Transcribed with permission from a podcast with Next Level Communication Jonathan Rechtman Hey, everyone, and welcome to the Essence of Investing where we explore the story, strategies, wit, and wisdom of investors from across the Asia region and beyond. I’m your host, Jonathan Rechtman. My guest today is the one and only Chee-We Ng, partner...
CHOIR secures $2.0M in seed round funding to super-charge business analytics and scale out data driven operations for enterprises
CHOIR is a Generative AI enterprise insight generation startup developing a revolutionary AI platform that speeds up advanced analytics by a factor of 10, helping businesses unleash their true potential in everyday business. Enterprises today rely on advanced analytics as a salvation from inefficiency and low productivity. However, even the most innovative global companies do not...
Cybersecurity Startup Tibo Raises Pre-A Investment to Protect Corporates from Data Leakage to AI
Tibo, a startup that develops cybersecurity products to prevent corporate data leakage when using AI, has closed Pre-A investment round led by Oak Seed Ventures. With the rise of Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models (LLM), the risk of corporate data being leaked and ingested by AI and LLM services like OpenAI‘s ChatGPT has become...
Business & Society in the Age of AI
I had the honor and privilege to organize and moderate a panel on “Business & Society in the Age of Generative AI, Large Language Models and ChatGPT” for the Harvard Business School Association of Northern California HBSANC. Our panelists were Olaf Groth – renowned author and founder of think tank Cambrian Group, Zornitsa “Zori” Kozareva...
This is the best time to invest in early-stage venture sectors with robust long-term growth
Amid market turbulence and an economic slowdown, the core tech focused venture capitalist sees silver linings. KrASIA spoke with Ng to find out about his investment philosophy and why he believes this is the best time to invest in early-stage tech startups.
Resnics Raises Several Tens of Millions of Dollars at Multiple of Previous Valuation
Resnics Technology, a leading provider of Data Processing Unit (DPU) chipsets, announced the completion of Series A financing. This round of financing raised tens of millions of dollars and was completed at a significant multiple of the previous, which only closed about six months ago. The round was co-led by MassAve Global, JLSemi and Citic...
Oakseed Ventures Announces First Closing of Core Tech Fund
Oakseed Ventures announces the first closing of a new fund to continue seeding unparalleled core technology startups that will be highly sought after by later stage venture capital in subsequent rounds. Oakseed Core Tech Fund will back highly technical founders building future tech giants to emerge in Asia from the US-China tech decoupling.
Resnics Technology, leader in DPU chipsets, completes Pre-A financing
Recently, Resnics Technology, a DPU chipset startup, announced the completion of Pre-A financing. This round of financing was co-led by Oakseed Ventures and Lenovo Capital, with Grit Ventures, Oriental Fortune Capital, Dingxin Capital, FAW Lihe VC and angel investors participating. It will further accelerate Resnics Technology’s leading position in the area of smart network interface...
Do’s and Don’ts of Raising Venture Capital
Past Monday (Jul 27 2020), I had the pleasure of teaching a class on “Do’s and Don’ts of Raising Venture Capital”. There you go. Do’s: Don’ts: Make it a conversation To engage a VC and not lose interest, have a conversation with him/her. This means share your story, market opportunity and strategy. Pause, have eye...
Investing in Enterprise and Core Technology – The Harbinger
Interview with Adam Bao of Harbinger. Chee-We talks through several developments in China's enterprise and cloud market, including trends across SaaS, data analytics and AI, data infrastructure and more. We also discussed the impact of geopolitics that has brought about an opportunity in China for "import substitution" away from global chipsets and core enterprise software.