Matthew Cheung is the founding team member of HKVAX, a custody and exchange solution for institutional investors in Hong Kong. Matt has an unconventional start to the tech world. He started his career as a Recruiter before stumbling across crypto. His journey changed forever.  He joined OKCoin as one of the first 100 employees in 2016. OKCoin grew into a 1,000+ people company and is one of the most active crypto exchanges in China. After witnessing the 2017 initial coin offering (ICO) boom,...

Tascha Punyaneramitdee is the Co-Founder and CEO of Alpha Finance Lab. She’s the first and only Thai female founder that has built a unicorn company. Alpha Finance made its way to the world in September 2020. In the span of just six months, it hit a unicorn status with more than $1B in value locked under the company’s lending solution, Alpha Homora. Alpha Finance aims to build a decentralized financial (DeFi) product suite that has instant product market fit. Alpha is uniquely positioned as...

Marcus Lim had a high paying job in consulting. But, he just kept spending his spare time tinkering on startup ideas. After a few months, he sold his car, moved back in with his parents, and started Oneflare, a marketplace for local services in Australia. What motivated him to take the risk? The realization that if the company fails, he can always apply to McDonald’s. “It’s like survival of the fittest. You just need to figure out how to do it. It’s either you fail or you succeed. There’s...

“If I leave PE and I can’t come back, I didn’t deserve it in the first place.” Abhishek began his career as a strategy consultant and a private equity investor. He later got bit by an entrepreneurial bug in Jakarta where he spotted opportunities co-founded Circles.Life, a digital telco company which has bagged investment from big names like Warburg Pincus, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, and Sequoia Capital. We talked about taking a leap of faith, disrupting a legacy industry, and founder scaling.

Champ Suthipongchai is a Managing Partner of Creative Ventures, a deep tech VC fund that invests in companies solving the world’s biggest problems from aging population, rising healthcare cost to climate crisis. He took a bold move using his own capital to kickstart the first fund before raising from institutional investors. We talked about fundraising secrets (hint: engineered serendipity) and decision making process. “Our goal is to be right for the right reason, be wrong for the right...

Wing Vasiksiri co-founded iSeed, a seed stage VC fund in Southeast Asia. VC was never on his map until he interned at 500 Startups and The House Fund. He started writing angel checks and later decided to join AngelList where he found his partner, Utsav Somani, a name well familiar within the Indian startup scene. We talked about how his experiences have helped him build iSeed.“There’s no right way to do VC. What’s important is understanding your strategy and executing that strategy every day.”

Topp Jirayut is the founder and CEO of Bitkub Group, Thailand's largest crypto exchange. Prior to Bitkub, he founded Coins.co.th, a subsidiary of Coins.ph, the Philippines’ largest bitcoin wallet company (acquired by Gojek). Topp has shown incredible grit since a young age, a trait that has led him to Oxford. His path to crypto was not an easy one as he had to prove his business’ legitimacy to his family and regulators. We talked about his path into crypto and the defining moments in his...