The Asia Tech Podcast had a great conversation with Anita Jiawen Sadasivan, a co-Founder and Chief Wellbeing Officer at MindFi.  MindFi's mission is to transform the narrative around mental health in Asia.  Anita is a pretty incredible entrepreneur, mental health advocate and powerful pole dancer.

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The audio on this episode was expertly edited by Isabelle Goh.

The Asia Tech Podcast had an exciting and in-depth conversation with Ben Harburg, a Managing Partner at  MSA Capital. He serves as the CIO of Emerging Technology Markets and leads global growth for MSA’s portfolio companies. 

MSA is a global investment firm that invests from seed-to-growth stage investments across consumer, enterprise, core technologies, and healthcare. The firm was established in 2014 and manages $1.7 billion in capital across multiple funds.

Some of the topics that Ben covered:

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The Asia Tech Podcast loved having Mario Peng in the studio at True Digital Park (We now have another studio at Seven Peaks Software!) to talk about PropertyScout.  We had Mario on the show back in September 2020 during the earliest stages of PropertyScout and with all of the changes and growth the company has experienced, we had to have him on again for an update.

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With all of the news about ADDX launching private market services for wealth managers, we had to have Oi-Yee Choo back on the show to dig a bit deeper into the press releases.  We were not disappointed...

Some of the topics that Oi-Yee covered:

The audio on this episode was expertly edited by Isabelle Goh.

The Asia Tech Podcast spoke to Takahito Iguchi...you know who he is.  You remember his photos in those cool-looking glasses as the Japanese competitor to Google Glass.  He is back with a new product called CubeMint, an attempt at creating an offline to online audio metaverse.

Some of the topics that Iguchi-san covered:

The Asia Tech Podcast welcomed Henry Motte-Muñoz, the Founder of Edukasyon, to the show.  Edukasyon is the go-to, online youth platform for making better-informed education, career, and life decisions.

Some of the topics that Henry and I discussed:

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I wanted to catch up with Phil Morle (I don't need to explain who Phil Morle is, do I?) and have a conversation with him about the relationship between early-stage investors and the founders in whose companies they invest.  

Phil has been writing a lot lately, or maybe I just noticed...but either way, his writing is resonating with me and a recent 'article' he wrote prompted this recorded conversation.

Listen as Phil, who is one of the most thoughtful investors I know, expounds (Yes. He presented and explained his ideas systematically and in detail...) on the fragility of the relationship between early-stage investors and founders.

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The audio on this episode was expertly edited by Isabelle Goh.

The Asia Tech Podcast was honored to have Dr. Pinak Shrikhande, Director at HealthQuad, join the show. HealthQuad, India's leading healthcare venture capital fund, partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs to nurture and scale up transformative and impactful healthcare businesses in India.

Some of the topics that Dr. Shrikhande covered included:

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The Asia Tech Podcast was graced with the pleasure of Jennifer Tiang's company. Jennifer is the Regional Cyber Lead - Asia at Willis Towers Watson.  The recently rebranded WTW provides "data-driven, insight-led solutions in the areas of people, risk and capital that make your organization more resilient, motivate your workforce, and maximize performance."

Some of the topics that Jennifer covered:

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The audio on this episode was expertly edited by Isabelle Goh.

The Asia Tech Podcast was pumped to have Evan Wong, a co-Founder, and CEO at Checkbox(dot)ai on the show.  Checkbox is a no-code platform that allows users to build their own business apps for process automation.

If you talk to Evan, you can hear the boundless energy in his voice and one can not help to get excited about the business he is building at Checkbox.

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