Steve is an investor, advisor, and award-winning tech entrepreneur with 28 years of building businesses in Asia and Europe. This includes scaling teams from 2 to 1,500 people, raising over $400M in funding, M&A deals, and investing in and mentoring green-tech start-ups. He’s passionate about entrepreneurship, climate change, and social equality. In 2007, Steve co-founded PropertyGuru out of personal frustration, and set out to increase transparency and “empower consumers to make confident property decisions”. He led the business as CEO for the first 10+ years, growing it from scratch into ..read more

Jeep Kline is a seasoned venture capitalist, a senior executive at Intel and pre-IPO technology companies, a World Bank economist, and a faculty at UC Berkeley with more than 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry. Her multi-industry career paths are threaded together in one big theme: global impact. She believes that “financial returns are necessary but not sufficient; impact returns are also required”. This has been the guiding principle of her career that yields positive results across multiple industries and economies. As a venture investor, Ms. Kline co-founded a venture capital ..read more

David runs operations and the Deal Hub at On Deck Angels, where he and the team help angel investors refine their investing craft so that they can be some of the world's most helpful angels. He also co-leads DECODE's fund accelerator program that helps experienced angel investors raise their first funds. Outside of On Deck and DECODE, he's a scout for seed and Series A deals in consumer technology, a mentor at multiple startup accelerators including Techstars and Alchemist Accelerator, and writes weekly on his personal blog, Cup of Zhou. Read more about On Deck Angels here https://ww ..read more

Zécca J. Lehn is the General Partner of Responsibly Ventures, based in California, backing U.S. PreSeed startups in both Social and Sustainable Tech—using multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a guidepost per investment. Over the past 15+ years, he has worked as an Environmental Economist, Data Scientist, Non-Profit Board Member, and Co-Founder. He grew up in an off-the-grid Japanese-style home, on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest. Through his world travels and living in Scandinavia during his early 20s, he discovered a deep love for people, the planet, and diverse cultur ..read more

Yaw was previously the GM of International Product and Business for CDN, Edge Computing, Video, and cPaaS under Alibaba Cloud from 2019 to 2021. Prior to Alibaba, he was responsible for new market expansion in the Asia-Pacific region for Twilio and has been intimately involved in the Twilio journey since the early days of 2012. Yaw currently spends his time investing in startups, as part of XA Network and personally. He's keenly interested in helping startups scale and transform Southeast Asia for the better. Find out more about XA Network here https://xanetwork.co/ Connect with Yaw on Linkedi ..read more

Nick is the Founder and Managing Partner of Velocity Ventures with over 3 decades of experience as a CEO, board leader, professional investor, and successful entrepreneur in Asia. Prior to founding Velocity Ventures, Nick was CEO of Readymix and ReadyVentures. As CEO of Readymix, he expanded the family business from Australia to Southeast Asia and built a sizeable presence across Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam. Thereafter, as CEO of ReadyVentures, Nick invested S$20 million in over 15 start-ups across Southeast Asia and Australia, achieving successful exits, follow-on inve ..read more

Sheel is a co-founder of Better Tomorrow, a seed-stage venture capital fund investing in Fintech companies globally. His own startup experience includes 2 successful Fintech exits — a payments company and a high-stakes auction company — and he’s GP of the 500 Fintech fund. He formerly worked as a financial services consultant at BCG and started his Fintech career at the non-profit p2p lender, Kiva. Read more about Better Tomorrow Ventures here https://www.btv.vc/ or connect with them on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-tomorrow-ventures/. You can connect directly ..read more

Alwyn Rusli is a founding member of the venture investment arm of Trihill Capital, investing primarily in pre-seed to growth industry disruptors in Southeast Asia. He sources, leads, and supports portfolio companies around the clock as any good investor should be. He is also an angel investor in enterprise & consumer platforms and actively advises early-stage startups across different ends. On the side, he writes about the tech ecosystem in Southeast Asia at www.001.partners. Read more about Trihill Capital here https://www.trihillcapital.com/ or connect with them on Linkedin here https ..read more

Joseph started his career as a scientist, developing new cancer therapies during his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. He co-founded a medical device startup during his studies which brought him into the world of business and his first interactions with VCs. He first learned about active investing during his time at DM Capital in Shenzhen, helping launch their first fund, Harmony. He then joined Oliver Wyman’s health and life sciences practice to understand and develop strategies towards addressing key business and market needs for his global healthcare clients and did so for over 75 project ..read more

Franco is the Managing Partner at Foxmont Capital Partners, a Philippine-focused early-stage venture capital fund by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. Prior to Foxmont, Franco was the Founding General Manager of Grab Philippines. He is an Experienced Operator with a demonstrated history of working in early-stage high-growth startups in Asia. He is skilled in Business Planning, Operations Management, Sales, and Strategy. He excels in Business Development and strategizing for key partnerships. He holds a BA in International Relations and English from Syracuse University. Read more about Foxmont ..read more