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Dunman High School

Stanford University

Temasek Junior College

NUS Overseas Colleges

National University of Singapore

Early Stage Venture in Southeast Asia

Qoala is a disruptive insure-tech company aiming to revolutionise insurance landscape in Southeast Asia. We partner with big companies, including e-commerce and travel platforms, to enhance their customer experience through our unique and innovative insurance products, with our cutting-edge technologies plus sophisticated mathematical and machine learning models. Founded in 2017, the team are a group of mathematicians and computer scientists with strong insurance and technology backgrounds, with experiences at BCG, Traveloka, and Accenture.I led SeedPlus's investment in the seed round with CCV (Central Capital Ventura) and Genesia Ventures, and made subsequent follow-on investments alongside Sequoia Capital, MDI Ventures, Centauri Fund by Kookmin Bank, MassMutual Ventures and Flourish Ventures. Check it out at <a href="http://www.qoala.id/">http://www.qoala.id/</a>

Qoala

Investor and Board Member

Geniebook is an online, assessment-led learning tool that provides a powerful way to sharpen your academic performance.Learning is more effective as Geniebook uses A.I to focus your time & attention on mastering areas you find challenging.We encourage better academic performance by giving you greater visibility into learning progress & rewarding it.Find out more at: <a href="https://geniebook.comI">https://geniebook.comI</a> work closely with the founders to advise them on leadership, GTM, market development and corporate development strategies.

Geniebook

Advisor

I transitioned out of my board role to an observer role, after the completion of the Series A round led by Qualgro.

EngageRocket

Investor and Board Observer

Homage is an award-winning personal care solution that combines curated and trained care professionals with smart technology to manage and provide on-demand holistic home and community-based caregiving to seniors and adults, allowing them to age and recover at home with grace, control and dignity. As a leading care services provider, Homage’s core services include Care Assessments, Activities of Daily Living (ADL) assistance, Home Nursing Procedures and Home Rehabilitation services, including Physiotherapy, Speech Therapy and Occupational Therapy. Operating in Singapore and Malaysia, Homage works with care recipients with a range of mobility and medical conditions, including chronic and terminal illnesses such as Dementia, Stroke, Parkinson’s and cancer, helping them be more mobile and functional as well as providing social and personal care. Homage has previously collaborated with government, health and financial organisations to distribute and deliver home- and community- caregiving services. Check us out at homage.sgI supported our investment into Homage at the seed round with Golden Gate Ventures, and led SeedPlus’s follow-on investment at the EV Growth led Series B.

Homage

Investor

Lapasar aims to simplify corporate purchasing and connects Corporate Buyers and Sellers via the platform. Buyers, including well-known Malaysian corporates, are using Lapasar to strengthen governance, increase transparency, and save cost and time through digitizing and simplifying existing processes.I led SeedPlus's investment in the seed round.Check it out at <a href="https://lapasar.com">https://lapasar.com</a>

Lapasar

Rukita is an Indonesian startup that aims to revitalize the real estate industry with tech. We want to repurpose under-utilized real estate to create affordable quality living spaces for Millennials. Leveraging tech and the latest building management practices, we believe that business and social value can be achieved in tandem--helping more people live well, connect better and get more out of their lives.I led SeedPlus’s investment into Rukita at the first financing round of the company, together with Golden Gate Ventures, and subsequently led SeedPlus's investment at follow-on rounds along side Sequoia Capital, Shunwei Capital and Golden Gate Ventures.

Rukita

Founded in 2016, Neuron Mobility is Southeast Asia’s leading shared electric scooter service. It provides a sustainable short-distance mobility solution to connect neighbourhoods across the region. The company currently operates in Southeast Asia and Australia / New Zealand. Neuron has some of the industry’s earliest patents on smart scooter and intelligent charging solutions in the personal mobility industry. The company maintains a proprietary supply chain for its patented commercial-grade scooter, and uses real-time analytics to power its operational deployment. Neuron actively seeks to build smart cities of the future in Southeast Asia.SeedPlus led the seed round into the company and I represent SeedPlus as a board observer.

Neuron Mobility

CardUp enables any payment made by bank transfer to be shifted to a credit card, regardless of whether the recipients accept credit cards. Both businesses and consumers gain instant access to interest-free credit of up to 55 days, improve their cash flow and earn reward points on big payments such as payroll, supplier invoices, rent and taxes, while digitising processes at the same time.CardUp accepts all major credit cards and partners with leading institutions including United Overseas Bank, Citibank, Bank of China and Mastercard.I led SeedPlus's investment at the seed round with Sequoia Capital. Drop in at cardup.co to sign up today.

CardUp

Appknox is a mobile security company that aims at helping businesses and developers make their mobile applications more secure. Using our cloud-based security solution, businesses can conduct regular and quick security audits, know what security loopholes exist in their apps and also fix them with the suggestions we provide. I represent SeedPlus on the board and partner actively with the management team to scale the company.Find out more here: <a href="https://www.appknox.com">https://www.appknox.com</a>

Appknox

Board Member

Evie.ai represents a great leap forward in business automation technology. Utilizing groundbreaking techniques in natural language processing and decision making, Evie behaves like a human assistant and is able to handle the all the back and forth negotiations that is part of organizing meetings. Since December 2015, thousands of users have entrusted Evie with the task of scheduling all of their internal, as well as partner and client meetings, saving themselves hundreds of hours in the process.I represent SeedPlus on the board and partner actively with the management team to scale the company, and helped with the pre A round with SGInnovate and UTEC.Give it a spin at Evie.ai

Evie.ai

SeedPlus is the leading seed stage venture fund focused on investing in the best in class founders & startups in Southeast Asia. I joined SeedPlus as part of the founding team, and currently serve as one of the partners managing SeedPlus Fund 1.

SeedPlus

Partner

Talenox is a Human Resource Management platform on the cloud. Simply log in securely with a working internet connection and and manage your HR tasks effortlessly. We have integrated three major HR processes in one platform. Gain access to Profiles, Payroll, and Leave Management applications in just one click. We've made the apps so intuitive, you don't have to be a HR professional to use them. Access our website now at <a href="http://www.talenox.com">www.talenox.com</a> and try us out free, for 30 days.

Talenox

Xfers is a payment gateway in Asia that makes it easy for anyone with an online bank account to collect payments and make payouts automatically.I am an angel investor in the company, alongside Golden Gate Ventures, Partech, YCombinator, Convergence etc.

Xfers

EngageRocket is a SaaS solution that helps leaders and organisations make better people decisions using real-time data. Through cultural change, organisational transformation, mergers and acquisitions and other key events, companies use EngageRocket to analyse and act on employee feedback. This raises their employee engagement and productivity, and serves as an early warning system for talent attrition.I led the seed round through SeedPlus, with Found. Ventures.We're hiring! Go to: <a href="https://engagerocket.co/careers/">https://engagerocket.co/careers/</a> to find out more.

Jungle is a Singapore based venture firm that invests and helps build category leaders from Asia.Jungle is reinventing how venture capital is done in Asia with its operations as a service model. Full-time partners at Jungle Ventures work with portfolio companies on marketing and design, product management, engineering and recruiting.

Jungle Ventures

Operating Partner

Taught classes personal productivity hacks. Good excuse for me to geek out with like minded individuals.

General Assembly

Instructor

Started and launched the Evernote Singapore office, my primary responsibility was to look at market development strategies and business growth in Southeast Asia & Australia / New Zealand, which include:- Launched Evernote, Evernote Business and Evernote Market into the Asia Pacific region, growing the user base 10x from 1mil users to >10+ mil users, and revenue by 10x across 3 years. Fun fact: Singapore has the highest penetration of Evernote users per capita in the world.- Helped hired and managed across key functions including marketing, PR, sales and accounts management. - Business development and strategic partnerships across the region, essentially owning all external relationships in the region, including working with ecosystem stakeholders (carriers, governments, VCs, incubators etc) to distribution and marketing partners (carriers, OEMs, platforms, brands etc). Some key highlights of the partners i've worked and launched with: Xiaomi, StarHub, DiGi, Salesforce, Dropbox, Zendesk, Hootsuite, Apple, Sony, Nokia, Moleskine, and others.- Marketing management, which includes content and field marketing, as well as ambassador relations & community outreach and management.- Acting as spokesperson in the region, representing the company at events, conferences, and various media interviews. Speaking at events, including CommunicAsia, Tech in Asia, Founders Drinks by e27, various start-up events and industry conferences, meet-ups and workshops- Responsible for PR management across Asia Pacific, managing PR agencies and / or freelancers in key markets like India, Southeast Asia, Australia, Taiwan and Korea.

Evernote

Market Development - Asia Pacific

Investigated and implemented payment channels to expand on MoVend's payment coverage, including payment channels in Southeast Asia, East Asia and China. Highlights include MOLPoints, Cherry Credits and Alipay among others.Expanded MoVend's app distribution channels to Southeast Asia, Europe, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and China, enabling MoVend apps and games to reach out to more than 30 million Android users all across Asia Pacific.Managed internal development teams and external stakeholders, securing key resources to ensure timely releases of MoVend SDKs and web products.Represented and exhibited at key industry events like Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, G*Star in Korea, Google IO in California etc.

Stream Media

VP of Product

Designed, developed and built an in-house hot air catheter laminator that was commissioned for manufacturing use in the prototyping lab.Involved in other functional areas of the company such as operations, research & development project management. Built the company website + SEO/SEM activities.

Tiang Lim Foo