Iterative in KL: Overcoming Early Stage Startup Challenges

​Iterative is hosting a meetup for early-stage startup founders in KL!

​Join Hsu Ken, Managing Partner at Iterative, as he shares how early-stage founders can navigate the most common challenges they face. Following this, Hsu Ken will be answering questions from founders in attendance about the specific challenges they face currently. Thereafter, we encourage you to hang out with us whilst enjoying some local delicacies.

​Hsu Ken was previously the Chief Product Officer of Workmate, an on-demand blue collar staffing platform in Southeast Asia. In 2014, he was VP of Product at Weave (YCS14). In 2009, he started Decide.com an early machine learning company that predicted the future price of consumer goods. It was acquired by eBay in 2013.

​Since Iterative started in March 2020, we have raised $65M across two funds, invested in 65+ companies, 120+ founders and the total value of Iterative companies is now worth $1.2 billion.

​Iterative’s $55M Fund II was led by Cendana, K5 Global, Village Global, Goodwater Capital with participation from a large network of Silicon Valley founders and execs including Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox), Achmad Zaky, (Bukalapak), Andrew Chen (General partner a16z, Uber), Qasar Younis (Former COO YC, Applied Intuition), David Shim (Foursquare), Kum Hong Siew (Head of Airbnb Asia), Moses Lo (Founder, Xendit), and many more. It’s worthwhile noting that half of the $55M Fund II is dedicated to making follow-on investments in portfolio companies.

​Iterative's mission is to increase the GDP of Southeast Asia through entrepreneurship. To do that, we need to (1) make entrepreneurship more accessible to more people and (2) give founders the tools and support to be successful. As part of this mission, we run events like this to help founders solve their biggest problems.

​If you know other founders who would benefit from attending this event, we’d appreciate it if you shared the event link with them as well.