RISE Offstage with Casey Lau

RISE Offstage with Casey Lau

The official podcast of the RISE conference - "The largest tech conference in Asia" - RISE co-host Casey Lau engages in conversations with tech leaders and innovators around Asia.

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April 6, 2021 30 mins
On this episode of the RISE Offstage podcast, host Casey Lau welcomes Akshay Bhushan, a Partner at Lightspeed who is leading the firm’s Southeast Asia investments, focusing on consumer tech investing across both Southeast Asia and India and in companies like Sharechat, Chilibeli, Grab and more. 

Akshay talks about how the pandemic has helped them to deploy more capital, which are the big Asian markets Lightspeed is looking at and th...
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On this episode of RISE offstage, I welcome the new regional director of 500 Startups APAC Ee Ling Lim to the podcast.

Ee Ling’s main role is to work with governments and corporates to build innovation programs using the 500 Startups network and has run programs in the city of Kobe Japan and with corporates like Malaysia’s Petronas with their FutureTech accelerator.

We talk about how engaging with corporates and governments can acce...
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On this episode of RISE Offstage, host Casey Lau speaks with Animoca Brands founder and chairman Yat Siu about the current NFT craze and how it goes beyond the art and collectibles world and into games and pop culture. Based in Hong Kong, Yat has invested in Opensea, Dapper Labs and more and helps decipher the world of NFTs and explore the market opportunities in Asia that are coming up over the next year on this episode.


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The RISE Offstage podcast with Casey Lau highlights chats with community leaders, startup founders and investors across Asia about their startup ecosystems and how they are facing new challenges and new opportunities.

On this episode I welcome Koichi Saito and Kuan Hsu the co-founders and general partners of KK Fund. These two investors have worked in Japanese venture capital and now through their own fund are investing in startups ...
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The South Korea startup ecosystem has been booming - some of the most exciting new companies are coming out of Seoul.

On this episode of the RISE Offstage podcast I welcome Jimmy Kim and Bernard Moon the co-founders of SparkLabs one of South Korea’s most successful startup accelerators.

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SHOW NOTES:

Jimmy Kim LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmykim1/
Bernard Moon LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernardmoon/

SparkLabs Kor...
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Amarit “Aim” Charoenphan is best known as the Co-founder and Former CEO of HUBBA, Thailand’s first coworking space and community that is the only Google for Startups Partner Hub in Thailand. He is also Chief International Officer and Cofounder of Techsauce, one of Southeast Asia's leading technology media and events company. His passion for the startup community and to help entrepreneurs grow has led him to angel invest in many of ...
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At Web Summit 2020, we announced that RISE will move from Hong Kong to its new home of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2022.

Malaysia is fast becoming the digital hub of the ASEAN region and I thought it would be great to talk to some people who live and breathe the Malaysia startups ecosystem and give us some insight into what is happening there right now, the challenges and successes and the massive opportunity, so I welcome two amazing...
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On this episode of RISE Offstage our guests are Mark Wang, Head of East Asia for Shopify who heads up the e-commerce platforms growth in Japan and he invited one his e-commerce success stories Kaz from kiko & gg to provide insight from a local Japanese entrepreneurs perspective and how her e-commerce business is operating, and not only during a pandemic, but more importantly internationally and with Japanese retail culture intact.

S...
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On this episode of RISE Offstage, Casey Lau sits down with Roland Yau of CoCoon Ignite Ventures and Ben Wong of Eureka Nova to talk about the recent challenges facing the Hong Kong startup ecosystem and how it will thrive as part of China's Greater Bay Area and amidst the enactment of the National Security Law.

RISE returns in March 2021.

Show Notes:

Roland Yau on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/roland-yau-0228611/

Ben Wong on LIn...
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On this episode of RISE Offstage I welcome co-founder and president of AirWallex Lucy Liu to the podcast - Airwallex is one of the fastest growing fintech startups in Asia having raised a new $160mm Series D round in April with investors like Tencent, Sequoia China and Horizon Ventures.

On this episode (which was shot in person back in January 2020 as a pilot to a video version of this podcast) Lucy and I start at Airwallex’s super ...
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Taiwan has the lowest number of COVID-19 cases in Asia so much so that entrepreneurs from around the world have been moving to Taiwan in droves that they actually have a Chinese name for “COVID Refugee.”

This is amazing to hear and why I wanted to feature the Taiwan ecosystem early on in this new podcast series because this is an amazing opportunity for startups as my guests and I will discuss.

Some people refer to Taiwan as the "A...
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The RISE Offstage FinTech Roundtable featuring special guest Mikaal Abdulla co-founder of 8Securities.com 8 Securities has been acquired by SoFi and so this will be Mikaal's final interview as 8 Securities!

Mikaal Abdulla
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikaalabdulla
SoFiHK: https://twitter.com/SoFi

A letter from the founders:
https://www.8securities.com/

From Bloomberg:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...

From TechCrunch:
https://techcru...
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September 17, 2020 44 secs
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