Hard Truths By Vertex

By Vertex Ventures SEA and India

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Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India is a pioneer in investing in tech start-ups in this region and has helped to build a number of unicorns. In this podcast, we want to share and uncover Hard Truths - raw, unfiltered insights and venture capital experience across Southeast Asia & India. Tune in to hear from leading founders, innovators, venture capitalists and industry experts in the region and to gain industry insights from those in the know. If you like what you hear, please click follow or subscribe and share it with entrepreneurs or investors in your circle so we can all grow, succeed and build the future of SEA and India together.

Episode Date
Why Every Future Fintech in India Will Be Built on UPI | Anup Agrawal, Kiwi
Apr 23, 2026
How the Best VCs Source, Back, Support, and Exit | Kee Lock Chua, Vertex Ventures SEA & India
Mar 27, 2026
Why India’s Home Appliance Market Will Look Very Different in 5 Years
Feb 06, 2026
How Solar + Credit Is Changing Rural India Forever | Metafin CEO Sandeep Chopra
Dec 09, 2025
Why Consumer Is India VC’s Forever Bet | Ben Mathias, Managing Partner at VVSEAI
Sep 18, 2025
10 Years, 10 Contradictions: What Venture Capital Really Teaches You
Jul 31, 2025
The IIT Engineer Who Cracked India’s Beauty Market
Jun 24, 2025
S3E5 | We Don’t Build Restaurants, We Buy Them | DailyCo’s 100 K
May 22, 2025
S3E4 | How This Indian Startup Made $6M+ Selling AI to US Car Dealers (Without a US Team)
Apr 16, 2025
S3E3 | Lessons from Indonesia’s Startup Crash and the Road to a Stronger Future
Mar 26, 2025
S3E2 | Burnout, Feedback, and the Making of a Leader: PatSnap CEO’s Story
Dec 17, 2024
S3E1 | Will India hit its EV Targets? | Akshay Shekhar from Kazam
Nov 27, 2024
S2E9 | She dropped out of Harvard to change the lives of 600M women in India — Achitha Jacob
Mar 05, 2024
S2E8 | How Guan Dian built a Tech Unicorn from Ground up to address the Trillion-dollar R&D market
Feb 20, 2024
S2E7 | How Roshni went from babysitting to owning SEA's largest parenting empire
Feb 06, 2024
S2E6 | PayPal Mafia Insider on Winning In a Tough Market | Jack Selby
Jan 23, 2024
S2E5 | Unlocking the trillion dollar Indian startup ecosystem with Nikhil Marwaha
Jan 09, 2024
S2E4 | Unlocking the Trillion dollar SEA Startup Ecosystem - the Malaysia's context with Chan Yip Pang
Dec 05, 2023
S2E3 | Unlocking the Trillion dollar SEA Startup Ecosystem - the Indonesia's context with Gary Khoeng
Nov 21, 2023
S2E2 | Hard Truths About Minting the Next Indian Unicorn w/ Piyush Kharbanda
Nov 07, 2023
S2E1 | Unlocking the Trillion-Dollar SEA Startup Ecosystem - The Singapore Context w/ Carmen Yuen
Oct 24, 2023
S1E11 | Truths about Automating and Growing F&B and Retail businesses in Southeast Asia | Fong Wai Hong
May 17, 2023
S1E10 | Truths About Modernising the $15B Ayurvedic Wellness Market | Ameve Sharma, Kapiva
May 03, 2023
S1E9 | Truths About Empowering SEA’s 71M MSMEs Through Financial Inclusion | Nikhilesh Goel, Validus Capital
Apr 19, 2023
S1E8 | Truths About Building a Billion Dollar, Profitable Content Business | Joseph Phua, 17LIVE
Apr 05, 2023
S1E7 | Truths About Helping Influencers Make a Living in the $68B SE Asian Creator Economy | Paulina Purnomowati, CMO TipTip
Mar 22, 2023
S1E6 | Truths About Being a Female Leader in the Trillion Dollar Climate Tech Market | Natalia Rialucky, Fairatmos
Mar 15, 2023
S1E5 | Truths about Lighting Up One’s Own Path and That of 60M Workers in Indonesia | Nelly Nurmalasari, Pintarnya
Mar 08, 2023
S1E4 | Truths about Disrupting India's Age-Old Manufacturing Industry | Sonam Motwani, Karkhana
Mar 01, 2023
S1E3 | Opportunities in SE Asia and India | Ben Mathias
Feb 15, 2023
S1E2 | Building Nium Into a Unicorn | Pratik Gandhi, COO, Nium
Feb 01, 2023
S1E1 | Building an Enduring VC w/ Kee Lock Chua, CEO Vertex Holdings
Jan 18, 2023
Hard Truths By Vertex: Trailer
Dec 12, 2022