FoundersHK Meets Brian Ma - Founder and General Partner of Iterative Capital - June 2025
Join FoundersHK for an exclusive live webinar with Brian Ma, 3-times startup Founder, and now Founder and General Partner at Iterative Capital and Philip Lam, Co-founder at FoundersHK happening on June 24th, 2025 at 9 AM HKT (June 23rd, 2025 at 5:00 PM PDT).
Iterative invests in early stage companies and runs an accelerator focused on Southeast Asia (SEA), with a mission to fund and build the next unicorns in the region. Since started 6 years ago, Iterative has invested in 80+ companies (including a few from Hong Kong), with a portfolio value of >$1bn.
Prior to Iterative, Brian founded 3 startups, with the last startup Divvy home recently exited for USD 1.1B.
In this fireside chat (online), you will learn
Startup journey of Brian as both founder & VC
What inspire Brian to start Iterative
What’s exciting in the SEA startup scene
Theory about “early stage growth”, do’s & don’ts
Opportunities & Challenges in SEA
Advices to HK founders
And more!
About Brian
Biran is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Iterative Capital, a leading startup incubator in SEA invested in over 80+ companies in the region with a portfolio value of > $1bn.
Prior to Iterative Capital, Brian has founded 3 startups in the US (all got acquired), with the last startup Divvy home recently being acquired by Brookfield for ~$1bn.
Prior to Iterative, Brian founded 3 startups (all with exit), with the last startup Divvy home recently got acquired for $1.1B. Prior to his startup journey, Brian worked for Microsoft and Zillow briefly. Brian was born in HK and moved to the US at young age.
About Philip
Philip is a co-founder of FoundersHK, Venture Partner at Iterative Capital, and CTO at Eunice AI.
Philip was a former VP of Engineering at Goodnotes, helped to scale the engineering team from 40 to 170 globally as well as shaping a higher performing culture. Prior to that, Philip is a co-founder at NEX - an AI entertainment startup based Silicon and Hong Kong raised a total of USD 40M (as of today). Philip was ex-engineering manager at Apple & Microsoft in Silicon Valley
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