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How to Fundraise for Early-Stage Startups

By |2024-10-25T13:16:14+08:00October 25, 2024|Categories: Experiences|Tags: , , , , , |

A startup workshop during the Cyberport Venture Capital Forum 2024 featured the co-founder of a VC that had successfully picked five $1B+ unicorns from the earliest stage. During one maximum capacity startup workshop in Hong Kong, co-founder and managing director of SoGal Ventures, Pocket Sun, shared very practical advice about how to raise funds, giving unique perspectives into investors’ as well as founders’ mindsets. The workshop which caters to early-stage startups; especially ones that are founded by women, was an insightful and revealing one for this journalist who is finally dipping her reporting toes into the world of venture ... Read More

The Seamless Convenience of a Digital National Identity Platform

By |2024-11-03T15:38:37+08:00October 23, 2024|Categories: Experiences|Tags: , , , |

CXpose.tech recently caught up with HID’s APAC execs, to find out more about how their organization enables a digital national ID platform, and why physical ID is not going away anytime soon. HID's APAC regional senior manager for Citizen ID Solutions, Adrien Lemoine, shared that Philippines national digital ID journey began in 2022 when the country’s newly-elected president himself decided to migrate physical document issuance to the digital world. If one has even dabbled with digital finance services, they may find they have had to sign up for an account digitally, be it on their computer or mobile phone. ... Read More

A Quick Look at Machine Learning Models with Cloudera’s Chief AI Architect

By |2024-10-23T10:27:48+08:00October 21, 2024|Categories: AI, Data|Tags: |

Verta’s founder and now-Chief AI Architect at Cloudera, Manasi Vartak, sat down for a brief chat with CXpose.tech at the sidelines of Cloudera’s EVOLVE24 New York conference. It’s not everyday that one meets the creator of an AI-based startup from MIT, so the idea was to demystify AI as much as possible, while unravelling more about the problems Verta wanted to solve. Verta, is an MIT startup that built software infrastructure for enterprise data science and machine learning teams to rapidly develop and deploy machine learning models. Manasi Vartak founded Verta, based on her PhD thesis, a decade ago, ... Read More

“Innovation in Healthy Foods is Hard!” – Hexa Food Founder

By |2024-10-21T17:26:26+08:00October 15, 2024|Categories: Data|Tags: , , , , |

Hexa Food founder, Gary Gan, opined that the U.S. has "the junkiest foods" and discovered when he ‘volunteered his body for science and blood tests’ that two weeks of eating healthy barley oats comes to naught after just three days of junk food ingestion. This hands-on R&D approach to ‘product development’ should come as no surprise, because the HEXA brand name is a blend of the words ‘Healthy’ and ‘Extra’. Gary Gan's entry into the food business was not a deliberate choice, but a ‘putting out the fires’ response when Krisanya, the popular Malaysian atta flour maker, faced a ... Read More

Cloudera Demonstrates Enterprise AI is a Team Sport at EVOLVE24 New York

By |2024-10-14T15:19:03+08:00October 13, 2024|Categories: AI, Experiences|Tags: , , , |

Enterprise AI is a team sport. This has never been truer than when Cloudera announced their second batch of Enterprise AI Ecosystem collaborateurs, and its execs double clicked into how they are doing it, at its New York conference. After announcing the Enterprise AI Ecosystem last year, Cloudera has made huge strides forward with three additional members, Anthropic, Snowflake, Google Cloud, that were announced during its global annual flagship event, EVOLVE24, in New York. A press release described the ecosystem as an initiative that brought together a diverse group of industry-leading AI providers, and had the objective of delivering comprehensive ... Read More

VC Vibes and Hitting the Founders-Market-Product Jackpot

By |2024-10-15T10:36:10+08:00October 6, 2024|Categories: Experiences|Tags: , , , |

According to former Spotify executive, Sriram Krishnan, venture capital (VC) is generally applicable to very particular industries that are high-growth and have very, very big markets. Software-based companies that solve big problems generally require venture capital, he said. And it is software-based companies, specifically fast-growth software-based companies, that is the reason for Kearny Jackson’s existence. “That’s the world that Sunil and I, operate in,” he said, adding that his co-founding partner Sunil Chhaya is based in New York, while he is in San Francisco. And there are many of these types of companies that the Kearny Jackson (KJ) venture ... Read More

Correlating Product Development with Product Marketing

By |2024-10-02T15:48:47+08:00October 3, 2024|Categories: AI|Tags: |

Product development and product marketing are closely related and typically highly correlated, though the exact nature and degree of correlation can vary depending on the organization and industry. Here's a concise overview: Alignment: Effective companies align product development with marketing to ensure the product meets market needs and can be successfully promoted. Feedback loop: Marketing insights often inform product development, while product features drive marketing strategies. Timing coordination: Product launches require tight coordination between development and marketing teams. Value proposition: Product development creates the core value, which marketing then communicates to potential customers. Competitive advantage: Both functions work together ... Read More

Dell Technologies Bullish on Promise of AI, Launches AI Factory for Telcos

By |2024-09-24T20:10:31+08:00September 25, 2024|Categories: AI|Tags: , , , |

Dell Technologies believes it has the heft and breadth to deftly maneuver AI hurdles for organizations. Pivotal to its success of achieving the promise of AI would be its data solutions that can transform data into actionable insights, and an easy-to-set-up digital infrastructure to drive it: the Dell AI Factory. A recent study by Vanson Bourne for Dell Technologies (Dell) has shed light on the complex landscape of AI adoption in the country, revealing both promising opportunities and significant challenges. Over 6,600 respondents were surveyed, and Dell’s Malaysia country manager, Saravanan Krishnan, outlined what the results from Malaysia meant, ... Read More

The Eternal North Star in Customer Experience: Understanding the Customer

By |2024-10-02T14:51:24+08:00September 25, 2024|Categories: Experiences|Tags: , , |

The Freshworks Experience event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, revolved around a few key themes - customer experience, employee experience and AI. During a media briefing, insights from Freshwork's execs like offered a keen look into the evolving landscape of customer experience. Malaysia in recent times has made many announcements about large corporations investments into its AI future. Here and now, Freshworks' managing director in Asia, Simon Ma, called out that many global businesses based in the country, especially in the global business services (GBS) and call centers' industry, recognize AI's ability to automate and enable self-service. Simon Ma ... Read More

“You Can’t Find Local-Made Slippers Anywhere Else in Pastel.” Fipper’s Flip Flops Aren’t Merely Footwear

By |2024-09-21T15:38:56+08:00September 19, 2024|Categories: Experiences|Tags: , , , , , |

Fipper, under the leadership of its CEO Choong Jee Von, has transitioned over the years from a local-made brand to a trendsetting one that tourists will buy in the dozens; there are at least 15 color combinations of every design per year after all; to take back home as souvenirs. Jee Von's journey with Fipper began six years ago, but his leadership philosophy was shaped long before. His experience working with a mentor in Penang, Malaysia, helped to shape his management style and approach to leadership. Jee Von   It was also in Penang where he learned ... Read More

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