I was more than impressed by Prerna Jhunjhunwala's commitment to making education accessible to the masses.  Prerna is the Founder of Little Paddington – a highly acclaimed preschool in Singapore and Creative Galileo - a new-age Ed-Tech start-up transforming early learning globally for children from three to ten years.  Creative Galileo aims to accelerate a child's development of early literacy through narrative videos, gamification, and personalised learning journeys.

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Asia Tech Podcast had an interesting conversation with Liat Beng Neo, a co-Founder at Arrow.  Arrow is fundamentally trying to simplify the checkout experience to just one tap.

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It was back to the studio to welcome Darshan Mehta, the founder of iResearch.com. iResearch was designed to empower companies to easily, quickly, and affordably conduct insight sessions anytime and in any language.

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Yan Lee, the Founder and Managing Partner at Hive Ventures joined the Asia Tech Podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about the startup ecosystem in Taiwan and Southeast Asia.

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We have wanted to speak to Derek Handley for a while now.  Derek is a Founding Partner at Aera VC and one of the most thoughtful and thought-provoking investors I have encountered.

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The Asia Tech Podcast went back to Vietnam to talk to Quan Nguyen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/quannguyen89/), a co-Founder and the CEO of GIMO (https://gimo.vn/en), a fintech startup in Vietnam offering on-demand pay for blue-collar workers.

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We had Ronen Mense on the show...wow! More of a wow was that we recorded this episode face-to-face in the Michael Waitze Media studio at True Digital Park.  What a great experience...

Ronen is the President and Managing Director, APAC at AppsFlyer based in Bangkok, and the story leading up to how he got there was quite interesting.

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We went back to the ADDX well about 6 months after our thoroughly enjoyable conversation with ADDX's Chief Commercial Officer, Oi-Yee Choo.  This time we were excited to welcome Darius Liu, a co-Founder and the Chief Operating Officer of ADDX.  The ADDX team is world-class and Darius is no exception...his career prior to founding ADDX can only be described as start-studded.  As for ADDX, a lot has changed since we published the initial episode in May and we really wanted to catch up.

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It was very interesting to converse with Barbara Ex, the Founder, and CEO of WhiteSpace.  WhiteSpace provides an O2O platform that provides flexible and affordable co-meeting spaces on-demand.

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We could not have been happier to have Smita Aggarwal, Global Investment Advisor at Flourish Ventures, join us on the show. Smita is an investor that seeks new business models across South Asia and Southeast Asia in the FinTech innovation space, that drives value creation for all stakeholders.  

Flourish Ventures is a venture firm investing in entrepreneurs whose innovations help people achieve financial health and prosperity. As an evergreen fund, Flourish deploys patient capital with a long-term perspective. Flourish's team is growing the portfolio built within Omidyar Network over the last decade.

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