PODCAST · business
One More Scoop
by BackScoop and Amanda Cua
One More Scoop is where you get to hear the unfiltered stories of Southeast Asia's top tech startup founders, executives and VC investors. Listen to their personal journeys, get to know who they really are and find out what actually happens behind the scenes. It’s honest. It’s casual. And this is totally not your usual “thought-leader” kind of thing. One More Scoop is a podcast by BackScoop. BackScoop is a free daily newsletter read by thousands of founders, execs and investors in Southeast Asia. We make it fun and easy to stay updated with the latest news on Southeast Asian tech and startups in minutes. Subscribe for free: www.backscoop.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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One More Scoop with CJ Looi
CJ Looi is the co-founder and CEO of PixCap. There, PixCap's mission is to make 3D accessible to everyone, starting with graphic design. 3D opens up many possibilities for designers, including mockups, realistic visuals and animations. Yet, the complexity of accessing 3D technology remains a...
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One More Scoop with Dhruv Arora
Dhruv Arora is the Founder and CEO of Syfe, Asia’s leading holistic digital wealth management platform empowering people to build their wealth for a better future. Built on the pillars of access, advice and affordability, Syfe caters to the different wealth needs of individuals with diversified...
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One More Scoop with Joe Zhang
Joe Zhang is a Partner at TNB Aura, focusing on the fund's operations in research, investment, and portfolio management. Before TNB Aura, he worked at Fosun RZ Capital, where he focused on investments in Southeast Asia's growing tech startups. Joe's background includes venture building…
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One More Scoop with Patrick Gentry
Patrick Gentry is the founder and CEO of Sprout Solutions, a SaaS startup building HR solutions for the Philippines. In 2023, they raised a $10.7M Series B. Before Sprout, Patrick was the co-founder of KMC Solutions and was working for a startup in Silicon Valley. Like the show? Subscribe to the...
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One More Scoop with Stacie Chan
Stacie Chan is the Co-founder and Chief Business Officer at 1BStories, an AI storytelling company. She spent eight and a half years at Google leading product partnerships on Google's 1 billion user consumer products including Google News, Search, Web and Assistant. Before Google, she was an...
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One More Scoop with Joan Yao
Joan Yao is the Vice President of Investments at Kickstart Ventures Inc., the corporate venture capital arm of Globe Telecom. Prior to Kickstart, she was Investment Manager for Southeast Asia at LGT Venture Philanthropy, a global impact investing firm headquartered in Europe. Kickstart Ventures...
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One More Scoop with Rishab Malik
Rishab is Partner, Seed investments at Jungle and heads up First Cheque@Jungle. He has a passion for building businesses and working closely with entrepreneurs through key inflection points in their journey. As an angel investor with 15+ companies in his portfolio, Rishab loves rolling up his...
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One More Scoop with Fandy Cendrajaya
Fandy Cendrajaya is the Founding Partner of Kopital Ventures, a pre-seed and seed-focused fund based in Southeast Asia that is looking to invest in 40 Companies in the next three years. Before Kopital Ventures, Fandy was an angel investor and F&B entrepreneur. Topics: [00:02:08] - Childhood and...
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One More Scoop with Abhay Saboo
Abhay Saboo is the co-founder and CEO of CoLearn, one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing K-12 edtech platforms. By providing access to the best teachers across the country for just $7/month through cohort-based live classes, CoLearn is gradually increasing the motivation of Indonesians to learn....
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From side hustle to raising a $2.8M seed. | Reinaldo Tendean co-founder of Finku
Reinaldo Tendean is the co-founder of Finku, a personal finance app that serves 700,000 Indonesians. Their app solves the inefficiencies of financial planning through seamless tracking, spending analysis and help support Indonesians receive access to financial products as well. In 2022, they…
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Are you in love with it or the idea of it? Uber ANZ , building in Southeast Asia, getting diagnosed with cancer | Chris Withers, founder and CEO of klikit
Chris is the founder of Klikit, with an enterprise technology stack. Klikit helps restaurants, bars, and hotels become far more efficient in their day-to-day operations by providing an all-in-one operating system for them to manage their key and core services. Previously VP at Gojek and the first...
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Solo GP Funds, Southeast Asia, and Global connections | Wing Vasiksiri, Founder and General Partner of WV
Wing Vasiksiri has raised two solo-GP seed funds focused on Southeast Asia. He is currently the founder and general partner at WV, having previously founded iSeed SEA in 2020. He partners with founders at the earliest possible stages with a focus on Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, and Vietnam....
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From 21-year old founder to $50M Series D. Scaling as a founder and how to last | Ying Cong Seah, co-founder and Head of Labs of Glints
Ying Cong Seah is the co-founder and Head of Labs for Glints. He is responsible for new products and market development. He currently leads the Vietnam marketplace. At 21, he dropped out of Wharton Business School to run Glints full-time; building and leading the data, product, and engineering...
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Take yourself out as a CEO before the board takes you out. Breaking the founder-centric model | Henry Motte Muñoz, founder and CEO of Edge Tutor
Henry Motte-Muñoz is the founder of Philippine EdTech, Edukasyon.ph, and also serves as a founder and CEO of a new venture called EDGE Tutor, which was spun out of Edukasyon. EDGE Tutor is a platform that offers comprehensive tutor support solutions, from sourcing and screening, to training and...
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From fresh grad to CEO in 3 years, then taking his startup from zero to IPO in 7 years | Kosuke Sogo, Co-founder and CEO of AnyMind Group
Kosuke Sogo is CEO and co-founder of AnyMind Group, and oversees the expansion and growth of the company and its business units in globally. AnyMind Group is a technology company for the business supply chain that provides software and solutions for end-to-end commerce enablement. Before founding...
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Building for and investing in emerging markets, from China to Indonesia | Adrian Li, Founder & Managing Partner of AC Ventures
Adrian Li is the founder and managing partner of AC Ventures, formerly known as Convergence Ventures. AC Ventures is an early stage, Indonesia-focused tech VC fund. They manage five funds with an AUM of over $500 million and a portfolio of over 120 businesses. Investments led for the fund include...
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“Staying the course” is important in investments, does the principle translate to life? | Jeremy Tan, Co-founder of B2B VC firm Tin Men Capital
Jeremy Tan is the co-founder of Tin Men Capital, a venture capital firm that invests primarily in B2B technology startups focused on Southeast Asia. Before Tin Men, Jeremy started as a first class chemical engineering graduate from Cambridge trying to break in the world of finance. He worked his...
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One More Scoop with Dondi Hananto
Dondi Hananto is a Partner at Patamar Capital based in Indonesia. Before Patamar Capital, he made early stage investments through Kinara Indonesia and prior to that spent 13 years in commercial banking. He started his career at HSBC and 2 other Indonesian banks, where he served in various roles...
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One More Scoop with Vamsi Krishna
Vamsi Krishna is Co-founder and CPO at Multiplier, a global employment platform that allows businesses to employ compliantly in markets where a legal entity has not been established. He leads the product development of Multiplier, ensuring that the infrastructure, platforms and automation…
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One More Scoop with Amit Saberwal
Amit Saberwal is the Founder and CEO of RedDoorz, Southeast Asia’s largest and fastest-growing online hotel management and booking platform. He began his career in the traditional hospitality industry at notable hotels across India. Then, he joined the travel tech scene with India’s largest…
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One More Scoop with Jeep Kline
Jeep Kline is a Founding Partner at MrPink VC, a LATAM-focused fund. She also is an operating executive and is currently president and board of directors at AHEAD Medicine, a life science company in the US. And before AHEAD Medicine, she is also a senior executive at Intel, where she pioneered,...
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One More Scoop with Hester Spiegel
Hester Spiegel is the Co-founder of Epic Angels, the largest female only angel investor network investing in startups in APAC and the founder of the school 42 campuses in Germany. Before becoming a founder and entrepreneur, she had an international career with Price Waterhouse Coopers and…
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One More Scoop with Cha-Ly Koh
Cha-Ly Koh is the Founder and CEO of Urbanmetry, a data company that cleans and analyses large amounts of city data, through its proprietary algorithms. Trained in city planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cha-Ly hopes to help governments, city planners, corporations and urban...
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One More Scoop with Brian Lim
Brian Lim is Head of Rainmaking Expand at Rainmaking APAC, a venture development firm recently acquired by consulting firm Bain and Co. that builds new startups and helps the world's most promising startups scale in new markets. Through Rainmaking Expand, Brian and his team help growth-stage...
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One More Scoop with Susli Lie
Susli Lie is a Partner at Monk's Hill Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage tech startups in Southeast Asia. Before Monk’s Hill, Susli co-founded ErudiFi, a Y Combinator backed tech-enabled education financing company with presence in Indonesia and the Philippines. Born and...
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One More Scoop with Sagar Khatri
Sagar Khatri is the Co-founder and CEO of Multiplier, a comprehensive platform to take care of your global teams’ payroll, taxes, social contributions and local insurance policies. They last raised a $60M Series B in 2022. Topics: [00:02:23] - Childhood in small town India. [00:04:21]…
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One More Scoop with Alfredo Molinas
Alfredo Molinas was CEO of FoodRazor, a Singaporean F&B startup that he joined in 2020. FoodRazor got acquired by fellow F&B startup OrderEz earlier this year. Before joining FoodRazor, Alf finished off his MBA at INSEAD and spent over 7 years working in Asia at Rakuten and Education First.…
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One More Scoop with Daan Van Rossum
Daan van Rossum is the Founder and CEO of FlexOS, a Work Tech startup that helps hybrid and remote managers level up their leadership game. The company raised $1 million from investors including DO Ventures, VIK Partners, Vulpes Ventures, Hustle Fund, Wing Vasiksiri (iSeed SEA), and Plug and Play...
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One More Scoop with Mark Sng
Mark Sng is a Partner at Gentree Fund, a Philippine VC firm anchored by the Sy Family, and focused on Philippine startups and Southeast Asian startups looking to enter the Philippine market. Before Gentree, Mark was a VC at Go-Ventures, a Gojek backed VC fund and also held roles at Gojek and TAEL...
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One More Scoop with Tim Grassin
Timothée Grassin is the Co-founder and CCO of TendoPay, a Philippine startup that offers employee benefits. They were recently acquired by Tonik, a Series B fintech in the Philippines. Before TendoPay, Tim founded two agencies focused on design and advertising. Topics: [00:00:00] - Raising Money…
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One More Scoop with Ami Sugyiama and Shusaku Hayakawa
Ami Sugiyama and Shusaku Hayakawa are the Co-founders of Secai Marche, a farm-to-table startup based in Malaysia. Since it was founded in 2018, Secai Marche has been bridging the gap between F&B retailers, hotels, restaurants, and cafes by connecting them directly with farmers in Japan and...
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One More Scoop with Winnie Chua
Winnie Chua is the Co-founder and CPO of full-stack insurtech startup PolicyStreet. Founded in Malaysia in 2017, they recently raised a $15M Series B and are active across markets in Southeast Asia and Australia. Topics: [00:00:00] - Background and Childhood [00:04:50] - Choosing a Safe Career…
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One More Scoop with Bhavik Vashi
Bhavik Vashi is the Managing Director for Asia Pacific at Carta, a software company that aims to create more ownership in the world by creating a central registry of private assets, providing infrastructure for innovators, and enabling more liquidity. Carta is privately-held, with top-tier...
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One More Scoop with Yu Taniguchi
Yu Taniguchi is the CEO of TableCheck, a restaurant booking and guest experience platform with more than 8,000 clients worldwide and 237+ Michelin-starred restaurants in its portfolio. Their motto is ‘Dining Connected’ and their mission is to help restaurants and hospitality operators connect...
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One More Scoop with Tanuja Rajah
Tanuja Rajah is currently a Partner at M Venture Partners (MVP), an early-stage venture capital firm based in Singapore. Prior to joining MVP, she embarked on her own entrepreneurial journey by founding a dating startup called LoveSprk. Additionally, Tanuja has worked as a launch manager at...
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One More Scoop with Grace Sai
Grace Sai is the Co-founder and CEO of Unravel Carbon, an enterprise software that helps companies track and reduce their carbon emissions, backed by Sequoia and Y Combinator. Grace is a 2 times exited founder, a VC, a Kauffman Fellow, and is widely regarded as a node of the entrepreneurship...
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One More Scoop with Florian Jacques
Florian Jaques is the Co-founder and CEO of Midstay, a tech platform for remote workers that helps businesses and individuals break through the isolation of working from home. Florian describes how he went from being a gamer to a business owner and how Midstay is working to solve the problems of...
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One More Scoop with Nicolas Bivero
Nicolas Bivero is the CEO and Co-founder of Penbrothers, a professional employer organization (PEO) that helps companies around the world scale and grow their businesses through building remote teams from the Philippines. Nicolas is passionate about creating meaningful work opportunities for...
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One More Scoop with Erik Jonsson
Erik Jonsson is a Swedish entrepreneur who moved to Vietnam in 2011. He started his career in private equity before transitioning to entrepreneurship, Co-founding and being CEO of five ventures, including Zalora Vietnam and Adayroi. Currently, Erik is a Partner at Antler, a venture capital firm…
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One More Scoop with Franco Varona
Franco Varona is the Managing Partner of Foxmont Capital Partners, the Philippines' only independent VC firm. They recently announced the close of Fund 2 at $21M, which will invest in early-stage, Philippine-focused startups. Before Foxmont, Franco was the General Manager of Grab Philippines when...
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One More Scoop with Tiang Lim Foo
Tiang Lim Foo is the Managing Partner and Co-founder of Forge Ventures, a venture capital firm that aims to partner with founders in Southeast Asia at the pre-seed or seed stage. Before Forge, he was a Partner at SeedPlus, a seed fund in Southeast Asia Supported by SGInnovate, Jungle Ventures,...
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One More Scoop with Honey Mittal
Honey Mittal is the Co-founder and CEO of low-code startup Locofy.ai, which turns your designs into production-ready code you can place straight into your apps and websites. They raised a $3M pre-seed in 2022. Before Locofy, he was CPO at startups like FinAccel, Homage and Wego. How did he go…
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One More Scoop with Arnold Chan
Arnold Chan is the Hong Kong & Southeast Asia General Manager for Airwallex. He handles Airwallex’s overall business growth in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, building out its local commercial teams and operations and helping businesses in those regions leverage fintech solutions to grow...
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One More Scoop with Joshua Kevin
Joshua Kevin was the Founder and CEO of Talenta, an Indonesian HR software startup that was acquired by Mekari in 2018. Now, he is Experiments Lead at Xendit. What was his turning point after his "dark" childhood? How did organizing startup events and being a journalist and VC help him when he...
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One More Scoop with Fannie Lin
Fannie Lin is the Co-founder and CEO of Ailiverse, a no-code AutoDL platform that allows anyone to build custom Computer Vision models with small datasets. Before Ailiverse, Fannie co-founded her own edtech startup that taught affordable and high-quality GRE English courses to Chinese university...
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One More Scoop with Marina Tran-Vu
Marina Tran-Vu is the Founder and CEO of EQUO, a sustainable brand providing 100% plastic-free and compostable solutions for everyday single-use plastics. Their products are made from materials like grass, rice, coconut, sugarcane and coffee. They have raised over $1.3M for their seed round and...
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One More Scoop with Patricia Sosrodjojo
Patricia Sosrodjojo is a Partner at Seedstars International Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund focused on emerging and frontier markets. She is a seasoned investor and executive, having worked in the US, Asia, and globally. She has a passion for creativity, storytelling, and...
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One More Scoop with Beth Ann Lopez
Beth Ann Lopez is the Co-founder and CEO of Docosan, a Vietnamese health tech firm that connects thousands of healthcare professionals that provide online and offline care, as well as DTC, doctor-guided home testing, treatment, and monitoring packages, to enhance access to healthcare. Beth worked...
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One More Scoop with Jeremy Au
Jeremy Au is Chief of Staff and an Investor at Monks Hill Ventures. Apart from Monk’s Hill, he is an active angel investor and hosts the Brave Southeast Asia Tech podcast. Before Monk’s Hill, he co-founded and exited his startup called CozyKin in the US and co-founded the non-profit Conjunct...
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One More Scoop with Kimberly Yao
Kimberly Yao is the Co-founder and CEO of CloudEats, a multi-brand cloud kitchen active in the Philippines and Vietnam and recently raised $7M in a Series A extension. She previously co-founded and exited her liquor startup, Boozy, after two years of management. How did her F&B career influence…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
One More Scoop is where you get to hear the unfiltered stories of Southeast Asia's top tech startup founders, executives and VC investors.
Listen to their personal journeys, get to know who they really are and find out what actually happens behind the scenes. It’s honest. It’s casual. And this is totally not your usual “thought-leader” kind of thing.
One More Scoop is a podcast by BackScoop. BackScoop is a free daily newsletter read by thousands of founders, execs and investors in Southeast Asia. We make it fun and easy to stay updated with the latest news on Southeast Asian tech and startups in minutes.
Subscribe for free: www.backscoop.com.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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BackScoop and Amanda Cua
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