Spotlight on B2B startup GrowSari: Transforming traditional trade
Singapore has mamak shops; Indonesia has warungs; India has kirana stores. Differing only in name, these are all traditional, small, and usually family-run convenience outlets that serve tight-knit communities. In the Philippines, these are known as sari-sari stores. Sari-sari means variety in Tagalog. B2B startup GrowSari wants to transform 1 million of them. Sari-sari stores […]
Spotlight on Lynk: Giving the world its first B2B knowledge marketplace
There is nothing more valuable to a business than expertise and know-how. It’s necessary to inform critical business decisions, improve operations, and drive growth. The problem is a lot of that knowledge is stuck inside the heads of experts. To address this, Peggy Choi came up with the idea for a knowledge marketplace— a platform […]
Q&A on Wavemaker Partners’ third fund with our Managing Partner
In this interview, Managing Partner Paul Santos shares more details about Wavemaker Partners’ third fund and the Southeast Asian market. Wavemaker Partners in SEA primarily invests in B2B and deep tech startups. Wavemaker counts prominent names, such as Pavilion Capital, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Temasek, family offices of the Co-founders of Microsoft (Vulcan) and […]
Conviction & Momentum
“In building a great company or social sector enterprise, there is no single defining action, no grand program, no one killer innovation, no solitary lucky break, no miracle moment. Rather, the process resembles relentlessly pushing a giant, heavy flywheel, turn upon turn, building momentum until a point of breakthrough, and beyond.” – Jim Collins Jim […]
