This week’s special guest is Jeffrey Yuwono, Co-Founder and CEO of Sorabel. Established in 2014, Sorabel is changing the way middle class Indonesians shop online today by providing affordable and accessible fashion to them. Located in the fa

Samir Chaibi from STRIVE | SKALA

Oct 1st, 2019 20m 10s

This week’s special guest is Samir Chaibi from STRIVE. Samir is an early-stage investor at STRIVE, a pan-Asia venture capital fund headquartered in Tokyo and investing across Japan, India, and Southeast Asia. Samir heads the fund's investments

Kalsoom Lakhani from I2I Ventures

Sep 19th, 2019 26m 22s

This week’s special guest is Kalsoom Lakhani from I2I Ventures. Kalsoom is the Founder/CEO of Invest2Innovate, , which supports startups and the broader entrepreneurship ecosystem in growth markets. i2i has been operating in Pakistan since 20

Victor Chua from Vynn Capital

Sep 2nd, 2019 22m 21s

This week’s special guest is Victor Chua, managing partner of Vynn Capital. Victor was formally the Vice President of Investments for Gobi Partners and managed two Southeast Asia focused early stage funds. Prior to that he was with the ventur

Chad Tangsriwong from CyberAgent Capital

Aug 27th, 2019 36m 37s

This week’s special guest is Chad Tangsriwong from CyberAgent Capital. Chad is a Chief Representative of Bangkok Office of CyberAgent Capital, leading an operation in Thailand for a Japanese-headquartered VC firm who actively invests in all m

Gilang Praditiyo from Mandiri Capital

Aug 23rd, 2019 14m 24s

This week’s special guest is Gilang Praditiyo from Mandiri Capital Indonesia. Gilang is the Head of Venture Fund at Mandiri Capital, Corporate Venture Capital arm of Bank Mandiri which is one of the biggest state owned Bank in Indonesia. Ma

Aditya Mathur from Elev8.VC

Aug 13th, 2019 24m 32s

Aditya Mathur is the founder and MD of Elev8.VC, which invests in early stage deep-tech founders. Focus verticals include autonomous vehicles, IOT & AI, communications, and medtech. Prior to Elev8.VC, Aditya operationally helped grow two multi

Shiyan Koh from Hustle Fund

Aug 6th, 2019 30m 22s

This week’s special guest is Shiyan Koh from Hustle Fund. Shiyan is an experienced operator and investor. She was most recently VP of Business Operations & Corp Dev at NerdWallet where she was the employee #10, growing annual revenue from $1M

Jong Yoon Kim from Yanolja

Jul 11th, 2019 19m 12s

This week’s special guest is Jong Yoon Kim from Yanolja. Jong Yoon is the CEO of Online Business & Corporate Strategy at Yanolja, the biggest online leisure and accommodation booking platform in Korea. Yanolja has expanded its businesses int

Ian Goh from 01VC

Jun 26th, 2019 22m 45s

Ian Goh is a Founder and General Partner of 01VC, a venture firm building on China's untapped potential in enterprise and transaction platforms. He is a seasoned investor in the technology space with 18 years experience, an early participant

Nicko Widjaja from MDI Ventures

Jun 19th, 2019 24m 11s

This week’s special guest is Nicko Widjaja from MDI Ventures. Nicko is the President Director and CEO of MDI Ventures, a corporate venture arm backed by Telkom Indonesia. Nicko is responsible for leading various digital transformation initia

Hussain Elius from Pathao

Jun 11th, 2019 23m 56s

This week’s special guest is Hussain Elius from Pathao. Elius is the CEO and Co-Founder of Pathao, a Bangladesh-based technology company providing on-demand ride-sharing services, logistics, and food delivery on its platform. Elius started Pa

Helen Wong from Qiming Ventures

Jun 5th, 2019 19m 54s

This week's special guest is Helen Wong from Qiming Ventures. Helen was ranked among Top 100 VCs in China and Top 25 female VCs in China in 2018 by Forbes. Past investments/ exits include Mobike (acquired by Meituan), Lagou (acquired by 51job

Sonat Yalcinkaya from SoyakaAI

Apr 10th, 2019 20m 28s

This week’s special guest is Sonat Yalcinkaya from SoyakaAI. Sonat is founder & CEO of Soyaka AI, which is building Shox, the first social commerce app of Southeast Asia powered by Artificial Intelligence. Prior to starting SoyakaAI, Sonat w

Herston Powers from Tryb Group

Apr 2nd, 2019 20m 55s

This week’s special guest is Herston Powers from tryb Group. Herston is a Principal at tryb focused on investments, portfolio management and investor relations. Prior to joining tryb, Herston was Head of Southeast Asia and India Business Dev

Joel Leong from Shopback

Mar 12th, 2019 19m 51s

This week’s special guest is Joel Leong from Shopback. Joel is the founder and heads the merchant partnership at ShopBack, a one-stop lifestyle portal that powers smarter purchase decisions for consumers. A go-getter and a world class negoti

Lee Bagshaw from Simmonds Stewart

Mar 4th, 2019 20m 56s

This week’s special guest is Lee Bagshaw, a partner at Simmonds Stewart, a leading boutique law firm providing corporate and commercial advice to technology companies and investors in New Zealand, Australia and across Southeast Asia. Lee is o

Vikas Nahata from Validus Capital

Feb 24th, 2019 27m 35s

This week’s special guest is Vikas Nahata from Validus Capital. Vikas is the Executive chairman and co-founder at Validus Capital, a leading peer-to-business lending platform backed by Vertex Ventures that connects growing SMEs to accredited

Jussi Salovaara from Antler

Feb 14th, 2019 21m 13s

This week’s special guest is Jussi Salovarra from Antler. Jussi is the co-founder and managing partner at Antler, a startup generator and early-stage VC that turns the world's top talent into great founders of great companies. Their hands-on

Ambar Machfoedy from Rekanext

Jan 17th, 2019 27m 21s

This week’s special guest is Ambar Machfoedy from Rekanext. Ambar is the Managing Partner at Rekanext, an early stage VC fund focused on regionalising startups across Southeast Asia through their experiences and network. Previously, Ambar w

Dmirtry Levit from Cento Ventures

Jan 2nd, 2019 29m 57s

This week’s special guest is Dmitry Levit from Cento Ventures. Dmitry is the Founder of Cento Ventures, and is responsible for overseeing all investment and fund activities in Southeast Asia. Dmitry formerly served as an advisor to several i

Devang Mehta from Anthill Ventures

Dec 18th, 2018 21m 59s

This week’s special guest is Devang Mehta from Anthill Ventures. Devang is the Partner at Anthill Ventures, which launched a $100m fund in early 2018 focused on investing in early stage companies at the Pre-Series A stage of the growth cycle

Anurag Avula from Shopmatic

Dec 10th, 2018 23m 17s

This week’s special guest is Anurag Avula from Shopamatic. Anurag is the CEO of Shopmatic, a Singapore-based e-commerce company that has been launched to help business owners sell their products and services online. From developing a unique w

Will Klippgen & Michael Blakey from Cocoon Capital

Nov 22nd, 2018 25m 34s

This week’s special guests are Will Klippgen & Michael Blakey from Cocoon Capital Management. Will co-founded product comparison website Zoomit.com which merged with Kelkoo.com and was eventually sold to Yahoo! In 2004 in one of Europe’s large

Amit Saberwal from RedDoorz

Nov 13th, 2018 20m 49s

This week’s special guest is Amit Saberwal from RedDoorz. Amit is the CEO of RedDoorz, one of Southeast Asia’s leading budget hotel online booking platform. Headquartered in Singapore, the brand is spread across Indonesia, Singapore, The Phi