Monty Ngan is an investor at Julian.capital, an early-stage startup fund specializing in the design-growth linkage and helping startups develop the right brand and customer acquisition strategy. He is also the founder of Catena, a platform that helps top overseas talent find roles at US-based startups.

While in high school, Monty created a digital platform called TalkED for preserving indigenous languages of the Philippines in partnership with the Philippines Department of Education. Monty led TalkED to win the Harvard Social Innovation Competition, and presented about the project at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Prior to Catena, his previous startup, Ascend Build, was a proptech startup that helped real estate developers in Canada optimize rental prices and worked with developers that owned over 20,000 units across Canada. In a previous life, he also spent time working at McKinsey.

Monty is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Economics and Business Analytics.

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Episode hosted by Trymata co-founders Rit Gautam & Shruti Goli