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Insignia Ventures Partners Insignia Ventures Partners is an award-winning early-stage technology venture capital firm focusing

24/10/2025

Head of Commercial Jason Tay shares, Technology doesn't have to be explained, it has to be experienced.

23/10/2025

Not all AI brings ROI
"MIT Finds 95% Of GenAI Pilots Fail Because Companies Avoid Friction", says the headline in a Forbes article
The MIT report breaks GenAI implementing companies into two: “The 95% leaning on generic tools, slick enough for demos, brittle in workflows. They’re stuck in high-adoption, low-transformation mode.
The 5% designing for friction. They embed GenAI into high-value workflows, integrating deeply and shipping tools with memory and learning loops. That’s where ROI lives.”
On our podcast episode this week we discuss how to fall into that 5% in a live conversation with Robin Li, the Senior Director of AI Strategy and Partnerships at global conversational AI for enterprise platform WIZ.AI
Focusing on AI architecture (how are you balancing and leveraging various LLMs?)
Step by step focused targeting of high value tasks
Thinking about AI adoption from a person perspective rather than purely workflow perspective (bridging the builder or user with the buyer)
We also talk about Robin’s experience driving AI adoption from China to Singapore and now the rest of the world with WIZ.AI

22/10/2025

AI transformation does not always mean a new AI chatbot or a customer copilot or AI agent
The foundation for AI transformation is not just data, it’s also a clear understanding of how the business can truly benefit from the technology
For Carro COO Zi Yong Chua, it became clear to him as he took on his role at the company back in 2021 that Carro is more than just a business that runs on a marketplace with added services
It’s a business that runs on efficient supply chain management
It’s about scaling the amount of cars they can buy, sell, manage
This has ultimately informed the way the company has used AI to not only improve productivity but also drive record profitability
As we have a new podcast coming out this week on AI transformation, join us on a recap of this expert call with the startup CXO who has been driving people, process, and tech transformation in Carro
Follow us to stay tuned for the new episode dropping tomorrow!

21/10/2025

🛍 Building the Future of Retail in Rural Indonesia 🌾💰
Tapping into a $200B market without a single physical store? Super’s on it! Join us on a call with key leaders Gisella & Nadira as they spill the tea on revolutionizing social commerce. From FMCG to cosmetics, they’re turning dreams into reality. 🌟

20/10/2025

In Part 2 of our conversation with Flip Head of AI and Engineering Thothathri Srinivasan (Tho), he shares learnings from his journey leading AI transformation in Indonesia’s largest nonbank remittance player Flip:
👉 How to find or develop AI talent in Indonesia
👉 Managing engineering teams in Silicon Valley vs Indonesia
👉 Measuring ROI on AI re-tooling or optimizing workflows with AI agents

19/10/2025

Dine-in vs delivery?
Beyond Se’Indonesia’s choice of go-to-market with beef rice bowls, what makes their business interesting is the brand’s expansion through quick service restaurants (QSRs)

CEO and co-founder Rinaldi Utama shares more on our podcast why they scale through QSRs, the dynamic between QSRs and delivery businesses, and why these are very different revenue streams for the company

18/10/2025

Konvy CEO Qing Gui Huang candidly shares a make or break moment in the company’s life

17/10/2025

.idn CEO and co-founder Rinaldi Utama explaining the opportunity he saw in developing beef rice bowls for Indonesia's mass market in this week's episode of On Call with Insignia

16/10/2025

Is it really possible to develop quality beef rice bowls that are also economical?

For .idn CEO Rinaldi Utama, it is with the right supply chain
Taking the best of cloud kitchen economics with the brand power and network effects of having quick service restaurants, Rinaldi shares how Se’Indonesia has quickly emerged to be a popular beef rice bowl brand beyond Jakarta, with outlets and delivery selling millions of bowls across Central Java and Bali in roughly 2 years since launch

Check out our latest On Call with Insignia episode

What does PR & Comms mean to your startup?❌ An afterthought, not worth the time✅ A strategic lever for scaling globallyT...
30/05/2025

What does PR & Comms mean to your startup?
❌ An afterthought, not worth the time
✅ A strategic lever for scaling globally

The latest episode of On Call with Insignia hashtag dials you into a session of Insignia Ventures Academy’s StartCXO program where we had seasoned marketing and PR leaders talk about the role of PR & Comms in global go-to-market

We tackle common concerns and questions startups have about what value investing in PR & Comms has in going global

Special thanks to Elaine Seeto and The P.R. Group’s Joel Cutinho for sharing their expertise!

2025 is the year of the stablecoin.For StraitsX however, driving stablecoin adoption has been an ongoing journey the pas...
28/05/2025

2025 is the year of the stablecoin.

For StraitsX however, driving stablecoin adoption has been an ongoing journey the past 10 years, with US$10B in finalized on-chain stablecoin transactions (GTV)

Ever since CEO Tianwei Liu and his co-founders left Silicon Valley to start a payments API company from scratch in 2015

And tuning in to their customers’ needs eventually leading them to launching their first stablecoin XSGD in 2019, with XIDR and XUSD available as well today

And now in 2025 the company is strengthening its vision for the future of real world payments, as it continues to build partnerships and inroads with financial institutions across the banking and web3.0 space.

It’s a future of compliant, accessible, 24/7 global payments.

Learn more about this future they are building today: straitsx.com

Finmo. Fluid. Gani.AI. SeIndonesia: Where have we been looking for opportunities ?Treasury management. AI for B2B payme...
27/05/2025

Finmo. Fluid. Gani.AI. SeIndonesia: Where have we been looking for opportunities ?

Treasury management. AI for B2B payments. Precision AI for legal needs. High quality and affordable limited-service F&B.

Different businesses, but they share something in common.

These are just some of the companies our VP and Head of Indonesia Shefali Dodani led partnerships with since she joined us at Insignia Ventures Partners - work that was recently recognized as she made this year’s Forbes Asia 2025 30 under 30 list for Venture Capital

These companies also represent key trends that we are continuing to look for opportunities to partner with in Southeast Asia.

1️⃣ Greater demand for cross-border finance and payments
2️⃣ Personalization of B2B workflows
3️⃣ Professionalization of generative AI
4️⃣ Meeting middle class crunch in Indonesia with affordable goods and services

Building platforms addressing these market opportunities? Let us know at insignia.vc/pitch.

📸 L-R: Finmo CEO and co-founder David Hanna, Fluid CEO and co-founder Trasy Lou Walsh, Gani.AI CEO and co-founder Bintang Hidayanto, SeIndonesia CEO and co-founder Rinaldi Dharma Utama

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