The On Call with Insignia Podcast

In this episode, we're going to do a deep dive back into the edtech or education scene in Indonesia, and to guide us on that journey we have with us returning guest Syarif Rousyan Fikri , who is the CEO and co-founder of Pahamify . So to our longtime listeners, you may remember from our episode back in season one last year , where he had a chat with Yinglan on introducing Pahamify, talking about h...

Over this season, apart from our portfolio founders, we've been able to talk to a couple of interesting venture capitalists from different parts of the world like Brazil and Canada and hear their thoughts about Southeast Asia. In this episode, we're back with another venture capitalist, and now doing this in conjunction with Insignia Ventures Academy , Asia’s first experiential VC accelerator. You...

We've seen how ecommerce has taken over the region in the last few years, and now we have companies emerging in this space that are enabling a lot more brands and a lot more entrepreneurs to be able to dive in and take advantage of this whole ecommerce boom in the region and in greater Asia. One of them is ecommerce brand aggregator Rainforest and in this episode, CEO and co-founder JJ Chai joins...

Today in this episode, we have a very special guest: Budi Handoko , co-founder and COO of Shipper , which celebrates its 4th year anniversary this week! Through his and co-founder and CEO Phil Opamuratawongse ’s leadership, the company has become a juggernaut in Indonesia logistics with the largest tech-enabled logistics network composed of warehouses, micro-fulfillment centers, and agents all acr...

In today’s episode we have a chat with the CEO and co-founder of AI-driven data verification platform Verihubs , Rick Firnando , fresh from joining Y Combinator’s 2021 Summer cohort and subsequently announcing Verihubs’ seed round US$2.8 million which we were privileged to lead. We’re excited for Rick to share more about his story building Verihubs, the incredible progress they’ve been making, and...

In this episode, we have fast-growing Vietnamese edtech Edmicro CEO and co-founder Linh Dang Bao, and we talk about the K-12 education market in Vietnam, the challenges in this space, and how Edmicro is trying to innovate and address these issues. What's really been interesting with Edmicro is that they've been able to really maximize the opportunity presented by the pandemic over the past year an...

In this episode, we'll be deep-diving into the world of women's healthcare and to guide us are the co-founders of Ease Healthcare , Guadalupe Lazaro and Rio Hoe . Ease is a Singapore-based healthcare startup focused on revolutionizing access to women's health by making it more convenient, affordable, and discreet. From contraception delivery and at-home STD tests to sexual health consultations, th...

In this episode, we have Theodoric Chew , CEO and founder of mental health company Intellect , who’s become somewhat a regular of the show. He went on our podcast earlier this year in January , and had a pretty interesting conversation with Samir, our principal, and then we had a Clubhouse session with him and a couple of our other founders , which is also on our podcast. Even if it's our third co...

In this episode, we had the pleasure of having Chih-Han Yu , CEO and co-founder of Appier , a leading global AI company in digital marketing and business intelligence. Appier is one of the very first unicorns in our portfolio, and went public earlier this year. We covered their journey in this short case study, but in this podcast, we dive deeper into Chih-Han’s perspective on the company’s growth...

In this episode we are deep-diving into the Vietnam startup ecosystem and specifically the healthcare and insurance market in Vietnam with Duc Anh Ngo , the CEO and Founder of Medici , which is a digital healthtech and insurtech startup with footprints and more than 30 provinces in Vietnam. Most recently, they became the first healthtech company in Vietnam to secure an insurance brokerage license...

In this episode, we deep dive into the exciting developments of Southeast Asia B2B sales tech company Nektar.ai , which recently raised their second seed round, bringing their total seed capital to US$8.1M in one of the largest seed rounds raised from a SaaS in Asia. Their co-founder and CEO Abhijeet Vijayvergiya comes on the show to share with us the inner workings of a next-generation sales tech...

In this episode, we have Garret Jeremy Koeswandi , the Vice President for Finance and Operations of social commerce company Super . In our last season, we got to talk to Steven Wongsoredjo, the co-founder and CEO of Super who gave us the whole narrative about how they are building a social commerce company and the things that they're learning from the likes of Pinduoduo and what it's like to build...

In this episode, we have another special guest as we continue our series of inviting over venture capitalists on the show to document the increasing global interest in Southeast Asia. Sanjay Zimmermann, Principal at White Star Capital, comes on the show to share his insights on Southeast Asia having co-led the firm’s expansion into APAC, learnings from business models in North America and Europe a...

In this episode, we have Rajive Keshup , Investment Director at Cathay Innovation , a multi-stage venture capital platform affiliated to Cathay Capital , a US$4.5 billion global investment firm. He comes on our show to talk about the golden age of Southeast Asia startup and venture capital, Cathay Innovation’s approach to this gold rush as a global investment firm, and his own experience and learn...

Latin America is several time zones and an ocean away from Southeast Asia, but there’s a lot more to learn from this similarly exciting emerging market than one might expect. In this episode, Yinglan talks about all that and more with none other than the prolific venture capitalist Eric Acher , founder and managing general partner of Brazil’s first homegrown venture capital firm monashees . Throug...

In this episode we have on-call Daniel Hazman , the CEO and co-founder of Nimbly Technologies a SaaS company developing mobile solutions for automating and improving operational efficiency for enterprise. We’ve invited him on to talk about building a SaaS company in Southeast Asia and driving digitalization for frontline operations or last-mile execution of enterprise. Transcript Timestamps 00:27...

In this episode, instead of our usual lineup of founder-CEOs, we are back with an interesting set of guests -- Jasper Yap , CTO and co-founder as well as Shawn Seet , the chief commercial officer of Eezee , a B2B marketplace based in Singapore supporting the digitalization of procurement for government, corporates, and SMEs not just in Singapore, but across the region as well. The beauty of having...

In this episode, we have back on the show, Anthony Chow , CEO, and co-founder of igloocompany . In his last episode with us , igloocompany (then igloohome) was just celebrating its five-year anniversary, and holding its first distributor conference, iglooCon, remotely. He shared with Yinglan the company's journey in the past five years, how they expanded into enterprise solutions through igloowork...

In this episode, we have Rishabh Singhi , the CEO and co-founder of Indonesian ghost-kitchen network Dishserve . In this episode, he shares how he and his co-founders came together in the midst of the pandemic to rethink F&B distribution, what makes Dishserve different from the traditional cloud kitchens, and how their asset-light model creates a win-win situation for Dishserve, home kitc...

In this episode, we continue our conversation with Paul Schulte from the previous episode , a veteran equity researcher in the financial services industry. He's also a government policy advisor and a prolific author. His latest book is “ The Digital Transformation of Property in Greater China ". For the past few episodes we've been having founders and investors on the show and he's going to be our...

In this episode we have with us Paul Schulte , a veteran equity researcher in the financial services industry. He's also a government policy advisor and a prolific author. His latest book is “ The Digital Transformation of Property in Greater China ". For the past few episodes we've been having founders and investors on the show and he's going to be our first guest who is more on the research side...

In this episode we have on-call Hasbi Asyadiq , founder and CEO of Assemblr , an Indonesian augmented reality platform with a global user base, one of the leaders in this space in Southeast Asia, and also often called the Canva for augmented reality in Southeast Asia. So we've invited Hasbi today to go on call with us as Assemblr is just fresh off the Techstars program. And we wanted to learn more...

In this episode, we have on call with us Adrit Raha , co-CEO and co-founder of Symbo Insurance , Singapore-based platform offering digital, market-ready solutions for Southeast Asia and India’s insurance providers, brands, affinity and end customers. Following Symbo’s Series A and acquisition of digital healthcare solutions platform Vivant -- where Adrit is CEO -- we’ve invited him to come on the...

Back in March we set up our first Clubhouse session with founder-CEOs from three of our portfolio companies that experienced a huge boost in growth over 2020 and talked to them about how they plan on sustaining that growth this year. We got a lot of great insights and we’re sharing them on this episode. So in this episode, we have Giacomo Ficari , CEO of Lifepal , Indonesia’s leading online insura...

Back in March we set up our first Clubhouse session with founder-CEOs from three of our portfolio companies that experienced a huge boost in growth over 2020 and talked to them about how they plan on sustaining that growth this year. We got a lot of great insights and we’re sharing them on this episode. So in this episode, we have Giacomo Ficari , CEO of Lifepal , Indonesia’s leading online insura...