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The Founders Peak Podcast

Where exceptional startup founders share untold stories that shaped who they are

An exclusive podcast where we bring exceptional startup founders from around the world who each share their inspiration and a bag full of usable entrepreneurial insights from their journeys. So, if you are an aspiring founder, or busy fund-raising, or nearing a successful exit, or even feeling like you might go down fighting, there"s something useful in here for you. Most talks are hosted and recorded LIVE with audiences at The Founders Peak Stage at the Global Finance & Technology Network"s

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00:11:56

How I learned to stop worrying and love balance

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2023/02/27

Diana Paredes is the CEO and Co-founder of Suade, a software platform that enables financial institutions to understand and deliver their regulatory requirements. Prior to founding Suade, Diana had a successful career in investment banking, covering all asset classes at Barclays and Merrill Lynch, across sales, trading & structuring. Whilst working in the industry, she saw an opportunity to innovate and launch her current Fintech/Regtech startup. She believes that a data-driven approach to

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00:11:50

Don't walk away ....even if your legs give away

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2023/02/27

Gaurav Hinduja co-founded axio (formerly Capital Float) in 2013. Under his direction, the company has grown to become India’s leading digital finance company with over 7 million credit customers. As the Managing Director of axio, he continues to drive leadership in the Fintech space through numerous strategic partnerships with industry leaders such as Amazon. Gaurav holds an MBA from Stanford University and graduated from Christ University in Bangalore with a distinction in commerce. Having

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00:10:15

How technology complements the art of craftsmanship

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2023/02/27

Wealth manager turned entrepreneur and digitalisation evangelist, Keith Tan’s passion for good coffee and technology kicked off Crown Coffee’s meteoric journey in 2016. Through astute observations, Keith quickly recognised gaps in the labour, service, and quality market that could be enriched by adopting industry-disrupting technology. Leveraging on robotics, AI and data, Keith started Crown Digital and created Ella, one of the world's most successful robot barista, with a renewed focus to empower

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00:08:46

The 3 heartbreaks that formed my guiding principles

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2023/02/14

Eric Barbier is a serial entrepreneur who has built and scaled multiple payments companies globally. This includes TransferTo (now Thunes and DT One) and Mobile 365 (acquired by SAP). Today, he is the CEO and founder of TripleA, the first cryptocurrency payments gateway to be licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). TripleA empowers more than 15,000 businesses across 120+ countries to make and accept payments in digital currencies, building towards his vision of greater global

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00:11:39

How to navigate difficult times with empathy and win

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2023/02/14

Deepti Sanghi is the CEO & co-founder of Kodo, India's fastest-growing corporate card and spend-management platform for startups and scaled businesses. Kodo has raised ~$14M in equity capital from a group of investors led by YC Continuity and Brex. Deepti brings strong domain expertise in India's fintech and financial services ecosystem. Before launching Kodo, she headed Partnerships at MoneyTap (backed by Sequoia & NEA) where she played a key role in launching and scaling a consumer

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00:13:07

Killer culture in a bootstrap Unicorn!

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2023/02/14

Jason Thompson is the Chief Executive Officer of Partior, the trusted global network for value exchange. He is responsible for steering Partior as it charts its growth strategy to disrupt the payments industry and for formulating strategies for the firm’s expansion and product offerings. With over 20 years of leadership experience in the financial services sector under his belt, Jason is known for shaping some of the region’s notable unicorns, Grab Financial Group and OVO. When he’s not in the

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00:11:05

The importance of measuring progress in your startup,...

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2023/02/14

Ang Xing Xian is the CEO and Co-Founder of CapBay, a leading Supply Chain Finance platform that helps businesses obtain smarter financing. Under his leadership, CapBay has provided more than USD 500 million in digital financing to businesses in Southeast Asia. Xing Xian has extensive experience in management consulting as a management consultant with Accenture Strategy, advising multinational companies on technology and analytics. He was also an in-house management consultant for Creador, a private

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00:11:46

Why I attribute success to luck more than anything else

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2023/02/14

Derrick Lee is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Accredify. He oversees the entire process of Accredify's new products and features from ideation, to development and release. He is responsible for the firm's technical roadmap, policy, operational processes, and the growth of Accredify's tech team. Derrick began his career in tech at the age of 12, founding a series of multiple entrepreneurial ventures focused on tech solutions, including developing an online marketplace for

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00:11:48

What does it take to make the leap from corporate to...

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2023/02/14

Arvin Singh is the co-founder of hoolah, Southeast Asia’s first Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) payment provider that empowers consumers to afford the things they want through flexible payment options while helping merchants grow their payment capabilities. With combined experiences in both the corporate and startup world, he currently leads ShopBack’s Partnerships team in scaling its Financial Services offerings while also leading the BNPL subcommittee for the Fintech Association of Malaysia. In this

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00:12:07

Aristotle and Aurelius: What ancient philosophers can...

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2023/02/14

Yunus Sevimli is the co-founder and CTO of Almond FinTech. His work centres around promoting equitable access to technology across a breadth of fields. Prior to Almond, Yunus held leadership roles in early-stage ventures commercialising cutting-edge medical research, and devised low-tech approaches to poverty alleviation in rural Southeast Asia. He is the author of several patents and scientific papers across medtech, additive manufacturing and robotics. Yunus holds a MS in Mechanical Engineering

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00:12:43

How making unpopular decisions may be difficult but...

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2023/02/14

Joshua Bao is one of SUNRATE's co-founder and is responsible for driving the sales and marketing strategy of the organisation. Prior to co-founding SUNRATE in 2016, Joshua has more than 16 years of experience in global financial and corporate services. As a co-founder, Joshua had to make countless unpopular decisions that he believed were right. While the majority of those decisions have proven to be right, Joshua hopes his experience and insights will help his fellow co-founders follow their

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00:09:51

The lies we entrepreneurs tell ourselves, and why...

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2023/02/14

Nirav Choksi is the Co-founder and CEO of CredAble, India's largest working capital technology platform that enables more than USD 3BN in working capital and has witnessed 500% year-on-year growth. He co-founded CredAble with the aspiration of building an enterprise that empowers the business ecosystem with a seamless flow of credit. Today, CredAble caters to large, mid-sized, emerging corporates, MSMEs and Financial Institutions with its pioneering technological platforms. Nirav is a veteran of the

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00:11:11

Nothing can beat someone who won't give up

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2023/02/14

Edmund Ng is a serial entrepreneur, founder of 3 start-ups, one of which grew to $20m valuation in 2 years. A military soldier turned technologist, he has contributed significantly to Singapore’s tech ecosystem, pioneering mainstays like the self-service SAM kiosks and financial and procurement networks behind the scenes. His experience culminates in Doxa Connex, the Collaborative Trade Platform that connects and unifies upstream and downstream procurement, payments and financing among banks,

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00:11:24

Change and Courage - the Role of 2 Cs in my journey

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2023/02/14

Pratik Gandhi is the Co-Founder and COO at Nium, a leading fintech company that provides banks, payment providers, and businesses of any size with access to global payment services. As Co-Founder and COO at Nium, Pratik leads the Global Finance, Compliance, Operations & Customer Service teams. Pratik brings over 25 years of leadership experience into Nium, having worked for companies such as Arthur Andersen, Xerox, PepsiCo and Telstra before specialising in banking in the last 15 years. He was

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00:11:14

Like free solo climbing, entrepreneurship is a battle...

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2023/02/14

Dhruv Arora is the Founder and CEO of Syfe, Asia’s leading digital wealth management platform with a mission to empower people to build their wealth for a better future. Having pursued a career as a trader with a leading investment bank, Dhruv realised that he had a different calling. Having seen the impact of offering wealth management services to high net-worth individuals, Dhruv founded Syfe to offer the same access to wealth management services and financial literacy to the masses. Today, Syfe

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00:12:44

Micro-entrepreneurs are the key to a better life for...

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2023/02/14

Debbie Watkins has lived in Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Singapore over the past 20 years, and worked in 30 additional countries throughout Africa and Asia. Her focus for this entire period has been technology-enabled inclusive finance - mobile products and services, business and strategy consulting and management - building multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams in a number of countries. She is now the CEO and co-founder of Lucy– a mobile banking and business-building services app

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00:12:02

How to turn experience into a source of resilience

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2023/02/14

Michele Ferrario is the Co-Founder and CEO of StashAway, the largest digital wealth manager in SEA and MENA. Michele spent half of his career in and around financial services, as a consultant to large financial institutions at McKinsey & Co., and as a Private Equity investor. He then spent the second part of his career building consumer internet companies, as Managing Director at Rocket Internet in Italy, Pakistan and South East Asia, and then as Group CEO of ZALORA, where he was responsible for

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00:12:42

Can success be tamed into becoming a habit?

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2023/02/14

David Brear is the CEO of 11:FS and since his dream of being a sportsperson was crushed (along with the ligaments in his knee!) and he had to get a proper job, he has worked in pretty much every angle of the financial services industry never losing that competitive desire to drive forwards and win. Having pitched, established and run billion-pound transformations for some of the biggest FS companies on the planet the realisation that Digital Financials Services Is Only 1% Finished has spurred his

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00:12:27

5 things that suck an entrepreneur’s emotional energy...

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2023/02/14

Feng-Yuan Liu is Vice-President of Business Development of Aicadium, Temasek’s AI centre of excellence. Feng-Yuan is a serial entrepreneur and intrapreneur, with a passion for applying data-driven methods and artificial intelligence both in the service of the public good and launching new ventures. He successfully co-founded and exited an early stage Sequoia-backed startup building technology to enable enterprises to build AI software responsibly. Before that he was responsible for launching

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00:11:50

5 ways how an athlete-like mindset can transform your...

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2023/02/13

Naveen Kukreja, one of the most prominent faces of India’s fintech industry, is the Co-founder & CEO of Paisabazaar – the country’s largest marketplace for lending products and free credit score platform. In less than 9 years, Paisabazaar has served over 33 million consumers from 823 cities. Naveen has 2 decades of deep experience in the fintech and financial services markets of Europe and Asia with stints in Citibank, Capital One and Aviva. Naveen believes the next decade of fintech revolution

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