Venture Capital

Neoteny Labs leads seed investment in ImpulseFlyer

April 18, 2012 Venture Capital

I am happy to announce that we led an investment in ImpulseFlyer, and would like to welcome them to the Neoteny Labs family. ImpulseFlyer is a luxury and boutique hotel-specific private sale platform with Asia Pacific inventory that is co-founded by Steven Gong (CEO) and Andy Croll (CTO). Despite the apparent dominance of regional players [...]

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NRF reopens TIS, opens floodgate on early-stage tech investments in Singapore

December 8, 2011 Startups & Entrepreneurship

It’s almost 2 years since the National Research Foundation (NRF) picked Neoteny Labs as one of the 7 technology incubators with access to the S$50 million it had set aside under the Technology Incubation Scheme (TIS). NRF would co-invest up to the lower of S$500,000 or 85% of the incubator’s investment in a qualifying company, and [...]

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Indonesia Tech Startup Wrap-up: IMULAI & StartupLokal

April 10, 2011 Startups & Entrepreneurship
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Over the past year, the Indonesia tech startup scene has sprung out of nowhere to captivate the minds of investors and entrepreneurs alike.  There’s always been a base level of tech entrepreneurship in Indonesia, but its most recent breakout can be traced back to Koprol’s acquisition by Yahoo in May 2010.  East Ventures led the [...]

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“More funds on tap for start-ups”, so says The Straits Times

March 29, 2011 News
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I didn’t realize I was quoted on an article on the March 27 Sunday edition of The Straits Times until a co-founder we backed cued me in. More funds on tap for start-ups View more documents from James Chan I did say those words to Lester, and it’s really nice to be quoted on the [...]

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On evil VCs and Startup Ecosystems

February 26, 2011 Venture Capital
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Man who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt man doing it. – Famous Chinese Proverb I‘ve always thought that catchy headlining was a tool reserved for segments of Western media, until I came across a guest post by Teo Sze Siong on e27 titled VCs are evil, says this Malaysian startup.  Not only [...]

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Techcrunch.TV Ask-a-VC SEA edition

October 31, 2010 Startups & Entrepreneurship
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I just touched down and checked into the hotel at Manila, Philippines, and spotted Sarah Lacy’s post on my recent interview with her on Techcrunch. It’s a rather strange and humbling experience watching myself on my first formal interview. Apart from that slight hiccup when an old man came up to us to sell tissue [...]

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Hacking Term Sheets

September 24, 2010 Events
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Here’s my slides from “Hacking Term Sheets” at SingTel Accelerate 2010. It was my first ever professional presentation, so I was glad to see the room filled with people, and even happier to be peppered with questions towards the end. I thank you all for your time and interest, and I hope you enjoyed my [...]

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Accelerate 2010: “Hacking Term Sheets”

September 6, 2010 Events
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I’ll be leading the Day 1 Start-up Mini Track session titled “Hacking Term Sheets” at the upcoming Accelerate 2010 event. This is my pre-amble to the session, in the hopes of drumming up some interest and attracting an interesting crowd, and facilitate sharing and learning amongst all. My thanks goes to Jiin Joo and Sean [...]

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