The Wisdom Collective
Advisory done right
Get access to a group of experts that can provide incredible insights within their field and can open doors for your business across the globe. Pitch your business ideas to these individuals to receive mentoring or/and funding. There is no program fee.
What We Do
1. Invest
Each of us has the potential to invest as an Angel in your startup. Our investment(s) would be a show of commitment and a way to align incentives; however, this is probably the least of the three things we do.
2. Advise
This is the most important thing we do. Some of us have started and operated multiple companies, raised money from the best investors (Sequoia, GDP Ventures, AC Ventures, Alpha JWC, Gree Ventures, Kejora, etc.) in South East Asia. Maybe more importantly, before each company, we tried dozens of ideas that didn’t work. As a result, we learned a lot about what ideas are promising, how to validate them, and how to grow them. We would ask you the critical questions in a socratic way to sharpen your ideas and potentially uncover hidden opportunities. Here we will ask you for advisory shares which you and the advisor(s) can negotiate. Having prominent figure/names advisor(s) in your deck would also help your deck look better.
3. Help You with Fund Raising
Aside from introducing you to investors, we’ll spend time advising you on the following: developing your pitch deck structure and content, develop your pitching strategy and process, strategizing on how to target the right investors the best practices to maximize your chance to get funded, and understanding and negotiating the terms of an investment so that you can avoid the traps laid by greedy investors.
Our Collective
Fei Tony Liu Ph.D.
Bio:
Tony is specialized in delivering analytics solutions, Big Data governance & technology, and industrial linkage research. He has been active in the IT industry since 1994, mostly as a database developer and consulting analyst.
In 2011, Tony received his research Ph.D./Master degrees from Monash University on predictive modeling and anomaly detection with three best paper awards from reputable data mining conferences. He is also a higher-degree research supervisor, scientific journal/conference reviewer, and open-source developer. He authored “Isolation Forest,” available in Scikit-learn, Weka, Spark, and R.
Adi Harsono
Bio:
Adi Harsono holds the position of Chairman of Indonesia Business Association of Shanghai and Managing Director at Ks Resources Ltd. He is also on the board of PT Kalbe Farma Tbk and PT Pelita Samudera Shipping Tbk.
In his past career he occupied the position of Project Director & President-Asia Region at KS Energy Ltd., Director at PT Schlumberger Geophysics Nusantara, Vice President for Schlumberger Geoquest and General Manager for Schlumberger (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. He also holds position at the Indonesian Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
Greg Crichton
Bio:
Greg is for many years an independent non-executive director of a Hong Kong-listed company. He has held numerous directorships in various entities and countries including American International Assurance Co., Ltd. (AIA) and continues to work in the insurance industry. He served as President Commissioner of an Indonesian life insurance company and was an advisor to a successful Singapore reinsurance start-up, as well as serving on the Inland Revenue Board of Review and other bodies. He is currently a non-executive director and advisor of a major international insurer and sits on a number of related committees; he is also the managing director of a corporate services trust licensed Asian company.
Liky Sutikno
Bio:
Liky is the Chairman of the Indonesia Chamber of Commerce in China since 2013. He is keen on investing in biotech, AI, blockchain, and FMCG
Willy Dharma
Bio:
Ex-CEO of one of the largest finance companies in Indonesia (Adira Finance). Currently as a Non-Executive Director of Zurich Insurance Indonesia and an Advisor of a Consulting and IT Company. He is also Chairman and Non-Executive Director for several philanthropic organizations.
Nayoko Wicaksono
Bio:
Founder of Algoritma Data Science, an expert in data science and digital transformation. He sits on the board of Zipmex and have invested actively in several startups such as Ajaib, KitaLulus, and more. Previously an Accelerator Director at Plug and Play and Head of Partnerships and Business Development at EMTEK Group. Nayoko also has had a long experience as an entrepreneur in technology startup such as Zalora, Seekmi, and Home Tester Club. He is active building Indonesia’s tech ecosystem through Google Developer Network and mentorship program.
Araya Hutasuwan
Bio:
Araya is the Co-founder and CFO of Snapcart, a startup specializing in collecting offline data to enable Real Time Shopper Engagement through machine learning capability. Prior to Snapcart, she started her career at Thailand’s top investment bank, Phatra Securities, expanded her family business to Myanmar and was a Vice President at Ardent Capital, a venture capital based in Bangkok investing across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.
Dewi Kusuma
Bio:
Dewi Kusuma is the founder and CEO of Nakedpress, an F&B business specializing in serving vegetable cold-pressed juices in Greater Jakarta area. She is passionate about healthy living, wellness, and sustainability. Prior to Nakedpress, she started her career as a management trainee at HSBC and later build her career as equity research in CLSA, Macquarie, and Nomura.
Faye Wongso
Bio:
Faye is the CEO and co-founder of KUMPUL.ID, a startup and entrepreneurship ecosystem builder that runs incubator and accelerator programs through 70+ hubs in 34 cities in Indonesia. She is also the President of Coworking Indonesia Association, as well as the ecosystem partner and advisor for 1000startupdigital.id, bekup.kemenparekraf.go.id, Google for Startup Accelerator and Techstars’ country partner. Faye is also one of the 40 Women Leaders Shaping Gender Lens Investing (GLI) Practice in Indonesia by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and ANGIN, 2020.
Laith Abu Rakty
Bio:
Laith is the co-founder and CTO of Snapcart, an AI-powered data analytics, and shopper engagement startup. Laith has been programming since he was 15 and has spent the last 17 years building software in areas such as E-Commerce, Big Data, and AI/ML systems.
Laith has extensive experience creating and sustaining high-performing teams, recruiting and coaching managers and engineers with a big focus on remote teams. For the last 7 years, he has been perfecting processes to increase collaboration, productivity and overcome communication barriers of remote teams. Laith has Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology from AIU.
Abhishek Gupta
Bio:
Abhishek is a cofounder at Circles Asia, a revolutionary telco company based in Singapore. Prior to Circles Asia, Abhishek worked as a private equity investor with Bain Capital and Standard Chartered Private Equity across Asia, where he helped regional businesses get funding. He was also a consultant with McKinsey in Southeast Asia, specializing in the private equity and telecoms, media, and technology space.
Godfrey Ngai
Bio:
Godfrey has over 20 years of International Management, Private Equity, Investment Banking and Accounting experience. He has been involved in over US$8 billion of IPOs, M&A and direct investment transactions in the Asia Pacific region.
Godfrey has been a Board Director of a number of multinational companies, including a company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. He was a Board Director of an exclusive JV with China Unicom focusing on new media, mobile gaming and app platform business. He has also been involved in numerous investment and business development initiatives such as the establishment of the International Advisory Board for Huawei Technologies.
David Suwarto
Bio:
David is a Director at Surya Citra Media – a media group in Indonesia (SCTV, Indosiar, O-Channel), and CEO at SinemArt, a drama series production studio. David has started his own startup, invested, and mentored other multiple startups during the last decade.
Deny Rahardjo
Bio:
Deny is a Director at Sinarmas APP and has strong experience in all aspects of Information Technology Management over 28 years with MNCs such as Microsoft, Polycom, Nokia and Telstra.
He has also setup, grew and invest few companies both locally and overseas around IT system
development, hospitality and most recently property development and e-commerce. He is
actively mentoring and coaching few local and overseas startups, matching with group of
investors and assisting them to move to next level including through M&A and IPO.
Rama Mamuaya
Bio:
Rama Mamuaya is the founder and CEO of DailySocial.id, Indonesia’s leading innovation company. Rama has a big passion on digital transformation, startups and an advocate for tech-entrepreneurship. He has spoken on international stages to worldwide audiences about tech policy, innovation, entrepreneurship and digital ecosystem.
In 2008, he founded DailySocial.id which started as his personal tech blog and has now evolved into Indonesia’s leading technology and innovation enabler with clients ranging from Indonesia’ top banks, insurance companies, Fortune 500 companies and even multinationals as well as global corporations.
Andy Zain
Bio:
Andy is a serial entrepreneur, executive, advisor and managing director of Kejora Ventures. Prior to launching Kejora, Andy has held positions as Director in Skybee, migme and has worked alongside large global brands for their go to market entry into South East Asia. Andy is also the Director of the Jakarta Founder Institute & Ideabox, Chairman for MobileMonday Indonesia and is a member of the Myanmar Innovation Council. He currently holds an MBA from Monash University Australia and Post Graduate in Business Law and International Business.
Lawrence Wibisono
Bio:
Lawrence is the Managing Director of BINUS University and Commissioner at Hypernet Technologies. He actively invests in startups and provide advisory.
Dr. Eunice Sari
Bio:
Dr. Eunice Sari is the CEO and Co-Founder of UX Indonesia, the first insight-driven UX Research, Training, and Consulting Company based in Indonesia since 2002, and co-founder of Customer Experience Insight Pty Ltd (Australia). Having over 18 years of experience in academics and industries, she has helped many organizations accelerate their digital transformation and pioneer innovative UX projects that affect lives and improve businesses’ bottom lines in the USA, Europe, Australia, and Asia.
Rieke Caroline
Bio:
Rieke Caroline, SH, MKn is the Founder & CEO of KontrakHukum.com. This web-based legal services platform provides affordable, accessible and quality legal services for individuals and businesses, especially SMEs and Startups.
Kontrak Hukum also has won an Awards: Startup of The Year from BRI Innovation Lab in 2019 and The Most Impactful Startup from Chief MPR RI in 2021 and received funding from GDP Ventures. She was also one of Indonesia’s best national news TV stations’ anchors. One of her programs was “Top Executives”, where she interviewed many national and top international executives such as Steve Forbes, Dato Sri Tahir (Mayapada), Purnomo Prawiro (Blue Bird), William Tanuwijaya (Tokopedia), and more.
Nat Wittayatanaseth
Bio:
Nat is an Investment Associate at Monk’s Hill Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage tech companies, primarily Series A, in Southeast Asia. Prior to joining MHV, she spearheaded fintech and blockchain investments at Beacon Venture Capital, a corporate venture arm of Thailand’s top three largest banks. Prior to that, Nat advised corporate and SME clients on financial management and hedging strategies at Kasikornbank. She was also an Economist at the Bank of Thailand where she contributed to the set-up of Southeast Asia’s US$240 billion reserve fund.
Brian Ma
Bio:
Brian is a 3x founder turned investor now spending the majority of his time as General Partner of Iterative Capital. Brian was previously founder and ceo of Divvy Homes ($2B valuation), Weave (YC S14, acquired), and Decide (Series C company, acquired by Ebay). In non-existent spare time, Brian enjoys walks in the park with his german shepard border collie mix, rides on his motorcycle, and being a degen on interesting crypto projects.
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List of businesses we have helped succeed.
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The Process
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