BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)

Jeremy Au

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Dec 19, 2022 • 1h 3min

Reflections from 250 Episodes of Brave SEA Tech, Hosting Fundamentals & Podcast Growth Hacks - E224

Jeremy and Adriel reflect on 250 episodes of the Brave SEA Tech Podcast Adriel Yong joined the BRAVE Podcast team in the COVID summer of 2020 and has worked across multiple roles including co-authoring the BRAVE10 anthology, running community events, editing audio & transcripts and creating cover art.  Adriel is a senior at Yale-NUS College, majoring in Global Affairs. He is an analyst at Orvel Ventures, a sector-agnostic early stage fund investing across Southeast Asia. Prior to joining Orvel Ventures, Adriel was a Venture Fellow at UK-based Hummingbird Ventures which was an early investor in Deliveroo, Kraken, Khatabook and Pristyn Care. He was one of the founding members of social mobility non-profit organization Access Singapore, which has ran career exploration programmes for underserved secondary school students across Singapore. He writes restaurant and bar reviews, scuba dives and volunteers with non-profit organizations in his free time. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/podcast-reflections
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Dec 15, 2022 • 40min

Herston Powers: Southeast Asia Fintech Supercycle, Launching a VC Fund & Mutual Respect - E223

Herston is a Co-founder and Managing Partner at 1982 Ventures. As one of the most active fintech investors in Southeast Asia, he has led and executed notable investments across Southeast Asia and South Asia. Prior to founding 1982 Ventures, he was a Principal at tryb Group in Singapore and created and executed their early stage investment strategy. Before entering the private equity and venture capital industry, Herston was a banker at The Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) with nearly a decade of global financial services experience. He spent 5 years in Hong Kong covering the China market and built their advisory platform for Asian clients. He has advised unlisted, pre-IPO and listed companies on capital markets, IPOs and US listings. Herston began his career in New York where he focused on connecting international companies with institutional investors. Herston has an Executive MBA from INSEAD and Master of Economics from Hunter College in New York City. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/herston-powers
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Dec 11, 2022 • 45min

Graham Brown: Five Million Podcasts, Finding Your Rockstar Voice & One Way Tickets In Life - E222

World Traveling Storyteller, Author & Entrepreneur. Graham Brown is the founder of Pikkal & Co – Award Winning Podcast Agency – an AI Powered, Data Driven B2B Podcast Agency in Singapore. He is a published author on the subject of The Digital Transformation of Communication, works including “The Human Communication Playbook”, “The Mobile Youth: Voices of the Connected Generation” – documenting the rise of mobile culture in the early 2000s in Japan, China, Africa and India and “Brand Love – How to Build a Brand Worth Talking About”. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/graham-brown
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Dec 7, 2022 • 1h 12min

SUTD Q&A, Fundamentals of Pitching & SEA Startup Dynamics - E221

Jeremy presents a question and answer session at the Singapore University of Technology & Design about the fundamentals of pitching. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/sutd-qna
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Dec 5, 2022 • 26min

Jakob Rost: Indonesia Lazada War Stories, Ayoconnect Founder Learnings & Personal Leap of Faith - E220

Jakob Rost is founder and CEO of Ayoconnect, Southeast Asia’s largest open finance API platform and the only licensed open finance player in Indonesia. Founded in 2016, Ayoconnect makes open finance accessible for businesses in Indonesia, the world’s fourth most-populated country.   Under Jakob’s leadership, the company has become a pivotal player in the Indonesian economy. Ayoconnect is building critical infrastructure which is making it easier and faster for businesses of all sizes to launch new financial products and services, and in turn helping to drive both financial inclusion and greater access to innovative solutions. Ayoconnect serves more than 200 API customers, including some of the region’s largest banks, financial institutions, tech unicorns and fintechs, and offers more than 4,000 embedded finance products. Originally from Germany, Jakob began his career with JP Morgan and Boston Consulting Group, helping organisations navigate the challenges related to financial infrastructure limitations. Before founding Ayoconnect, he was a Director at Lazada, Southeast Asia’s largest e-commerce company at the time, now wholly-owned by Alibaba Group. Jakob is an active angel investor, an advisor to early-stage startups and a respected mentor in the Indonesian startup ecosystem. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/jakob-rost
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Nov 30, 2022 • 36min

Huiting Koh: Women Taking Back Their Power, Consumer Wants vs. Needs and Drinking Your Own Kool-Aid - E219

Huiting is a Partner at Altara Ventures and likes investing in founders solving real problems, that have the ability to positively impact millions of lives. She has led investments in the Consumer, Fintech and Enterprise/Deep tech space such as Tonik, Stashfin, Senseye, Sampingan and SATURDAYS. She is also a newbie angel investor and has invested in almost twenty startups across Southeast Asia and the US.  Huiting started her career in investment banking in New York with Goldman Sachs IBD FIG. She then went on to Stanford Graduate School of Business for her MBA, thinking she wanted to build and run a luxury-budget hotel chain across Southeast Asia’s most remote communities and islands. This dream was refined during her MBA and refocused to being in Brand Management. She realised every business is ultimately a brand and there is more than just financials and metrics that make a business successful. Creating emotion, touching people’s hearts and having positive experiences with the brand is what truly makes a lasting brand. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/huiting-koh
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Nov 28, 2022 • 33min

Goh Wei Choon: Founding Woke Salaryman, Efficient Art vs. Algorithms (Nuance vs. Neutrality) & Ego in Fear - E218

Goh Wei Choon is the co-founder and artist at The Woke Salaryman. He trained as an animator but when he graduated with a hefty university debt, he waded into the world of personal finance to understand how to better chip away at his debt. In the process he learnt not just about money but also history, sociology, psychology and much more. He now uses his visual storytelling skills to communicate the things he's learnt on his journey. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/goh-wei-choon
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Nov 23, 2022 • 40min

Chia Jeng Yang: FTX Meltdown vs. SE Asia Crypto, Blockchain Regulators & Web3 Founder Advice - E217

Chia is an Investor at Pantera Capital, one of the first institutional investors in crypto. He was previously Principal at Saison Capital, a FinTech-focused venture capital fund Previously he was the fifth employee for Antler, the leading global pre-team venture builder. He also both invested and launched markets for them in Europe. He was also at Rocket Internet where he helped build out an eCommerce company in Pakistan and Sri Lanka that was bought by Alibaba. He also angel invests in the marketplace and consumer startups in emerging markets like Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Egypt. His educational background includes a law undergraduate degree from Cambridge. He likes indie music, and hiking and writes about venture capital on his website, which can be found at www.chiajy.com. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/chia-jy
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Nov 20, 2022 • 56min

Tech Diversity, Inclusion & Accessibility Q&A, Southeast Asian Realities & Organisational Transformation

Jeremy moderates a Clubhouse question and answer session about tech diversity, inclusion & accessibility Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/diversity-qna
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Nov 17, 2022 • 40min

Amanda Cua: Creator Monetization & Challenges, Founding Backscoop & Skipping University Criticism - E216

Amanda Cua is the Founder and CEO of BackScoop, a free daily newsletter that makes it fun and easy to stay informed with everything Southeast Asian business and startups in minutes. Launched late last year, BackScoop is read by thousands of SEA’s top founders, execs, VCs and startup operators. Born and raised in the Philippines, Amanda is 20 years old and was previously the first employee at YC-backed edtech Avion School. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/amanda-cua

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