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Navtej Singh of Tagit wants to be Asia’s mobile banking czar
If you’re using a mobile banking app in Singapore to review your finances, chances are, it is made by Tagit. Started by serial entrepreneur Navtej Singh in 2004, Tagit is a mobile solutions company...
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Singapore needs Silicon Valley’s open source culture, says Meng Weng Wong of...
Meng savors wine and cheese in the new JFDI premises on the fifth floor of Block 71. Photo: Yvan Meng Weng Wong, a serial entrepreneur, founded JFDI with Hugh Mason in 2010 with a vision of nurturing...
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Albert Mai joins SGE, focused on the Vietnam startup scene
We love working with dynamic, talented and passionate folks and one of our latest additions to our team, Albert is just like that. SGE welcomes Albert Mai on board our team, focused on scouting the...
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Stephanie Sutanto brings some SGE glam into Los Angeles
Sometime in the middle of last year, a certain Stephanie Sutanto emailed the early stage fund that I used to run, asking for internship positions. I told her that we were no longer looking for people...
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For Noi.vn CEO William Vu Huynh, going offline was key to the dating site’s...
William Vu Huynh, co-founder and CEO of Vietnamese dating site Noi.vn, has been preoccupied with one question ever since he started his venture in 2008 with Phung Tien Cong: How do you get shy...
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Jason Lusk, ClickSpace founder, on making room for entrepreneurship in Vietnam
From left: Tien Dung Le, Jason Lusk, and Thuy Nguyen. Photo: ClickSpace Jason Lusk first came to Hanoi to work on a freelance project but ended up becoming a co-founder of ClickSpace, one of the first...
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Being a CEO eats into you, says Tan Teik Guan of recently-acquired DS3
The DS3 family. Teik Guan is wearing a yellow shirt. Photo: DS3 For twelve years, Tan Teik Guan has been carrying the weight of the company and its employees on his back, first as DS3‘s CTO and then as...
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By training an African Lance Armstrong, this Singaporean could change pro...
Zakayo (left) and Mwangi on a climb. Photo: Nicholas Leong Very few Asian entrepreneurs have the audacity to do crazy things. While more entrepreneurs and do-gooders have arisen in the continent over...
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Weare.sg: Documenting the coolest people in Singapore
Steve Wozniak’s criticisms of Singaporeans as rigid and unimaginative sparked a heated debate last year. There were those who could totally relate to what Woz said, while others pointed out that...
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Vickers Venture Partners’ Jeff Chi seeks young, talented, world-changing...
Gwen and I caught up with Dr Jeff Chi of Vickers Venture Partners (VVP) at the sidelines of DEMO Asia to catch his views on the startup scene here in Asia. Jeff is currently based out of both Singapore...
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Adeo Ressi: Singapore has the highest funding rate, but that may not be a...
Adeo (left) with Matt Marshall, founder of VentureBeat. We managed to catch Adeo Ressi, CEO of The Founder Institute and CEO of TheFunded.com briefly at the sidelines of DEMO Asia 2012 to get his views...
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Four things you must know about Indonesia, the Wild West of tech...
Antonny Liem, CEO of Merah Putih Incubator. The oft-repeated mantra at DEMO Asia 2012 is that the Singapore market is too tiny for local entrepreneurs who want to build a sustainable business. Right...
View ArticlePart 4 of Quick and Dirty, on the ground VIDEO interviews at DEMO Asia 2012
Editor’s note (Gwen says): Yes, Kristine and I did take quite a few videos! If you have been following SGE’s live and post-event coverage of Asia’s largest launchpad for emerging technologies, DEMO...
View ArticleQuick and Dirty with investors Vinnie Lauria and Jeff Clavier
Okay, this is a bit overdue (my apologies) but this is the last bunch of quick and dirty videos done at DEMO Asia 2012 (part 1, 2, 3 (with investors), 4). Kristine and I interviewed two more investors,...
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Interview with Guyi Shen: How LobangClub got 38k users, and more
For those who’ve been following the startup scene lately, it’s hard to miss Guyi Shen, co-founder of Singapore-based LobangClub, a price comparison app. He was a supposed “victim” on the Dragon...
View Article[VIDEO] Marc Co-founder of Tudou advises foreign entrepreneurs entering Asia
So, a few videos interviews I did at DEMO Asia 2012 two weeks ago mysteriously disappeared and now have reappeared on my (i)phone. This short interview with Marc van der Chijs, Dutch founder of Chinese...
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Horizon wants to power every home with fuel cells
This electric car from London uses Horizon's fuel cells. We just love hearing stories of regional startups that’ve made it big internationally. Southeast Asian companies like Charles & Keith,...
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Chalkboard calls it quits after going to Silicon Valley
This was jointly written by Terence Lee and Gwendolyn Regina Tan. It was a simple party with a few invited guests, some pizza and drinks, a seemingly ordinary networking event at the Chalkboard office...
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Perx dumped daily deals business to focus on loyalty card app, has no regrets
Before Perx co-founders Andrew Roth and Jon Sugihara started work on their loyalty card mobile app, which is now the market leader in Singapore, they ran successful daily deals site PLAYhawaii.com. It...
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Eat this, tech purists: Aunty Binnaz reads fortunes from coffee cups, makes a...
Technology startups are today’s entrepreneurial rockstars. Not a week goes by without an announcement of a new location-based app, niche social network, or online travel discovery service. But like...
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Squiryl seeks to do for loyalty cards what Google did for ads
Loyalty cards are inefficient and generate a lot of waste. Even digital ones. A while ago, I was at a music shop and decided to preorder a music album for a friend. To my delight, I received two chops...
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Can meditation impact entrepreneurship and the world? Google’s happiness guru...
Meng (front) gives a talk at the National Library. Next to him is cartoonist Colin Goh. Chade-Meng Tan, Google employee #107, smiled the moment he spotted the SGE team at the lobby of Orchard...
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When sleeping with your co-founder is a great idea: 3 couples share their...
Love is complex, so much so that thousands of songs have been composed about it. Our fascination with love stretches back all the way to Shakespeare and his star-crossed lovers. A lot of drama is...
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Brand guru Martin Lindstrom’s advice to startups: Provocate, gamble, and...
With the advent of social media, consumers could be having a bigger say about your company’s brand than ever before, and they’re doing a better job of popularizing your brand better than your marketers...
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Thai telcos talk about the chat app era (INTERVIEW)
We’ve noticed the trend of chat apps becoming more and more popular in Asia. It’s basically destroying SMS in India as Indians now only send 2 SMS per day. And there are over 18 million Line users in...
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Builk’s Linna Kanoknitanan: a COO is like a midfielder in a soccer team
A Thai startup Builk is known for its uniqueness in tackling an industry – one of the world’s biggest – that’s so un-techie, un-startup-y, and male-dominated: construction. But what many don’t know is...
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Taiwan startup BeLuvv’s necklace will holler if your child strays too far
Mobile technology has made it much easier for people to keep track of what’s important to them. Productivity apps can help us keep track of our daily tasks, and devices like Tile can help us keep...
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Anphabe’s CEO, one of Vietnam’s rare female tech founders, speaks out
Anphabe is a Vietnamese version of LinkedIn. The largest online network of management professionals in Vietnam at 85,000 registered users, the website also hosts events, a forum, and helps with...
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Computerlogy’s Mimee: Aung San Suu Kyi and Sheryl Sandberg are my idols
If you follow Thailand’s startup scene, you have likely heard of Mimee. Besides running Thumbsup, a Thai tech blog, she has also been one of our guest writers at Tech in Asia. But writing is not the...
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When should a Chinese VC firm head to the US? A look at Innovation Works’...
Last week Innovation Works, the Beijing-based incubator founded by former Google China head Kai-Fu Lee, invested in Wormhole Games, an emerging mobile gaming company based out of San Francisco. While...
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App Annie CEO Bertrand Schmitt on starting up in China, scaling, and new funding
Matthieu David is founder and CEO of Daxue China Market Research, a China-based market research firm focusing on China. Matthieu has been living in China (Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai) for close to...
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Plateculture founders: the concept might be feminine but we’re a very...
Malaysia-based startup PlateCulture is an Airbnb for food. It allows users to eat home-cooked meals from someone’s home. The concept is as simple as the customers go to the site, pick a home (similar...
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Eric Schmidt to students: Silicon Valley is not about a location, it’s about...
Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google continued his tour of Asia with a stop in Bangkok today, where he continued to provide his insights on the international tech industry to Asian...
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Viber’s CEO insists its still ‘open season’ for messaging apps to dominate Asia
Viber, the messaging app founded in 2010 by Israeli entrepreneur Talmon Marco, has steadily emerged from the enormous pack of mobile messengers to become one of the stronger leaders in Asian markets...
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A Thai Cupid Avalable’s founder: never turn down a meeting, there’s always an...
Avalable is a Thailand-based social dating app, which is also known as a Facebook for singles. The app helps singles locate compatible matches within their own city using an algorithm combining GPS on...
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Sparklabs founder talks about Korea’s new generation of startups and his...
Bernard Moon, co-founder and managing partner at Sparklabs, poses for the camera at the accelerator’s second demo day. It’s been a busy December for SparkLabs, the Seoul-based accelerator that burst...
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Hackerspaces are becoming centers of liberal arts in Asia: NUS prof
Shiwen is a part-time freelance writer, aspiring entrepreneur and overall generalist interested in exploring, researching and writing. Disclosure: The writer is a community member of Hackerspace.sg....
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Silicon Straits founder wants to bridge startup and government hollow chambers
Shiwen is a part-time freelance writer, aspiring entrepreneur and overall generalist interested in exploring, researching and writing. Silicon Straits’ James Chan (left) at Co.Lab with Sanjay Nath,...
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Interview: the man who led Nokia’s charge into Asia
The author, Shiwen, is a part-time freelance writer, aspiring entrepreneur and overall generalist interested in exploring, researching and writing. Headquartered in Singapore and with over 37 million...
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Between’s product manager: attention to detail can be a double-edged sword
In the season of all things lovey dovey, for this inaugural series of women in technology, we speak with Jooyeon Kim (pictured right), the product manager at popular Korean couple app, Between. She...
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Thai women in tech: It’s good to overthink sometimes
We’ve got to admit, the tech industry is dominated by men. Even Google’s senior vice president wrote a letter to women stating “the tech industry needs you.” Of course, we have a similar issue in...
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What really goes on at 500 Startups, as told by Builk founder Patai Padungtin
500 Startups is one of world’s top accelerators. Being part of a batch doesn’t only open many doors for startups, it also teaches founders knowledge that’s hard to find anywhere else. Patai Padungtin,...
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Foodpanda CEO: we want to be the Facebook of food ordering; here’s how we’ll...
Rocket Internet, the tech startup incubator that many love to hate, has produced many well-known startups. It’s the company behind many big names in Asia such as Lazada, Zalora, and Pricepanda....
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Asia’s top female startup investors on why they love their jobs (Part II)
At Tech in Asia we talk with venture capitalists all the time, but we seldom get the opportunity to learn more about their personal backgrounds and their day-to-day responsibilities as investors....
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Uber rides into Bangkok as it transforms into the Starbucks of transportation...
Yesterday Uber officially launched in Bangkok, following its soft launch in the capital at the end of February. The rollout marks Uber’s 19th city in Asia Pacific, as the transportation network firm...
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Stratechery goes solo: Ben Thompson on Asia, Apple, and the shifting tides of...
Over the past ten years, traditional media outlets from the pre-internet era have been forced to compete with online media outlets of various shapes and colors. Recently, upstart entities like...
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A conversation with founder and CEO of CXA Group, Rosaline Koo (VIDEO)
Some of you loyal readers might recall that we started a female entrepreneurship series a couple of years back and attempted to bring some visual and sound elements into the editorial mix. We didn’t...
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This entrepreneur wants to set chefs free by making them their own boss (VIDEO)
We continue our Lady E series this month, featuring the founder of Clubvivre, Maria Kuvshinova. In essence, Clubvivre is a platform for users to book private chefs for their house parties and other...
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Japanese-American entrepreneur William Saito: I only bet on those who have...
At Creative Lounge Mov, a popular co-working space in Tokyo’s trendy Shibuya district, a chorus of keyboard strokes fill the air as mostly 20-something programmers and designers attempt to build the...
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Starting a dating service carried a stigma. That didn’t stop this...
When Lunch Actually co-founder and CEO Violet Lim graduated with a law degree from the University of Manchester and a masters degree from London School of Economics, she was expected to take the usual...
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