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Advisor & Investor
Jan 2024
Redefining global connectivity one travel eSIM at a time!✈️ 🌏
Truely eSIM aims to be the lightest thing you pack for your travels.
Our Travel eSIM gives you access to the best local data rates from wherever you are in the world. No need to SIM switch nor worry about spending on roaming charges ever again.
Available in 200+ destinations, we partner with the top network providers to ensure smooth and seamless connectivity throughout your trip. Whether you’re a digital nomad in Bali or a honeymooner in Italy—we’ll have a data plan customisable for your type of journey.
Investor
Oct 2019
We are the Singapore HQ for Krav Maga Global – the largest Krav Maga organisation in the world.
It’s not a martial art.
There are no rings and no rules.
It's about survival.
Krav Maga is a modern and integrated system of self-defence, fighting & combat, VIP & third party protection system that's effective, practical and realistic. It’s a constantly evolving system of techniques and tactics for avoiding, preventing and handling all types of violent confrontations - from bare hands to knives, sticks and firearms.
There’s a reason why the system is adopted by military, law enforcement and security agencies worldwide.
Expect to step out of Kravist with a higher level of fitness, self confidence and the ability to defend yourself and your loved ones. You also get to understand our intuitive self defence system that goes far beyond merely learning how to fight.
Investor
Aug 2019
Puma is a cutting edge crypto & Ai mobile browser
Our mission is making new crypto protocols and LLMs easy to discover and use on your mobile phone. Private by design.
We started with the idea of a privacy-first browser with built-in micropayments (via the Interledger Protocol) and have since added support for identity (HNS, ENS; Unstoppable Domains in testing) and storage (IPFS; Arweave in testing).
We just soft launched OpenAI and Anthropic integrations and looking into ways of running LLaMA-like open source models on device. Come help us prototype and build that 🏗️
We recently surpassed ~~500k~~ 750k downloads and are excited to grow our team.
We’ve raised Angel and Seed venture rounds from some of the best builders in crypto and Ai: Protocol Labs, Hard Yaka, Shima Capital, Fenbushi, HashKey, Don Ho (Orange DAO, Quantstamp), Sridhar Ramaswamy (Snowflake, Neeva, Greylock), Jason Warner (ex-GitHub CTO, VP Eng Heroku & Canonical), Illia Polosukhin (NEAR Protocol) and many more.
*Our Values:* Optimism, Kindness, Curiosity, Speed and Grit.
Investor
Mar 2018
Eatsy is a fast-growing tech startup pioneering the mobile ordering experience in Southeast Asia. It is a food ordering app that allows diners to order ahead, without waiting in line, at their favourite merchants.
Powering mobile ordering and payment for restaurants across Singapore and Indonesia since 2018, we have raised >$1M from some of the best names in the region, including East Ventures and Quest Ventures.
Investor
Jan 2017
WhyQ is Singapore’s largest workplace F&B platform backed by Delivery Hero, Chope, RB Investments, HH Investments, Angel Central.
In high-performance workplaces, something as simple as lunch can become fragmented, rushed or operationally messy. Yet it’s one of the few shared daily rituals every employee experiences.
We power scalable, bespoke meal programs for best-in-class workplace- eliminating the lunch crunch while elevating employee experience and employer brand.
We bring Singapore’s most loved brands and hawker favourites directly into the workplace. Think Jollibee, Hai Di Lao, Pizza Hut, Supergreen, Guzman y Gomez- delivered hot, on time and operationally seamless.
In a talent-first market, everyday experience compounds. We help companies make lunch a competitive advantage.
Investor
Aug 2016
Team of serial entrepreneurs and hackers running a digital product foundry with 2 activities:
1) Slash Foundry: client-facing team that works closely with corporate innovation centers and high-profile startups/SMEs in APAC & beyond to prototype proof of concepts and build their products for scale.
2) Slash Ventures: our internal startup studio. We focus on AI & Blockchain that can be applied to many problems in the B2B and B2G market.
Existing ventures include:
- Payment Middleware: a unified smart API to access and route to all payment gateways, for enterprise clients. Our abstraction layer can be used for other API categories, such as SMS gateways. Key IP acquired by a global insurance firm.
- Boilerplate Assembler: auto-generate website boilerplate code in seconds on the framework of your choice (SailsJS, Laravel, etc). Download and start working on your project within 1 min. Ideal for development teams with rapid prototyping needs.
- Game of Tech: joint venture project focused providing MBA schools, conferences and corporate innovation teams the digital collaboration stack to accelerate their innovation initiatives.
- ML R&D: Chatbot Liza, News Crawler, Sentiment (stealth mode)
- E-Country (stealth mode)
See www.slash.co for more information.
Investor (Exit - Acquired by ClassPass)
Feb 2016
One Pass. One Community.
GuavaPass gives members access to a community of fitness studios and healthy-living experts, offering unlimited classes at premium fitness studios, exclusive events with wellness experts, community classes and a range of perks from healthy living partners in your city. All classes have been hand selected by our team of fitness enthusiasts, who live and breathe a healthy lifestyle. Here at GuavaPass we wholeheartedly believe in this fitness revolution. Join the new community of healthy living.
GuavaPass is launched across Asia & the Middle East operating in Abu Dhabi, Bangkok, Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Shanghai, Singapore.
www.guavapass.com
Investor (Exit - Acquired by ClassPass)
Feb 2016
One Pass. One Community.
GuavaPass gives members access to a community of fitness studios and healthy-living experts, offering unlimited classes at premium fitness studios, exclusive events with wellness experts, community classes and a range of perks from healthy living partners in your city. All classes have been hand selected by our team of fitness enthusiasts, who live and breathe a healthy lifestyle. Here at GuavaPass we wholeheartedly believe in this fitness revolution. Join the new community of healthy living.
GuavaPass is launched across Asia & the Middle East operating in Abu Dhabi, Bangkok, Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Shanghai, Singapore.
www.guavapass.com
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Investor (Exit - Shareholder Buyback)
Nov 2015
Contained Energy provides sustainable, renewable energy and water solutions to homes, villas, hotels, resorts, business, NGO’s, communities and Government by designing, developing, supplying, installing, integrating and servicing smart and robust energy and water systems and programs with best-of-class equipment, backed by world-class services and support.
Contained Energy operates in Indonesia, Pacific Islands and other tropical and remote areas where solutions are needed most and conditions are unique and challenging.
Contained Energy has a long track record of successful projects and installations for clients ranging from leading NGO’s to five-star hotels, small homes to luxury villas, multinationals to corner-shops, island communities to urban slums, disaster relief to reconstruction efforts.
Contained Energy has offices in Singapore, Jakarta, Surabaya and Bali staffed by experienced solution engineers.
Advisor & Shareholder
Nov 2014
Impiro is a Singapore based investment firm focusing primarily on Pre-Seed and Seed round opportunities agnostically across the tech sector in Southeast Asia, the surrounding region and beyond.
The founding team is made up of entrepreneurs who have all founded and operated successful businesses across various industries.
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2024
Venture Scout
Jun 2024
Iterative is an accelerator program focused exclusively on Southeast Asia. Founded by cofounders of Decide.com (acquired by eBay), Iterative differentiates itself with partners, mentors, advisors, and investors who have all previously started, sold, and operated startups. Iteratives mission is to build the strongest and most supportive network in the region for early stage founders. For more details, see http://iterative.vc.
Advisor & Investor
Jan 2024
Redefining global connectivity one travel eSIM at a time!✈️ 🌏
Truely eSIM aims to be the lightest thing you pack for your travels.
Our Travel eSIM gives you access to the best local data rates from wherever you are in the world. No need to SIM switch nor worry about spending on roaming charges ever again.
Available in 200+ destinations, we partner with the top network providers to ensure smooth and seamless connectivity throughout your trip. Whether you’re a digital nomad in Bali or a honeymooner in Italy—we’ll have a data plan customisable for your type of journey.
2021
Co-Founder
May 2021
Dezy allows you to generate passive yield on your digital assets via a simple to use interface enabling you to access more of DeFi while doing less.
We believe simple is better and making DeFi more accessible. Dezy provides a single interface to access various financial products made available by DeFi. No more bridging across protocols or ecosystems.
Amplifier
Jan 2021
Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. We bring together talented outliers to develop their most ambitious ideas and raise money from the world’s best investors.
Since pioneering Talent Investing in 2015, we’ve learned to recognize individuals with extraordinary futures before anyone else, embedding them in a community of ambitious peers and giving them the tools they need to succeed, fast. We back them before they have a company, a team, even before they have an idea, based purely on talent.
EF’s portfolio is now collectively valued at over $16B, and includes companies such as Aztec, Cleo, Magdrive, Neptune, Omnea, Opply, PolyAI, Tractable, and many more.
EF is backed by some of the worlds leading founders and investors, including Founders Fund, Greylock, John Collison (founder – Stripe), Patrick Collison (founder – Stripe), Reid Hoffman (founder – LinkedIn), Eric Schmidt (former CEO - Google), Demis Hassabis (founder – Google DeepMind ), Taavet Hinrikus (founder – Wise), Matt Mullenweg (founder – WordPress), Charlie Songhurst (Board member – Meta), Christa Davies (Board member – Stripe), Lachy Groom (founder – Physical Intelligence), Aidan Gomez (founder – Cohere), Mati Staniszewski (founder – ElevenLabs), Danny Rimer (Partner - Index Ventures), Matt Cohler (former General Partner - Benchmark).
We exist to make great companies happen that otherwise wouldn’t.
For more information about Entrepreneurs First, visit www.joinef.com
Were hiring! Join our global team and experience firsthand the workings of a globally unique talent investor working with cutting edge entrepreneurs on world changing technologies: https://www.joinef.com/about/careers
2019
Investor
Oct 2019
We are the Singapore HQ for Krav Maga Global – the largest Krav Maga organisation in the world.
It’s not a martial art.
There are no rings and no rules.
It's about survival.
Krav Maga is a modern and integrated system of self-defence, fighting & combat, VIP & third party protection system that's effective, practical and realistic. It’s a constantly evolving system of techniques and tactics for avoiding, preventing and handling all types of violent confrontations - from bare hands to knives, sticks and firearms.
There’s a reason why the system is adopted by military, law enforcement and security agencies worldwide.
Expect to step out of Kravist with a higher level of fitness, self confidence and the ability to defend yourself and your loved ones. You also get to understand our intuitive self defence system that goes far beyond merely learning how to fight.
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