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Xora Innovation is a subsidiary of the Singapore sovereign investment fund, Temasek. It was established as an early-stage deeptech investment platform that identifies startups connected with the Singapore science and technology ecosystem (although the startup can be based anywhere in the world). Xora plans to invest as a lead or co-lead in seed or Series A rounds, with later-stage investments being handled through Temasek. As of July 2021, Xora has invested in two companies based in Singapore: Allozymes, which provides enzyme engineering services, and Nuevocor, which is developing gene therapy for certain heart diseases.

Shenzhen-based QF Capital was founded by investment veteran Fu Zhekuan, a former partner of Fortune Capital. It manages about RMB 1.5 billion spread across eight VC funds and one NEEQ fund.

CICC Jiatai Fund (RMB M&A Fund) is managed by the private equity department of China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC). It focuses on industrial consolidation, growth enterprise and cross-border investment opportunities. 

Rice Bank was founded by two former Alibaba executives in 2014. The VC mainly invests in early-stage startups across the sectors of mobile internet, digital entertainment, media, intelligent hardware and cloud computing.

Sista Srinivas studied Mathematics and Engineering at the Birla Institute of Technology in India. After obtaining a master’s in 2012, he became a market analyst for one year at Fractal Analytics in Mumbai, India, before joining Indonesia’s Lazada Group in November 2013. He left his job as a consultant for home appliances at Lazada in March 2015 to become a co-founder and director of operations at Fabelio.

A former consultant with Accenture and Galp Energia, Luís Martins holds a master’s in Economics from the Catholic University of Portugal and an MBA from The Lisbon MBA. Martins is currently CEO of Zaask, a company he co-founded. He first forayed into business in 2001, when he set up an online travel agency for the Brazilian market, which he later left to focus on his corporate career.

In 2015, José Bastos left a high-flying financial career to become the CEO and co-founder of Knok Healthcare, now known as Knokcare. He wanted to create a better healthcare system for consumers in Portugal, especially busy working parents who could not take time off work to bring their sick children to see the doctor at government clinics.Bastos graduated in Economics at the University of Porto in 1998. He worked at Sonae SGPS for over eight years, starting out as a financial controller and rising to become Head of Corporate Finance. In 2006, he became the MD of corporate finance firm Change Partners. He then joined as director at a family investment firm in 2009, before working for Sonae again in 2013.

Machine-learning enthusiast Pedro Fonseca studied Mechanical Engineering at Nova University of Lisbon. As an undergraduate, Fonseca and fellow CrowdProcess co-founder João Abiul Menano started the largest university-level Entrepreneurship Society in Lisbon, with financial support from the American Embassy. He co-founded CrowdProcess at aged 25 and is also one of the founders of ODMLX, the largest open data organization in Lisbon. Fonseca is Portuguese.

Dimas Surya Yaputra created an online auction website Swinde in 2009, while reading a degree in Global Corporate Finance at Universitas Pelita Harapan in Indonesia. Unfortunately, he had to close down Swinde a year later. After graduating in 2011, he joined forces with Wenas Agusetiawan at Tiket.com, Bouncity Network and WayangForce. They later exited Bouncity and WayangForce to focus on scaling up Tiket.com, with Dimas as the Chief Commercial Officer.

Dian Prayogi Susanto graduated in 2007 from Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia. He had previously worked as lead engineer for Schlumberger. After two failed attempts at entrepreneurship, he met high school friend Irsan Rajamin. The two developed an idea to automate farming through the use of sensors, automatic pumps and analytics. In 2016, their idea manifested into Habibi Garden, an IoT startup that aims to automate farming and solve crop nourishment issues.

Januar Sudharsono is a veteran IT project manager and consultant with over 10 years of experience. After graduating from Universitas Advent Indonesia in 2006, he worked as an IT assistant manager at Nextnation Network, a Malaysian mobile content provider. He left in 2009 to become an IT consultant for Seven Music Indonesia, a recording label. He co-founded student loan crowdfunding platform DanaDidik in 2015 and became the company’s CTO.

Co-founder and President of Chinapex. Tiger Yang attended high school in Singapore  and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Science in Political Economy. Before co-founding Chinapex, Yang managed multiple internal data analytics projects for clients such as Microsoft. He was nominated for the “Innovative Leader of the Year Award” by China Internet Weekly in 2017.

Zaki Mulyawan has more than 17 years of experience in the mining and energy sector, having held senior engineer positions with Petrosea, BHP and Bhakti Energi Persada since 1999.  At the end of 2016, he left his senior project coordinator role at Contromation Energy Services to establish Manpro, a project management software startup.Zaki holds a bachelor’s in Architectural Engineering from Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia.

Teguh Eko Budiarto is an experienced software engineer and IT consultant, having worked for more than 13 years at Japanese telecommunications firm Brastel, the last six of which were spent at its Indonesian subsidiary. He has also worked for Indonesia's National Desk for Information Resilience and Cyber Security. Teguh left Brastel in mid-2017 to establish Prosa.ai, a natural language processing startup focused on analyzing Indonesian language content.

Ayu Purwarianti graduated with a bachelor's in Informatics from Indonesia's Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) in 1999 and has been an Informatics lecturer at her alma mater since 2001. She has since earned a master's in Informatics from ITB and a PhD in Computer Science from Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan. In December 2017, Ayu joined Prosa.ai as its chief scientist for natural language processing (NLP).

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