Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, Stripe launched SEA and India-focused program to support seed-funded founders

Vertex SEA | 15 Aug 2022

Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India (VVSEAI) has teamed up with Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, to launch a program supporting early stage tech founders across Southeast Asia and India with their next stage of fundraising. The program is also supported by other notable VC firms such as Sequoia, Qualgro and Openspace Ventures.

The three-part webinar series takes place between 25th August and 8th September 2022. It brings together leaders from top investment firms and seasoned startup founders, who will share insights on: key metrics for fundraising, market expansion planning, and how to hire at scale. This inaugural program aims to support over 400 early stage founders across SE Asia and India region. Interested founders across SE Asia and India may sign up now at https://stripe.events/raising-your-series-a.

Topics and Dates:

Key metrics and targets to close your Series A (One of the speakers is our General Partner Pui Yan Leung)- 25 August 2022
Macro-economy trends and what it means for your fundraising plans - 31 August 2022
How to recruit top talent and maintain your culture - 8 September 2022

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This program is the first project from the partnership between VVSEAI, an early stage VC fund known for its investments into unicorns such as Grab, and Stripe, and the two companies are aiming to develop more initiatives such as a dedicated mentorship program to support founders in the challenging economic climate.

“We are pleased to work with Stripe in this meaningful program. Over the past three decades, Vertex has worked with founders through the ups and downs of the business cycles and helped them strategize and come out stronger. Amidst this current climate, we will continue to do our part to support the ecosystem. Part of our ongoing efforts to support the community also include providing rent-free hot desks at our co-working space, Technopreneur Circle,” said Joo Hock Chua, Managing Partner, VVSEAI.

VVSEAI has been investing in high-growth start-ups seeking their first round of institutional venture capital funding across Singapore, India, Indonesia, Thailand and other emerging hubs of innovation across the region. It has a long and strong track record of investing in early-stage startups and building champions like Grab, Patsnap, 17Live, Nium, FirstCry, Licious, AsianParent, Validus, Warung Pintar, and others.

Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Founded in 2010 by Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison, Stripe aims to increase the GDP of the internet.

The first webinar is on 25 August 2022. Watch our Partner Puiyan’s sharing here.

“I’m a bit of a nerd, I like to dive into the financial model and it is not just a paper exercise, I use that as a basis to correlate the strategy, the narrative and the vision to how the founder thinks about allocating resources.

So, the financial models should tell a strong story about your historical performance and it should tell me - how are you looking ahead in the future Your monetisation strategy, your go-to-market strategy, human capital plan, market expansion plan… I should be able to see five years from now, what is the revenue mix - by market, by your product line, by your channel strategy.

The numbers will be wrong anyway - it doesn’t matter because it’s Excel after all. But it is a medium for me to have a very good conversation with the founding team.” - Puiyan Leung

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