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

Impactto

Digita transformation consultant.

Impactto catalyses corporates’ and public sector’s digital and collaboration initiatives by orchestrating access between corporates and public sector with prominent Indonesian tech start-ups.  Melvin works with the clients from the start in identifying desired business impact, synthesizing program blueprints, up to executing and managing the program.

Senior Consultant

Justika

Acquired and Exited.

Justika is the HaloDoc for Lawyers, it aims to redefine Indonesians’ access to legal. Melvin led the company through its angel-round funding, 13x user growth, and also its seed-funding led by East Ventures and other reputable venture capital from the region. It is now fully acquired by HukumOnline.

CEO & Co-founder

Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan (Ministry of Education and Culture Republic of Indonesia)

Public Sector Business Transformation Consultant.

Museum and cultural heritage agency holds all government owned museums and cultural heritage sites including National Museum, National Gallery, and Borobudur. It is created to enable museums and cultural heritage sites to generate sustainable revenue, instead of being a cost centre. Melvin is responsible in the new business model identification and strategy, conducting pricing analysis, and drafting key business processes.

Business Development Expert at Museum and Cultural Heritage Agency Transition Team 

ASEAN LegalTech (ALT)

Community Mover on Legal Tech in ASEAN.

ASEAN LegalTech is a platform to connect LegalTech pioneers, thought leaders and enthusiasts to promote and build the LegalTech ecosystem in the South East Asian markets. With ambassadors across all 10 ASEAN countries, it is running community-building activities, thought-leadership initiatives, advocacy, and opening up dialogue with relevant stakeholders within and between each country.

Indonesia Founding Ambassador

Dattabot - Mediatrac Sistem Komunikasi

Building products where big-data and AI add value to the Indonesian legal industry : launched an intelligent regulations/court decisions search engine, aiming to cut legal research time  by lawyers by more than half; utilizing natural language processing and elastic search methodologies on Indonesian regulations and court decisions.

Product Manager

Assisting the CEO in business planning, investor relations, business development & partnerships, and also in managing and accelerating strategic initiatives in the company as it grows ~2x in terms of number of employees and developing 6 new products.

Corporate Strategy Specialist

PT. Pelabuhan Indonesia II or Indonesia Port Corporation II

Setting-up project management processes for the operations department transformative projects, specifically in the marine-services. Managing ~10 different projects ranging from IT  implementation, ship refurbishment, and re-organizations.

Project Controller

PT. XL Axiata Tbk

Executing strategic exercises, ranging from M&As, new business launches, and network investment business cases, and also corporate planning exercises, e.g. developing corporate KPIs and revenue targets.

Corporate Strategy Analyst

Institut Teknologi Bandung

Coordinated a team of 15 to assist lecturers on teaching substitutes, conduct assignments, and creating/checking examinations on specific bodies of knowledge, e.g. probability and statistics, quality assurance, operations research, systems modelling, supply chain, etc.

Head Academic Assistant at Industrial Systems Planning and Optimization Laboratory

A business strategist experienced in corporate strategy, business transformation, project management, tech product development and also running a tech start-up.

Always looking for opportunities to create tech products or taking roles in digital transformation scenes.

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