Gavin Teo is a General Partner at Altara Ventures, where he invests in high growth tech companies.

He serves as a Board Director to Clevai, Klinik Pintar, Kyan Technologies, Med247, Staffinc and Saturdays. Prior to launching Altara with his partners, Mr. Teo was General Partner at B Capital Group and held appointments at Comcast Ventures, Zynga, Xbox and Bain.

He earned his M.B.A. from The Wharton School, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar and his B.A. in Economics from Claremont McKenna College. Mr. Teo maintains residency in the United States and Singapore.

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Jay Eum is Co-Founding Managing Partner of GFT Ventures. Jay brings over 20 years of extensive investment experience across both institutional and corporate venture capital firms.

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Jay co-founded TransLink Capital, a Palo Alto based early stage venture capital firm supporting entrepreneurs developing customer connections and partnerships in Asia. Jay was responsible for leading investments in AI, AR/VR, blockchain, cloud, and consumer technologies.

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Prior to TransLink, Jay was Managing Director of Samsung Ventures where he established and led the US venture capital operations for Samsung. Jay started his venture capital career at the Silicon Valley office of Vertex Management, Singapore based venture capital arm of investment firm Temasek Holdings.

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Jay received an MBA from Stanford University and MS/BS in Chemistry from Seoul National University. Jay serves as Chairman and Board Director of the Asia America MultiTechnology Association (AAMA). Jay is also an active angel investor and advisor to several startups.

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Keith Lee is a startup growth expert specializing in global expansion and corporate innovation. As a Director at PEN Ventures, he leads cross-border business development, helping startups scale internationally.

Previously, he worked in corporate innovation at Plug and Play Tech Center and contributed to strategy teams at various startups. Keith focuses on deep tech startups—particularly in AI, sustainability, and robotics—bridging opportunities between the US and APAC regions.

Read more about Pen Ventures here https://www.linkedin.com/company/penventures/ or here ⁠https://www.pen.ventures/ and you can connect with Keith on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/keithwonlee/

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With a PhD in Neuroscience and recognized as one of the top 60 AI influencers in Eastern Europe, Genia is a visionary leader in the tech industry. She has been acknowledged for her extraordinary ability by USCIS and has built a successful tech recruitment company, AiHub, headquartered in the US.

Under her leadership, AiHub secured contracts with major companies such as Microsoft, Phillips, and Agoda, and became a Google community partner in 2019, with support from Google’s Mountain View office.Today, she is an active angel investor and Limited Partner (LP) in several VC funds, passionately supporting female founders in their fundraising journeys and driving innovation in the tech space.

Read more about Multiplyers VC here https://www.linkedin.com/company/multiplyers/ or here https://multiplyers.vc/ and you can connect with Genia on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/genia-xasis/

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Peng is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Monk’s Hill Ventures, a leading early-stage tech venture capital firm in Southeast Asia. Peng is an industry veteran with over 25 years of industry experience as an entrepreneur, founder, and investor in Silicon Valley and in Asia.

Prior to Monk’s Hill Ventures, he was a Venture Partner at GSR Ventures in China. The firm is known for its successful investments in companies like Didi Chuxing, Eleme, and Qunar. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded a series of successful companies including Match.com, Interwoven and Encentuate, whose products  today combined generate over USD$1 billion in revenues annually.

Peng was awarded Singapore's Public Service Medal, P.B.M. (Pingat Bakti Masyarakat) in 2012. He formerly held statutory board directorships in: ACE, IIPL, SUTD, NRF, IE Singapore, IMDA. SingTel and YY, amongst others, were commercial boards he also served on. Peng is currently the Chair of SolveEducation! and serves as a member of the International Advisory Board for the University of Texas at Austin.

He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois. Peng was inducted to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, College of Engineering's Alumni Hall of Fame in 2016.

Read more about Monk's Hill Ventures here https://www.linkedin.com/company/monk-s-hill-ventures/ ⁠⁠⁠ or connect with Peng on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/pengtong/

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Curt Shi is a highly experienced venture capital professional with a global investment track record spanning Australia, Israel, the United States, and China. In addition to holding positions in a number of listed companies in the classical tech space, he has also achieved significant success through his investments in blockchain and web3 technologies. Notable among these are Efficient Frontier, which generated a 10X return, Swell, which delivered a 3X return in just three months, and STEPN, which achieved an impressive 1,500X return within a six-month timeframe. Curt serves as the founding partner of Follow [The] Seed, Imprint Capital Partners, and Welinder & Shi Capital.

Read more about ProDigital Future Fund here ⁠https://www.prodigitalfund.com/ or connect with Curt on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/sk8er/⁠⁠.

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Steve is an investor, advisor, and award-winning tech entrepreneur with 28 years of building businesses in Asia and Europe. This includes scaling teams from 2 to 1,500 people, raising over $400M in funding, M&A deals, and investing in and mentoring green-tech start-ups. He’s passionate about entrepreneurship, climate change, and social equality. In 2007, Steve co-founded PropertyGuru out of personal frustration, and set out to increase transparency and “empower consumers to make confident property decisions”. He led the business as CEO for the first 10+ years, growing it from scratch into a proptech unicorn used by 50 million people in 5 countries, with 1,400 staff, and took it public on New York Stock Exchange (“PGRU” NYSE ticker). Steve serves on the board.

Steve founded Planet Rise in 2019 to help companies tackle climate change and social inequality, using tech to achieve impact at scale. He’s invested in and advises 17 Asian green-tech start-ups in clean energy, clean water, clean air, sustainable food, circular economy, sustainable finance, migrant worker rights, and women-led enterprises. In 2021, Steve co-founded Wavemaker Impact, South East Asia’s first VC climate-tech venture builder, with the goal of reducing 10% of global carbon emissions. We are developing a portfolio of 100x100 ventures (climate-tech businesses with the potential to mitigate 100MT emissions and generate $100M revenue each), working with seasoned entrepreneurs.

Steve has supported the development of South East Asia’s start-up ecosystem over the last 16 years – as an angel investor (~30 start-ups), mentor, and VC (Wavemaker Partners / Wavemaker Impact), focused on sustainability tech. Steve is a member of the Asian Venture and Philanthropy Network (AVPN) and Top Tier Impact (TTI). He is also a sponsor/mentor/judge for HabitatForHumanity’s Sheltertech affordable housing accelerator, Capitaland’s Sustainable Buildings accelerator, and Temasek Foundation’s global The Liveability Challenge. Steve supports charities including FoodBank, Asia Startup Network (low-income families), and LightHouse (migrant workers).

Previously, Steve invested in and then led ComiAsia, a Singapore mobile content start-up. Previously, he founded Business2Profit in Europe to help enterprises to innovate and start-ups with scaling. Prior to this, Steve held leadership roles in the tech sector for 10 years, his last position was director of a $500 million turnover business at Cable & Wireless helping internet, content, emerging telco, and mobile players.

In 2007, Steve was awarded the “Spirit of Enterprise Award” in recognition of contributions to entrepreneurship in Singapore. He is a keynote speaker and is regularly interviewed by media on start-up, venture investing, and sustainability topics.

Read more about Wavemaker Impact here https://wavemakerimpact.com/ or connect with them on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/company/wavemaker-impact/. You can connect directly with Steve on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevemel/.

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Jeep Kline is a seasoned venture capitalist, a senior executive at Intel and pre-IPO technology companies, a World Bank economist, and a faculty at UC Berkeley with more than 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry. Her multi-industry career paths are threaded together in one big theme: global impact. She believes that “financial returns are necessary but not sufficient; impact returns are also required”. This has been the guiding principle of her career that yields positive results across multiple industries and economies.

As a venture investor, Ms. Kline co-founded a venture capital fund investing in early-stage technology companies in Latin America where she remains a Founding Partner. Previously, she was an Operating Partner at a venture fund investing in 60+ early-stage high-growth companies across U.S. and Canada. Some of the portfolio companies include SpaceX (unicorn), AirBnB (IPO), Lyft (IPO), and You.com (pre-IPO). Recently, she founded SeaSky Lab, an organization that brings knowledge and resources from Silicon Valley to Asia for tech entrepreneurs.

As an operating executive, Ms. Kline is the current President of AHEAD Medicine – a life science company using machine learning for cell analysis – holding 6 global IPs. Prior to AHEAD Medicine, she was a senior executive at Intel Corp., where she pioneered, launched, and scaled the company’s first Android-based tablet device globally. Ms. Kline was also an economist at The World Bank Group, where she supported Ministries of Finance in emerging markets to implement technology development projects in South America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe.

Ms. Kline is one of the first Thai women selected to lecture a popular MBA course Impact Venture Capital Investing – Sustainable & Impact Finance Curriculum – at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. She also serves Berkeley Skydeck, a top accelerator program, as an investor and Global Ambassador to 48 countries in the Asia- Pacific region. Her board work includes AHEAD Medicine (biotech), The Circulate Initiative by Circulate Capital (climate tech), Dietz Co. (health-tech), and Intel Alumni Network (global tech executives). She is also an advisor to selected founders/CEOs at The Alchemist Accelerator and UCSF Health Hub Incubation in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Read more about MrPink VC here https://mrpink.vc/ and Seaskylab here https://www.seaskylab.com/ or connect with them on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/company/mrpink-vc/ and here https://www.linkedin.com/company/seaskylab/. You can connect directly with Jeep on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeepkline/.

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David runs operations and the Deal Hub at On Deck Angels, where he and the team help angel investors refine their investing craft so that they can be some of the world's most helpful angels. He also co-leads DECODE's fund accelerator program that helps experienced angel investors raise their first funds. Outside of On Deck and DECODE, he's a scout for seed and Series A deals in consumer technology, a mentor at multiple startup accelerators including Techstars and Alchemist Accelerator, and writes weekly on his personal blog, Cup of Zhou.

Read more about On Deck Angels here https://www.beondeck.com/or connect with them on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/company/beondeck/. You can connect directly with David on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidjzhou/ and check out his other socials here: 

Website: cupofzhou.com

Twitter: @cupazhou

IG: @davjzhou

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Zécca J. Lehn is the General Partner of Responsibly Ventures, based in California, backing U.S. PreSeed startups in both Social and Sustainable Tech—using multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a guidepost per investment.

Over the past 15+ years, he has worked as an Environmental Economist, Data Scientist, Non-Profit Board Member, and Co-Founder. He grew up in an off-the-grid Japanese-style home, on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest. Through his world travels and living in Scandinavia during his early 20s, he discovered a deep love for people, the planet, and diverse cultures.

For the past years, he has produced the podcast posi2ive, on Venture Scale Positive Impacts. He also leads regular community events – for posi2ive’s current base of around 10k+ members across platforms.

He holds a degree in Environmental Economics from Western Washington University and a Certified Specialization in Data Science from Johns Hopkins University. Additionally, he’s certified under the UN Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). He often speaks on pitch panels, and podcasts, and publishes articles on the PreSeed VC Impact arena.

Read more about Responsibly Ventures here https://responsibly.vc/ or connect with them on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/company/responsibly-vc/. You can connect directly with Zecca on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/zecca/ or on Twitter here https://twitter.com/Zecca_Lehn

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