— — Introduction “Driving measurable, positive impact alongside compelling financial returns” With an ongoing growth in the popularity of ESG investments in Southeast Asia, the question emerges on how firms can firstly select the right firms to invest in and secondly also measure the positive societal and environmental impact of their investments? With regard to…
Since Protégé Ventures’ inception in 2017, we have witnessed 4 years of phenomenal growth in the student start-up space, and worked with many talented founders and outstanding ecosystem players in the process. 2 years ago, our team looked at the major trends and patterns we present in the student start-up ecosystem, and expressed our findings…
“For every 100 companies a Venture Capital (VC) firm meets, only 4 to 5 receive funding from the firm” With hundreds of promising young startups out on the market, how should young, early-stage VCs approach the deal-sourcing and due diligence process? The Protege Ventures team was delighted to have the opportunity to host Lim Yi…
Founded by a group of working professionals in 2017, Southeast Asia’s first student-run venture fund was born. As the venture capital scene in Singapore continues to mature, larger amounts of capital continue to flow into the startup ecosystem. However, there was a lack of systematic training programmes to equip students with venture capital knowledge and…
Over the summer, through the Global Innovation Immersion programme organized by SMU’s Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, I secured an internship with Stockbit, an Indonesian financial services FinTech company with > 1 million users. I took on this opportunity as Indonesia is one of the largest markets in South East Asia and I wanted to…
I have enjoyed reflecting on all the cool things I have learned over the past year, and I have managed to dip my toes into the world of Venture Capital (VC) thanks to the opportunity presented to me by Plug and Play. As few of my university peers are exposed to the life of VCs, I…
It’s been an exciting 7 weeks of recruitment thus far and here we are on our final week. With 5 days left till application closes on 31 July, 23:59 (SGT) we thought to leave you with our top 5 reasons why you should join Protégé Ventures this year! But first, who might we be looking…
In 2017, a group of working professionals came together to set up Southeast Asia’s first student venture fund. Despite the massive influx of capital into the startup ecosystem in Singapore, there was a dearth of systematic training programmes to equip students with venture capital knowledge and skills. We set out to change that paradigm and…
Turning down a prestigious job offer to help other fresh grads Protégé Ventures (“PV”) is dedicated to investing in exceptional student founders who possess a set of differentiating qualities that set them apart from other young founders. While there isn’t a rigid checklist of qualities we apply in our assessment of founders, we do place…
The University Startup Ecosystem in Singapore Since Protégé Ventures’ inception in 2017 as Southeast Asia’s first student-run venture fund, our team has had the privilege of forming deeper connections within the local university startup ecosystem — with founders, angel investor networks, startup incubators and accelerators, and early-stage venture capital (“VC”) firms. Over the past two...
