech leaders think about investing in engineering talent? What does it mean to leverage software and data to level the playing field for SME digitalization? We answer these questions on our latest call with Shipper CTO Marvinus Kokoh Arif and VP of Engineering Agus Daud , leader...

Learning. That's the keyword and theme of this new episode in partnership with Insignia Ventures Academy . We went on call with Cohort 1 alumnus and angel investor Hester Spiegel-van den Steenhoven . Hester gives us a sneak peek into the Edtech in Singapore and Southeast Asia report she put together commissioned by the Dutch Embassy of Singapore, shares her story going from consultant in the...

No-code platforms. DAOs. Malaysia's startup ecosystem. Just some of the topics we cover in this call with Jason Chew , founder of Southeast Asia no-code accelerator Codeless , on this Insignia Ventures Academy episode, as the Cohort 2 alumnus shares the intersections of his work in these areas as a startup founder and operator. Check out Jason's latest (ad)ventures in Web3 as Founder of KopiD...

What happens when you take the chicken out of the egg? Find out on this call with Vinita Choolani , CEO and founder of Float Foods , the Singapore-based foodtech company that just commercially launched this Earth Day the OnlyEg brand , Asia’s first, award-winning, plant-based whole egg (white + yolk) and the brand’s first product: OnlyEg Shreds. We talk about unlocking the unmatched ecosystem supp...

In a startup landscape where AI is often hyped up as a product moat, it pays to have the ability to “AI-bend” or not only innovate how it’s used but the very technology itself to make the end-products more developer-friendly, scalable, and applicable to a wide range of applications. That’s what Indonesian all-in-one verification platform Verihubs CTO and co-founder Williem Williem brings to the ta...

Indonesia's fashion industry has one of the strongest manufacturing hubs in the world with a long history, but an opaque and fragmented supply chain has disconnected the booming upstream from the local downstream merchants and brands. On this call, Indonesia's pioneering B2B textile trading platform Wifkain co-founder and CEO Sara Sofyan shares how her team is weaving this disjointed supply chain...

Meet some of these leaders in this special episode compiling the first four features of our spinoff, social media series "A Leader A Minute." Transcript About our guests See openings : Sourabh Gupta is VP of Product Management at Flip . With more than 14 years supporting the growth of very large organizations and bootstrapped startups across Product Management, Consulting, and Engineering roles, h...

Insignia Ventures Academy (IVA) kicked off its third Cohort this month, and on the podcast, we're also kicking off this season's special episodes with alumni and mentors from Asia's first venture capital accelerator. First up is Cohort 2 alumnus, angel investor, and current Gojek head of the business merchants, Hoang-Ky Vu , who shares stories of accidentally ending up in Indonesia, how frien...

With Indonesia's SMEs sector getting wave after wave of digital solutions, it's important to have focus and direction, and disruption isn't always the answer. Gabriel Frans , the CEO and co-founder of Credibook , goes on call to answer: why enablement through software for financial and operational management, why digital bookkeeping as the go-to-market product, why the focus on wholesale retailer...

A digital banking license, an app launch, US$130M in consumer deposits, and a US$131M Series B round since our first conversation in July 2020, Greg Krasnov , the CEO and founder of the Philippines’ first fully digital bank Tonik , returns on call with us. Transcript Timestamps (00:13) Paulo recaps Greg’s last call; (02:38) Paulo re-introduces Greg; (03:27) The latest on Tonik’s growth story; (05:...

Fazz Financial Group Deputy CEO and Xfers CEO and co-founder Tianwei Liu , an engineer by training, founder by experience, and angel on the side, goes on call to share how gifting Kindles and a LinkedIn search led him to return to Southeast Asia to pioneer fintech infrastructure through Xfers, how a Slack message from fellow Y Combinator alum Hendra Kwik led to the formation of regional fintech gr...

What happens when an Indonesian pediatrician having her first kid in the midst of a pandemic and her Tokopedia alum, seasoned product and growth leader husband join forces to build a startup? Find out on our call with Tentang Anak founders Dr. Mesty Ariotedjo and Garri Juanda . Transcript Timestamps (01:11) Why should you know Mesty Ariotedjo and Garri Juanda? (01:57) How did Mesty and Garri meet...

On Call with Insignia is back with a new season of conversations with founders, investors, and operators leading the development of Southeast Asia's innovation landscape and digital economy, or as we like to call, ASEANnovation. What better way to kick off our season four than with Brankas , Southeast Asia's leading and pioneering open finance tech company. We've just welcomed them to the Insignia...

Something new we tried for Season 3 of On Call with Insignia Ventures in 2021 was to go on call with more startup and venture investors, from angels to the Southeast Asia investment leads of global investment firms to the founding partners of VC firms in other emerging markets. Throughout these conversations, we not only got to see the perspectives of these investors on various markets and sectors...

In this episode, we're back with a returning guest , Flip CEO and co-founder Rafi Putra Arriyan . Fresh from announcing their US$48M Series B round , co-led by Insight Partners, Insignia Ventures, and also Sequoia Capital, Rafi, or Ari as he is called, goes on call to catch us up on what has happened since last year, give us some updates on how Flip has grown their ecosystem since then that has le...

We're back with another episode in partnership with Insignia Ventures Academy (IVA) , Asia's first experiential VC accelerator! We went on call with Andy Hwang , former Google and Facebook go-to-market leader, now angel investor and startup advisor in Southeast Asia. He’s also an alumnus of IVA, and more recently has been a mentor for the second cohort of the program. We talk not just about the pr...

In this episode we went on call with Chang Zi Qian , the CEO and co-founder of Intelllex , a legaltech startup that specializes in organizing legal and regulatory information using proprietary algorithms and platforms. Chang comes on call to talk about their recent launch of the legal knowledge platform called finreg.sg . So it's a platform for anybody who wants to explore the regulations in Singa...

We're back with another episode in partnership with Insignia Ventures Academy . We went on call with another mentor who not only has been helping out with the program, but has also been a participant of the first cohort: startup advisor, angel investor, ex-Bukalapak and Amazon engineering leader Mohammed Alabsi . We talk about his journey from Seattle driving cloud services and microservices for A...