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

Joel is the Co-Founder & Country Head at Aspire, the #1 all-in-one finance platform for growing businesses in South East Asia. Prior to starting Aspire, Joel was a multiple-time entrepreneur in the E-commerce space. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/joel-leong You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/joel-leong This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.

Yiping Goh is a Partner at Quest Ventures, a top venture capital fund in Asia. Prior to this, Yiping was Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of MatahariMall.com, the largest omnichannel fashion ecommerce site in Indonesia backed by the Lippo Group. Lippo Group also acquired All Deals Asia, the Southeast Asia ecommerce aggregator and group-buying platform co-founded by Yiping. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/yiping-goh You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/yiping-goh This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.

Rachel graduated from King's College, London (LL.B.) in 2013 with First Class Hons. Since then, she has worked as a corporate M&A lawyer in leading international law firms such as White & Case LLP, Hogan Lovells Lee & Lee and Allen & Gledhill LLP in Singapore and London. She is also a committee member of The Law Society of Singapore (Corporate Committee and the CPD Committee).  Whilst helping a founder in his series fundraising process in Singapore, she was impressed by how 'founder-friendly' certain venture capital funds and law firms in Silicon Valley were – in particular, Founders Fund. She also felt that the legal community in Singapore could do better in providing more robust legal support for the growing startup community in South-east Asia, whilst noting cultural nuances and trends in this region. With this in mind, Founders Doc was born in 2021. Founders Doc collaborates with Eugene Thuraisingam LLP, where she spearheads the Corporate Practice, with the hope that founders in South-east Asia get the full support that they need. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/rachel-wong You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/rachel-wong This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.

Galvin is the CEO and Co-founder of Lauretta.io, a profitable Techstars company that builds bleeding edge military grade computer vision technologies that are now available to commerical buyers with no AI capability of them own. Prior to this, Galvin wore two hats as a data strategist in DBS, building RegTech products, while also running Es Teler 77 Singapore, a chain of quick service restaurants serving nostalgically authenic Indonesian food to our migrant population. He was also CFO of a New York based Uber-for-everything startup as well as first local employee of a boutique management consultanting firm that has since been acquired by PWC. In his free time, you will often find Galvin creating new recipes in a bid in increase his children's tolerance to spicy food. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/galvin-widjaja-2 You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/galvin-widjaja This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.

Aditya Mehta is the Founder CEO of Art&Found™ — a curated marketplace for South Asian artists making art accessible to global buyers and brands like WeWork, Levi's and Starbucks: www.artandfound.co Prior to Art&Found, Aditya worked as a Senior Art Director at Ogilvy & Mather Mumbai driving creative and social impact campaigns for Mondelez International (Cadbury), Castrol Asia-Pac and Cancer Patients Aid Association. If this solo founder gets any time off work, it goes into CrossFit, graphic novels, memoirs, mountains, films, craft beer. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/aditya-mehta You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/aditya-mehta This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.

Mika Reyes is currenty building something new in the creator economy, as part of the South Park Commons Founder Fellowship. 💼 She was Previously PM @ LinkedIn Jobs, Kumu & Ripcord through the KPCB Product Fellowship. She also started the Filip[in]os @ LinkedIn group & was a Women in Product executive member. 🎓 She graduated B.A. Economics, Psychology, Data Analysis from Wesleyan University, Phi Beta Kappa & a summa cum laude equivalent and is a proud Philippine Science High School scholar. 🇵🇭 She's most passionate about broadening access through tech in emerging markets like her home, the Philippines & in the rest of S.E. Asia. On the side, She works on a virtual startup incubator for emerging markets, & launched a fun social card game. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/mika-reyes You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/mika-reyes This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.

Alfa is a lifelong entrepreneur, adventurer, and a technology enthusiast. As the CEO & Co-founder of ProSpark, he is mainly focused on the company’s growth in SE Asia and in other emerging markets. Prior to forming ProSpark, Alfa has worked for technology companies in the United States in Silicon Valley such as Apple Inc. and Rockwell Automation. He also has extensive commercial and engineering experiences across multiple industries in the CPG, Manufacturing, Energy, Consulting, Health Care and E-commerce sectors with multinational companies such as Proctor & Gamble & Johnson & Johnson. Additionally, Alfa founded two other ventures in e-commerce and health & fitness space. During his spare time he enjoys youth mentorship helping to cultivate the next generation of entreprenuers. Also plays basketball and travelling. Huge fan of Liverpool Football Club (Y.N.W.A). Alfa holds an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Prior to Chicago Booth, Alfa holds Masters and Bachelor degrees in Electrical Engineering from Southern Polytechnic State University and an Associate degree in Computer Science. All from the United States of America. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/alfa-bumihira You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/alfa-bumihira This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.

Paulo Joquiño is a writer and content producer for tech companies. He shares the stories and insights of founders and investors in Southeast Asia as the senior content strategist of Insignia Ventures Partners, through the firm's official publication Insignia Business Review and podcast On Call with Insignia Ventures. Last year, he co-authored and published a book with Yinglan introducing the region’s startup ecosystem and their views on company building in Southeast Asia -- Navigating ASEANnovation. As a university student, he took up multiple work opportunities in content and marketing for startups in Asia. These included interning as an associate at G3 Partners, a Seoul-based marketing agency for tech startups, running tech community engagements at coworking space and business community, ASPACE Philippines, and interning at workspace marketplace FlySpaces. While in university, he was also a member of YouthHack Manila, an independent student-led startup organization, where he organized local and international events in Manila and Seoul, including hackathons, pitching competitions, and accelerator programs. He graduated with a BS Management Engineering at Ateneo de Manila University in 2019. When he's not blabbing on about startups and VCs, he's blabbing on about Kpop, Kdramas and other Asian pop culture stuff, which he talks about on weekends with friends on the Weekly Stan Up podcast. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/paulo-joquino You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/paulo-joquino This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.

Xi Liu is the founder and CEO of Ferne Health, a women-focused healthcare insights platform that delivers at-home screenings and consultations for sexual health. Xi started Ferne Health to challenge the stigma around women's private health concerns in Asia.  Xi was a product manager at the Alexa Voice Service team of Amazon prior to starting Ferne. Working closely with the industry giants such as Lenovo and Facebook, her team was to design and deliver Alexa voice assistant's integration experience in third-party electronic products. They successfully launched the Lenovo Smart tab and Facebook Portal, both showcased in CES. Before Amazon, she worked in the Photoshop team at Adobe, building Photoshop Mobile experience and exploring integration with new hardware input modalities such as Apple touch bar or Microsoft dial. Xi graduated with a Master's degree in Integrated Innovative Products and Services (Miips) from Carnegie Mellon University, an interdisciplinary program hosted by the business, engineering, and design school to train the next generation of innovators and disruptors. She had her bachelor's degree in Game Design and Engineering from the Communication University of China. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/xi-liu You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/xi-liu This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.

Mao Ching Foo is the Co-Founder at RealVantage, a property co-investment platform bringing access and enables users to easily own investment grade properties without the traditional hassles of being a landlord. Previously Mao was the CTO & Chief Data Scientist of Funding Societies | Modalku, leading and growing the technology and data teams while working closely with the business teams to scale the platform for users. Prior to Funding Societies, Mao founded QVantage, a startup empowering equity traders to make smarter decisions using professional quantitative insights. He has also served as Chief Data Scientist of Paktor, a technology startup with presence in 8 countries in the region, and over 5 million users. In this role, he set up the full data science infrastructure and pipelines, built up a team of data analysts, scientists and conducted various studies / models to advance Product & Marketing metrics lift. Before the world of startups, Mao was a quantitative equities trader / portfolio manager in Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco, and subsequently at Ronin Capital, a proprietary trading firm in Chicago. In these roles, he managed all aspects of a market neutral quantitative equities long-short global portfolio. This included researching alpha signals, constructing country specific Barra-type daily risk models, automatic sub-hourly portfolio optimizations, automatic trade execution algos & T-Cost analysis. Trade execution was through a Java OMS on FIX connectivity to DMA destinations. Market exposure was 100 x 100 mio long short with consistent after cost IR performance of 2+ on the overall global portfolio. Mao graduated from Stanford with a MSc. and a MComp, BComp Hons in Computer Science from National University of Singapore. He has publications in top ranked journals, refereed conferences and book chapters. He is a strong believer of building technology startup ecosystems and is an angel investor and mentor to several startups in the region. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/mao-ching-foo You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/mao-ching-foo This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.