May 19, 2021
What I Learned as a Marketing Intern at a Southeast Asia VC

In my time as a marketing and communications intern at MHV, I learned more about the world of startups in the region and how a venture capital firm can add value through marketing and branding.

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May 5, 2021
The News Wars: Will Tech Giants Soon be Coughing Up Big Bucks for Media Content?

While I still feel like a young man (on most days), I’m old enough to remember the emergence of the public internet as we know it, and with it the emergence of it, the search engines.

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April 6, 2021
Glints Raises US$22.5 Million to Scale Tech-Enabled Talent Ecosystem to Solve the Regional Talent Crunch

Glints, Southeast Asia’s largest talent platform for career development and recruitment, raised US$22.5 Million in an oversubscribed round led by Tokyo-listed PERSOL Holdings.

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March 30, 2021
Monk’s Hill Ventures and Glints’ Report Identifies 8 Trends in Building Teams and Attracting Startup Tech Talent in Southeast Asia

Monk’s Hill Ventures (MHV) and Glints today launched the “The Southeast Asia Tech Talent Compensation” report.

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March 30, 2021
The Southeast Asia Tech Talent Compensation Report

Any startup founder will tell you one of the toughest challenges they face in building companies is hiring and retaining the right talent. It is particularly challenging when there’s limited data.

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March 26, 2021
Our Investment in UI-licious: Testing Automation Done Right

Zero! In my nine years running engineering and after hundreds of SaaS releases under my belt, this is the total number of software releases where skimping on quality assurance did not come up.

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March 25, 2021
UI-licious Raises US$1.5M Pre-Series A to Scale UI Test Automation Solution Led by Monk’s Hill Ventures

UI-licious, a first-of-its-kind UI test automation solution, today announced a new round of Pre-Series A funding of US$1.5M led by Monk’s Hill Ventures.

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March 24, 2021
Startup Spotlight: ELSA, An Interview with EMPEA

EMPEA interviewed ELSA co-founder and CEO Vu Van about how her experience studying at Stanford inspired her to launch a better way for people to learn the English language, why Google approached her to invest, and why ELSA has its sights set on Latin America as its next market of expansion.

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March 23, 2021
Startup Spotlight: Bot MD, An Interview with EMPEA

EMPEA spoke with Co-Founder & CEO Dorothea Koh about how her experience working for large healthcare companies informed the need to build better information tools for doctors, the strategy behind a doctor-first model, expansion plans in Asia, and the digitization of the medical industry during the pandemic.

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March 22, 2021
How Fintech in Asia is Enabling and Making Education Affordable for Everyone

As Southeast Asia sees an influx of economic and technological growth, the need for human capital development is becoming increasingly critical. Schools across the region are racing to address this training gap— attempting to innovate their curricula, to expand their classroom capacity, and to scale their reach.

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March 19, 2021
Podcast: The Rise of Technification in Southeast Asia

Peng was interviewed by the Asia Startup Pulse podcast on his journey as an investor in Southeast Asia, the region’s potential and the rise of technification in the tech startup ecosystem.

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March 3, 2021
What I Learned from My Fellowship at a Southeast Asia VC

During my stint, I learned a lot about the venture capital industry and the Southeast Asia tech startup ecosystem. Apart from conducting research and attending various virtual networking events, I also met (virtually) with many interesting founders.

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February 26, 2021
Investing in ErudiFi: Building a Better Tomorrow for Students

Access to affordable tertiary education remains a huge pain point in Southeast Asia, with the cost today being nearly double the average GDP per capita. While higher education is a $30 billion market today, only a third of the eligible college-age population is enrolled.

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February 23, 2021
ErudiFi Raises US$5 Million Series A to Scale Tech-Enabled Education Financing Solutions in Indonesia and the Philippines

Through data-driven financing solutions, ErudiFi is addressing Southeast Asia’s education financing gap and helping underserved students achieve their educational aspirations

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February 5, 2021
Our Timely Investment in Bot MD

The global pandemic has added tremendous pressure on healthcare systems around the world and reinforced the need for efficient operations and productive healthcare professionals. I am proud to announce today our Series A investment into Bot MD, an A.I. clinical assistant empowering doctors.

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