As an entrepreneur-turned-VC, Jay is a Partner at T Fund (fka TCL Ventures), a global CVC arm by TCL Corp, one of the largest consumer electronics companies in the world. Jay is also responsible for helping define TCL’s strategic roadmap as well as corporate's M&A and partnerships. Previously, Jay was a Senior Director / Partner at Walden Venture Capital, one of the pioneer venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, with a global presence in Asia and Israel. Prior to Walden, Jay was a Principa...
Oct 11, 2020•49 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Growing up an enthusiastic meat eater in Texas, Jacek watched Earthlings during his philosophy bachelors which sent him down a path of animal activism. After a few years of militantly promoting veganism, he pivoted to help animals through a market-oriented approach. This led him to attain an MBA in entrepreneurship and build the ProVeg Incubator, an accelerator exclusively for plant-based and cultured food startups. He is now the founder of Kuleana, the Impossible Foods of seafood. Their first p...
Sep 27, 2020•36 min•Season 2Ep. 2
As one of the top 5 Women to watch in Asia Tech ( Nikkei Asian Review ), Carman Chan is a veteran in the technology industry with decades of experience as an entrepreneur with multiple exits, a tech columnist and a globally recognized venture capitalist. Carman began her entrepreneurship journey when she was in university. In order to pursue her passion for the newly emerging Internet, she passed up a fully sponsored PhD from Imperial College to become a serial internet entrepreneur. Carman’s fi...
Sep 23, 2020•39 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Ryan Terribilini comes from technology and public policy roles at Google and Ripple to study Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. We discuss some of the emerging issues related to internet privacy and surveillance in a world in which we increasingly interact online and in which global finance operates using new technologies. Ryan also explains android ecosystems, bitcoin and distributed ledger technology. Ryan is a member of Pembroke College, Oxford. LinkedIn...
Sep 07, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Sam is former hedge fund analyst turned nonprofit operator who is from Milwaukee, WI. After graduating from Williams College, Sam worked as investment banker for JP Morgan and as an analyst with Balyasny Asset Management where he focused on midstream oil and gas services. For the last four years, he has managed a nonprofit based in Amman, Jordan that empowers refugee women and girls through sport while he also completed his law and business degree at Stanford University. Sam loves all forms of c...
Aug 31, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Suman Talukdar is a venture-backed operator turned investor at AiSprouts.vc, where he is working with entrepreneurs on the next big ideas. With a track record of $7B in exits, with companies including Cloudflare and Anaplan, Suman invests in companies with the traits he's seen make others highly successful. As an investor, his portfolio includes Ripple, Palantir, and Sharetribe -- recent exits include 6d.ai and Apprente. He started his professional career building agent-based enterprise "AI" sof...
Aug 24, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Jamie Rufe is a Taipei-based professional and entrepreneur, who is currently getting his Masters in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language at National Taiwan Normal University. He's been living in the Chinese-speaking for 10 years (2.5 in China, 7+ in Taiwan), and has 8 years experience working in local Chinese and Taiwanese companies, including 2 years serving as Executive Assistant to Foxconn's Chairman & CEO, Terry Gou. Jamie has been learning Chinese for 15 years and is currently the fou...
Aug 17, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Ross Pomerantz AKA Corporate Bro, is a graduate of Stanford Business School and a professional comedian and content creator. He parodies life as a Silicon Valley salesman with weekly sketch comedy that can be found on Youtube or Instagram @Corporate.bro. Website: https://corporatebro.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corporatebro/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRealCorpBro Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/corporate.bro/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIOK2ypWf84RF1lFiOd9_...
Aug 10, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Keagan Wernicke is the Chief Operating Officer at Newchip. Newchip is the #1 remote accelerator with a special focus on helping founders raise money. A founder, marketer, and serial entrepreneur, Keagan also currently owns a boutique marketing agency, Moonshot Marketers, that helps founders run paid SEM & social ads, and craft marketing strategies. He started his entrepreneurial career right out of college and sold his first company, GroupThreads, an e-commerce platform, in 2017. Website: ht...
Aug 03, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Giampaolo Parigi is a London-based venture capitalist, merchant banker, serial entrepreneur, and chairman of a single family office with 30 years of international track record on the primary and secondary markets. As a deal-maker, he ha invested and advised on transactions in five continents and over seventy-five countries across many different industry sectors and served on the board of directors of financial institutions both in Europe and the USA where he was nearly ten years in Silicon Valle...
Jul 19, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Tanya founded the Ladies Investment Club in Singapore in 2017. Eager to enter the world of venture, she established a team of 40 female investors providing hard to access funding to female founders. Tanya has a track of building investor teams to provide the right combination of skills required to support founders. Tanya has invested in 6 startups during the 2.5 years she managed the Ladies Investment Club and sits on multiple advisory boards. She has experience of working within portfolio compa...
Jul 13, 2020•23 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Rina is a serial entrepreneur and Asian thought leader in the fields of startup incubation and acceleration, angel investments, venture capital funding, entrepreneurship education, startup ecosystem development, social enterprises, micro-entrepreneurship, and technology-enabled businesses. She is a hands-on entrepreneur with a proven track record in setting up and accelerating startup enterprises with technology or social focus. As a Co-Founder and Board Director of FICUS Venture Fund, Rina was ...
Jul 06, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Malcom is the Chairman and General Counsel of Gravitas International, Founder and CEO of Gravitas.Financial (Challenger Bank), and Managing Director of his own firm Malcolm Tan Chambers LLC, amongst other companies, Malcolm Tan is an established Singaporean lawyer-entrepreneur with extensive experience in the construction, telecommunications, engineering, retail, IT and financial industries. Trained and still practising as a lawyer, Malcolm is also skilled in litigation, corporate law, and merge...
Jun 29, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Jin is an entrepreneur and scholar currently based in Stanford, California. Along with her co-founder Janos Perczel, she started Polygence, an Ed-Tech company that offers project-based research mentorship to students around the world. Jin graduated from Princeton University as the Valedictorian of the class of 2017, and she went on to Stanford to pursue a PhD in Comparative Literature. She is currently taking a break from her studies to work full-time on Polygence. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin...
Jun 22, 2020•25 min•Season 1Ep. 17
John Patrick Mullin is a Hong Kong-based entrepreneur and builder, specializing in DeFi, blockchain technology, digital assets, and Web3. He is the CEO and co-founder of MANTRA and SOMA.finance, with over 10 years of experience in crypto and digital asset investment. John's journey began with Bitcoin in 2013 while studying International Business at SLU-Madrid. He later earned dual Master's Degrees in Management and Economics, working as a senior research analyst at a prominent Chinese State-Owne...
Jun 15, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Nuno Goncalves Pedro is the founder and managing partner of Strive Capital, the first ever quant early-stage VC firm in the Bay area, focused on consumer and enterprise software, with investments in App Annie, Gusto, Rubrik, Enish (IPO), Virta Health, DraftKings, among others. He is also the venture partner at Grishin Robotics, a Sand Hill Road venture capital firm focused on smart hardware and consumer investments, with investments in companies such as Ring (Sold Amazon), Spin (Sold Ford), Zipl...
Jun 08, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Byeonghun Kim (BK) is a Social Entrepreneur, Engineer, Founder of EcoMake, and Founder of Elwasta. Developer of startup ecosystems, he has traveled to various entrepreneurial communities around the globe to pursue his vision of decentralizing startup resources and venture opportunities to underdeveloped areas of the world. As a 22-year-old entrepreneur, he shares his insights on starting businesses in the US and developing startup communities in Greater Europe and South Korea. Contact: bhun.kim9...
Jun 01, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Miko Matsumura is a General Partner with Gumi Cryptos , a US $30M venture capital fund focused early stage blockchain startups and a Venture Partner with BitBull Capital , a cryptocurrency fund-of-funds. He is also an advisor to Arrington XRP Capital. He has been a keynote speaker at dozens of blockchain conferences around the world. He is also cofounder of crypto exchange Evercoin , Miko participated in the first wave of the Internet as chief Evangelist for the Java Language and Platform at Sun...
May 25, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Jonathan was born and raised in Medellin, Colombia, where he developed a strong entrepreneurial spirit that has led him to seek opportunities around the world. At age 18, he moved to Montreal, Canada, traveling out of his hometown for the first time ever. In Canada, he embraced an identity of a global citizen, learning several languages and traveling to 60+ countries. During his Bachelor’s at McGill University, he was also able to intern at the United Nations in Ecuador and study abroad in the N...
May 18, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Darren Chu, CFA, is the Founder of Tradable Patterns. As seen on Bloomberg, Refinitiv, Factset, Interactive Brokers and Inside Futures, and downloaded daily by the world's largest asset manager and 4 of the 10 largest hedge funds by AUM, Tradable Patterns publishes 3 newsletters. Today’s Top 3 Trades offers technical analysis on 3 CME/ICE commodity/index futures or spot FX markets (with coverage for 2 markets from a designated asset class(es) for each weekday as seen in the Watchlist), plus the ...
May 11, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Samir Jezzini is a Business Consultant, Private Wealth Manager, founder of Higbos Holdings, and founder of Estate Token Trust. Coming from a wealth and investment management background and looking through the eyes of the successful, he offers an intricate insight on the best business strategies and most lucrative investments in Africa and the region. With almost a decade of experience within the large continent, he has executed on marketing and business development strategies successfully. Scrup...
May 04, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 10
1982 Ventures is a Singapore based VC firm focused on investing in early stage fintech start-ups in Southeast Asia. We have experience leading and executing fintech deals in the region. Our focus makes us the first port of call for fintech founders and first money in. Our local networks provide us exclusive deal flow, on-the-ground insights and access to decision makers. 1982 Ventures is investing in and supporting the best founders to positively impact the future of financial services in Southe...
Apr 27, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Akash Raju is the Co-Founder and CEO of Glimpse, a startup enabling product placements in the real world. He is a Purdue graduate where he led many startup initatives and has past experience at companies like Microsoft and Tesla. Contact: akash@tryglimpse.com LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/akash-raju Twitter: http://twitter.com/akashraju4...
Apr 20, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Darren Chu, CFA, is the Founder of Tradable Patterns. As seen on Bloomberg, Refinitiv, Factset, Interactive Brokers and Inside Futures, and downloaded daily by the world's largest asset manager and 4 of the 10 largest hedge funds by AUM, Tradable Patterns publishes 3 newsletters. Today’s Top 3 Trades offers technical analysis on 3 CME/ICE commodity/index futures or spot FX markets (with coverage for 2 markets from a designated asset class(es) for each weekday as seen in the Watchlist), plus the ...
Apr 12, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 7
We sat down with Michael Catt, founder of the University of Kansas Blockchain Institute. He currently is a business development associate at Nebula Ventures, a fin-tech and property tech accelerator fund based in New York City. He shares his story of how he first discovered cryptocurrency on Coinbase to eventually helping to secure a $2 Million Dollar research grant from Ripple's $50 Million Dollar Grant Program to expand blockchain research efforts and bridge the knowledge gap between universit...
Feb 10, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Icey Jiang was a TEDx speaker, a venture capitalist, a former engineering student from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. As a strategic thinker, she is a curious and creative individual with a passion for emerging technology. With an entrepreneurial spirit, an agile and forward-thinking by nature, and an appreciation for digital tools that resolve every day problems, she uses her spare time taking on a proactive role in community services and contributing to the technology startup ecosystem i...
Jan 20, 2020•25 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Jeff is the Co-founder and CEO of Bluenest Pte Ltd. Jeff brings significant venture building experience from his early days contribution in Lazada and Zilingo . He worked on commercial strategy, new market expansion and growth in both ecommerce B2C and B2B space. Prior to his stint in internet ventures, Jeff was working with ERA Realty as a Marketing Director. Contact: jeff@bluenest.sg LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-lim/...
Jan 06, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Darren Chu, CFA, is the Founder of Tradable Patterns. As seen on Bloomberg, Refinitiv, Factset, Interactive Brokers and Inside Futures, and downloaded daily by the world's largest asset manager and 4 of the 10 largest hedge funds by AUM, Tradable Patterns publishes 3 newsletters. Today’s Top 3 Trades offers technical analysis on 3 CME/ICE commodity/index futures or spot FX markets (with coverage for 2 markets from a designated asset class(es) for each weekday as seen in the Watchlist), plus the ...
Dec 23, 2019•30 min•Season 1Ep. 3
We sat down with Samson Lee, the CEO of Coinstreet Partners,a Digital Asset & Wealth Management Asset Tokenization Exchange Platform. The firm enables the next generation of decentralized full-integrated investment banks. He shares his story and impact of the STO industry on Blockchain and regulations surrounding it today. Email - sl@coinstreet.partners Website - www.coinstreet.partners LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/samsonlee/
Nov 11, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 2
We sat down with Keegan McNamara, who is a Student Venture Partner at Contrary Capital. He shares his story and impact of how he broke into the Venture Capital world. We also discuss the types of innovative projects and trends he’s seen and advice on how to support your ideas. You can reach Keegan at keegan@contrarycap.com and learn more about his project at https://aloud.fyi. Follow him at keeganm.org and @keegan_mcnamara on Twitter!
Sep 23, 2019•25 min•Season 1Ep. 1
