Ben Narasin is the Founder and General Partner of Tenacity Venture Capital, a pre-Series A venture fund. Immediately previously, Narasin wes a full time investor and Venture Partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), one of the worlds largest and oldest traditional venture firms. A prolific entrepreneur and highly regarded early-stage investor with three decades of company-building expertise, Narasin has focused on emerging technologies and new markets throughout his investment career. With a p...
Aug 15, 2021•33 min•Season 2Ep. 29
A Tsinghua University Schwarzman Scholar and Masa Son fellow, Wilfried Buiron is the Founder & CEO of Singapore-based, Zaapi an ecommerce enablement startup backed by Flash Ventures aiming to democratize access to ecommerce for Southeast Asian MSMEs. Prior to founding Zaapi, Wilfried spent time at McKinsey & Company and multiple Chinese startups and founded a successful D2C watch brand, Atelier Wen between Beijing and Hong Kong. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilfried-buiron/ Webs...
Jul 31, 2021•35 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Moses Lo is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Xendit, a financial technology company that he alongside others started in 2015. Moses' leadership has led Xendit to prestigious awards such as the CNBC Upstart 100 and The Best Payments Initiative by The Asian Banker in 2018. With Asia's Forbes 30 under 30 in his pocket, it is without a doubt that we will be seeing Xendit slowly transform the payments industry under his leadership. Moses earned his bachelor’s degree from University of Ne...
Jul 18, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Colin is Co-founder and CEO at LayerCI, a company which helps software developers efficiently review changes to websites. He graduated with a triple major (math, stats, computer science) from the University of Toronto and has worked as a tech executive for five years. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinchartier/ Website: https://layerci.com/
Jul 05, 2021•23 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Herston is a Managing Partner of 1982 Ventures – the leading seed fund focused on fintech in Southeast Asia. He is responsible for setting the strategy and direction of 1982 Ventures. He is active in investments, portfolio management and investor relations. He has sourced and led investments into Brick, Fundiin, Homebase, Go Zayaan and Wagely. Prior to founding 1982 Ventures, he was a Principal at tryb Group in Singapore and created and executed their early stage investment strategy. He led inve...
Jun 21, 2021•23 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Graduated Cum Laude from Harvard College, Wenyi Cai is the Founder & CEO of Polymath Ventures, a company builder that serves the underserved middle-class of Latin America. Prior to founding Polymath she helped build a quantitative trading hedge fund, was a published researcher in applied physics, worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, and was the COO of Milo.com in Silicon Valley, a consumer internet startup that sold to eBay in 2010. Since 2012 Wenyi has been focused on buildin...
Jun 07, 2021•50 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Miko is a General Partner with Gumi Ventures , a US $30M investment fund focused early stage blockchain startups and a cofounder of crypto exchange Evercoin . Miko ignited his passion for open source software 25 years ago as chief Evangelist for the Java Language and Platform at Sun Microsystems. Since then he has been building open source software startups in Silicon Valley including raising over $50 million in venture capital for developer platform companies such as Gradle and financial infras...
Jun 02, 2021•32 min•Ep. 4
Jay is a managing partner at Leonis Capital, an early stage venture capital fund that invests in AI-first companies and the automation economy. Previously, 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. Prior to that, Jay was a Senior Director / Partner at Walden Venture Capital, one of th...
May 17, 2021•45 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Miko is a General Partner with Gumi Ventures , a US $30M investment fund focused early stage blockchain startups and a cofounder of crypto exchange Evercoin . Miko ignited his passion for open source software 25 years ago as chief Evangelist for the Java Language and Platform at Sun Microsystems. Since then he has been building open source software startups in Silicon Valley including raising over $50 million in venture capital for developer platform companies such as Gradle and financial infras...
May 05, 2021•35 min•Ep. 3
Patrick Curtis is the Chief Monkey and Founder of Wall Street Oasis, the largest community focused on careers in finance with courses ranging from financial modeling to private equity interviews. He grew up near Boston and went to Williams College before working in investment banking for two years at Rothschild in New York and Private Equity at Tailwind Capital for four years. After getting his MBA from Wharton in 2010, Patrick has worked full time for over a decade on Wall Street Oasis. LinkedI...
May 03, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Rabeel is the Founder and CEO of Sarmayacar, the leading VC firm in Pakistan, and a Kauffman Fellow. He currently serves on the boards of Bykea, Dawaai, ProCheck and Patari. Prior to his return to Pakistan in 2018, Rabeel spent a decade in London, working as Vice President of private equity at GIC (Singapore's sovereign wealth fund), after starting his career as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley. Rabeel graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was also the Presid...
Apr 19, 2021•37 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Michael Lints has over 20 years of experience helping innovative businesses obtain the resources, insights, and expertise they need in order to be successful. Michael has been a startup operator, investor, and mentor, and is currently a Partner at the Singapore-based venture capital firm Golden Gate Ventures. He joined the firm in 2013 and is currently leading growth venture efforts, which include LP fundraising and portfolio management for Golden Gate Venture's investments at Series B and beyon...
Apr 10, 2021•10 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Michael Lints has over 20 years of experience helping innovative businesses obtain the resources, insights, and expertise they need in order to be successful. Michael has been a startup operator, investor, and mentor, and is currently a Partner at the Singapore-based venture capital firm Golden Gate Ventures. He joined the firm in 2013 and is currently leading growth venture efforts, which include LP fundraising and portfolio management for Golden Gate Venture's investments at Series B and beyon...
Apr 05, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 19
With over 2 million followers on Linkedin, Eric Sim, CFA, is one the most followed thought leaders on career and life skills. Eric is the founder of Institute of Life (www.iol.life) whose mission is to train young professionals to be successful at work and in life. Previously when he was based in Hong Kong, Eric served as a managing director at UBS Investment Bank and as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance at Hong Kong University of Science of Technology. Today, he teaches at Queen’s Unive...
Mar 21, 2021•24 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Sarah Chen’s career spans across venture capital (VC) and innovation, in Asia and the US. She is Co-Founder of The Billion Dollar Fund for Women and Beyond The Billion. Previously, she pioneered a corporate venture capital unit within $13Bn publicly traded Asian conglomerate, Sime Darby, investing in later-stage biotechnology companies. Since then, she has been at the forefront of multiple-million cross border investments, structuring and executing commercialization plans for her portfolio compa...
Mar 07, 2021•38 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Miko is a General Partner with Gumi Ventures , a US $30M investment fund focused early stage blockchain startups and a cofounder of crypto exchange Evercoin . Miko ignited his passion for open source software 25 years ago as chief Evangelist for the Java Language and Platform at Sun Microsystems. Since then he has been building open source software startups in Silicon Valley including raising over $50 million in venture capital for developer platform companies such as Gradle and financial infras...
Mar 01, 2021•42 min•Ep. 2
Ben Narasin is a Venture Partner at NEA. A prolific entrepreneur and highly regarded early-stage investor with three decades of company-building expertise, Narasin has focused on emerging technologies and new markets throughout his investment career. With a portfolio comprising key early successes in some of today’s fastest growing sectors, such as fintech, digital marketplaces, mobile and connected devices. His overarching focus in seeking new investments is, in his words, “to find founders who...
Feb 22, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Dr. Lewis Pinault is an Airbus Ventures Partner based in Tokyo, managing Airbus Ventures’ activities in the Asia Pacific region. Advising and supporting Airbus innovation projects for over a decade, Lewis also designed and led incubator and innovation centers for the UK Government’s Digital Catapult, EDS, Shell, and others, building from his own mid-career experiences as a NASA researcher trying to link startups to large corporates. Previously, Lewis was a Financial Institutions Partner at Coope...
Feb 07, 2021•43 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Field has spent over a decade in Singapore investing across South East Asia. Field is the Head of Venture and Impact Investing at Vulpes Investment Management. In April 2020, in the heart of the ‘first wave’ of COVID-19, Field quickly raised a Special Opportunities Fund to invest in venture backed companies as valuations came off and venture investing slowed, while other venture investors contemplated how COVID-19 would affect their ability to invest and their current portfolio companies’ perfor...
Jan 24, 2021•26 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Avichal is a successful serial entrepreneur with executive experience at Google and Facebook, which acquired his previous company. At Facebook he was Director of Product Management for the Local product group. Avichal is an investor in companies such as Airtable, Boom Supersonic, Color Genomics, Cruise, Figma, Newfront Insurance, Notion, Nova Credit, Threads, and others. Electric Capital is a venture firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, blockchain based businesses, fintech companies, and marke...
Jan 10, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Miko is a General Partner with Gumi Ventures , a US $30M investment fund focused early stage blockchain startups and a cofounder of crypto exchange Evercoin . Miko ignited his passion for open source software 25 years ago as chief Evangelist for the Java Language and Platform at Sun Microsystems. Since then he has been building open source software startups in Silicon Valley including raising over $50 million in venture capital for developer platform companies such as Gradle and financial infras...
Jan 09, 2021•55 min•Ep. 1
Henri Arslanian is the PwC Global Crypto Leader, the former Chairman of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hong Kong where he teaches the first FinTech university course in Asia. Henri advises many of the world’s leading crypto exchanges, investors, financial institutions and tech firms on their FinTech and crypto initiatives as well numerous governments, regulators and central banks on Fintech and crypto regulatory and policy matters. Before joini...
Jan 04, 2021•10 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Henri Arslanian is the PwC Global Crypto Leader, the former Chairman of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hong Kong where he teaches the first FinTech university course in Asia. Henri advises many of the world’s leading crypto exchanges, investors, financial institutions and tech firms on their FinTech and crypto initiatives as well numerous governments, regulators and central banks on Fintech and crypto regulatory and policy matters. Before joini...
Dec 28, 2020•7 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Henri Arslanian is the PwC Global Crypto Leader, the former Chairman of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hong Kong where he teaches the first FinTech university course in Asia. Henri advises many of the world’s leading crypto exchanges, investors, financial institutions and tech firms on their FinTech and crypto initiatives as well numerous governments, regulators and central banks on Fintech and crypto regulatory and policy matters. Before joini...
Dec 21, 2020•45 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Ore Adeyemi is the Managing Director and Head of Strategic Innovation Investments at HSBC. Ore is based in Silicon Valley, leading investment efforts for HSBC’s Corporate Venture Capital arm, Strategic Innovation Investments (SII). The SII team invests in companies globally that are strategically aligned with HSBC in order to drive innovation and adoption of technologies across business lines. Some sample SII investments include Crowdstrike (IPO), Kyriba (acquired), Openfin, Menlo Security, Quan...
Dec 06, 2020•29 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Peter Tuchman is a born and bred New Yorker fueled by espresso and an insatiable curiosity. He attributes his keen sense of fashion to his mother who stressed the importance of good ties. To this day, Hermes is the only brand of tie Peter wears in her loving memory. Tuchman’s first endeavor after college was a jazz record store and African art gallery on Carmine Street in New York City. Two years later he sold the record store and took a job working in Africa for a Norwegian oil company. On retu...
Nov 22, 2020•3 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Peter Tuchman is a born and bred New Yorker fueled by espresso and an insatiable curiosity. He attributes his keen sense of fashion to his mother who stressed the importance of good ties. To this day, Hermes is the only brand of tie Peter wears in her loving memory. Tuchman’s first endeavor after college was a jazz record store and African art gallery on Carmine Street in New York City. Two years later he sold the record store and took a job working in Africa for a Norwegian oil company. On retu...
Nov 22, 2020•55 min•Season 2Ep. 7
彦坂雄一郎 経歴 ゴールドマンサックス証券にてキャリアをスタートさせ、約９年間の在籍中にはクレジット商品の証券化、様々なアセットクラス（債券、デリバティブ、株式、金利）のトレーディングに従事。大学時代に航空宇宙やテクノロジーを学び、興奮を覚えた事をきっかけに、ディープテックのスタートアップの世界に飛び込み、VR・AI・ロボティクスのスタートアップ企業においてCOOを勤める。2019年にエアバスベンチャーズにストラテジックアドバイザーとして参画。主にアジア圏における投資に従事。 慶應義塾大学理工学部卒業、東京大学大学院経済学研究科において金融工学を専攻及び修了。 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuichiro-hikosaka-063994117/ Forbes: https://forbesjapan.com/articles/detail/33105 BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54232563 Website: https://airbusventures.vc/...
Nov 15, 2020•28 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Yuichiro started his career at Goldman Sachs in Tokyo, where he spent 9 years covering credit derivative securitization, and trading multi-asset classes including corporate bonds, derivatives, equity and interest rate products. Building on his early education and excitement for aerospace and related technologies, he then moved to the deep tech venture world, becoming Chief Operating Officer of deep-tech startups in virtual reality, AI and Robotics. In 2019, Yuichiro joined Airbus Ventures as a S...
Nov 09, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Kamal Hassan is a Managing Partner of the Loyal VC, founded in 2018. The Loyal Startup Index Fund has invested in 125+ companies, in 30+ countries while delivering top quartile financial returns, thanks to its network of 300+ expert advisors. Loyal is the fund Kamal wished he had available during his 20 year career as an entrepreneurial CEO, and 15 year career as an angel investor. It draws on Kamal's experience and network built in 7 years as a Global Director with the Founder Institute acceler...
Oct 25, 2020•37 min•Season 2Ep. 4
