Southeast Asia is attracting the eye of investors and innovators. Funding raised by startups from the region increased in 2016-2017 tripleincreasing sharply from $2.52 billion to $7.86 billion.
At the guts of those opportunities is a gaggle of intelligent and provoking founders who’ve launched corporations which have raised tens of millions, even billions, of dollars in funding.
Three years ago, Tech in Asia compiled a listing Southeast Asia’s Top 30 Tech Founders. We have updated this list using data and research financing we’ve got gathered over the past two years.
Some of the founders from our previous list remain, but latest names have also emerged.
Founders are only included in the event that they are actively running a startup, and their placement relies on two aspects: their history and their company’s public data—funding, revenue, and valuation. They are then placed into three groups based on the dimensions of their company.
Here’s the whole list:
NEWEST PEOPLE
Aaron Tan Carro, Singapore
Akshay Garg, CreditIndonesia
Andrew Khoo, Tessa’s TherapiesSingapore
Ankiti Bose, These are testsSingapore
David You, Pomelo fashionThailand
Joseph Phua, Entertainment M17Singapore
Kelvin Theo, Financing SocietiesSingapore
Krishnan Rajagopalan, HooqSingapore
Lai Chang Wen, Ninja Logistics (Ninja Van)Singapore
Markus Gnirck, Group ModeSingapore
Pranoti Nagarkara, ZimplisticSingapore
Shauna di Gregorio, Frontier Digital VenturesMalaysia
on Tran Ngoc Thai, TicsVietnam
RECOGNIZED ENTREPRENEURS
Darius Cheung, 99.co, Singapore
Joel Bar-El, TraxSingapore
Lawrence Wu, SunsetSingapore
Le Hong Minh, VNG, Vietnam
Malcolm Rodrigues, MyRepublicSingapore
Paul Srivorakul, aTradeThailand
Quek Siu Rui, Merry-go-roundSingapore
Robin Khuda, Air trunkSingapore/Australia
Samuel Lim, ReebonzSingapore
Shashank Dixit, DeskSingapore
INDUSTRY GIANTS
Anthony Tan, To catchSingapore
Unardi Ferry, TravelIndonesia
Forrest Lee, The Sea LimitedSingapore
Nadiem Makarim, Go-JekIndonesia
Patrick Grove, IfliksMalaysia
Tan Min Liang, RazerSingapore
William Tanuwijaya, TokopediaIndonesia
Source : Technology in Asia
