Our speaker today is Roth Sim, Founder & CTO of BanhJi FinTech.

Roth is one of two finance professionals in Cambodia to hold four accounting and finance qualifications. He proudly represents Cambodia as a member of ASEAN MSMEs Advisory Board. Despite being a finance professional, painting has always been Roth’s passion.

BahnJi FinTech garnered recognition as a leading ASEAN startup by the World Economic Forum in 2018 and was awarded Best Startup in Cambodia by the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication. Their commitment to inclusivity was acknowledged with a Government of Cambodia award for Inclusive Business in 2021.

Its no surprise that Roth talks to us about The unseen burden of being the first fintech startup in the country. Take it away Roth…

Our speaker today is Amit Jain, Founder & CTO of Zamp.

Amit has played multiple roles in his career - consulting, running a tech company known as rent.com, heading APAC at Uber, and being a VC at Sequoia. He has worked across 5 continents (and travelled to 7).

Zamp started a year and a half ago as a modern-age banking and treasury management platform for enterprises It’s funded by Sequoia Capital and CEOs of several companies such as Uber, DoorDash, GoJek and Careem.

His talk is titled The path less traveled: and here is his journey from a VC to a Founder.

Our speaker today is Omar Saleh , Founder & CTO of Khazna.

Omar is Egyptian born and raised and has worked and studied in the US, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He is a 2-times Egyptian Kickboxing Champion.

Khazna is a credit-led neobank with a unique & profitable B2B2C business model. It received the Central Bank of Egypt’s first prepaid card licence and aims to become Egypt's go-to specialised bank for underbanked mid-to-low-income consumers. Over 80% of Khazna's users accessed formal financial services for the first time ever through Khazna.

Omar believes in the power of people and talks to us about Building your start-up dream team, something that is one of the most critical influencers of startup success. Here’s Omar.

Our speaker today is Gaurav Singhvi, Co-founder & CTO of We Founder Circle - which has 5 Co-founders, located in 4 cities with teams sitting in 9 cities of India.

Gaurav has created 13 different communities in the last 30 years. Gaurav walks us thru all that he has learned thru his journeys in his heart-warming talk titled Walking alone and flying together.

Our speaker today is Kelvin Teo, Co-founder & Group CEO of Funding Societies.

Kelvin would like us to know that he is not the Kelvin Teo on Wikipedia, who is also a Malaysian, management consultant and entrepreneur, but won a reality dating show "Love Me Do". Kelvin survived in Brazil with no money, card and friends, because he found out at the boarding gate that he needed a visa to transit in Canada.

Kelvin did taekwondo and sparring when he was young, because he came from a public school in Malaysia with gangsters. Now, he would just run.

The founding of Funding Societies was an accident, because neither Kelvin nor his co-founder Reynold were planning a start-up. Their venture was sparked by a mixture of inspiration and frustration, influenced by what he calls the PayPal mafia. Today, Funding Societies is the largest digital finance platform for SMEs in Southeast Asia.

He shares some amazing insights from his entrepreneurial journey in a free-wheeling talk titled The Harvard founder who did the opposite of what he learned

This episode is just too special. We’d like to say Pauline and Simon are the ‘first couple’ of The Founders Peak stage. No, we’ve never had a couple take stage as one team. And with what Pauline experienced recently as she was getting off a plane, this story is gut-wrenching as it is inspiring and as it is a story of love and belief and hope and resilience.

Pauline is a Board Advisor at Viridios Capital and Head of New Ventures at Stealth. Her husband, Simon is a Director at Synechron Technologies.

Pauline is German, French and Nicaraguan, and went to school in 12 different countries growing up. At university in London, she started her own Hip Hop record label.

Simon Is the most English-sounding Australian you’ll ever meet. He was a record-breaking athlete (at age 10), and is a children's author in his spare time.

Together, they're building a eco-friendly chalet in Pauline’s hometown in Chamonix.

Together, they talk to us about The Unbreakable Spirit of a Founder - especially

Our speaker today is Kunal Shah, Founder & CEO of CRED in India.

Kunal is a philosophy major turned two-time fintech entrepreneur. His Delta 4 theory of innovation is often quoted by entrepreneurs as a success framework. He is a prolific angel investor who believes in the power of entrepreneurs transforming lives at scale.

His company CRED is a lifestyle platform for India's most creditworthy. CRED wants to improve people's relationship with money and has enabled nearly 15 million Indians to better their credit scores.

Kunal speaks to us about Trust - the bedrock of enduring businesses

Our speaker today is Rahul Shinghal, Co-founder & CEO of Tazapay - a cross border payment platform backed by marquee investors including Sequoia and PayPal, enabling local collections in 70 countries.

Rahul has been in fintech for about 25 years, starting out in Fintech well before it was called Fintech. He has held leadership positions at PayPal and Stripe before starting Tazapay in 2020.

He shares his learnings on a topic important for all aspiring entrepreneurs From corporate code to startup mode: The opportunity cost of making an entrepreneurial shift. Lets listen to Rahul.

Our speaker today is Matthew Spacie, Founder & Executive Chair of Magic Bus.

Matthew is an India-based British entrepreneur, humanitarian, and a former international rugby player. He is co-founder of ClearTrip.com, India’s second largest travel portal, and now the co-founder and CEO of Magic Bus. Matthew has extraordinary insight into how social entrepreneurship can be used to help children out of poverty.

Matthew talks about this in his truly inspiring talk the value of a billion - is it perception or fact?

Our speaker today is Biogirl MJ, Science teacher-turned-content creator raising eco-awareness on climate change.

Her channel Just Keep Thinking Sg won the Content Creator of the Year Award this year. Her channel also has its own mini wildlife documentary series. Their videos are a big hit amongst mummies.

MJ is a slave to her cat, Qwerty. While she wanted to be a lawyer when she was younger, MJ is now obsessed with Science!

Yellow is her favourite colour and in her signature funny, high-energy and honest talk, she walks us thru her journey From teacher to content creator: and How a calculated YOLO completely changed her life.