We go on call with Indonesian F&B brand enabler Dishserve CEO and co-founder Rishabh Singhi. After sharing with us last year how a series of events led the former Reddoorz COO back to Jakarta to start a dark kitchen, last-mile distribution network for F&B brands, he returns for Season 4 to update us on how Dishserve has evolved and grown over the past year, now shaping up to be an all-around, omnichannel enabler for F&B brands in Indonesia.

Timestamps

(01:11) Re-introduction to Dishserve and CEO Rishabh;

(01:41) Rundown of Dishserve’s growth the past year;

(03:08) Becoming an All-Around F&B Enabler;

(14:01) Indonesia’s Evolving F&B and F&B Enabler Landscape;

(19:21) Leadership at Dishserve;

(21:51) Mapping out Dishserve’s Scale Story;

(24:04) Rapid Fire Round;

About our guest

In this episode, we have Rishabh Singhi, the CEO and co-founder of Dishserve. Prior to Dishserve, he was previously COO and Head of Products at Reddoorz. And prior to that, he had already been working in a couple of different technology-enabled and based companies, across different regions, starting from India all the way across APAC, and in various industries as well, in education, financial services, talent development, career development.

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We’re back with another Insignia Ventures Academy Afterthoughts episode where bring on alumni or mentors from the 12-week VC accelerator program. For this episode, we have another alumnus with us from Cohort One, the inaugural cohort of IVA, Harsh Rungta, who goes on call with us to talk about his transition from a decade-plus long career in banking to family office CEO, learnings from angel investing, and of course his experience at IVA.

Transcript

Timestamps

(01:14) Intro to Harsh;

(05:48) Rise of Southeast Asia Focused Family Offices from an Indian family office perspective; 

(17:06) From Israel to Insignia Ventures Academy: Learnings from Angel Investing;

(22:44) Insignia Ventures Academy Afterthoughts;

(29:31) Rapid Fire Round;

About our guest

Harsh Vardhan Rungta is CEO of Carbon Graphite Advisors, a Singapore-based Indian family office. Harsh built his career in banking from Citibank to spending more than a decade at the Bank of Singapore as Managing Director, working with a lot of ultra-high net worth clients across South and Southeast Asia. Harsh is an angel investor with investments in startups across the globe and he is an alumnus of Cohort One of Insignia Ventures Academy's VC Accelerator.

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With our US$516 million fundraise doubling down on our long-term dedication to building great companies in Southeast Asia (full press release), this is as good a time as any for us to have back on call our founding managing partner Yinglan Tan, who shares more about the big ideas, heuristics, and initiatives around Insignia Ventures' approach to uncovering ASEANnovation. Like the first time Yinglan came on the show as a guest back on Season 1 in 2020, we only have three questions:

(01:25) 1. What are the long-term drivers of Southeast Asia innovation amidst global uncertainties? What will keep drawing capital into the region?

(04:25) 2. How do we find market leaders and creators in Southeast Asia? What makes “great companies” great?

(22:46) 3. How do we think about finding early movers in “next decade sunrise sectors” that are still nascent and developing in the region?

Transcript

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About our guest

Prior to founding Insignia Ventures, Yinglan was Sequoia Capital’s first hire and Venture Partner in Southeast Asia. He sourced multiple investment opportunities for Sequoia including Tokopedia, Go-jek, Traveloka, Carousell and Appier. Yinglan had also been a member of the Singapore Administrative Service, where he served in a variety of positions in the Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Trade and Industry and Ministry of Defence. Yinglan was also the founding Director of 3i Venturelab China, a joint-venture between private equity firm 3i (LSE:III) and INSEAD. 

He currently serves on the International Board of Stars – Leaders of the Next Generation, the Singapore Government’s Pro Enterprise Panel and the Committee on the Future Economy's Sub-Committee on Future Corporate Capabilities and Innovation. He is also a Board Member at Hwa Chong Institution and Adjunct Associate Professor at National University of Singapore. He is the co-author of 4 books - The Way Of the VC (Wiley, 2009), Chinnovation (Wiley 2010) and textbook New Venture Creation - An Asian Perspective (Mcgraw Hill 2011) and Navigating ASEANnovation (World Scientific, 2020). Yinglan was educated at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon and completed executive programs at Harvard and Oxford.

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Generalist Software Engineer. Tech Lead. Cloud Advocate. Podcast Host. Thought Leader. Henry Suryawirawan, VP of Engineering at Indonesia's largest and leading money movement platform (with more than 10 million users) Flip, goes on call with us to share his journey from startup to big tech and now scale up, his leadership approach as VP of Engineering at Flip, how his growth at Flip has impacted his own career and views, as well as his deep interest in Cloud and work as host of the Tech Lead Journal podcast. 

Join Henry at Flip in shaping the Indonesian financial culture and building the fairest tech company in the world! See open roles across departments. 

Timestamps

(01:43) Paulo introduces Henry;

(02:47) Venturing into Flip as a Scale Up;

(07:37) Bringing Flip’s Culture of Fairness to Fully Remote Engineering Teams;

(14:01) How Flip Fosters Engineering Careers and Impact;

(20:21) A Cloud Advocate’s Perspective on the Impact of Cloud on Digitalization and Cybersecurity;

(24:54) A Dev Podcast Host’s Learnings;

About our guest

Henry Suryawirawan is a generalist software engineer, tech lead, cloud advocate, thought leader, and avid personal growth learner. He is the host of Tech Lead Journal, a podcast about technical leadership and excellence. He is also the creator of Apache Beam Katas, a learning platform for people to learn about Apache Beam. Henry's career spans across multiple industries—insurance, banking, startup, consulting, government, cloud—which includes companies like Great Eastern, Barclays, JP Morgan, Einsights, ThoughtWorks, Singapore GovTech, Google Cloud, and currently Flip. 

Henry also has deep interests in cloud technology, software architecture, technical practices, building tech products, and forming high performing engineering teams. He is highly experienced in Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD. Henry has delivered talks on multiple occasions, ranging from Google Cloud Next, Google Cloud Summits, webinars, and community meetups. Henry holds a Master of IT in Business (Financial Services track) from Singapore Management University. He also holds 5 GCP certifications, plus the CKAD and CKA certifications.

During his spare time, Henry loves to read books, listening to podcasts, learning personal growth, running, and playing with his kids.​ Fun fact, Henry has finished Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 7 times.

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In this call, we’re back with another leader from Indonesia’s leading logistics-first ecommerce enabler Shipper. In past episodes, we’ve had the pleasure of going on call with CEO Phil Opamuratawongse, then COO Budi Handoko, and most recently CTO Marvin Arif and VP of Engineering Agus Daud. Now we’re introducing a retail, supply chain, commerce veteran who has just joined Shipper in the past few months and has taken up the helm of Chief Customer Officer, Craig Wheeler. He shares on call what he’s bringing to the table for Shipper, his own views on Shipper’s growth trajectory and the rapidly evolving Indonesian ecommerce market, and his approach to leadership and customer service.

Timestamps

(01:04) Paulo introduces Craig Wheeler;

(02:01) Bringing 20+ years of retail and commerce expertise into Shipper customer-centric business;

(09:50) Maturing “Need for Speed” Ecommerce Market in Indonesia;

(15:28) Commerce Digitalization from On the Ground Listening to Full Stack Tooling;

(20:44) Beyond enabling better logistics to enabling better long-term business growth;

(25:52) Navigating Leadership in Indonesia;

(27:55) Rapid Fire Round;

About our guest

Craig Wheeler is the Chief Customer Officer at Shipper. Prior to Shipper, Craig was Group VP of Digital and OmniChannel at leading Indonesian omnichannel retailer Kanmo Group. Prior to coming to Indonesia, Craig had more than two decades career as an operations director in multiple global companies enabling retail, supply chain, distribution, and ecommerce, including Rakuten Europe, QVC, Matrox. His experience has made him an expert in delivering digital, organizational, and operational change within Omnichannel and Multinational organizations, and through that, he has driven change in many SME and startup organizations, with direct experience of growing startups in phase 1 or phase 2 of their growth regardless of backing.

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We go on call with Christian Schneider (CEO) and Clare Leighton (COO), co-founders of Singapore-HQ'ed data processing and workflow automation platform bluesheets. They talk about how bluesheets is changing the way businesses globally process and manage data, with the global data integration software market size on track to reach $29 billion by 2029 according to Fortune Business Insights forecasts. But while they've found a longstanding gap in the automation market and have made early progress, it's going to take a lot more work. We dive into the nuances of improving underlying technologies like AI, ML, NLP, driving adoption across use cases from offline SMEs to enterprise, as well as leading the team enabling fundamental infrastructure for the digital economy.

Transcript

Timestamps

(01:21) Bluesheets Origins and Targeting the Financial Data Use Case for Workflow Automation;

(02:23) Ripple Effects of Changing the Way any Business Deals with Data;

(08:45) Perks of Expanding AI SaaS from Southeast Asia to the Rest of the World;

(14:18) Unlearnings from Big Tech and Corporate and Impact of bluesheets on their Leadership;

(25:21) Leading the Workflow Automation Competitive Landscape Forward;

(31:52) Rapid Fire Round;

About our guest

Christian Schneider, bluesheets CEO and co-founder, started his career in investment banking and consulting in Europe then venture building with Rocket Internet in Singapore, managing business intelligence for foodpanda, then co-founding Singapore-based foodtech startup DishDash.co, where he began working with Clare as it expanded to Australia.

Clare Leighton is the bluesheets COO and co-founder. Before first working with Christian as country manager of DishDash.co, she was previously part of the launch team of UberEats in Australia then later the head of Uber’s APAC People Operations.

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We go on call with a returning guest, Huy Nghiem, CEO and Founder of Vietnam's leading digital investment platform Finhay. Fresh from announcing their acquisition of VinaSecurities to launch their stock trading product, then a US$25M Series B round co-led by Openspace Ventures and VIG, he's back on the how to talk about the ecosystem of investment products they now offer which contributed to 150% user over 2021, driving long-term adoption amidst market volatility, and Finhay’s impact on Vietnamese people, public markets, and economy. Join Huy at Finhay. This call was recorded March 2022.

Timestamps

(00:14) Paulo introduces Finhay and Huy;

(03:06) Finhay’s Expansion into Stock Trading;

(13:10) Driving Long-Term Adoption of Digital Investment Platforms Amidst Market Volatility;

(19:05) Finhay’s Impact on Vietnam’s People, Public Markets, and Economy;

(27:15) Rapid Fire Round;

About our guest

Huy Nghiem is the founder and CEO of Finhay. Prior to Finhay, Huy built his expertise and experience in the financial markets as a financial advisor at AMP in Australia. He also co-founded and led tech companies and business initiatives during his time in Australia. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor degree in Accounting and Marketing. He was part of the 2020 Forbes Asia 30 under 30 list.

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We went On Call with Eric Barbier, the CEO and founder of TripleA, B2B crypto payments solutions company headquartered out of Singapore, that helps businesses globally increase their revenue by enabling crypto payments and payouts. In this jampacked call, we do not only talk about crypto and TripleA’s work in pioneering business payments use cases, but also Eric’s entrepreneurial journey, being a serial fintech founder scaling companies amidst challenging market conditions like the turn of the millennium dotcom boom and crash, then the global financial crisis, as well as driving payments adoption and use cases from web2 to now web3 with TripleA. 

Eric and TripleA are also the first investee of Insignia Ventures Partners' Moonshot Fellowship (see full press release), bringing together a network and community of web3 founders and talent building important infrastructures and laying the foundations for the still-nascent web3 ecosystem.

Transcript

Timestamps

(00:23) Paulo introduces TripleA and Eric;

(02:26) The Entrepreneurial Pioneer Journey from Mobile Messaging to Mobile Payments to Crypto Payments for Business;

(06:16) Building for Crypto’s Mainstream Adoption through B2B Payments Solutions;

(11:12) Advantages of Building Crypto Solutions in Singapore;

(14:51) Assorted Topics: Un-Learnings from Web2, Starting Companies in Fundraising Winters, Local Stablecoins, Bridging Web2 Fintechs to Web3; 

(21:25) Future of Global Crypto Payments;

(23:41) Rapid Fire Round;

About our guest

TripleA is founded by Eric Barbier, a repeat FinTech entrepreneur with a proven track record of building successful payments companies. He co-founded Mobile 365 back in 1999, a mobile messaging hub that reached a subscriber base of over 400 million. It was acquired by Sybase (now SAP) for $425M. He then founded TransferTo (now Thunes) in 2006 on the idea that transferring money should be as easy as sending a text message. Today, Thunes has raised over $60M and is now the largest payment network connected to mobile wallets. With partners like Paypal and M-Pesa in its network, Thunes supports 60+ currencies, enables payments to 110+ countries, and helps businesses accept 285+ payment methods. He is also an investor and board member in global fintech companies, including the first digital bank in Saudi Arabia.

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For this week's call, we're debuting a new format, where show host Paulo will be narrating most read articles on Insignia Business Review as well as sections from the book Navigating ASEANnovation. The narration features relevant snippets from past calls on the show, to bring more life to the ideas and insights in these articles. If you miss our regular programming -- don't worry, a new call's coming next Monday! 

For this pilot, we're reading part of: "The Rise of Counter Position Companies: Indonesia's Next Chapter from a Venture Capitalist's Perspective" written by Insignia Ventures Partners Head of Indonesia William Gozali and published on 25th March 2022 and currently in the top 5 most read articles this year. Featuring calls with: 

Transcript (i.e. the full article)

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Meet a new set of non-founder tech startup leaders in the second compilation of our spinoff, social media series "A Leader A Minute."

Transcript

Timestamps

(00:52) Introductions to Leaders and their Roles;

(10:09) Company cultures and how the company has shaped its leaders;

(17:26) What excites these leaders about the future of their company and their role in it;

About our guests

See openings: Nabil Ishak is Head of Human Resources at Aplikasi Super. Prior to joining Super, he was a Talent Business Partner (HRBP) at Bukalapak. He received his Masters of Science in Human Resource Management and Organizational Analysis from King’s College London. (Full Interview)

See openings: Bryan Tan is Chief Data Scientist at Carro. Prior to Carro, he was a research fellow at the Singapore Nuclear Research and Safety Initiative, where he had also completed his PhD in Earth Science (Machine Learning and Computational Physics) at Cambridge University. (Full Interview)

See openings: Agus Daud is Shipper’s VP of Engineering and Product. He began and built his more than a decade career in engineering in Australia then moved to Seattle where he worked at Amazon on their external payment system before returning to Indonesia and joining Shipper. He received his Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science from UNSW. (Full Interview)

See openings: Marolop Leonardo David Siagian is Group Product Manager at leading open finance platform for Southeast Asia Brankas. Marolop had built more than seven years-career in product management, working with the likes of Jualo, HappyFresh, TunaiKita, Xendit before joining Brankas. He graduated from the Universitas Kristen Maranatha Bandung with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science. (Full Interview)

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