SaaS IT UP 🎙️

Ajith Issac, Investor at STRIVE VC shares his insights around the SaaS ecosystem in APAC. 

Strive works with tech startups in seed, Series A, and Series B rounds and is active in Japan, and South East Asia

Salim Ismail is the Founding Executive Director of Singularity University and Co-founder and Chairman of OpenExO, a global transformation ecosystem that connects world-class professionals with organizations, institutions, and people who want to build a better future through cutting-edge ideas and actionable methodologies.

Futurist and best-selling author of Exponential Organizations and Exponential Transformation, Salim Ismail has been building disruptive digital companies as a serial entrepreneur since the early 2000s.

Michal Sadowski (CEO, Brand24), in the candid conversations, shares his worldview and why he believes so strongly in the SaaS business model. Brand24 is a powerful social media analytics platform that tracks keywords across different social media networks including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Youtube and Twitch. Based on the mentions, it calculates social media reach, the share of voice, and monitors hashtag performance. 

Aleksandra Panyukhina, Head of events of Parcellab, shares her experiences of shaping and organizing virtual events.

In 2021, People have shifted to remote work and it is unlikely they are going to want to get back into an office after that. The same goes for virtual events - once people realize they don't have to travel for big conferences anymore they may be hesitant to return to the old way of doing things. 

Jonathan Moore has spent more than 14 years in South Korea. He is active in the Seoul start-up ecosystem where he mentors start-ups and drives innovation programs. 

Johnathan had a unique book recommendation which was authored by his university professor Hwy Chang Moon - "The Strategy for Korea's economic success".

Anant Vidur Puri is a Partner from Bessemer Venture Partners, and in this episode, he speaks about his experiences and the challenges of scaling a company. Bessemer Venture Partners is an American venture capital firm. The firm has over $5 billion under management and invests globally, with offices in San Francisco, Redwood City, New York City, Boston, Israel, and India.

In the 1st Season, Saswat and Oskar talk about the Indian and German Startup & Venture Capital Ecosystem. In these 24 condensed episodes, you will listen to some of the exciting stories from India, Europe, the Americas, LATAM, SE Asia, Russia, Japan, Korea, and Australia across the digital spectrum. To follow the rabbit hole, please connect with Saswat on X.