Two Masters, One Stage: Joseph Schooling and Jeffrey Tiong on Resilience, Strategy, and Excellence
Join Vertex Ventures SEA & India for an extraordinary afternoon featuring a dialogue with Olympic swimming gold medalist Joseph Schooling and Jeffrey Tiong, Founder & CEO of Patsnap, a global leader in AI-powered IP and R&D intelligence.
Watch as these two masters of their fields exchange questions and insights on mental resilience, high-performance culture, competition, and leadership. Hear their personal stories of overcoming setbacks, building winning teams, and navigating pivotal moments in their careers.
This is more than a fireside chat—it's a rare opportunity to witness the intersection of sports and startups, where discipline meets innovation. Connect with founders, investors, and the tech community in an evening of inspiration, learning, and networking.
Program
4:45pm Registration starts
5:00pm Panel begins
5:45pm Q&A
6:00pm Networking
This is an exclusive event with limited seats. Please RSVP by April 22, 2025.
About Joseph Schooling
Joseph Schooling’s story is one of inspiration. He started competing at the tender age of six, breaking records and clocking times that made everyone take notice. He left Singapore to train in the USA at 14 years old and made his Olympic debut at the London Olympic Games in 2012 as the youngest member of Singapore’s contingent. He returned to the Olympic stage in 2016 and created history by winning Singapore’s first Olympic swimming gold, first Olympic gold of any kind, in the 100m Butterfly. Joseph also has multiple gold medals from the Asian Games and SEA Games under his belt.
Having retired from competitive swimming, he is pursuing his passions outside of the pool; he’s going into the VC space and continuing to build and expand on the offerings of his swim academy, Sport Schooling. He hopes to make use of his platform to inspire and help others go after their dreams.
About Jeffrey Tiong
Jeffrey Tiong is the Founder and CEO of Patsnap, a global leader in AI-powered IP and R&D innovation intelligence. Under Jeffrey’s leadership, Singapore-founded Patsnap has empowered over 15,000 customers across 50 countries to transform ideas into groundbreaking innovations through cutting-edge market, technology, competitive, and patent insights. Last year, Patsnap surpassed the significant milestone of US$100m Annual Recurring Revenue and also made the NextGen Tech 30 List, ASEAN’s first public-private initiative to spotlight the region’s most innovative and fast-growing companies.
Jeffrey’s accolades include Fortune’s 40 Under 40 (2022), and recognition as a Top 50 SaaS CEO by The Software Report (2020). He was also honoured with Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur Of The Year 2018 Singapore, cementing his status as a trailblazer in the tech and innovation landscape.
About Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India
Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India partners with founders who are creating innovative, transformative and scalable businesses. It has a long and strong track record of investing in early-stage startups and building champions like Grab, PatSnap, Nium, FirstCry, XPressBees, Licious, 17LIVE, and others. VVSEAI supports its portfolio companies with unmatched operating experience and deep access to the capital, talent, partners and customers they need to build truly global businesses.
VVSEAI is one of seven major funds in the Vertex Global Network which includes Vertex Ventures Israel, Vertex Ventures China, Vertex Ventures US, Vertex Ventures Japan, Vertex Ventures HC and Vertex Growth. These funds each focus on investments in their region and industry specialisation. With the combined regional expertise and global reach, each team can leverage the Vertex Platform to get a broad view of innovation and share learning experiences across the world.
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