Technopreneur Webinar Series 2020

Vertex Holdings is pleased to present the Technopreneur Webinar Series, an 11-part guide for aspiring technopreneurs. Aimed at facilitating the exchange of knowledge about entrepreneurship, partners from Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India and Vertex Growth will speak to founders from Vertex portfolio companies as well as strategic partners, to share their advice and entrepreneurial experiences.

“Prior to COVID-19, Vertex regularly organized events and activities via our Technopreneur Circle community. COVID-19 has made it impossible to organize such physical networking events, which is clearly an integral part of entrepreneurship, one that also involves learning from each other. As part of our efforts to give back to the wider innovation and startup community, we have decided to bring our mentoring online through this Technopreneur webinar series,” Chua Kee Lock, CEO of Vertex Holdings said.

“This series aims to facilitate the sharing of ideas and insights from many startup CEOs and founders. Critically important, it provides aspiring technology founders and leading innovators a fundamental understanding on the intricacies and art of entrepreneurship.”

The webinars ran almost weekly from August 7 to November 6, 2020, and these are the articles summarizing the panel discussions.

In case you missed it, here are the highlight videos for the full list of webinar topics:

# 1: An Introduction to Technopreneurship

In our first session, we introduced the Technopreneurship journey and discussed the key considerations for founders when starting up a new venture or start-up.

Featured speakers: Chua Joo Hock (Managing Partner, Vertex Ventures SEA & India), Ben Mathias (Managing Partner, Vertex Ventures SEA & India), T Fuad (Former CEO & Founder, Spacemob) and Joseph Phua (Chairman and Co-founder, M17 Group)

Here are the highlights from our first session:

You may view the full webinar recording here.

# 2: Raising Capital

The second session focused on finding the right investors to build a great business and discussed the key considerations in capital raising.

Featured speakers: James Lee (Managing Director, Vertex Growth), Nikhilesh Goel (Co-founder & CEO, Validus) and Cindy Kua (Co-founder & CEO, Sunday)

Here are the highlights from our second session:

You may view the full webinar recording here.

# 3: Term Sheets & Legal 101 (Part 1)

This is the first part of Term Sheets & Legal 101 where we discussed the key concepts when reviewing legal documents such as shareholders agreement. The second part will take place in session 6.

Featured speakers: Chua Kee Lock (CEO, Vertex Holdings), Chan Hiok Chiou (Associate Director, Vertex Holdings) and Kevin Chua (Managing Director, Investments, RISA Partners Asia)

You may view the full webinar recording here.

# 4: Scaling Up & Cross Border Expansion

In our fourth session, we discussed how startups can expand to new geographies and lessons learnt when scaling businesses globally.

Featured speakers: Ben Mathias (Managing Partner, Vertex Ventures SEA & India), Vinod Muthukrishnan (Former CEO & Co-founder, CloudCherry) and Jeffrey Tiong (Founder & CEO, PatSnap)