Issue #8

Roles at 500 Startups, ExpressVPN, and Wise

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November 25, 2022

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EXPANSION / STRATEGY

  • Director, Product Strategy Airwallex. Business banking and cross-border financial services. $800M Funding. Investors include Sequoia Capital China, Lone Pine Capital.📍Singapore 🇸🇬

  • General Manager, Vietnam Cambly. Gives English learners 1-on-1 access to native speakers over video chat. Series B. Raised a total of >$60M from investors including Benchmark and Bessemer Venture Partners.📍Ho Chi Minh City 🇻🇳

  • General Manager, Taiwan Cambly. Gives English learners 1-on-1 access to native speakers over video chat. Series B. Raised a total of >$60M from investors including Benchmark and Bessemer Venture Partners.📍Taipei 🇹🇼

  • General Manager, Vietnam Glints. Career discovery platform. Raised $50M Series D in Aug '22. Investors include DCM Ventures, Lavender Hill Capital, and PERSOL Holdings.📍Ho Chi Minh City 🇻🇳

  • Director, Strategy and Business Operations Inspectorio. Minneapolis-based (USA) Cloud-based AI-powered SaaS solution that helps retailers, brands, suppliers and manufacturers manage risk. Raised $50M Series B in January 2022 from Insight Partners, Techstars, and others.📍Singapore, Remote 🇸🇬

  • Head of Innovation & Ventures Maxis. Malaysian 4G & 5G network provider. Listed KLSE: MAXIS.📍Kuala Lumpur 🇲🇾

  • Head of Banking & Expansion, APAC Wise. Fintech company focused on international money transfers and cross-border transactions. Listed LON:WISE. 📍Singapore 🇸🇬

MARKETING / COMMS

  • Senior Director, Lead & Demand Generation [24]7. ai. Provides customer engagement solutions use conversational artificial intelligence to understand customer intent. Series A. Raised $22M. Backed by Sequoia Capital. 📍Bangalore 🇮🇳

  • Head of Growth Intrepid Group Asia. E-commerce omnichannel solutions provider. Acquired by Ascential, a UK-based data and analytics firm. Listed LON: ASCL.📍Singapore 🇸🇬

OPERATIONS

  • Head of Real Estate, APAC ByteDance. Tech MNC that owns TikTok, Douyin, and Lark. Raised $9.4B. Investors include General Atlantic, KKR, Sequoia Capital, SIG, and Softbank.📍Singapore 🇸🇬

PRODUCT

  • Director, Product Affinidi. Temasek founded venture developing blockchain-based self-sovereign identity solutions. Headquartered in Singapore with offices in Germany, Ukraine, and India.📍Singapore 🇸🇬

  • Global Head, Product Growth Canva. Graphic design platform that is used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents and other visual content. Global leadership role leading leading 185+ team members in the Product Growth Supergroup. Funding: $572M. Investors include AirTree Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Squarepeg Capital. 📍Sydney 🇦🇺

REVENUE / BD

  • Director, Client Leadership Ada. Data and artificial intelligence company that designs and executes integrated digital, analytics, marketing, and eCommerce solutions. Raised $80M. Backed by Softbank.📍Kuala Lumpur 🇲🇾

  • Commercial Director, eCommerce Operations Ada. Data and artificial intelligence company that designs and executes integrated digital, analytics, marketing, and eCommerce solutions. Raised $80M. Backed by Softbank.📍Jakarta 🇮🇩

  • Director of Enterprise Solution Sales, SEA Appier. Provides an artificial intelligence engine to brands and retailers to help improve customer engagement, predict purchasing and improve conversions on their sites. Series D. Raised $164M from investors including Insignia Venture Partners, JAFCO Investment, and Temasek’s Pavilion Capital.📍Singapore 🇸🇬

  • Regional Business Development Director Atome. Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) company. Owned by Advance Intelligence Group which raised a $400M Series D round in Q1 '22. Backed by Softbank Vision Fund 2 and Warburg Pincus.📍Singapore 🇸🇬

  • Director of Strategic Partnerships - ANZ CoverGenius. Insurtech for embedded insurance that protects the global customers of digital companies like Booking.com. Raised a total funding of $165M, including a Series D of $70M earlier this month. Backed by Dawn Capital, GSquared and King River Capital.📍Sydney 🇦🇺

  • Sales Director DarwinBox. SaaS based HR Tech platform. Series D. Raised $123M from investors like Lightspeed and Salesforce Ventures.📍Singapore 🇸🇬

  • Director of Partnerships, APAC Eventus. Global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions. Series B. Raised a total of $45.4M from Centana Growth Partners, Jump Capital, and LiveOak Venture Partners.📍Singapore 🇸🇬

  • Chief Revenue Officer ExpressVPN. VPN and network security provider. Acquired by Kape Technologies for $936M in 2021. Listed LON: KAPE.📍Singapore 🇸🇬

  • Country Manager, ANZ Riverbed Technology. Leading network and application performance data tracking and insights company. Series C. Raised a total of $37M. Investors include Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Goldman Sachs.📍Sydney 🇦🇺

  • Head of Sales, APAC Tandem. Virtual office for remote and hybrid teams. Seed. $7.5M. Backed by YCombinator and a16z. 📍Melbourne 🇦🇺

  • Director, Strategic Partnerships, ANZ Zip. Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) company. Listed ASX: ZIP📍Melbourne 🇦🇺

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