Joel Haowen Tong

Started coding age 10. I help people engineer solutions in AI and payments. Singapore | United Arab Emirates

📍 Singapore🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 2 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2024
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Angel Investor
Mar 2024
Building the infrastructure for early-stage team formation — starting with an AI-powered platform that connects founders to cofounders and early hires through high-signal matching. 15,000+ users, 1,000,000+ swipes, and 30,000+ matches since launching our mobile app in March 2024. Learn more at coffeespace.com. Selected for TechCrunch Disrupt 2024’s Startup Battlefield 200 and ranked Top 5 Product of the Day on Product Hunt. Featured in TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, and more. $1M raised to date from exited founders, YC alumni, and angel investors from Sand Hill Angels, Meta, Google, and other top tech companies. Proud member of Stanford’s StartX Summer 2025 cohort.
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2024
Fractional Backend Engineer
Aug 2024
We aspire to be the world’s most exceptional financial institution, united by our shared values of partnership, client service, integrity, and excellence. Operating at the center of capital markets, we act as one firm, mobilizing our people, capital, and ideas to deliver superior results across our clients’ most complex challenges. For 157 years, Goldman Sachs has delivered world-class execution on a global scale across our leading Global Banking & Markets and Asset & Wealth Management businesses. Apprenticeship is central to our culture, with hands-on coaching and access to leaders who bring decades of experience and expertise. With office locations around the world, we offer a broad range of career opportunities to those who insist on excellence and thrive on performance. Find our Social Media Disclosures here: gs.com/social-media-disclosures
Angel Investor
Mar 2024
Building the infrastructure for early-stage team formation — starting with an AI-powered platform that connects founders to cofounders and early hires through high-signal matching. 15,000+ users, 1,000,000+ swipes, and 30,000+ matches since launching our mobile app in March 2024. Learn more at coffeespace.com. Selected for TechCrunch Disrupt 2024’s Startup Battlefield 200 and ranked Top 5 Product of the Day on Product Hunt. Featured in TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, and more. $1M raised to date from exited founders, YC alumni, and angel investors from Sand Hill Angels, Meta, Google, and other top tech companies. Proud member of Stanford’s StartX Summer 2025 cohort.
2015
Frontend Web Developer, InnoVenture Competiton
May 2015
At NUS, we are shaping the future through our people and our pursuit of new frontiers in knowledge. In a single century, we have become a university of global influence and an Asian thought leader. Our location at the crossroads of Asia informs our mission and gives us a tremendous vantage point to help create opportunities and address the pressing issues facing Singapore, Asia and the world. At NUS, we believe in education, research and service that change lives. Read our social media community guidelines here: https://nus.edu/socialmediaguidelines.
Firmware Intern, R&D
May 2015
Venture (SGX: V03.SI) was formed in 1989 through the merger of three companies to provide contract manufacturing services. Today, Venture has been transformed into a leading global provider of technology services, products and solutions with established capabilities spanning marketing research, design, research and development. Over the years, Venture has built know-how and intellectual property with expertise in several technology domains. These include life science & genomics, molecular diagnostics, medical devices and equipment, healthcare and wellness technology, lifestyle consumer technology, health improvement products, instrumentation, test and measurement technology, networking and communications, fintech, as well as computing, printing and imaging technology. The Group manages a portfolio of more than 5,000 products and solutions and continues to expand into new technology domains through collaborations with its customers and partners. In its pursuit of excellence across design and engineering, manufacturing and distribution, Venture has forged numerous partnerships and alliances. Headquartered in Singapore, the Group comprises over 30 companies with global clusters in Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, America and Europe, and employs over 12,000 people globally. VIPColor Technologies Pte Ltd (www.vipcolor.com) and Advanced Products Corporation Pte Ltd (www.apc-vest.com) are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Venture Group. They provide industry leading solutions for on-demand color label printing and embedded systems respectively.
2011
Volunteer, Singapore Academy of Young Engineers and Scientists (SAYES)
Aug 2011
Science Centre Singapore, a non-formal educational institution and leading regional Science Centre, along with its group of attractions, brings out the wonders of science, technology, engineering and mathematics through its unique blend of exhibitions, educational programmes and events. A custodian of creativity and innovation, Science Centre Singapore has captured the evolution of scientific developments for nearly four decades. The Centre and its partners have played a pivotal role in transforming the way students and the public interact with and learn about science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Since 1997, the Centre has welcomed over 30 million visitors and inspired them with more than 1,000 exhibits spread across 14 exhibition galleries and outdoor exhibition spaces.