CoRise SEA Summit

A Southeast Asia focused startup summit to CoLearn, Collaborate and CoRise with the community.

December 17^th - 18^th, 2020 (Singapore GMT +08)

Agenda

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Day 1 — Thu, Dec 17 (Singapore GMT+08)

11:00am +08	Startup Growth Panel - Stories from Singapore Zoom Webinar Link Watch on YouTube Google Calendar iCal Outlook
Ming Xia HO Global Project Manager, Draper Startup House Singapore Anupama Singal Co-Founder, SLICeR Singapore Dhruv Arora Founder, Syfe Singapore Milan Reinartz CEO, iVS Singapore Tulika Tripathi Founder & CEO, Snaphunt Singapore
1:00pm +08	Startup Growth Panel - Stories from Philippines Zoom Webinar Link Watch on YouTube Google Calendar iCal Outlook
Sharon Vaswani CEO, PanOphthalmics Manila, Philippines Cherry Murillon Founder, CAWIL.AI Manila, Philippines Natasha Dawn Bautista Operations Head, QBO Innovation Hub Manila, Philippines Anna Melissa Nava Co-Founder & CEO, 1Export Manila, Philippines
3:00pm +08	Startup Growth Panel - Stories from Indonesia Zoom Webinar Link Watch on YouTube Google Calendar iCal Outlook
Angela Oetama Co-Founder, Gradana Jakarta, Indonesia Budi Santoso Founder, Doclink Indonesia Jakarta, Indonesia Heera SKV CEO, Bursa Sajadah Bandung, Indonesia
5:00pm +08	Startup Growth Panel - Stories from Malaysia Zoom Webinar Link Watch on YouTube Google Calendar iCal Outlook
Yienyee Soh Co-Founder, AVANA Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Yeoh Chen Chow Co-Founder, Fave Group Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Jazz Tan CEO, YouthsToday.com Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Aaron Sarma General Partner, ScaleUp Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Lennise Ng Co-Founder & CEO, Dropee Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Day 2 — Fri, Dec 18 (Singapore GMT+08)

11:00am +08	Growth Marketing Panel Zoom Webinar Link Watch on YouTube Google Calendar iCal Outlook
Adrita Bhattacharya Product Marketing Lead, Livspace Bangalore, India Roslyn Teng VP Growth Marketing, Ampjar Singapore Udit Goenka Founder, PitchGround Mumbai, India Jatin Chaudhary Co-Founder & Salesman, eChai.Network Ahmedabad, India
3:00pm +08	Stories from Global Startup Ecosystems and Startup Support Programs Zoom Webinar Link Watch on YouTube Google Calendar iCal Outlook
Sweta Rau Founder, White Ventures Singapore Monica Mehta Executive Vice President, Wadhwani Foundation Mumbai, India Stanley Ng Program Director - Southeast Asia, New Energy Nexus Singapore Christopher Peralta Founder, Silicon Valley HQ Palo Alto, US Johnson Lam Founder, KakiDIY Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
5:00pm +08	Startup Investor Perspectives Zoom Webinar Link Watch on YouTube Google Calendar iCal Outlook
Alvin Cai Acting VP - New Ventures, Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) Singapore Shwetank Verma Co-Founder, Leo Capital Singapore Wayne Soh Director, Investments (Singapore), Plug and Play Tech Center Singapore John Sharp Managing Partner, Hatcher+ Singapore Eddie Ler Partner, Vantage Venture Singapore Trang Tran Principal, B Capital Group Singapore

Speakers

Sweta Rau

Founder, White Ventures

Singapore

Sweta Rau

Founder, White Ventures

Singapore

Speaking on

Stories from Global Startup Ecosystems and Startup Support Programs

Fri Dec 18, 9:30am UTC

Zoom Webinar Link

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More info about Sweta Rau

Angel investing in the start ups and emerging ventures in the areas of FinTech, Block Chain, consumer Internet, consumer brands and Edtech Though Sector agnostic but like companies which uses tech as Growth and efficiency enabler. Invest in passion driven founders with innovative ideas to make people’s life better and being responsible towards their shareholder.

I have Diverse portfolio of 30+ early stage investments. Some of the investments are:

Asia’s largest SME Neobank: Bank Open,
API platform for Banking and Payments products in Asia :Yap(M2P).
Enrichment and skill based learning for young children : Uable
Loyalty and CRM Company :EasyRewardz,
Gaming platform :MPL,
Student and workforce Mentorship :LeverageEdu,
Digital Ledger App for SME : Khatabook

Product framework for intelligent conversational agents without having to learn advanced AI, NLU; Mauna.AI is building the infrastructure to enable machines to talk to people naturally.
Premium Members only Credit card payment company Cred.club

Oprah’s favourite 10 Vahdam tea is disrupting supply chain of tea with sustainable and responsible way, Logistic network company Loadshare which is empowering the regional logistics SMEs with Technology, GramFactory that helps local neighbourhood kirana stores to buy products directly from brands apart from Dunzo, Bira91 and nicer banking Neobank for Retail customer Jupiter are among others

Pre-covid 2020 bets are Video conferencing platform Airmeet Virtual conference solution, Mogul- US based HRtech and a tech platform for women,
Leap.club is Platform for creating powerful women leaders.

Yienyee Soh

Co-Founder, AVANA

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Yienyee Soh

Co-Founder, AVANA

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Speaking on

Startup Growth Panel - Stories from Malaysia

Thu Dec 17, 11:30am UTC

Zoom Webinar Link

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More info about Yienyee Soh

Yienyee is the cofounder and Group COO at AVANA - a social commerce enabler that empowers more local businesses in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia to bring their products online and scale to compete on a global level Yienyee graduated with a Bachelor of Psychology (Hons) from HELP University College, Malaysia. During her university years, she founded an online fashion aggregator called A Shopaholic’s Den - pioneering a strong community of online sellers in Malaysia.

Yienyee’s passion for helping local businesses to grow has powered her successful career trajectory. The young entrepreneur started organizing offline events to complement the online community. It was during this time that Yienyee discovered the challenges facing online merchants: there was little technology to automate routine tasks such as updating inventories, managing orders, and tracking deliveries.

This was the spark that drove Yienyee to develop a solution to empower small businesses In 2016, Yienyee teamed up with Luqman, to build AVANA as an affordable and scalable end-to-end platform for local businesses to automate their business operations, tap into social media as discovery and sales channels as well as partner with logistic and payment Today, with a team of more than 80, AVANA empowers more than 100,000 businesses of all sizes and KOLs across the region to grow their business and is looking to empower more across Southeast Asia

Sharon Vaswani

CEO, PanOphthalmics

Manila, Philippines

Yeoh Chen Chow

Co-Founder, Fave Group

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Yeoh Chen Chow

Co-Founder, Fave Group

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Speaking on

Startup Growth Panel - Stories from Malaysia

Thu Dec 17, 11:30am UTC

Zoom Webinar Link

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More info about Yeoh Chen Chow

Yeoh Chen Chow is the co-founder of Fave, next generation merchant digital platform in South East Asia. Fave helps to digitize tens of thousands of local businesses, from restaurants, cafes, retailers, spas, beauty and wellness studios, service providers, tourist attractions to hotels. Fave helps those businesses in multi payments acceptance, customers acquisition (vouchers/deals, ecards), loyalty, cashback and retention, analytics, customers reviews/ratings, table orderings/takeaways, financing etc. Fave acquired 3 of the Groupon subsidiaries in South East Asia -- Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. He is also the co-founder of KFit, regional fitness sharing platform in South East Asia.

Prior to that, he was the Regional Operations Director for Groupon Asia Pacific, Product Manager for JobStreet.com and Management Consultant for Accenture. He is an Eisenhower Fellow and an alumnus of Cornell University. He is passionate and active in youth/student/entrepreneur empowerment, and he spent quite a bit of his free time in mentoring. He is also an angel investor, who has invested in numerous early stage startups in the region.

Angela Oetama

Co-Founder, Gradana

Jakarta, Indonesia

Alvin Cai

Acting VP - New Ventures, Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB)

Singapore

Adrita Bhattacharya

Product Marketing Lead, Livspace

Bangalore, India

Ming Xia HO

Global Project Manager, Draper Startup House

Singapore

Ming Xia HO

Global Project Manager, Draper Startup House

Singapore

Speaking on

Startup Growth Panel - Stories from Singapore

Thu Dec 17, 5:30am UTC

Zoom Webinar Link

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More info about Ming Xia HO

Ming Xia Ho is a global project manager at Draper Startup House, leading marcomms, partnerships and community management.

Beyond offering accommodation for travelling entrepreneurs, Draper Startup House is committed to building human connections in the community while providing support in the startup ecosystem, with a mission to enable one million entrepreneurs by 2030. From the inspired community, Draper Startup House strives to pay it forward and drive progress by creating value: launching DSH Ventures, a global syndicate matching startups to investors beyond geographical borders; and offering its nine physical locations as micro-campuses - opening new doors by making Silicon Valley education accessible to all.

Ming Xia is also passionate about community building and bringing greater value through collaborative partnerships that empower. Adopting a ground-up approach in learning, she is curious to broaden perspectives while creating more collisions between the art and entrepreneurial world.

Anupama Singal

Co-Founder, SLICeR

Singapore

Anupama Singal

Co-Founder, SLICeR

Singapore

Speaking on

Startup Growth Panel - Stories from Singapore

Thu Dec 17, 5:30am UTC

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More info about Anupama Singal

Often referred to as a ‘Fashion & Tech Girl”, Anupama is known for breaking stereotypes. A Chemical Engineer and a Post Graduate in Fashion Marketing, she pursues both the streams of fashion and technology with equal zest. After having worked with Levi Strauss for 14 years, she moved out of the corporate world and jumped into entrepreneurship.

Anupama is a Co- Founder at 3 companies. With a varied work experience spanning almost the entire ‘Go- To-Market’ process in fashion and passionate about putting data to good use, Anupama has redefined business processes in merchandising, product management, demand planning, business intelligence and analytics.

This passion led to her becoming a Co-founder at SLICeR, a data analytics solutions company, focussed on improving decision making at fashion & lifestyle retail companies.

A dreamer, a doer and a connector of people, you will often find her having engaged and authentic conversations. She urges one to see beyond oneself, be unique, live a life filled with purpose, and move forward with enthusiasm.

Monica Mehta

Executive Vice President, Wadhwani Foundation

Mumbai, India

Monica Mehta

Executive Vice President, Wadhwani Foundation

Mumbai, India

Speaking on

Stories from Global Startup Ecosystems and Startup Support Programs

Fri Dec 18, 9:30am UTC

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More info about Monica Mehta

Monica leads the Wadhwani Entrepreneur Initiative of the Wadhwani Foundation which focuses on the College program in India, South East Asia and MENA. Prior to joining the Foundation, she was a Director at Omidyar Network, where she led the education/skilling investments as well as grants in India. She has also been the Founding Partner at Kaizen Private equity, India’s only private equity fund focussed on Education. Her experience has spanned across strategy, investments and operations over the past 28 years. She enjoys solving complex problems, especially in early stage businesses where obvious solutions are often lacking. She is drawn to leading teams with diverse skill sets, which she has successfully done both as an entrepreneur and investment professional. She has a particular passion for impact investing in the education/future of work segments, but has experience in financial services and emerging technologies as well.

Stanley Ng

Program Director - Southeast Asia, New Energy Nexus

Singapore

Stanley Ng

Program Director - Southeast Asia, New Energy Nexus

Singapore

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Stories from Global Startup Ecosystems and Startup Support Programs

Fri Dec 18, 9:30am UTC

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More info about Stanley Ng

Stanley is the Program Director for New Energy Nexus in Southeast Asia, currently working on building energy startup ecosystems in the region. He works with universities, companies and civil society to support budding entrepreneurs in enabling the transition to a clean energy economy. He has a digital technology and energy innovation background with experience in renewables, cleantech startups, digital media, and IT advisory. He is an advocate of innovation and entrepreneurship’s role in the energy transition.

Stanley is a native of New York City and has spent the last 12 years working in energy startups and digital technology companies in the United States and the Asia Pacific region.

Christopher Peralta

Founder, Silicon Valley HQ

Palo Alto, US

Christopher Peralta

Founder, Silicon Valley HQ

Palo Alto, US

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Fri Dec 18, 9:30am UTC

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Christopher Peralta has over 25+ years Business Development executive experience closing strategic and tactical deals with 50+ tech companies around the world. His passion for innovation is only surpassed for his deep foundation and love of building relationships.

As an entrepreneur, his network exponentially grew after running 100+ Silicon Valley Accelerator and Immersion programs for corporates, investors and startup groups from 20+ countries around the world. This evolved to become SiliconValleyHQ platform offering online mentorship to entrepreneurs all around the world connecting to 150+ mentors and experts in Silicon Valley. Starting with emerging markets,

Christopher has launched Africa Valley, APAC Valley and LATAM Valley. More info at www.siliconvalleyhq.com, www.africa-valley.com, www.apacvalley.com & www.latam-valley.com

Christopher is also no stranger to the Investment landscape, with his last startup investment exiting to Google and personally raising millions of dollars for his own Startups in the Enterprise SaaS, LifeScience and Technology space. Multiple missions of fighting COVID-19 with their patent-pending Alcohol free persistent Sanitizer, supporting Wildlife Conservation using Blockchain to raise money and awareness to bring back species. Checkout www.animalexchange.net & www.clearlakeresearch.com

Christopher has been based in Australia, Singapore, New York and Silicon Valley. Christopher holds a degree in Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, majoring in Telecommunications and sub-major in Computer Systems from the University of Technology, Sydney Australia.

Budi Santoso

Founder, Doclink Indonesia

Jakarta, Indonesia

Roslyn Teng

VP Growth Marketing, Ampjar

Singapore

Jazz Tan

CEO, YouthsToday.com

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Jazz Tan

CEO, YouthsToday.com

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Speaking on

Startup Growth Panel - Stories from Malaysia

Thu Dec 17, 11:30am UTC

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More info about Jazz Tan

Jazz Tan is the CEO and founder of YouthsToday.com and Fuhla.com. Award winner of Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia, Top 40 under 40 Prestige magazine and the Best ICT in ASEAN region. Founder of the largest youth online engagement platform in Malaysia and a personalised app store serving hundred thousand users. Jazz is a social entrepreneur, strategist and an inspirational figure to set course and help young people to thrive at their fullest potential.

Over the years as an entrepreneur, Jazz has successfully launched over 3000 youth development projects across the country and inspired more than 500,000 youths in Malaysia. Looking at the current growth and rate that the platform is growing, Jazz strives to move forward with global expansion and gathering more like-minded entrepreneurs, NGOs and communities to embark on a journey of nation building with the youths.

Jazz believes youths are the backbone of every country's economy, growth and future that will create revolutions and solutions to both the community and the people at large.

Jazz's mission and vision would be expanding to the global region and form strong partnerships with all stakeholders of countries and leaders to create positive change to the society.

Cherry Murillon

Founder, CAWIL.AI

Manila, Philippines

Cherry Murillon

Founder, CAWIL.AI

Manila, Philippines

Speaking on

Startup Growth Panel - Stories from Philippines

Thu Dec 17, 7:30am UTC

Zoom Webinar Link

Other Speakers:

Anna Melissa Nava

Natasha Dawn Bautista

Sharon Vaswani

More info about Cherry Murillon

Founder and Lead Innovator, CAWIL AI Solutions- an AI-enabled solution to preserve biodiversity, livelihood and sustainable environment.

Environmentalist, Feminist, Entrepreneur, Innovator.

It's been my passion to turn technology and innovation viable. I have worked with several startups in business development in the field of edutech and social enterprises. I have been chosen for two consecutive years as one of the Top 10 "Startup Pinay Founders" as one of the Delegate for Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH) 2018 & 2019 by the DTI-Export Marketing Bureau. I have extensive experience in launching companies overseas and raised several funding throughout my entrepreneurial journey.

Alumni Startup Founder of Ideaspace Foundation 2017 cohort 5 and a woman technology advocate.

Alumni Startup Founder at PortXL Singapore 2019 cohort, World's First Port, and Maritime Accelerator.

With 12 years of extensive sales and marketing experience which has been her advantage in founding and mentoring technology-driven companies.

I practice a "half-empty, half-full" mantra to be able to stay relevant in Industry 4.0.

Aaron Sarma

General Partner, ScaleUp Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Aaron Sarma

General Partner, ScaleUp Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Startup Growth Panel - Stories from Malaysia

Thu Dec 17, 11:30am UTC

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Aaron is an entrepreneur with experience in technology, digital media and retail. In 2015 he founded Touristly a travel startup that aimed to help tourists discover and book attractions across Asia Pacific. In 2017, the business was acquired by AirAsia to spearhead its digital transformation with the aim of monetising the data from the 100m travellers who fly every year. Touristly was later rebranded to Vidi and has now become AirAsia.com where Aaron remains as a senior advisor.

He currently serves as General Partner at Scaleup Malaysia, an accelerator looking to help start-ups build and scale to the next level. The program has just completed its inaugural cohort wherein it has invested in 10 companies in spite of the challenges posed by the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Cohort 2 is currently underway. ScaleUp Malaysia aims to invest and scale 50 companies over the next 3 years.

Aaron is passionate about start-ups and is excited to work with founders who want to use technology to change the world around them.

Johnson Lam

Founder, KakiDIY

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Johnson Lam

Founder, KakiDIY

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Stories from Global Startup Ecosystems and Startup Support Programs

Fri Dec 18, 9:30am UTC

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More info about Johnson Lam

Johnson Lam is a community builder who founded KakiDIY. Focuses on DIY education mainly on life-skills and STE(A)M; inspiring makers to be solving problems using resources around us. All these starts from the grass-root of education, current technologies (Robotic, Drones, 3D Printing, AR/VR, IoT), up-cycling and recycling old stuff into something artistic and useful.

Johnson via KakiDIY also inspired and incubated new Makers into enterprising mindset and eventually building their own company selling their products and services internationally. KakiDIY also scouts for talented makers and collaborate them into building solutions for the industry in Malaysia and around neighboring countries. (Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam)

Along with educating the community, Johnson also spreads the DIY and Maker movement via other channels such as online, social media, TV and other printed medias.

Udit Goenka

Founder, PitchGround

Mumbai, India

Udit Goenka

Founder, PitchGround

Mumbai, India

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Growth Marketing Panel

Fri Dec 18, 5:30am UTC

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Other Speakers:

Roslyn Teng

Adrita Bhattacharya

Jatin Chaudhary

More info about Udit Goenka

Udit Goenka is an entrepreneur and the marketing mastermind behind Power Up Hosting, GoPBN, FunnelBake, PitchGround among other ventures.

While still in his teenage years, Udit began his online career as graphics design, branding consultant, software consultant building a strong customer base in less than a year.

During this time he was able to work with and develop relationships with numerous business owners who found themselves struggling to bring great products into the market.

In 2011, while working as a full-time student at the University of Mumbai, Udit helped bring one product into the mass market and made over $300,000 in less than 5 days.

It was then that Udit realized that his calling was to spearhead product launch and brand awareness.

He then partnered up with an existing friend and fellow entrepreneur, Oscar Hernandez, to form the brain trust that is now Power Up Hosting.

Since 2012, Udit Goenka has been the face of Power Up Hosting, bringing a company from relative anonymity to success with absolutely no marketing budget. Udit was able to navigate the unforgiving waters of the IaaS market to bring afloat a small but very well equipped company to compete with much bigger players in their hometown of Los Angeles.

In 2015, Udit was featured on INC.com’s startup section.

While working on all these years, Udit also started consulting SaaS business as he started working on a side project FunnelBake and PitchGround.

In 2017, he started working on FunnelBake, a Sales CRM engine and launched a small MVP in early 2018 and now has over 900+ customers for FunnelBake.

In October 2018, he launched PitchGround a unique crowdfunding platform for SaaS companies and in just 1 year of its existence, PitchGround has helped companies raise over $1.1 million and has acquired over 10,000+ paying customers.

In 2019, Udit made an exit from Power Up Hosting, Inc. and GoPBN to concentrate fully on FunnelBake and PitchGround.

Dhruv Arora

Founder, Syfe

Singapore

Dhruv Arora

Founder, Syfe

Singapore

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Startup Growth Panel - Stories from Singapore

Thu Dec 17, 5:30am UTC

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More info about Dhruv Arora

Dhruv is the Founder & CEO of Syfe, a top tier Digital Wealth Manager offering fully-managed investment portfolios with no minimum entry or lock-in. In just over a year, Syfe has launched 3 products; Global ARI, Equity100, and REIT+, catering to a wide spectrum of investors and their needs. In September, Syfe closed a SGD $25.2 million (USD $18.6 million) Series A led by Valar Ventures, one of the leading fintech-focused investment firms.

Dhruv is a former Director at UBS. He started his career as a Portfolio Trader in Hong Kong and then went to lead UBS’ Asia Pacific Exchange-traded Funds (ETF) distribution efforts. After an extensive career in finance, Dhruv joined Softbank-backed Grofers, a leader in India’ s e-grocery space, as Vice President of Product and Growth.

Heera SKV

CEO, Bursa Sajadah

Bandung, Indonesia

Shwetank Verma

Co-Founder, Leo Capital

Singapore

Shwetank Verma

Co-Founder, Leo Capital

Singapore

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Startup Investor Perspectives

Fri Dec 18, 11:30am UTC

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More info about Shwetank Verma

Early-stage venture investor in India and South East Asia with Leo Capital (pitch@leo.capital). Focused on Digital Health, Insurtech and Fintech. Investor in @WayForward , @GetRia, @CoverGenius, @BeatOApp

Previously, Shwetank headed open innovation at MetLife Asia, where he created and led (Collab) - a platform for matching best of class technology (AI, VR/AR, Blockchain etc.) startups to the right problem statement in the enterprise and bringing culture change to the main enterprise. He has been an adviser on open innovation to Fortune 500 companies.

Wayne Soh

Director, Investments (Singapore), Plug and Play Tech Center

Singapore

Wayne Soh

Director, Investments (Singapore), Plug and Play Tech Center

Singapore

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Startup Investor Perspectives

Fri Dec 18, 11:30am UTC

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More info about Wayne Soh

Wayne leads the Plug and Play team in Singapore and oversees Plug and Play's investments in the Southeast Asia region. He has been actively involved with the SEA technology and startup ecosystem for more than 15 years, working with government agencies, corporations, universities and community groups to help promote the adoption of the latest technology and to boost the chances of success of the startups that he works with.

Wayne graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor in Computing, having a major in Computer Science and a minor in Technopreneurship. He was on the NUS Overseas College Silicon Valley program from Jul 2008 to Jul 2009 and worked full-time as a web developer in mobile startup Qik while taking entrepreneurship classes from Stanford University. Most recently, Wayne was the co-founder and CEO of ProperHands, a platform to matchmake home owners and office managers with cleaners.

Lennise Ng

Co-Founder & CEO, Dropee

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Lennise Ng

Co-Founder & CEO, Dropee

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Startup Growth Panel - Stories from Malaysia

Thu Dec 17, 11:30am UTC

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More info about Lennise Ng

Lennise Ng is the CEO & Co-Founder of Dropee - a B2B eCommerce platform that enables brands and wholesalers to be closer to their customers, both online and offline. Lennise is passionate about entrepreneurship and innovation. She has previously worked in various local and international organisations across VCs, accelerators, and multinational tech companies prior to Dropee.

Lennise is the 3rd-generation entrepreneur of a family business that manufactures and distributes rubber products. Combining the two worlds, Lennise started Dropee to address the issues of growing and scaling wholesale businesses in the eCommerce era. Up to date, Dropee has helped thousands of brands and wholesale businesses to leverage eCommerce to their growth advantage.

A startup cheerleader by heart, Lennise is currently an active mentor for various startup events and hackathons.

Natasha Dawn Bautista

Operations Head, QBO Innovation Hub

Manila, Philippines

Natasha Dawn Bautista

Operations Head, QBO Innovation Hub

Manila, Philippines

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Startup Growth Panel - Stories from Philippines

Thu Dec 17, 7:30am UTC

Zoom Webinar Link

Other Speakers:

Anna Melissa Nava

Cherry Murillon

Sharon Vaswani

More info about Natasha Dawn Bautista

Natasha heads the Operations of QBO, Philippine’s first innovation hub and startup platform. QBO is the first of its kind public-private partnership initiative in the country specifically geared to provide resources, connections and support to accelerate the growth of Philippine startup companies.

A Bachelor of Science Management graduate in the Ateneo de Manila University, Natasha has been in the startup scene since 2013 when she was only 21 years old. She brought over Grab to the Philippines when she was just an intern and in a span of 3 years, led the company to what it is today with the Head of GrabCar as her last role.

Since then, she has been helping both foreign and local startups start and continue operations in the country. Her passion for development, whether it be as an individual, as a team or company, or as a nation, fuels her drive to empower the people and companies she works with.

Anna Melissa Nava

Co-Founder & CEO, 1Export

Manila, Philippines

Milan Reinartz

CEO, iVS

Singapore

Tulika Tripathi

Founder & CEO, Snaphunt

Singapore

Tulika Tripathi

Founder & CEO, Snaphunt

Singapore

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Startup Growth Panel - Stories from Singapore

Thu Dec 17, 5:30am UTC

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More info about Tulika Tripathi

Tulika Tripathi is the Founder of Snaphunt, a smart hiring platform that helps people find jobs, and employers hire talent, quickly & accurately. Tulika is passionate about making hiring more accurate & transparent and she founded Snaphunt on the back of more than 20 years’ experience in starting up, growing and turning around business in multiple geographies. Tulika has extensive experience within recruitment and has previously held various senior leadership roles in global recruitment firms, including Executive Director of Michael Page Geneva, MD Page Group Singapore and MD Michael Page India as well as MD–Asia for Hudson Global. Tulika is also the author of ‘Alice in Corporateland’, a book on achieving success published by Penguin Portfolio.

John Sharp

Managing Partner, Hatcher+

Singapore

John Sharp

Managing Partner, Hatcher+

Singapore

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Startup Investor Perspectives

Fri Dec 18, 11:30am UTC

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John is a Partner at Hatcher Plus, the leading data-driven venture capital investment firm. John has extensive commercial experience at the senior management level, having been the Chief Executive Officer of Authentium, Inc. the Managing Director, Asia, of WorldSpace, and CEO of Hatcher, the precursor company to Hatcher+. A tenacious and driven executive with longstanding board-level and C-suite level management experience within high-growth companies, John also brings a strong history of capital raising from an extensive network of investors globally.

As Chairman and CEO of cybersecurity pioneer Authentium (acquired by CYREN in 2010), John co-authored three US patents and developed and sold cybersecurity solutions to some the largest organizations in the world, including the US Department of Commerce, NASA, AOL, British Telecom, Comcast, Cox Communications, Google, McAfee, Microsoft, Symantec, and Telstra. As CTO at Hatcher+, DocDoc, Heardable, and ThoughtRiver, John has designed and developed several highly-innovative technology platforms using cutting-edge approaches to data processing, user interface design, and workflow optimization.

John is a frequent blogger and an in-demand speaker at venture events globally, and has extensive experience implementing ESG solutions as Chairman and/or board member of numerous start-ups, including director roles at trade finance provider ASYX and payment aggregator Mozido, and roles as Chairman of MENA-based financial services pioneer Telr, and the leading Cambridge-based legal services technology company, ThoughtRiver.

Eddie Ler

Partner, Vantage Venture

Singapore

Eddie Ler

Partner, Vantage Venture

Singapore

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Startup Investor Perspectives

Fri Dec 18, 11:30am UTC

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More info about Eddie Ler

Eddie is an early investor in B2B SaaS founders with unfair advantage and differentiated approach in financial inclusion, lifelong learning and sustainable development across geographies.

His portfolio companies are backed by G7 SWF, Moody's (owned by Berkshire Hathaway), Kingdom Holdings ($100 billion AUM), venture capital firms (GSR, Square Peg, 500 Startups, Seedplus, etc), Enterprise Singapore's venture arm and family offices. Recent exits include the acquisition of an insurtech by an NYSE listed investment bank.

He is a former World Bank consultant in strategy and operations for emerging financial institutions in South East Asia. He has assisted an emerging financial centre to establish a $2 billion fund of fund to seed private equity managers sponsored by a GCC SWF.

He is a panel speaker, judge and mentor at the Draper Startup House, Slingshot, IOT Tribe, Startupbootcamp, Singapore Fintech Association, etc.

He holds a master degree in Applied Statistics from Exeter College, Oxford and has completed an executive program in Strategy from Wharton School.

He is a Singaporean and has lived / worked in over 10 countries across Asia, Europe and the GCC. Outside of work, he is a certified judge for National Open Artistic Swimming Championships at the Sports Hub.

Trang Tran

Principal, B Capital Group

Singapore

Trang Tran

Principal, B Capital Group

Singapore

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Startup Investor Perspectives

Fri Dec 18, 11:30am UTC

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More info about Trang Tran

Trang is a Principal at B Capital Group, a global firm specializing in equity investing in venture and growth-stage companies across the US and Asia. Trang is based in Singapore and helps drive the firm’s investment activity in Southeast Asia across key sectors including consumer enablement, fintech, logistics & industrials, and health tech. Prior to B Capital, Trang had close to 10 years of experience across private equity, venture capital investment and M&A advisory in the region, having worked at Temasek, The Abraaj Group and PwC Singapore.

Jatin Chaudhary

Co-Founder & Salesman, eChai.Network

Ahmedabad, India

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Ritu Kedia

Founder, Cubane Experiential Education

Mumbai, India

Ashish Taneja

Partner, growX Ventures

New Delhi, India

Rob Frohwein

CEO & Co-Founder, Kabbage

Atlanata, US

Neha Katta

Co-Founder, Codesign Labs

Jaipur, India

Shrijay Sheth

Co-Founder, LegalWiz.in

Ahmedabad, India

CA Priyal Shah

Director, Peseko Solutions

Mumbai, India

Sonal Singh

Co-Founder & Director, Fittr

Delhi-NCR, India

Sonal Singh

Co-Founder & Director, Fittr

Delhi-NCR, India

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I learned early on that when you value courage over comfort, great things happen. As the daughter of a first-generation immigrant family in Canada, my parents instilled the value of financial independence & hard-work from day one! I started working at the age of 11 years helping my parents’ afterschool and on summer holidays. Throughout high school & then university I did every odd job I could find from watering plants, to photocopying books to taking notes for other people. When I graduated from UBC, I realized 2 things: I loved helping people & I wanted to experience doing as many different things as possible in as many places as possible.

Over the past 10 years I have worked in the UK, Brazil, India and Canada. I’ve worked on projects ranging from women’s access to healthcare in rural communities in India to HIV/AIDS financing in Brazil to interviewing senior ministers in the UK about improving cost efficiencies in public office. In 2009 I graduated from the London School of Economics with a degree in Public & Economic Policy. Though it was the worst financial climate in a century, I stuck around to get a job. I gave myself 30 days & knocked door-to-door on my professor’s offices until I landed a paid project. One paid project led to another, & finally I ended up with a permanent job at Deloitte as a Strategy & Operations consultant.

I spent 4 years working at Deloitte learning how to help businesses do all sorts of things, namely work better & faster. But then I realized it was time to move on. Without a plan I moved to India, because I strongly felt my purpose would be fulfilled there. As a child, I would often visit India and felt a deep connection to the place of my roots & an even stronger desire to contribute.

I began helping MSMEs to expand their business online & was then hired by Forever New to tackle their employee attrition rates & customer feedback. I devised a training strategy across all 22 locations within India focusing on improving customer love. I delivered this training myself across all locations.

In 2016, on a whim I took part in a competition and competed against 70 other delegates in China to win the title of Ms. Asia Universe. Jitendra Chouksey, founder of Fittr had helped me get fit online (though we never met face-to-face). When I was a guest speaker at Fittr’s event, I met the team & was inspired by the mission and community approach. I joined forces to help build Fittr, an online fitness community. I lead Strategic Initiatives at Fittr and have onboarded key partners such as Infosys, Philips India, Reliance, Pidilite & HDFC.

I also led the fundraising initiative & helped raise $2 million in funding from Sequoia's Surge. Through various workshops & speaker engagements, my personal mission has been to help inspire people to overcome their challenges to pursue professional & personal growth by leading healthier lives. I write about this regularly on my page Fit Mind | Fit Body

Khushboo Solanki Sharma

Founder, Zero Gravity Communications

Ahmedabad, India

Bridget Harris

Co-Founder, YouCanBook.Me

London, UK

Susan Kabani

CEO, Ugenie

London, UK

Radhesh Kanumury

Managing Partner, Arka Venture Labs

Mumbai, India

Radhesh Kanumury

Managing Partner, Arka Venture Labs

Mumbai, India

More info about Radhesh Kanumury

Radhesh is Managing Partner of Arka Venture Labs. Arka Venture Labs assists Indian B2B Startups foray into US by providing a combination of Funds, Mentoring and access to Silicon Valley Ecosystem. Arka Venture Labs has been formed with three Anchor Venture Funds, Blume, BGV and Emergent.

Prior to starting Arka, Radhesh was Venture Advisor to Blume Ventures, focusing on early stage B2B Startups investments.

Before this he was leading the Global Entrepreneur Program, for IBM India and South Asia.

He exhibited strong leadership in steering the Startup initiative of IBM from scratch to one of the companies to be reckoned by the Startup ecosystem in India and generating strong revenues for IBM India Cloud business. Has helped many B2B startups scale in their journey by mentoring them, facilitating access to funds and customers.

Has core competency in evaluating startups leveraging technology and advising them on areas of improvement from business and technology standpoint.

He conceptualized IBM India`s Startup challenge called IBM India Smartcamp and successfully executed the same. Personally curated the Startups for the finals, many of whom got funding either for the first time or for their subsequent rounds.

He also worked with Large Enterprises in assisting them in identifying the next generation innovations through joint Hackathons and Startup challenges.

Prior to to this role in IBM he was working as a Software Architect where he was designing Software solutions for Enterprise Clients, ISVs and System Integrators.

Created many First of its kind solutions and led several key Sales wins for IBM.

He has strong skills in building strategic relationships with Partner organizations.

Radhesh is self driven professional ready to take up challenges. Successful at achieving turnaround growth and position organization for long-term profitability.

Radhesh also writes articles on technologies which are published in YourStory and Swarajya Magazines.

Anna Rehermann

Head of Education, Elemental Academy

Singapore

Goda Raghavan

Partner, AK Law Chambers

Chennai, India

Stephanie Sarka

Co-Founder & CEO, 1 Atelier

New York, US

Taniya Biswas

Co-Founder, Suta

Lucknow, India

Rachana Gupta

Co-Founder, Gynoveda

Mumbai, India

Kuppulakshmi Krishnamoorthy

Global Head, Zoho For Startups

Chennai, India

Madhav Tandan

Director - Investments, Omidyar Network India

Mumbai, India

Mahua Mukherjee

Co-Founder, The star in me

Bengaluru, India

Anurag Jain

Founder, KredX

Bengaluru, India

Ani Oganesyan

Ani Oganesyan, Ph.D., International projects lead at GenerationS corporate accelerator.

Moscow, Russia

Nadia Fonny

Vice President, Gobi Partners

Jakarta, Indonesia

Anna Danes

Founder, Ricaris

Barcelona, Spain

Vishakha Phatnani Joshi

Advocate - Corporate & Commercial Laws

Mumbai, India

Rapti Gupta

Content Marketing Head, Instamojo

Bengaluru, India

Niharika Singh

Head of Product & Tech, One Championship

Singapore

Janneke Niessen

Partner, CapitalT

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Fei Yao

Founder and COO, NewCampus

Singapore

Chirutha Dalal

Co-Founder & COO, Pay1

Mumbai, India

Donald Doane

Co-Founder, ConnectYard

New York, US

Sahil Shah

Founder, Hungrito & Netsavvies Media Co.

Ahmedabad, India

Anna Gong

Founder & CEO, Perx Technologies

Singapore

Anna Gong

Founder & CEO, Perx Technologies

Singapore

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I’ve had the privilege of experiencing the best of both worlds, 5 startups and 3 MNCs in the last 20 years in the enterprise software space solving mission critical business problems. After 12 years in San Francisco and working with some of the brightest entrepreneurs, engineers, VCs, and tech leaders, I transitioned what a 2 year contract to Asia has now turned into 10 years, having mostly based in Singapore and Japan.

The excitement continues, especially now that I’m leading my own startup in Singapore and expanding rapidly across geographies. Currently, we are experiencing pent up demand for consumer engagement and loyalty solutions from SMEs to large enterprises, trying to meet their customers' rising digital expectations and also to solve their direct to consumer data play.

Perx Technologies is addressing the B2B2C space where the business stakeholders are more pressured to deliver revenue than ever before. I’ve worked with traditional IT leaders and stakeholders for many years and now we see a trend where business stakeholders are driving more tech spend with new SaaS and agile plug n play data platforms to help transform revenue models to differentiate their journeys to become lifestyle and content rich companies, improve customer experience and real time engagements, measure marketing spend with real ROI, and can rapidly go-live with zero to little integration.

Perx is regarded as Asia's first fully integrated AI enabled customer engagement & loyalty SaaS platform. Our configurable dashboard unifies real time customer data and interaction and empowers marketers to manage loyalty, campaigns and rewards in a much more dynamic and automated manner, producing rich analytics and real time insights on campaign performance. By gamifying the experience for end users and powered by the personalization engine that delivers smart products and offers to smart customers, businesses can see an immediate increase on conversion and retention rates. We have re-defined what next generation of loyalty means in the digital economy!

Charu Dhyani

Founder, Wudbox

Hyderabad, India

John Eckman

CEO, 10up

Salem, Massachusetts, US

Maria Perillo

Learning Innovation, IESE Business School

Barcelona, Spain

Shruti Kushwah

Founder, Crealoons Innovations

Ahmedabad, India

Tina Hedges

Co-Founder & CEO, LOLI Beauty Inc.

New York, US

Kunal Varma

Co-Founder, MoneyTap

Bengaluru, India

Laurel Farrer

Founder & CEO, Distribute Consulting

Greater Hartford, US

Vaijayanthi Narasimhan

Product Marketing Manager, Zoho

Chennai, India

Anju Gupta

Co-Founder & President, IvyCamp

Bengaluru, India

Yagnesh Sanghrajka

Founder and CFO at 100X.VC, a seed stage Fund which uses iSAFE as a unique instrument to invest in startups

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Evgeniya Kazina

Head of Product, Platinumlist

Moscow, Russia

Chrissa McFarlane

Founder & CEO, Patientory, Inc.

Atlanata, US

Nidhi Pathak

Founder, Momzspace

Bengaluru, India

Chad Hall

Founder & CEO, remodelmate

Washington DC, US

Jatin Chaudhary

Co-Founder & Salesman, eChai.Network

Ahmedabad, India

Kumar Manish

Chief Communicator, Communicate Karo

Ahmedabad, India

Kelly Watters

Founder & CEO, Western Rise

Telluride, Colorado, US

Pilar Orti

Director, Virtual Not Distant

London, UK

Stephanie Kazalac

Senior Product Manager, Delivery Hero for Q-Commerce

Berlin, Germany

Smita Murarka

VP - Marketing & Ecom, Duroflex

Bengaluru, India

Aditi Chopra

Growth, FamPay

Bengaluru, India

Vaishnavi Ketharnathan

Product Marketing, Chargebee

Chennai, India

Vanipriya Jayaraman

Director - Product Management, Full Potential Solutions

Chennai, India

Naz Parveen

HR Business Partner, Xoxoday

Bengaluru, India

Lise Pape

Founder, Walk With Path

London, UK

Jheal Shah

Founder & CEO, The Stylease

Mumbai, India

Fiona Boyd

Co-Founder & CEO, EdSmart

Melbourne, Australia

Neha Bahl

CEO, Toronto Business Development Centre

Toronto, Canada

Bhavini Mehta

Founder & CEO, Outliers Publishing

Ahmedabad, India

Shweta Doshi

Co-Founder, GreyAtom

Mumbai, India

Anubha Maneshwar

Founder, GirlScript Foundation

Nagpur, India

Maree Beare

Founder & CEO, Wanngi

Brisbane, Australia

CoRise SEA Summit

A Southeast Asia focused startup summit to CoLearn, Collaborate and CoRise with the community.

Agenda

Day 1 — Thu, Dec 17 (Singapore GMT+08)

11:00am +08

1:00pm +08

3:00pm +08

5:00pm +08

Day 2 — Fri, Dec 18 (Singapore GMT+08)

11:00am +08

3:00pm +08

5:00pm +08

Speakers

Sweta Rau

Yienyee Soh

Sharon Vaswani

Yeoh Chen Chow

Angela Oetama

Alvin Cai

Adrita Bhattacharya

Ming Xia HO

Anupama Singal

Monica Mehta

Stanley Ng

Christopher Peralta

Budi Santoso

Roslyn Teng

Jazz Tan

Cherry Murillon

Aaron Sarma

Johnson Lam

Udit Goenka

Dhruv Arora

Heera SKV

Shwetank Verma

Wayne Soh

Lennise Ng

Natasha Dawn Bautista

Anna Melissa Nava

Milan Reinartz

Tulika Tripathi

John Sharp

Eddie Ler

Trang Tran

Jatin Chaudhary

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Ritu Kedia