August 1, 2025
Breaking the Threat Cycle: Founder Mental Health

With over 30 years of combined experience in coaching, venture capital, and working with founders in the Bay Area and Southeast Asia, we’ve seen this time and time again.

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July 2, 2025
AI Agents Are the Rage, So Why Am I Looking for the Next CRM?

AI agents are everywhere. They promise to schedule meetings, write follow-up emails, research leads, and even close deals on your behalf. The vision is compelling: a future where software acts autonomously, taking care of work while you focus on higher-level decisions.

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May 6, 2025
Scaling Beyond Borders: Challenges and Opportunities for Malaysian Startups

Malaysia’s startup ecosystem is evolving rapidly, yet many challenges persist for founders looking to build and scale their ventures.

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April 25, 2025
Cinch: Unlocking Access to Consumer Electronics in Southeast Asia

Cinch is revolutionizing the consumer electronics landscape in Southeast Asia through its Device-as-a-Service (DaaS) model.

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April 8, 2025
Cinch Raises US$28.8M to Expand Device-as-a-Service Platform Across Asia

Cinch, Asia’s largest Device-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform, announced an up to USD$28.8 million funding round to scale its subscription-based tech ecosystem.

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March 14, 2025
The Commoditization of Intelligence

The foundation of how we create companies with supernormal profits in venture investing is being disrupted.

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November 4, 2024
MHV Fellowship 2025

The MHV Fellowship Program aims to provide accomplished individuals with the experience of working with a top venture capital firm investing in early-stage tech companies, in Southeast Asia.

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August 14, 2024
Scam and Impersonation Advisory

We have become aware of scam activities involving the impersonation of various organisations, including Monk's Hill Ventures to solicit money. These fraudulent schemes primarily involve false claims of hiring, jobs, commission-based activities, and fundraising for investment or other purposes.

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July 1, 2024
Leadership: Lazy vs Unconscious

I often meet founders seeking advice on how they can be better entrepreneurs. Their questions tend to focus on what they should do more of, and they look quite confused when I respond, “Do less.”

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June 11, 2024
Our Investment in iPiD: Making International Transactions Seamless and Secure

The cross-border payments industry is one of the most dynamic and rapidly growing sectors in global finance, with payment flows reaching about USD 150 trillion in 2022, a 13% increase from 2021.

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June 5, 2024
iPiD Closes Oversubscribed Pre-Series A Round to Strengthen Global Payments with Advanced Verification Solutions

iPiD (International Payment Identity), a pioneer in global fintech, announced it has secured USD 5.3 million in a Pre-Series A funding round today. This oversubscribed round was led by early stage tech-focused venture capital firm, Monk’s Hill Ventures.

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May 22, 2024
From Unicorns to Unicorpses: The False Promise of Negative Blitzscaling

The meteoric rise of tech giants such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon has cemented the impression that hypergrowth is necessary for success. While growth itself is a positive sign that a business is heading in the right direction, the manner in which growth occurs is equally important.

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March 11, 2024
Navigating Layoffs in SEA: What Should a Founder Do?

Layoffs are incredibly emotionally draining. For everyone involved. The founders who have to make the tough decisions, the impacted employees whose worlds suddenly get turned upside down, the surviving employees who may experience survivor guilt, and even the investors who wonder what could have been done differently.

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December 7, 2023
Why We Invested in Radiant1?

The hotel industry in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region plays a pivotal role in the region's tourism and hospitality landscape with technology primarily being utilized in the discovery phase mainly used by Online Travel Agencies (OTA) or in a few in-house full stack technology enabled hotel brands.

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November 30, 2023
Monk’s Hill Ventures’ ESG Commitment to Southeast Asia’s Tech Landscape

Monk’s Hill Ventures unveils its inaugural Impact and ESG Report underscoring our ongoing commitment to ESG principles.

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