Zheng Wei Quah, a member of Gen E's alpha cohort, joins us to discuss the sharp ascent of his start-up Accredify, which after less than three years has 900+ paying customers. Having originally been founded to allow various organizations to verify educational credentials, Accredify finished 2021 deriving an astonishing 60% of its revenues from the healthcare vertical, where its technology is critical to verifying COVID records and the like.  Zheng Wei discusses the criticality of blockchain in balancing the needs for verification & authentication, while ensuring adequate privacy and th ..read more

Cofounder of leading SME point-of-sale and marketing solutions provider Waffle, Auston Quek, delves deep into past experiences that have inspired him along his path to becoming an entrepreneur. A member of the Gen E beta cohort, Auston describes the "energy of Silicon Valley" during his one-year NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) program there as "10X anything I have ever seen". Time in the National Service (NS) meanwhile forced him to embrace uncertainty and "enjoy the ride", two practices that have been crucial in growing Waffle to its current scale of 80+ locations after a mere 12 months.  ..read more

Bell Beh, Cofounder & CEO of BuzzAR, joins the Singapore Rising podcast to share with us the rich mosaic of success and setback from early in life that have underpinned her rise as an entrepreneur. BuzzAR similarly is a start-up that spans an amalgam of products, from gaming to AR/VR and mobile app development. The company will broaden its portfolio of offerings to add elements such as social networking and NFT's on its path to building an "inclusive metaverse".  ..read more

Janson Seah is cofounder of StaffAny, a SaaS start-up that simplifies scheduling and time-tracking for business owners.  A member of Gen E's initial "Alpha Cohort", Janson reflects on what a powerful raw material the trials & tribulations of managing a bar out of university offered in forming the basic functionality of StaffAny, which also aids enterprises in reducing cost of operations by minimising time theft and overtime spend. Janson also shared several valuable learnings for fellow entrepreneurs from StaffAny's recent successful fund-raising ..read more

We are joined this episode by Gen E riser Yoeven Khemlani, Cofounder of leading real-time flexible booking platform Stayr. Yoeven discusses his love of coding from an early age, and how he negotiated his pursuit of Game Design Development at Temasek Poly within Singapore norms that favoured more traditional roles such as law and banking. Transparency, and "understanding what the employee's dreams are", have been key to Stayr's success as it grows in a very competitive market for headcount. Yoeven also shares entertaining examples of how the Stayr booking app is transforming hotel rooms in ..read more

Our guest on this inaugural episode of "Singapore Rising" is Gen E Riser Nirali Zaveri, CEO and Cofounder at Friz, a neobank for the creator economy. Nirali reflects on her path from financial juggernaut Mastercard to the life of a start-up founder. Nirali also shares key tips around everything from raising a successful round, to gaining acceptance into the selective Y-Combinator program. We hope you enjoy this, our first ever episode! Please consider sharing a review of the podcast on your favourite platform, or reforwarding the episode on LinkedIn or your favourite social platform ..read more