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RISE Offstage with Casey Lau

by Argonauta Media

The official podcast of the RISE conference - "The largest tech conference in Asia" - RISE co-host Casey Lau engages in conversations with tech leaders and innovators around Asia.

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Episodes

  1. Startup Investing in Asia with Akshay Bhushan of Lightspeed

    On this episode of the RISE Offstage podcast, host Casey Lau welcomes Akshay Bhushan, a Partner at Lightspeed who is leading the firm’s Southeast Asia investments, focusing on consumer tech investing across both Southeast Asia and India and in companies like Sharechat, Chilibeli, Grab and more....

  2. Building Startup Ecosystems with Governments and Corporates with Ee Ling Lim of 500 Startups

    On this episode of RISE offstage, I welcome the new regional director of 500 Startups APAC Ee Ling Lim to the podcast. Ee Ling’s main role is to work with governments and corporates to build innovation programs using the 500 Startups network and has run programs in the city of Kobe Japan and with...

  3. The NFT Opportunity in Asia with Yat Siu of Animoca Brands

    On this episode of RISE Offstage, host Casey Lau speaks with Animoca Brands founder and chairman Yat Siu about the current NFT craze and how it goes beyond the art and collectibles world and into games and pop culture. Based in Hong Kong, Yat has invested in Opensea, Dapper Labs and more and…

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  4. Startup investing from Japan to Singapore with KK Fund

    The RISE Offstage podcast with Casey Lau highlights chats with community leaders, startup founders and investors across Asia about their startup ecosystems and how they are facing new challenges and new opportunities. On this episode I welcome Koichi Saito and Kuan Hsu the co-founders and general...

  5. SparkLabs and the Dynamite Future of Korean Startups with Jimmy Kim and Bernard Moon

    The South Korea startup ecosystem has been booming - some of the most exciting new companies are coming out of Seoul. On this episode of the RISE Offstage podcast I welcome Jimmy Kim and Bernard Moon the co-founders of SparkLabs one of South Korea’s most successful startup accelerators. === SHOW...

  6. From Community Builder to Angel Investor: Amarit “Aim” Charoenphan and the Thailand Startup Scene

    Amarit “Aim” Charoenphan is best known as the Co-founder and Former CEO of HUBBA, Thailand’s first coworking space and community that is the only Google for Startups Partner Hub in Thailand. He is also Chief International Officer and Cofounder of Techsauce, one of Southeast Asia's leading...

  7. Malaysia Startup Ecosystem with Lalitha Wemel of Techstars and Lennise Ng of Dropee

    At Web Summit 2020, we announced that RISE will move from Hong Kong to its new home of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2022. Malaysia is fast becoming the digital hub of the ASEAN region and I thought it would be great to talk to some people who live and breathe the Malaysia startups ecosystem and give...

  8. The E-Commerce Opportunity in Japan with Mark Wang of Shopify and Kaz of kiko & gg

    On this episode of RISE Offstage our guests are Mark Wang, Head of East Asia for Shopify who heads up the e-commerce platforms growth in Japan and he invited one his e-commerce success stories Kaz from kiko & gg to provide insight from a local Japanese entrepreneurs perspective and how her...

  9. Hong Kong Startup Ecosystem Roundtable with Roland Yau and Ben Wong

    On this episode of RISE Offstage, Casey Lau sits down with Roland Yau of CoCoon Ignite Ventures and Ben Wong of Eureka Nova to talk about the recent challenges facing the Hong Kong startup ecosystem and how it will thrive as part of China's Greater Bay Area and amidst the enactment of the…

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  10. Raising a Unicorn from Australia to Hong Kong with Lucy Liu of Airwallex

    On this episode of RISE Offstage I welcome co-founder and president of AirWallex Lucy Liu to the podcast - Airwallex is one of the fastest growing fintech startups in Asia having raised a new $160mm Series D round in April with investors like Tencent, Sequoia China and Horizon Ventures. On this...

  11. Taiwan Startup Ecosystem Roundtable with Elisa Chiu and Ping Wang

    Taiwan has the lowest number of COVID-19 cases in Asia so much so that entrepreneurs from around the world have been moving to Taiwan in droves that they actually have a Chinese name for “COVID Refugee.” This is amazing to hear and why I wanted to feature the Taiwan ecosystem early on in this new...

  12. The 8 Securities/SoFi Hong Kong FinTech Acquisition Roundtable

    The RISE Offstage FinTech Roundtable featuring special guest Mikaal Abdulla co-founder of 8Securities.com 8 Securities has been acquired by SoFi and so this will be Mikaal's final interview as 8 Securities! Mikaal Abdulla Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikaalabdulla SoFiHK: https://twitter.com/SoFi…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

The official podcast of the RISE conference - "The largest tech conference in Asia" - RISE co-host Casey Lau engages in conversations with tech leaders and innovators around Asia.

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Argonauta Media

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The official podcast of the RISE conference - "The largest tech conference in Asia" - RISE co-host Casey Lau engages in conversations with tech leaders and innovators around Asia.

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