The Asia Tech Podcast had the pleasure of catching up with Mat Ward, the Founder, and CEO at Workmate.  I have now known Mat for almost a decade and first had him on the show back in February 2019.  I had him on the show again almost a year ago, literally just before lockdowns due to COVID-19 began in his home city of Singapore and my home city of Bangkok.  That episode was filled with optimism (Mat is an optimistic guy, but a realist as well.) and you could not hear a tinge of doom or worry in either of our voices.  Neither one of us could have predicted how difficult 2020 would become.

I wanted to catch up with Mat because he has always been a voice of reason in a world filled with unnecessary noise and bluster.  After the tumult of 2020, I wanted a real opinion from someone I trusted about the impact of COVID-19 on a well-funded and growing business.

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The Asia Tech Podcast was honored to have Vivek Vipul, a co-Founder and the CEO of Abzooba.  Vivek received his undergraduate degree in Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology and his MBA from the University of California at Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

Vivek and I had an incredible discussion about:

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The Asia Tech Podcast was joined by Jessica Camus, the Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Diginex Solutions, which provides blockchain-enabled tools for tracking environmental, social, and governance data.

Jessica is quite experienced in helping organizations strategically address social and sustainability risks and opportunities for value creation through the lens of blockchain technology, impact investments, and sustainable supply chains.

Jessica and I discussed:

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The Asia Tech Podcast was joined by the co-Founders of Credify,  Makoto Tominaga (CEO) and Shuichi Nagao (Director of Engineering).  Credify is creating the future of embedded finance through a suite of award-winning self-sovereign identity and secure data passporting technologies and a powerful privacy-first financial services cross-offering platform.  Both founders have extensive experience in the startup and technology space and combined, they have been through multiple acquisitions and exits.

From their home base in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, these two Japanese founders aspire to build a global company.

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The Asia Tech Podcast was joined by Daniel Callaghan, the Chief Executive officer at Veremark and a Managing Director of the Workplace Accelerator.  Daniel is extremely experienced in the HR-Tech and Digital Innovation space, having founded a Global VC-backed freelance market place in Europe and the former Head of Digital Innovation and Investment for Adecco Group in Singapore.

Veremark is an automated and scalable background checking platform that transforms the way businesses onboard candidates, with a blockchain twist.

The Workplace Accelerator is South East Asia’s premier accelerator exclusively focused on the Future of Work.

Daniel and I had a great discussion about:

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The Asia Tech Podcast caught up with Alan Jones, a self-proclaimed Startup Founder Coach (and a very good one at that!) and one of the earliest supporters of the startup ecosystem in Australia.  I always enjoy talking to Alan because he is so thoughtful and filled with insights gained over years of experience.

We had a wide-ranging discussion about life, experience, growth, tech, startups and how the pandemic changed the way we both looked at the world and the future.  We mixed in a bit of politics, because we simply can not discount the impact that it was having across the board.

We also discussed how 2020 was a year like no other and how Alan had to make the difficult but sensible decision to put M8 Ventures on pause.

Links from the show:

Alan Jones on the “A Lot to Say” podcast hosted by Garry Williams.

catalysr – An award-winning pre-accelerator for early stage startups.

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The Asia Tech Podcast spoke with Helen McGuire and Hayley Bakker co-founders and the CEO and CPO respectively of Diversely.io. These two amazing founders are building Diversely to be the bias-free hiring platform that helps you to find the best, not just the most obvious talent – quickly and easily, working with businesses to reduce biases in their hiring processes – with scale and impact.

Helen has been a champion of underrepresented groups her whole career.  She is a two-time founder with a background in Digital, Communications and Diversion and Inclusion.

Hayley is a leader striving to make an impact on pressing challenges in the APAC region through technology, user-centric design, and good old-fashioned community and organisation. She has a track record in financial engineering, management consulting and entrepreneurship.

We talked about:

How the founders’ career journeys led them to a deep understanding of the Diversity and Inclusion space.

Why a lack of workplace diversity is not always the problem Diversely.io is trying to solve.

How these incredible founders have raised money and gained traction pre-product during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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In this episode of the Asia Tech Podcast, Michael Waitze is joined by Case Engelen, the CEO of Titoma, an electronic design, and manufacturing company. As a company, they are dedicated to cultivating successful electronic devices with expertise, avoiding delays and quality issues that are often experienced during the design and manufacturing processes.

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The Asia Tech Podcast had an inspiring conversation with Arash Tayebi, the CEO at Kara Technologies.  Kara Technologies is committed to using innovative technologies to make all digital content accessible to users of sign language.  As with many great entrepreneurs, Arash is motivated by his own personal experience.  One of the first questions I asked him was, “Why are you so interested in this issue although you are not deaf?”

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The Asia Tech Podcast was joined by David Abraham, a co-Founder, and the CEO at Outpost.  Outpost is a network of coliving, coworking, and social spaces for location independent entrepreneurs, creatives, and professionals.  Outpost is a home base for a fast-growing community of global citizens seeking to design life on their own terms in idyllic destinations. From vibrant and comfortable coliving spaces to modern coworking spaces with active communities, each Outpost neighborhood has been created to help you feel connected and productive from the moment you arrive.

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