Does the challenging venture capital funding climate raise concerns about recovery in 2025? Will investors’ cautious approach linger? Join day two of the Asia PE-VC Summit 2024 in Singapore today (Sept. 18) to get insights on these topics from prominent leaders in the venture capital, startup and climate-tech ecosystem.
We present eight sessions that will be a part of the Venture Capital and Founders’ Summit. These sessions will shed light on deployment strategies; operating in a downcycle; business pivots and profitability metrics.
Day 2 also features a parallel Climate Tech and ESG Summit with six sessions.
The climate tech track will focus on sustainability-based investing; balancing impact with returns; capital allocation bias and more—how can asset allocators and LPs drive the ESG and decarbonisation agenda? How are new creative financing structures evolving to bridge the funding gap?
The ninth edition of DealStreetAsia’s Asia PE-VC Summit went live in Singapore yesterday (Sept. 17). The summit’s PE and LP tracks on Day 1 featured a total of 17 sessions.
The summit has four thematic tracks, each running as a parallel, full-scale event:
- Limited Partners Summit (Day 1)
- Private Equity & Investment Summit (Day 1)
- Venture Capital and Founders Summit (Day 2)
- Climate Tech and ESG Summit (Day 2)
The two-day summit will feature an unmatched collective of 120+ speakers from prominent global and Asian private equity and venture capital investors, their limited partners, and startups.
Check out the full speaker roster
We have curated 30+ sessions featuring industry stalwarts who will share their perspectives on the region’s fastest-growing investment themes and trends.
Here’s a look at the programme schedule for the second day of the summit:
Day 2 (18th September)
Venture Capital & Founders Summit
8:00 am – 9:00 am | Registration & Networking Coffee
9:00 am – 9:15 am | Welcome Address by Joji Thomas Philip, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, DealStreetAsia
9:20 am – 10:10 am | Opening Keynote Chat: The case for Asia Venture Capital amidst funding drought
- Jenny Lee, Senior Managing Partner, Granite Asia
- Shailendra Singh, Managing Director, Peak XV
- In conversation with Joji Thomas Philip, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, DealStreetAsia
10:10 am – 10:40 am | Networking Coffee Break
10:40 am – 11:30 am | Country Focus: Unlocking China’s playbook to deep tech supremacy
- Murong Yang, Managing Director and Investment Committee Member, Future Capital
- Rafael Ratzel, Managing Partner, TH Capital International
- Mark Munoz, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Vectr Fintech Partners
- Eudora Wang, Deputy Editor, Greater China, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
11:35 pm – 12:25 pm | Founders’ take: Building and scaling through funding crunch
- Caesar Sengupta, CEO & Co-Founder, Arta Finance
- Lim Wai Mun, Founder & CEO, Doctor Anywhere
- Caecilia Chu, Co-Founder & CEO, YouTrip
- In conversation with Aastha Maheshwari, Senior Reporter (Indonesia), DealStreetAsia
12:25 pm – 1:25 pm | Networking Lunch Break
1:30 pm – 2:10 pm | Can emerging SEA markets deliver amid venture capital slump?
- Trung Hoang, Partner, VinaCapital Venture Capital Fund (VCVCF), VinaCapital Ventures
- Vy Le, Co-Founder & General Partner, Do Ventures
- Jecky Pelaez, Legal and Compliance Director, Kickstart Ventures, Inc
- Louis Nguyen, Chairman and CEO, Saigon Asset Management
- Huiting Koh, Founding Managing Partner, Blueprint Ventures
- Mars W. Mosqueda Jr., Senior Correspondent, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
2:15 pm – 3:00 pm | Country Focus: India is a hot bet but how to play it right?
- Anurag Ramdasan, Partner, 3one4 Capital
- Veenu Mittal, Partner & CFO, Anicut Capital
- Anup Jain, Founding Partner, India focused Early Stage VC
- Rahul Shah, Partner, EvolutionX
- Vibhuti Sharma, India Correspondent, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
3:05 pm – 3:45 pm | Exits: Slow liquidity impairs VCs & startups fundraising
- Kheng Lian Ho, General Partner, Turn Capital
- Dave Richards, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Capria Ventures
- Miranda Jiang, Co-Head of Investments, K3 Ventures
- Abhishek Bakshi, Head of Asia (ex-China) Issuer Services, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX)
- Andi Haswidi, Head of Data and Research, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
3:45 pm – 4:15 pm | Networking Coffee break
4:15 pm – 5:00 pm | How are global investors reading diverse and fragmented SE Asia opportunities?
- Yoonmin Cho, Partner, Sopoong Ventures
- Jessica Liu, Partner, AppWorks
- Peter Na, Director/Regional Head, Southeast Asia, Atinum Investment
- Piruze Sabuncu, Partner, Square Peg
- Dylan Loh, Singapore Correspondent, Nikkei Asia
- Andi Taufan Garuda Putra, Founder and CEO, Amartha
- Kenny Man, Managing Partner, 01Fintech Limited
- Genping Liu, Partner, Vertex Ventures
- Joolin Chuah, Chief of Staff, Carro; General Manager, Genie Financial Services (Singapore)
- Dmitry Levit, Partner, Cento Ventures (Moderator)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Networking Drinks
Climate Tech & ESG Summit
10:40 am – 10:45 am | Welcome Address by Aastha Maheshwari, Senior Reporter, Indonesia, DealStreetAsia
- Mike Lim, Partner, TRIREC
- Helen Wong, Managing Partner, AC Ventures
- Ruchira Shukla, Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Synapses
- Mason Wallick, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Clime Capital
- Andi Haswidi, Head of Data & Research, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
- Sebastian Togelang, Founder & Managing Partner, Rigel Capital
- Leon Farrant, CEO and Co-founder, Green Li-Ion
- Kunal Khattar, Founding Partner, AdvantEdge Founders
- Son Nguyen, Founder & CEO, Dat Bike
- Tanah Sullivan, Group Head of Sustainability, GoTo
- Khamila Mulia, Former Senior Correspondent, Indonesia, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
12:25 pm – 1:25 pm | Networking Lunch Break
1:30 pm to 2:20 pm| Blended Finance, Creative Structures and New Capital Pools to Bridge Funding Gap
- Vineet Rai, Founder and Chairman, Aavishkaar Group
- Rob Kaplan, Founder & CEO, Circulate Capital
- Nandita Beri, Associate Director, LeapFrog Investments
- Daniel Oehling, Managing Director & Partner, Singapore, Boston Consulting Group (Moderator)
2:20 pm to 3:05 pm | Role of LPs in pushing ESG and decarbonisation agenda
- Nicolas Muller, Managing Director (Head of Private Equity Partnerships), Blue Earth Capital
- Rohit Anand, Regional Head (SE Asia) and Head of Infrastructure Equity, Asia, British International Investment
- Saima Rehman, Investment Officer, PE Funds, East Asia & Pacific, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
- Eka Himawan, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Xurya
- Kavitha Nair, Senior Reporter, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
3:10 pm to 3:45 pm | Applying a gender lens to climate financing
- Linda Mok, Director of Investment, Sarona Asset Management
- Surbhi (Jain) Khandelwal, Director, Triple P Capital
- Pimfha Chan, Correspondent, Singapore, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
3:45 pm – 4:15 pm | Networking Coffee Break
- Chik Wai Chiew, CEO & Executive Director, Heritas Capital Management
- Thomas Berry, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Nutrition Technologies
- Benjamin Soh, Co-Founder, Managing Director, STACS
- Guntur Mallarangeng, Chief Executive Officer, Delos
- Cindy Zhang, Executive Director, Gobi Partners GBA
- Tabita Diela, Correspondent, Indonesia, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm | Networking and Cocktails
