​Discover how you can keep up with the pulse of fundraising with us!

​Join us for an eventful evening as we discuss all things fundraising - from the current state of venture markets in Southeast Asia, to weighing up innovative strategies and trending financial methods.

Immerse yourself in a fireside chat like no other, as we have engaged leaders of varying expertise and knowledge!

​This panel features experienced speakers providing different perspectives, including both the venture debt and venture capital angles! Our esteemed panelists are as follow:

​• Daniel Callaghan, CEO of Veremark
• Navas Ebin Muhammed, Head of APAC at Mars Growth Capital
• Nicholas Thibeault, Investment Principal and COO of Vulpes Ventures
• Thomas Jeng, General Manager of Aspire

The discussion will be moderated by Ming Hui Gan, Corporate Associate of Stephenson Harwood.

​Agenda

​5.30pm - 6:00pm: Registration
6:00pm - 6.30pm: Panel Discussion
6.30pm - 6.45pm: Q&A
6.45pm - 7.30pm: Networking

We hope to see you there as we unpack and delve into the current landscape of fundraising within the Southeast Asian venture markets!

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​About Daniel Callaghan
Daniel Callaghan, CEO, is a 2x founder having launched a global freelance marketplace immediately following his MBA at IESE in 2009 and has raised $15m so far. The business still operates globally and is profitable today.  He also ran the corporate ventures arm for the world’s largest recruitment company before founding Veremark which is a global workplace trust platform operating in $120bn annual existing spend market.  Launched in 2020, the company has built a multi-product offering that solves the regulatory challenges for companies around checking and monitoring the claims, credentials and integrity of prospective employees in over 180 countries.

​About Navas Ebin Muhammed
Navas is the Managing Director & Head of APAC for Mars Growth Capital and Liquidity Group. Singapore based Mars Growth Capital, is the largest growth to late stage mid-market technology financing credit fund in the region with an AUM of over USD 1B. It is a Joint venture between MUFG Bank and Liquidity Group, which is the world’s largest AI based asset manager for private credit managing over USD 2.5B. Navas has successfully led transactions worth around USD 500M in startups at various stages and spread across various regions over the last 4 years with Mars Growth. He started his career as an entrepreneur himself before moving into technology financing. He enjoys conversations and is committed to working towards the development of the technology loan market in APAC as a solution to the huge growth funding gap in the sector in SEA etc.

​About Nicholas Thibeault
Nicholas is the Investment Principal and COO at Vulpes Ventures, leading the investment deal team and overseeing all aspects of the business. Since joining Vulpes in 2019, Nicholas has been instrumental in the over 45 deals closed by the team since 2020. Nicholas has extensive experience across Southeast Asia, having worked across multiple markets, including launching the corporate advisory arm of a Swiss consultancy in Myanmar and serving as Country CEO for a regional fintech backed by ADB & IFC. Before moving to the region, Nicholas worked in asset management and investment banking in London.

​About Thomas Jeng
Thomas Jeng is General Manager, Singapore at Aspire, a fast-growing FinTech company providing finance solutions to startups, SMBs, investment firms, and the web3 community throughout Asia-Pacific. Prior to joining Aspire, he held a variety of roles in the startup and venture capital space, including at a SaaS startup and international investment firm 500 Global. In addition, Thomas is active as a startup investor and advisor. Thomas began his career in strategy consulting at firms such as Boston Consulting Group and Gartner. Thomas holds degrees from Georgetown University and the Yale School of Management.

​About Ming Hui Gan
Ming is a corporate lawyer in the Stephenson Harwood Southeast Asia cross-border M&A and private equity practice and focuses primarily on private mergers and acquisitions. She acts on all forms of domestic and cross-border M&A, strategic joint ventures, corporate restructurings, general corporate advisory and compliance. Ming has experience in a wide range of corporate and commercial matters, having provided legal advice at all levels of the investment spectrum. Her specific experience includes both venture capital and early-stage investment funding, as well as complex and high-profile M&A and co-investment deals across various industries. Ming is bilingual in English and Mandarin and co-leads Stephenson Harwood Singapore's Start-up Technology Emerging Companies Programme (STEP) providing legal support to early-stage technology companies to support the region's rapidly growing start-up ecosystem.