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Southeast Asia (SEA) is one of the fastest growing regions in the world. However, navigating the region is not an easy task. More than any other global region, SEA represents a group of culturally, economically, and commercially distinct countries. This makes it hard to scale your startup in this region. Startups face a challenge on how to balance building hyper-local product and also scaling in the region. We'll discuss these challenges, and how to overcome it.
Hsu Ken Ooi is a General Partner at Iterative. Iterative is a YC-style accelerator focused exclusively on Southeast Asia. He was previously the Chief Product Officer of Workmate, an on-demand blue collar staffing platform in Southeast Asia. In 2014, he was VP of Product at Weave (YCS14). Prior to that, he started Decide.com an early machine learning company that predicted the future price of consumer goods. It was acquired by eBay in 2013.Â
Valerie has spent the last 17 years launching and scaling products and tech companies, including directly building and leading teams in 19 countries. She was previously the Chief Growth Officer at GoPay, and Senior Director of Product and Growth at Twitter. She founded ZipDial, a marketing engagement and analytics platform based in India, for users in emerging markets. It was acquired by Twitter in 2016.
Jonathan is the founding General Manager of MVL. MVL operates TADA, a zero-commission ride-hailing and delivery service, in Southeast Asia, and ONiON, an electric vehicle brand that is set to launch its electric three wheeler and energy infrastructure in Cambodia in early 2022.
Prior to this, he started Prospr, a communications agency serving startups in Singapore.