27.Tommy Chia
Vital Stats
- Types of Start-ups funded: Mobile, Healthcare, E-Commerce, Biotechnology Finance Technology, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Security
- Bio: Tommy Chia is the founding partner at SXE Ventures, Investor, and Advisor. He was also the previous CFO at Entersekt.
- Background info: He is currently the Chief Investment Officer at Carita Investments Group based in Africa and has led multi-million dollar investments in the mobile technology, e-commerce and financial industries. Previously, he was the Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary at Entersekt, a leading mobile security engineering company which provided the World’s first transaction authentication on mobile phones.
Examples of start-ups they’ve funded:
- Groupon: Groupon features daily deals on the best stuff to do, see, eat, and buy in 45 countries so far.
- Shopline: Shopline is a DIY e-commerce platform for creating online shops for merchants in Asia.
- Honey: Honey helps you save online by coupon applying browser extension, a cash back programme called Honey Gold, a price watching tool called Droplist, with several more features on the way.