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 (Sept 17-18) to get insights from nearly 50 prominent leaders in the venture capital, startup and climate-tech ecosystem.

We present 15 sessions that will be a part of the Venture Capital and Founders’ Summit and the Climate Tech and ESG Summit tracks. Held on the second day of the summit, these sessions will shed light on deployment strategies; operating in a downcycle; business pivots and profitability metrics. The climate tech track will focus on sustainability-based investing; balancing impact with returns; capital allocation bias and more.

As you know, the 2024 edition of our flagship Asia PE-VC Summit will have four thematic tracks, each running as a parallel, full-scale event:

• Limited Partners Summit
• Private Equity & Investment Summit
• Venture Capital and Founders Summit
• Climate Tech and ESG Summit

The two-day summit also provides ample opportunities for quality engagements and networking with over 1000 delegates who constitute the senior leadership of the investment ecosystem in the region.

The summit offers 10 hours of engaged networking opportunities spread across the two days.

Day 2 (Sept 18)

Venture Capital and 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 – 10:05 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

10:05 am – 10:25 am | Networking Coffee Break

10:30 am – 11:10 am | Conference Report Panel

11:15 am – 12:00 pm | Country Focus: Unlocking China’s playbook to deep tech supremacy

• Jingwen (Vivian) Xu, Founding Member, Baichuan AI
• Murong Yang, Managing Director and Investment Committee Member, Future Capital
• Rafael Ratzel, Executive Director & Head of International Business, TH Capital International
• Mark Munoz, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Vectr Fintech Partners
• Eudora Wang, Deputy Editor, Greater China, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm | Founders’ take: Building & scaling an anti-squeeze startup in SEA

• Aaron Tan, Co-Founder & Group CEO, Carro
• Lim Wai Mun, Founder & CEO, Doctor Anywhere
• In conversation with Aastha Maheshwari, Senior Reporter (Indonesia), DealStreetAsia

12:30 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
• Minette B. Navarrete, Vice-Chairman and President, Kickstart Ventures, Inc
• Louis Nguyen, Chairman and CEO, Saigon Asset Management
• 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
• Anup Jain, Founding Partner, India focused Early Stage VC
• Rahul Shah, Partner, EvolutionX
• Prashanth Prakash, Founding Partner, Accel, India; Co-founder, UnboxingBLR Foundation
• Vibhuti Sharma, India Correspondent, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

3:05 pm – 3:45 pm | Exits: Slow liquidity impairs VCs & startups fundraising?

• Dennis Pratistha, Chief Investment Officer, Mandiri Capital Indonesia
• Kheng Lian Ho, General Partner, Turn Capital
• Huiting Koh, Founding Managing Partner, Blueprint 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
• Ruzgar Barisik, Managing Partner, Next Billion Capital Partners
• Jessica Liu, Partner, AppWorks
• Peter Na, Director/Regional Head, Southeast Asia, Atinum Investment
• Dylan Loh, Singapore Correspondent, Nikkei Asia

5:05 pm – 5:50 pm | Closing Session – Sector Focus: Deal flow in fintech proves sector still has firepower

• Andi Taufan Garuda Putra, Founder and CEO, Amartha
• Kenny Man, Managing Partner, 01Fintech Limited
• Caesar Sengupta, CEO & Co-Founder, Arta Finance
• Genping Liu, Partner, Vertex Ventures
• Rachel Freeman, Chief Growth Officer, Tyme
• Dmitry Levit, Partner, Cento Ventures (Moderator)

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Networking Drinks

Climate Tech & ESG Summit

10:30 am – 10:35 am | Welcome Address

10:40 am to 11:35 am | Opening Session – VC View: Where is climate-tech in South & Southeast Asia now?

• 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)

11:35 am to 12:25 pm | Scaling Electric Mobility: Infrastructure, Batteries, and Emerging Transport Solutions

• 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, Senior Correspondent, Indonesia, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

12:25 pm – 1:25 pm | Networking Lunch Break

1:25 pm to 2:15 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 3.00 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)

3.00 pm to 3.30 pm | Fireside chat: TBC

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Networking Coffee Break

4:00 pm to 4:50 pm | Tech-Driven Resilience: Integrating Food, Agri, and Fintech for Climate Adaptation

• Chik Wai Chiew, CEO & Executive Director, Heritas Capital Management
• Benjamin Soh, Co-Founder, Managing Director, STACS
• Guntur Mallarangeng, Chief Executive Officer, Delos
• Cindy Zhang, Executive Director, Gobi GBA
• Tabita Diela, Correspondent, Indonesia, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)