Saison Capital

Saison Capital is an early stage fund with a focus on emerging markets. We back ambitious founders solving big problems, with deep fondness for web3, fintech and embedded finance - non-fintech companies expanding into fintech. Our team comes from an operating background, and we are unafraid to roll up our sleeves to support our founders. We are backed by Credit Saison, a Tokyo-listed 30b AUM consumer finance company with extensive financial services across Asia.

Partner

Principal

BCG Digital Ventures

Started in classic management consulting with BCG, before being the first full-time convert in Southeast Asia to BCG Digital Ventures. At BCG, launched a nationwide sales program for one of the largest banks in Southeast Asia, driving improvements to performance management, culture and internal communications. At BCG Digital Ventures, built 0-to-1 pre-seed ventures in sustainability, agetech and FMCG.

Venture Architect

Glints

Glints is Southeast Asia’s largest talent platform for career development and recruitment. Founded in 2013 in Singapore, Glints has empowered more than 1.5 million professionals and 30,000 organizations to realize their human potential. 

We were the youngest to have raised venture capital in Southeast Asia from East Ventures, 500 Startups, SPH Media Fund, Gobi Partners, Golden Equator Capital, Wavemaker Partners, SG Innovate.

I led marketing, operations and human capital - team building, recruiting, compensation, onboarding, management, culture, and internal communications.

As seen on Forbes, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, Huffington Post, Yahoo News, The Straits Times, Business Times, Today, Tech In Asia, e27, and Digital News Asia, Channel News Asia.

COO & Co-Founder

Institute for Infocomm Research

The Institute for Infocomm Research is a member of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) family. I published 13 research papers (11 of which I'm first-author) and presented 4 projects in human-computer interaction at international peer-reviewed conferences and journals.

Researcher

Partner at Saison Capital

The 0 to 1 journey as a founder can be lonely and challenging. I’ve been there.

At Saison Capital, I partner with founders to grow from 0 to 1. Need talent? I'll help recruit key hires and advisors. Need customers? I'll hustle alongside you to find your first 1,000 true fans. Need capital? I invest pre-seed / seed, especially in fintech, B2B platforms and web3.

My 0 to 1 experiences include co-founding Glints (Series D), Southeast Asia's largest talent platform for career development and recruitment, and venture building with BCG Digital Ventures. I also finished my Stanford undergraduate degree with distinction (top 15%) in 2 years.

Connect with me at qinen@saisoncapital.com

Previously recognized as Forbes 30 Under 30 and Entrepreneurs 27 Under 27. Featured in Forbes, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, Huffington Post, Yahoo News, The Straits Times, Business Times, Today, Tech in Asia, e27, Digital News Asia, and Channel News Asia

Qin En Looi

Amir Rozenberg

Blue Triangle

We enable decision makers to prioritize investments in user experience based on a proven business model.

Currently leading product management, customer success and support. We're enabling executives, product and marketing managers and developers to achieve the most impactful user experience optimizations.

Blue Triangle was recognized in the 2024 Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Monitoring by Gartner:
https://bluetriangle.com/blog/blue-triangle-positioned-on-the-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-digital-experience-monitoring

Chief Product Officer

Capital One

Optimizing developers' time focused on innovation to build a better product in the credit card organization (100s of dev teams)
- Developer tools, build pipeline, IaC, shift left detection of vulns etc.
- Pre and in-production automation of well managed aspects of applications (compliance, continuity, performance etc.)
- Data-driven well managed portal

Lead the team, recruit, establish CDH/PLG processes, establish business impact-driven investments, team morale etc.

Sr. Director, Product Management

Sauce Labs

Leading the digital quality business and platform evolution. Strategy and vision definitions down to implementation details. Driving the transition to product-led growth and developer-oriented mindset. Growing the PM team, mentoring product and engineering leads globally. Establish sales methodology and enablement with the field organization. Supporting ecosystem and M&A corporate development efforts.

Associate VP Product Management at Sauce Labs

Directing the platform and web business for Sauce Labs. Leading a team of product managers, located in EU and US. Defining and driving function teams with engineering, optimizing velocity. Establishing and maintaining executive customer relations as well as analyst relations.

Director Product Management

Perfecto Mobile

Lead the core offering, enabling enterprises to instill quality practices into their devOPS pipeline. 
- Extend product offering to cover all digital application channels (web, mobile, IoT) and user scenarios (ex.: Wind Tunnel)
- Lead product strategy, innovation and continuous improvement 
- Establish product success/value KPIs, measurement and reporting
- Launch management, messaging and sustained customer success 
- Drive ecosystem evolution with adjacent vendors to establish compelling new solutions
- Frequent speaker and creator of thought leadership assets to drive brand exposure

Director of Product Management

Gomez

Lead mobile APM product management team. Craft and execute strategic product initiatives encompassing road map planning, solution development, go-to market strategy, sales development and execution of deals. Evaluate emerging market trends to prioritize cutting-edge feature and functionality development based, in part, on recurring C-level executive feedback. 
- Productized initial experimental concept into production-grade commercial SAAS solution valued at $xMM in annual bookings and fantastic renewal rate and usage growth.
- Presented comprehensive business case to gain buy-in from executive to accelerate mobile market leadership.
- Drove thought leadership initiatives, conference and executive presentations, infusing interest and energy in the solution.
- Developed product management framework for Gomez with defined PM roles and career paths.

Head of Mobile Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Adva Mobile

Adva Mobile enables entertainers to create communities of loyal fans through a mobile fan club experience, including mobile messaging, websites, content delivery, social sharing, ecommerce etc.

- Led the founding of a mobile marketing startup: business planning, funding activities, team building, product strategy & execution etc.
- Executed business development deals with content owners, operators, mobile commerce partners etc.
- Created the marketing strategy & materials, energized the sales force.

Co Founder; Product Lead

Groove Mobile

GM Sold to LiveWire On March '08

Created, defined and executed the mobile music D2C strategy UK/US; collaborated with entrepreneurial partners to drive the ecosystem:
communities, content owners, technology vendors, operators etc.

Sr. Product Manager, Direct To Consumer

Nextcode Corporation

- Successfully launched at SMART Communications (Philippine Mobile Operator) and successful trials at US, EU and Asian operators
- Created Nextcode’s Product Suite (ConnexTo) for mobile content, services, enterprise applications etc.
- Created the Business Model and Sales Strategy that resonates to early adopters 
- Contributed to strategic company/product decision making in startup environment
- Subject Expert and Evangelist on the space; Provided consultancy to other players in the space

Director, Product Management

TTPCom Inc.

Manage TTPComs IMS product suite: SIP/RTP stacks, PoC, Video Streaming: 
* Perform market research (customers, prospects, carriers, competition, vendors), create MRD
* Establish business cases, Make vs. Buy, milestones & deliverables, P&L, licensing and pricing
* Work with technical lead to define project plan, synchronize between development, testing and delivery teams
* Establish sales collateral, train sales team, meet customers, attend and speak at conferences
* Revalidate market opportunity, establish lead customer and lead platform

Product manager

* Provided customer support for TTPCom customers: Research In Motion,Novatel,Telular,... 
* Integrated TTPCom Protocol Stack, working through IOT, certification, carrier and infrastructure labs. 
* Provided development assistance for North American features (EDGE, AMR, 850,...).

Field Support Engineer

Intel (DSPC)

DSPC (Intel)
* From test engineer to team leader (Embedded SW development for wireless handset)
* Various projects and methodologies: 
  - CDMA IS-95 (Rake receiver, system work);
  - TDMA IS-136 (Speaker Dependant Voice recognition, BlueTooth integration)
  - GSM Validation team leader
  - Architecture: Audio manager architecture definition

Sr. Embedded SW/System Team Leader

Sr. Director @ Capital One | Product Leadership, Vision

With over 20 years of product management experience, I lead high-growth global teams from seed to enterprise and scale, delivering innovative and functional solutions that deliver tremendous adoption and RoI. 

My core competencies include product leadership, product discovery & strategy, and product-led growth. I have experience in developer tools across the lifecycle of applications. I am passionate about enhancing the digital quality and performance of products, and empowering developers with the best tools and practices. I am also a frequent speaker and thought leader in the field of DevOps and continuous quality.

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