Xendit is a financial technology company that provides payment solutions and simplifies the payment process for businesses in Indonesia, the Philippines and Southeast Asia, from SMBs and e-commerce startups to large enterprises. Xendit enables businesses to accept payments, disburse payroll, run marketplaces and more, that is easy to integrate with and supported by 24/7 customer service. Amidst the fragmented payment landscape in Southeast Asia, Xendit enables businesses to accept payments from direct debit, virtual accounts, credit and debit cards, eWallets, retail outlets, and online installments.  

Building the region’s digital payments infrastructure, Xendit is shaping the next generation of scalable businesses across Southeast Asia. Xendit is propelling the region's digital transformation by addressing access, reliability, and regulatory needs enabling more businesses to scale and thrive. As the first-ever Indonesian startup to graduate from YCombinator and backed by global investors and other venture capital firms in the region, Xendit powers some of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing brands including Traveloka, Transferwise, Wish, and Grab. 

A programmer by training and a venture capitalist by profession. Aaron founded his first startup at 13 and subsequently sold two companies before turning 21.  

Former IT Youth of the Year, Aaron represented Singapore in programming competitions overseas.  Aaron subsequently took a scholarship from the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore and read computer science at Carnegie Mellon and Singapore Management University.  

As a returning scholar, Aaron helped start Singtel’s venture fund - Singtel Innov8 ventures. Aaron spearheaded the setup of Blk71– Singapore’s largest startup ecosystem.  

Aaron left the fund in 2016 and founded Carro – SEA’s largest online marketplace for cars. In 2021, Financial Times named Carro the fastest growing company in Asia Pacific with revenues of over $300M annually in 2021. 

Carro has raised over $450M to date and was last valued at over $1B by Softbank Vision Fund and several sovereign funds.  

Aaron graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BSc and MSc from Singapore Management University School of Information Systems and Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. 

Carro provides a full-stack service for all aspects of car ownership and uses artificial intelligence (AI)- powered technology to transform the car buying and selling experience. By offering a trustworthy and transparent experience, Carro challenges the traditional way of buying and selling cars through proprietary pricing algorithm and AI-enabled capabilities.

Carro provides a range of services across the entire car ownership ecosystem. These include in-house financing solutions, innovative insurance products, flexible car ownership experience and after-sales services. It has pioneered innovative services such as Singapore’s first contactless online car purchase service, first car subscription service and the first region-wide behavior and usage-based car insurance solutions.

Bolttech is an international insurtech with a mission to build the world’s leading, technology-enabled ecosystem for protection and insurance. bolttech serves customers in 26 markets across North America, Asia and Europe. With a full suite of digital and data-driven capabilities, bolttech powers connections between insurers, distributors, and customers to make it easier and more efficient to buy and sell insurance and protection products.

Founded in 2017, Amber Group is a leading global digital asset platform, operating 24/7 with a presence in Asia, Erope, and the Americas. Now the company services over 700 institutional clients and an increasing number of individual customers worldwide. Since inception, Amber Group has cumulatively traded over $700 billion across 100+ electronic exchanges, with over $2.5 billion in assets under management. 

In Q1 2021, Amber Group raised $100 million in Series B funding and became the latest FinTech unicorn valued over $1 billion. To date, the company has raised a total of $128 million in funding from China Renaissance Group, Tiger Global Management, DCM Ventures, Tiger Brokers, Sky9 Capital, Arena Holdings, Tru Arrow Partners, A&T Capital, Gobi Partners, Paradigm, Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Blockchain.com, Polychain Capital, Dragonfly Capital, and Fenbushi Capital. 

John is the co-founder and managing partner of Amasia, a sustainability focused venture capital firm with offices in Singapore and Silicon Valley. Amasia works with founders building companies in their current thesis area: fighting the climate crisis through behavior change.

 John started his career as an entrepreneur, founding music internet and e-consulting businesses before joining Merck & Co as a Systems Specialist. John left Merck to start his third company, a Delaware incorporated rock band called The Ally. John had the chance to tour around the US and collaborate with top artists across the US and Korea, perhaps most notably receiving a platinum record for his contribution to an album with Grammy Award winner, Brandy. 

 John spent the next 10 years managing trading and investment strategies across multiple asset classes for Goldman Sachs, Korean National Investments and Mercuria Energy Group. 

 Over the years he has been affiliated with various organizations at the intersection of entrepreneurship and education. John is a Kauffman Fellow, a member of the Young Presidents Organization and sits on the advisory boards for Kairos Society Asean and The Choson Exchange, a non-profit focused on training entrepreneurs in North Korea. He's also a lay preacher and board member at his church, Solomon’s Porch Singapore.  

Kabir Narang is a Partner at B Capital based in Singapore and co-leads B Capital’s Asia team. He leads investments for the firm and is focused on financial technology and enterprise technology, among other areas. 

Kabir was previously a Partner at Eight Roads Ventures India, Fidelity’s venture capital investment arm. During his tenure at Eight Roads, he led investments in technology and financial services. Kabir was also a member of the Regional Partnership, which actively evaluated investment opportunities across Asia, including China and Japan. 

Prior to Eight Roads, Kabir was with Warburg Pincus, India, where he was involved with investments and portfolio management in Max India, Max Healthcare, and Kotak Mahindra Bank. Kabir first began his career in consulting, spanning over six years with McKinsey in India, and the Boston Consulting Group in the US. His work mainly focused on technology and financial services in the areas of strategy and operations. 

East Ventures is an early stage venture fund focused on Southeast Asia and Japan. Over several years, East Ventures has invested in hundreds of companies in Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, and Thailand. The majority of East Ventures’ portfolio firms have been able to raise follow-on financing rounds.  

East Ventures has a strong track record in developing pan-Asia tech-ecosystems and backing startups in their early days. The company has invested in over 400 startups and 4 among them are the unicorns. Success cases include companies such as Tokopedia, Traveloka, Mercari, Warung Pintar, Fore Coffee, Disdus (acquired by Groupon), Kudo (acquired by Grab), Loket (acquired by Gojek), Tech in Asia, Omise, IDN Media, Ruangguru, MokaPOS, ShopBack, and CoHive.  

Pegasus Tech Ventures is a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, investing in exceptional emerging technology companies around the world. Pegasus offers a unique Venture Capital-as-a-Service (VCaaS) model for global corporations that wish to partner with cutting-edge technology startups. Leveraging its extensive global network, the firm vets investment opportunities for its corporate partners, manages the investments, and connects portfolio companies to its ecosystem of global corporate partners to accelerate growth.  Pegasus is stage agnostic and invests into diverse domains, such as IT, Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Robotics, Big Data, Quantum Computing, FinTech, and other Next Generation Technologies. 

Pegasus also founded and sponsors Startup World Cup, one of the biggest and richest startup competitions in the world. Startup World Cup extends to over 50 countries across six continents, with a Grand Finale in Silicon Valley featuring a $1 Million investment prize. 

Founded in 2014 by Sebastian Togelang and Andy Zain, Kejora Capital is among Southeast Asia's leading venture capital companies that invests in and builds high-impact, sustainable companies across Southeast Asia, Korea and Japan. We invest in early- to growth-stage private and public technology companies across the most dynamic consumer and enterprise verticals with a particular focus on Indonesia. Up until now, we have invested in market-leading and hypergrowth assets such as Soonicorn SiCepat, Consumer Lending Platform Kredivo, Digital B2B Lender Investree and Tutoring Platform Snapask.  

Kejora Capital has US$600 Million in Assets under Management across dedicated early-stage and growth-stage funds. Our funds have been recognised by Data Analytics Platform Preqin as top-performing funds in Asia and globally. Kejora Capital is supported by a network of prominent global investors including institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and family offices. 

Paul Ark works with pan-Asian venture capital firm Gobi Partners, spearheading ESG and sustainability initiatives in the company’s operational and investment activities. Prior to joining Gobi Partners, he managed a US$100 million global corporate venture capital fund for Siam Commercial Bank’s Digital Ventures group, one of the largest fintech corporate VCs in Southeast Asia. 

In addition to his career in venture capital, Paul worked as an investment banker across Asia and North America for Deutsche Bank and Citigroup, and in business development and new market entry roles for multinationals such as Apple, Microsoft, and Thailand’s Central Group.  

Paul earned his undergraduate business degree at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and his MBA at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He is currently pursuing a doctorate of business administration at the Sasin School of Management. 

Gobi Partners is one of the longest-standing venture capital firms with a Pan-Asian presence across North Asia, South Asia, and ASEAN with over US$1.2 billion in assets under management (AUM). The firm, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur and Shanghai, supports entrepreneurs from the early to growth stages and focuses on emerging and underserved markets.  
Founded in 2002, Gobi has raised 13 funds to date, invested in over 270 startups and has grown to 13 locations across Bangkok, Beijing, Dubai, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, Lahore, Manila, Riyadh, Shanghai, and Singapore.  

As a Participant of the United Nations Global Compact, Gobi Partners is committed to aligning strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and take actions that advance societal goals. 

Ed Clarke is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Yojee, a fast growing logistics technology company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: YOJ). Ed is an experienced technology entrepreneur with extensive experience in taking innovative technology platforms to market in areas such as real-time communication, big data marketing and e-commerce. As Vice President of Sales at Temasys, Ed was part of a team that IBM recognized as one of the “Top-5 global start-ups to watch in 2014”. 

Prior to this, Ed was Vice President of Sales and Marketing with Silicon Valley and Asia venture capitalist-backed big data e-commerce marketing technology platform, Ematic Solutions, which now has more than 100 of South East Asia’s leading e-commerce retailers on its technology platform. 

Ed has been featured and provided keynotes around the world including on the Executive Series in Australia, Tech in Asia magazine, Prime Mover, Proactive Investors Australia, Post And Parcel magazine and numerous logistics and technology related media.

Yojee, is helping supply chain logistics companies solve their biggest challenges through the application of innovative technology. Its cloud-based (SaaS) logistics Platform seamlessly and uniquely manages, tracks and optimises freight movements along the entire logistics chain, from sender to end customer, across borders and between logistics providers (land, sea, air), with subcontractors and for multi-leg journeys.  

Rarely is a single carrier servicing an entire goods journey from sender to end customer, or exclusively using one type of transportation method. Yojee ensures connectivity and more efficient planning along the entire journey by managing, tracking and auditing goods movements and, undertaking route and schedule optimisation. Yojee is scaling and already has global top 10 enterprise customers. 

Delano is Head of Asia-Pacific Capital Markets for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). As such, he is responsible for new IPOs/listings from across the entire APAC region, playing a leading role in their origination and also overseeing their execution e.g. Sea, Coupang, LINE, XPeng, OneConnect, Takeda, Amcor and Studio City; SPACs from Catcha Group, SC Health, D8, Tiga and New Frontier. He also manages the relationships with APAC ex. Mainland China companies after they have listed on the NYSE. 

He continually interacts with prospective issuers, PE/VC firms, sovereign wealth funds, investment banks, legal advisors, auditors, relevant government entities and other exchanges from the region. 

Delano started his career in 1997 as an Equity Capital Markets banker at SBC Warburg (now UBS) based in London, working on numerous corporate and privatization IPOs and follow-ons throughout the EMEA and APAC regions. In 2006, he moved permanently to Asia, and worked at Morgan Stanley’s and Nomura’s APAC Equity Capital Markets teams in both Singapore and Hong Kong. Following that, he was Asia-Pacific Head at specialist IPO roadshow consultancies, which including working on the NYSE-listed US$25bn Alibaba IPO. He joined NYSE in January 2016. 

Delano has a BSc in Economics from University College London (UCL) as well as an MSc in International Securities, Investment & Banking.  

The New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), an ICE Company, is where icons and disruptors come to build on their success and shape the future. At the NYSE, we’ve built the world’s largest and most trusted equities exchange, the leading ETF exchange and the most deterministic trading technology in the world. Our expertise, data and technology help today’s leaders and tomorrow’s visionaries capitalize on opportunity in the public markets. 

The experience of our past is precisely what helps us navigate the future as we look ahead: anticipating what’s next and helping our community address the challenges of tomorrow.

Data  

Connecting to an ever-evolving range of world class data sources - from real- time market data to credit risk and ESG - anticipating the evolving needs of public markets and businesses. 

Technology 

Our trading technology is among the fastest and most deterministic in the world. We provide a high performance trading system that connects a diverse range of trading participants to opportunities. 

Expertise 

Our tradition of leadership and innovation means that stocks trade better on the NYSE. Our emphasis on accountability, paired with human oversight, results in peerless execution of complex transactions, lower volatility and deeper liquidity 

ER is the Co-Founder and CEO of GrowSari. 

Having worked in Singapore for Procter & Gamble, Boston Consulting Group, and Unilever, he has vast professional experience in dealing with various retail distribution channels as well as the sari-sari store distribution channel due to a personal knowledge of the integral role sari-sari stores play in Philippine retail, national economy, and society.  

He recognized the potential of transforming the sari-sari store to not only help fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies better distribute their products and services but also to uplift the lives of the store owners and the communities they serve. 

Prior to co-founding GrowSari in 2016, ER started his career in Proctor & Gamble SG where he held a variety of roles, including senior manager for Consumer & Market Knowledge. He joined the Boston Consulting Group as an expert consultant at the Center for Consumer and Customer Insight in Southeast Asia. This was followed by a stint in Unilever, where he led brand development for its ice cream business in Southeast Asia and Australasia.  

GrowSari is a tech-enabled B2B platform that helps the Philippines’ over one million sari-sari stores and other retail outlets (e.g. canteens, market stalls) get better service level, assortment, and access to new services, outfitting them with both the infrastructure and tools they need to transform themselves from simple FMCG outlets to comprehensive service hubs for their communities. 

GrowSari started in 2016 as an ordering platform servicing sari-sari stores across three cities. Today, GrowSari powers the management, growth, and analytics infrastructure of these outlets across 100 municipalities and continues expanding.  In addition to providing affordable, on-demand inventory as well as working capital loans, GrowSari’s platform also generates crucial data & insights into the operations of these stores for manufacturers and distributors to build their strategies and campaigns upon. GrowSari has also integrated multiple microservices such as telco load, bills pay, e-commerce, wi-fi, and other e-services thereby allowing store owners to maximize their capital in one wallet and easily expand their businesses.  

The GrowSari leadership team is composed of young and dynamic industry leaders who built their expertise from working with global corporations and consultancies such P&G, Unilever, J&J, and BCG as well as Uber, Globe Telecom, and GCash. 

Lee Williamson is a Hong Kong-based journalist with a decade of experience in the Greater China region. Formerly in the editor’s chair at Time Out Beijing, he now heads up editorial for Generation T, Tatler Asia's content and events platform for the Leaders of Tomorrow. He was selected as a WAN-IFRA Young Media Leaders Fellow 2020.  

Generation T is a content and community platform for young leaders shaping Asia’s future. We celebrate the entrepreneurial drive and disruptive spirit of entrepreneurs and creatives across the region. 

Today, our “T” represents the Leaders of Tomorrow. Our first product, and today our flagship, is the “Gen.T List,” 400 Leaders of Tomorrow who are redefining their industries or breaking new ground. This list has become the definitive index of young leaders in Asia. 

Generation T operates in eight territories across Asia: Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Mainland China, Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia. 

Collab Asia is APAC's premier digital media partner for creators, brands, and platforms at the forefront of the Creator Economy. We capture opportunities in the rapidly growing $200+ billion digital media ecosystem by leveraging years of know-how and experience. We showcase Asia’s diverse stories by providing creators the platform to fully realize their presence and potential. With 200+ employees across 8 APAC offices, our combination of localized expertise with data-driven technology puts us on the cutting edge of how content is created and consumed on the world’s biggest platforms. 

Founded in 2009, AppWorks is a startup community and venture capital firm built by founders, for founders. AppWorks Accelerator, the renowned 6-month free accelerator program, admits 30 - 40 AI, Blockchain, and Southeast Asia startups per batch from across the region and boasts 414 active startups and 1,396 founders in its alumni network. Collectively, all companies produce a turnover of US$ 12.9B, an annual increase of 124% compared to the same time last year, and poivide 18,591 jobs, 24% more than the year prior. Altogether, the Ecosystem raised a total of US$ 4.3B, an annual increase of 221%, with an aggregate valuation reaching US$ 17.4B, growing 231% YoY.  

As a VC, AppWorks manages 3 funds at US$ 212 million. It invests in 20 deals a year, now with 70+ companies in its portfolio, including leading startups in such as Lalamove, Dapper Labs, 91APP, Animoca Brands, Carousell, ShopBack, Tiki, 17LIVE, and KKday, while having produced 5 IPOs, 3 IEOs, 1 hectocorn, 2 decacorns, and 4 unicorns. 

Khailee Ng is a managing partner of  500 Startups, a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm. Beyond investing in Silicon Valley, 500 has set up more than a dozen funds in emerging markets, providing seed capital and growth programs to countries in the Middle East, Latin America and Southeast Asia. Since 2010, the firm has invested in over 2,200 startups in 70+ countries, in line with its goal of developing an inclusive and globally connected innovation economy.

With the firm, Khailee has led 180+  investments in Southeast Asian tech startups, including Grab, Carousell, and other regional champions. Prior to this, he was the founder of Groupsmore (acquired by Groupon) and Malaysia’s largest online media company, Says.com (acquired by Media Prima).

As every industry continues to be disrupted by new technology and evolving consumer landscapes, Khailee and 500 Startups specialize in discovering patterns of economic opportunity and investing in the entrepreneurs who will realize them. His investment activity and industry opinions are featured by Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, and Fortune, and the 500 Startups portfolio of companies have collectively raised over $10Billion USD. 

Vickers Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage and growth capital. The firm prefers to invest digital media, new-media, financial services innovations, healthcare, life science, communications, internet, mobile internet, clean energy and pharmaceutical businesses. It focuses on investments in China, South East Asia and USA. 

The firm was founded by Finian Tan, Khalil Binebine, Jeffrey Chi, Damian Tan, and Linda Li in 2005 and has offices in Singapore, China, Malaysia, Hong Kong, San Diego, New York and San Francisco. 

It seeks to invest between USD1 million (SGD1.42 million) and USD10 million (SGD14.27 million). The firm’s portfolio covers life sciences, technology, media, and telecommunications as well as consumer and financial services. Some of its clients include Baidu.com, Focus Media, Kongzhong Corp, Cambridge Real Estate Investment Trust, Sunfun Info Co., Asian Food Channel, UUCUN, TWG Tea, RTG Asia, and JJE as well as Samumed. 

As a Director, Kit provides critical support to the Group in evaluating key strategic decisions and driving execution across the Group’s main priorities. 

Kit brings significant corporate finance experience from 13 years at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, where he was an executive director in the investment banking division, focusing on coverage of technology, media and telecommunications companies in the Asia Pacific region. At Goldman Sachs, Kit led and executed various large and sophisticated corporate finance transactions across Southeast Asia, China, Australia and India, including mergers and acquisitions, de-mergers, initial public offerings and debt offerings. 

He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Arif Khan is the CEO and co-founder of Alethea AI, a decentralized protocol to create intelligent and interactive NFTs powered by Open AI’s GPT-3 engine. Alethea AI is creating a new NFT standard, termed the Intelligent NFT (iNFT) by embedding AI animation, interaction, and voice synthesis capabilities into NFTs. As creators of the First ever iNFT, Alethea partnered with the leading auction house Sotheby’s and the artist Robert Alice, to create and auction the first interactive and intelligent virtual character, Alice. Alethea’s protocol is backed by leading institutions like Metapurse, Bitkraft, Dapper Labs, Galaxy Interactive, Gemini, Mark Cuban, Crypto.com and Multicoin, IDEO and others. 

Arif has been regularly invited to speak at major global events like The World Economic Forum, World Web Forum, and has guest lectured at the Singapore Management University’s MBA program. He is a top writer for Artificial Intelligence on Medium.com and his work has been covered or featured in CBS, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal & The New York Times. 

Alethea AI is building a decentralized protocol to create an Intelligent Metaverse inhabited by Interactive and Intelligent NFTs. As originators of the iNFT standard, Alethea AI is on the cutting edge of embedding AI animation, interaction and generative AI capabilities into NFTs.  Developers can use the Alethea AI protocol to Create, Train and Earn from their iNFTs in the world’s first Intelligent Metaverse known as Noah’s Ark. 

Having developed and deployed the iNFT Protocol on the Ethereum Mainnet, the Alethea AI team is now building an Intelligent Metaverse called Noah's Ark, that aims to preserve and evolve the culture, stories and collective intelligence of the human species. 

Creators and communities will soon demand to do more with their NFTs, and the Alethea AI team sees the Noah’s Ark Intelligent Metaverse as the connective tissue for all the various NFT projects creating meaningfully rich, free-flowing, and interactive consumer experiences built on a crypto-native stack.  

Varun Mittal has deep experience at the cross-section of digital business building and finance. Previously working as a Partner at EY, he led global emerging markets fintech and ASEAN digital banking practice supporting fintech startups, financial institutions and regulators. Earlier in his career, he was the first marketing and sales employee at helloPay (acquired by ANT Financial, Alibaba Group), Varun led payments for Samsung in ASEAN and developed regional mobile payment solutions at Singtel Group. As co-founder of the Singapore Fintech Association & ASEAN Fintech Network, he works closely with startups, educational institutions, investors and regulators. As an accomplished author, he has written multiple books covering the journey and evolution of  Singapore as a global fintech hub. He undertook his MBA at the National University of Singapore and computer science engineering as his undergraduate major.  As an active angel investor, he set up Boleh Ventures to support high growth ventures in ASEAN, India and Africa. 

KPMG is a global network of professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services.

In Australia, KPMG has approximately 6,700 people, including over 400 partners, and has offices around the country, allowing us to work with clients across the country to solve complex challenges, steer change, disrupt sectors and grow.

KPMG’s Deal Advisory team is a leading advisor both domestically and globally, and consistently ranks among the world’s leading Deal Advisory advisors with a focus on middle-market transactions. In Australia, the team was recently recognised as Mid-Market M&A Adviser of the Year for 2021.

Within our Deal Advisory team, our Equity Capital Markets Advisory team provides strategic and tactical advice to clients on raising equity in the global capital markets. Our ECM offering is distinguished from other accounting and consulting firms and our distinct perspective allows us to deliver impartial advice to clients and act as their trusted adviser over the long term.

Based in Northern California, Allen is part of the global leadership team at Endeavor, a mission-driven organization focused on supporting high-growth companies in emerging and underserved markets.  

 As the Managing Director of Endeavor Catalyst, Allen leads Endeavor’s innovative co-investment fund that has been recognized as one of the most active global venture investors in markets like Latin America and the Middle East. Since launching in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has raised over $250M+ across three funds and made 200+ investments in 30+ different countries, including 37 companies now valued at $1B+.  

A native Californian and travel enthusiast, Allen has studied, worked and traveled in more than 75+ countries. A graduate of Princeton University, he is a Fulbright Scholar (Germany, 2004) and a Kauffman Fellow (Class 16). He lives with his wife and young daughter in Sacramento, California. 

Rexy Dorado has always been passionate about unlocking the creative and economic forces of the global Filipino community. This drive helped him create Kaya Collaborative in 2013. The program connected Filipino leaders from abroad to high-impact organizations in the Philippines. After his stint at Kaya, he then went on to co-found kumu in 2018. Since its launch, the app has amassed a base of over 10 million registered users and has been downloaded in over 55 countries. kumu has reached the #1 Grossing Social App in the Philippines.  

As the Managing Director of Endeavor Malaysia, Adlin aims to grow and strengthen the Malaysian chapter to create a large and long-lasting impact for the local ecosystem. 

Prior to joining Endeavor, Adlin has co-founded 3 companies in different industries (media, o2o and fintech). He has also served large MNCs and corporates on digital transformation initiatives and venture building efforts.  

Aldi is the Partner at Arise, an Indonesia-focused early-stage VC fund in partnership with Telkom Indonesia-backed MDI Ventures and Bank BCA-backed Finch Capital.   

He is also the VP of Investments at MDI Ventures, an $830 Million AUM Global Multi-Fund VC Firm investing in local founders. Aldi is leading the overall global investment activities to focus on seed-to-growth equity stage startups across 3 Offices (ID, SG, USA) with portfolios that represent 12+ Countries including 3 Unicorns (Nium, FinAccel, and MPL) and leading Centaurs such as PayFazz (YC S17), Aruna, OY!, SiCepat, Wavecell (Exited to 8x8), RDP (Exited to PayU Naspers), and Whispir (IPO at ASX). 

Prior to MDI, he was in charge of setting up, leading, and managing investments of a Silicon Valley-based VC firm and Fintech focused VC arm of Bank Mandiri in the SEA region with portfolios which includes Alodokter, Investree, Koinworks, Amartha, Bridestory (Exited to Tokopedia), Moka (Exited to Gojek), Urbanindo (Exited to 99.co) Jurnal & Talenta (Exited to Mekari), and Cashlez (IPO at IDX). 

Recently, Aldi was awarded as the only GCV Powerlist Top 100 from the SEA region among other top global CVCs such as Softbank, Intel Capital, GV, M12, Naspers, Tencent, and Alibaba.

Arise is an Indonesia-focused early-stage VC fund in partnership with Telkom Indonesia-backed MDI Ventures and Bank BCA-backed Finch Capital. Arise focuses to enable the next generation of start-up founders to scale up and build a 'Real Business' with interesting tech in Southeast Asia. 

Arise provide long-term capital, strategic go-to-market networks, and hands-on company building based on a proven global track record from our partnership with MDI Ventures and Finch Capital in Indonesia, Singapore, Europe, South Korea, and Silicon Valley. 

Timothy decided a career in finance wasn't the right path for him after graduating with a degree in risk management. He had worked as a tutor in university and developed an interest in the dynamics of the tutor-student relationship. He also began questioning the efficiency of conventional, brick-and-mortar tutoring centers and thought that there was a better way. In 2016, Forbes Asia named Timothy to the exclusive list of 30 under 30. Snapask is now supporting more than 4.5 million students with 400,000 tutors in 9 Asian countries - Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Snapask raised US$35 million in funding in 2019, led by Asia Partners, Intervest, and Ondine Capital. The company, to date, has closed more than US$50 million in funding. Curiosity and the freedom to ask questions are crucial to knowledge and learning, Timothy believed. “It begins with a question...” thus became his motto and woven into everything that the company does. 

Ryoko started her career as a strategic consultant, but her experience covers a wide range: from Start-up to Big corporation and from Consumer goods to Pharmaceutical and Tech companies. Prior to joining Endeavor Japan, which was established in 2017, Ryoko worked at PwC’s Strategy & (Former PRTM) as a Marketing Manager and a Consultant. Before joining PwC, she worked at a start-up company and helped to establish two divisions. She also has experience in big corporations such as US pharmaceutical & Medical device company where she led several projects including Sales/Marketing process transformation projects, and a global strategy consulting firm founded in the US where she worked as a consultant.   

Now at Endeavor Japan, she focuses on “globalizing” Japanese start-up ecosystem by connecting entrepreneurs and investors in Japan and overseas.   

B.S, in Engineering, B.S, in Agriculture and Life science from Cornell University. (Dual Degree)  

Endeavor is the world’s leading community of high-impact entrepreneurs. Founded in 1997, Endeavor is a global organization with a mission to unlock the transformational power of entrepreneurship by selecting, supporting, and investing in the world’s top founders. Endeavor’s network spans nearly 40 countries and supports more than 2,100 entrepreneurs, whose companies generate combined revenues of over $28 billion US, have created more than 3.9 million jobs, and, in 2020. Endeavor’s unique entrepreneur-first model and network of trust provide a platform for founders to dream big, scale up, and pay it forward to the next generation of entrepreneurs.  

Since started in Japan in 2017, we have selected and supported 15 EEs (Endeavor Entrepreneurs) leading 10 companies.  

Oscar Ramos, an entrepreneur-turned-investor, is Partner at SOSV,  Managing Director of Chinaccelerator, and Partner at MOX. Chinaccelerator is the cross-border internet arm of venture capital fund SOSV ($990m AUM) , where Oscar invests broadly across enterprise SaaS and cross-border internet startups, manages the accelerator program, and serves on the Board of Directors of several portfolio companies. In his current role, Oscar has made investment decisions and helped accelerate the growth of 160+ startups.  

A “full-stack innovator” with expertise ranging from technology and product design to corporate strategy and venture capital, Oscar built and led his own micro-VC fund investing in early-stage Chinese startups prior to joining SOSV Chinaccelerator. He began his career in the corporate sector working in R&D with Ericsson and Telefonica in deep-tech applications such as mobile network protocols, cybersecurity, RF and bio-technology. His passion for innovation propelled him to move to China in early 2008 and drop out of his Biomedical Ph.D. program to start his first venture. Since then, he has since been involved in various areas of innovation as an entrepreneur, investor, and advisor to startups and multinationals. He currently sits on the Board of multiple startups. He holds a Masters of Engineering in Telecommunication from UPM. 

See Wai Hun is the co-founder and CEO of JurisTech, a leading Malaysian-based fintech company, specialising in enterprise-class software solutions for banks, financial institutions, and telecommunications companies in Malaysia, Southeast Asia, and beyond. Holding a degree in Business Computing from the University of Winnipeg with Gold Medal honours, Wai Hun started her career with Ernst & Young (EY), consulting and implementing enterprise systems. 

Seeing a gap in the market, Wai Hun seized the opportunity during the Asian financial crisis and co-founded JurisTech. As a visionary and a risk-taker, she saw the future of fintech through the lens of artificial intelligence (AI) and built AI capabilities ahead of time. In 2020, Wai Hun led the company to acquire iMoney, a leading personal finance company. She believes that the two businesses, JurisTech and iMoney, are poised to shape and revolutionise the financial industry. 

Wai Hun is a strong advocate for culture building and is very invested in her employees' personal growth and career development. She was named EY Woman Entrepreneur Of The Year 2019 in Malaysia. She was also awarded an Outstanding Achievement award in the Female Entrepreneur of the Year category at the annual Star Outstanding Business Awards (SOBA). 

JurisTech (Juris Technologies) is a leading Malaysian-based fintech-enabler company, specialising in enterprise-class software solutions for banks, financial institutions, and telecommunications companies in Malaysia, Southeast Asia, and beyond.  

Founded amidst the 1997 Asian financial crisis, JurisTech provides software solutions for artificial intelligence (AI), conversational chatbots, digital customer onboarding, loan origination, credit scoring, loan documentation, litigation, and debt collections. We have been working with banks and financial institutions (FI) to revolutionise the way financial transactions are made. Our solutions have enabled banks and FIs to transform digitally, achieve better customer experience/journey, and most importantly, fulfil their business goals. 

At JurisTech, we nurture our culture by practising our GECO core values: Growing Heroes, Making Excellence Happen, Customer First, and Opening Up. We believe in investing in employees’ personal growth and career development. We love to solve problems, create amazing software solutions, and build and enrich lives. Hence, we have set out to become the best credit management solutions provider in the world! 

Prayaank heads the Growth and Innovation teams at PRecious. In his role, he helps in identifying, planning and driving the agency’s regional growth. As a communications professional, he brings a strong technical understanding to his role, having supported domestic, regional and global public relations campaigns from Singapore. This includes driving global communications for clients ranging from technology innovators, market disruptors, challenger brands,  established enterprises and corporates. He is an active supporter of Asia’s digital ecosystem, having worked with over 350+ startups, accelerators, company builders, venture capital firms and several unicorn brands.  

Prayaank has served as a panel moderator at key regional conferences and events and was  named among the top PR Professionals in Asia-Pacific by Campaign Asia in 2019 - the only representative from Southeast Asia and winning Rising Star of the Year (Independent Agency) at Marketing’s Talent Awards 2019. 

PRecious Communications is a regional integrated communications agency combining traditional and digital capabilities - and providing holistic communications consultancy to clients across different industries. The agency combines innovative thinking and creativity to deliver bespoke results-driven communications solutions, including PR, social media, content marketing, creative content, investor relations, crisis communications, leadership communications and media training. 

Considered one of the top 5 PR agencies in the APAC region, PRecious has won awards and received numerous nominations and honourable mentions for some of its campaigns. It serves local, regional and global brands across its dedicated practices: PRecious Edge, which counsels technology disruptors; PRecious INC., which provides high-level advisory to corporates;  PRecious Life, which supports lifestyle and consumer brands; and PRecious Sparks, which serves growing start-ups and investment firms. 

James is Co-head of Asia Pacific Technology & Communications Investment Banking for Citigroup. After first joining Citigroup in New York in 1997, James rejoined in Singapore at the end of 2020 from Zilingo, where he was Chief Financial Officer. 

During his career at Citi, James helped tech companies raise over $160 billion, including proceeds from 40 IPOs, and advised on over $100 billion in M&A. Over this time, he spent a decade in Palo Alto, California, on the M&A team and a decade in Hong Kong running the tech team. 

He graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in Finance and International Business and a B.S. in French. 

Richard has recently worked together with Temasek and Rabobank on two major thought pieces covering the food and agriculture space and opportunity for investment across Asia: 

https://www.theasiafoodchallenge.com/ 

At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems - this is at the core of everything we do from the value we provide to our clients and society to the decisions we make as a corporate. 

Our services started with audit and assurance over a century ago. As times change and the issues faced by businesses and individuals evolved, we have developed specialised capabilities in tax, advisory and consulting to help you address emerging new challenges across focus areas like digital transformation, cyber security and privacy, data, sustainability, mergers and acquisitions, and more. 

In Singapore, we have more than 3,500 partners and staff to help resolve complex issues and identify opportunities for public, private and government organisations to progress. As part of the PwC network of more than 284,000 people in 155 countries, we are among the leading professional services networks in the world focusing on helping organisations and individuals create the value they are looking for. 

Accelerating Asia is an accelerator VC that runs programs for early-stage startups and investors. Licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Accelerating Asia's early-stage VC fund focuses on pre-Series A startups with untapped potential that are 6-18 months away from institutional funding. Accelerating Asia invests up to S$200,000 in pre-Series A startups, and the current portfolio covers ten countries in Southeast and South Asia including Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Malaysia. 

With most angel investors and startup programs in the region focussed on ideation-minimum viable product stage startups, and venture funds focused on solid product-market fit, startups with a robust product at early stages of customer traction are often overlooked. That's where Accelerating Asia comes in. Accelerating Asia unlocks potential in startups. Our accelerator and venture capital model is designed to support pre-Series A startups to fast track growth and drive success. 

At the core of the work we do is the guiding belief that entrepreneurs are one of humanity's greatest catalysts for positive change. 

A Malaysian-grown tech professional with 17 years of experience across various industries with positions both in the private sector and GLIC/GLCs, Dzuleira started her career in the early 2000s and now carries with her the vast expertise on private equity and venture capitalism to lead Technology Park Malaysia (TPM).  

In her years of venture capital career, she has evaluated countless deals and invested in many Malaysian and regional companies. Dzuleira weaves these pieces of knowledge and experience as an advocate for the startup community while leading Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre (MaGIC) and initiated programs critical to technology development such as National Innovation and Technology Sandbox (NTIS) and the critically-acclaimed Global Accelerator Program (GAP).  

As TPM’s CEO, she currently carries the mandate to transform the company into a premier tech park to lead the commercialisation of homegrown technology.  

Technology Park Malaysia Corporation Sdn Bhd (TPM) is the innovation facilitator and technology enabler of Malaysia. It was established by the Ministry of Finance and operates under the auspices of the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI).  

As the national driver of innovation and technology, TPM manages and operates Malaysia's leading 686-acre technology park campus in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur. With its physical incubator and tech infrastructure, it is the only 4th generation incubator service provider in the country offering a comprehensive range of services. 

As one of the SPAC market pioneers, James has serves as a sponsor or director on six SPACs that have raised over $1.8 billion in aggregate from their IPOs since 2011, with the most recent ones being CEO of Graf Acquisition Corp IV (NYSE: GFOR) and independent director of Catcha Investment Corp (NYSE: CHAA) in 2021.  

Other SPAC-related roles include CEO of Graf Industrial Corp (merged with Velodyne Lidar), non-independent director of Platinum Eagle Acquisition Corp (merged with Target Logistics Management and RL Signor Holdings), CFO of Double Eagle Acquisition Corp (merged with Williams Scotsman), CFO of Silver Eagle Acquisition Corp (merged with Videocon d2h Limited), CFO of Global Eagle Acquisition Corp (merged with Row 44, Inc and Advanced Inflight Alliance AG).  

From 2008 to 2011 James served as a managing director of pan-Asian investment bank TC Capital Ltd. in Singapore. From 2007 to 2008, James was a financial advisor to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. In 2001, James founded and became CEO of Praedea Solutions Inc., an enterprise software company with operations in the US, Malaysia and Ukraine. Prior to founding Praedea, James held various investment banking roles with Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank/Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, Smith Barney, and Morgan Stanley across the US and Asia, including roles as President and Managing Director of Deutsche’s investment banking entities in Hong Kong and managing director of Merrill Lynch in Singapore.  

Ian Ow is an entrepreneur, investor and technology fan. He is the founder and CEO of Ablr, a FinTech company with a mission to humanize financial services that improve people’s lives. 

Ablr enables businesses to allow customers to pay for goods and services over time with no hidden or late fees in an industry commonly referred to as buy now pay later (BNPL). 

Ian was previously involved at a tech accelerator and various venture-backed start-ups. He is driven by the desire to utilize technology, design and data to advance the financial industry and make a positive social impact. 

Ian holds a Bachelor of Science in Management from University of London and has FinTech and Blockchain certifications from Harvard and MIT respectively. 

Xavier Anguera is the co-founder and CTO of ELSA Corp. Within ELSA he is responsible for engineering, research in speech/AI and data science. Prior to ELSA, he founded a digital electronic/audio-books publisher to help language learners getting used to a new language while reading. Earlier on he was a founding researcher in the multimedia research department at Telefonica, where he pursued research in speech and multimedia processing. Xavier holds a PhD in speech processing and is the coauthor of over 120 published research publications. He is also the co-inventor in multiple patents and an active contributor to the open source community.