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.

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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

ICICI Bank

Product Manager, Debit Cards

YES BANK

Assistant Vice President, Digital Banking

Unimoni

Product Manager, Travel Cards & Prepaid Cards

Kotak Mahindra Bank

I achieved following milestones during my tenure at Kotak Mahindra Bank:

1. Launched mVISA - a QR code based digital payment solution through the existing Kotak Bank mobile app.

2. Launched a current account product - Easy pay account that helps the corporates to channelize the funds through the debit card in order to handle the cash crunch crisis.

3. Pilot launched Visa Checkout (aka VISA safe click) for Debit Card E-com transactions.

Senior Product Manager, Debit Cards

Ing Vysya Bank is now Kotak Mahindra Bank

1. Launched chip based Debit cards and migrated the portfolio of magstripe customers to chip based emv debit card platform in Nov’13.

2. Enhanced the user experience by introducing following innovative features:  Deactivation of debit card via SMS & Delivering one time password (OTP) for e-com transactions through email in Apr’14.

3. Spearheaded the Integration of ING Vysya Bank with Kotak Mahindra Bank by launching the exact replicas of Kotak Products in ING system by procuring new debit cards BINs, introducing new charging logic and defining transaction limits in the bank switch in May’15.

National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI)

Intern

Product Management professional, whose expertise lies in card payments and digital payments. Experienced in launching new to market products, managed existing card products and improved the customer experience by enhancing the process and features of the product, strategized marketing plan for promoting the products, identified system related bugs during or after  launch to rectify the crisis and resolved them by analytically understanding the root cause. Incidentally launched a current account - card product during the demonetization period.

Launched the following Products:

1. EMV Chip based debit card in Nov’13 and introduced the functionality of switching on & off of international transactions on chip based debit cards and magstripe based debit cards in Jan’16.
2. Delivering One Time Password for Debit Card Ecom transactions through e-mail in Jun’14.
3. Easy Pay Current Account during demonetization period in Nov’16.
4. Bharat QR - a digital push based PoS solution for paying debit card purchases through mobile banking in Feb’17.
5. Pilot launched Visa Checkout, a simplified single sign in online card payment option,  in Jun’17.
6. Launched FCNR Deposits to NR Customers via YES ONLINE (RNB) in Jun'21 & Introduced "Suggested Transactions" to Net Banking users as per recent transaction history.
7. YES Mobile Nxt: Instrumental in launching the new mobile banking app (YES Mobile Nxt) by managing two critical modules - Debit Card & Credit Card.

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