Founders

Gwendolyn Regina TAN

A Partner at Thymos Capital, Gwen focuses on early stage investments in technology firms and sits on the Steering Committee of Start-Up@Singapore, the national business plan competition. While still an undergraduate, she spent a year as a Teaching Assistant at the NUS MBA programme before moving to Silicon Valley to pursue work in a start-up and studies in Stanford University under the NUS Overseas College programme. Conversant in Mandarin, French and Spanish, she enjoys travelling, dance and extreme sports.

Dr. Bernard LEONG

Bernard is a Partner at Thymos Capital where he does early stage investments and works with companies from various industries. His portfolio and specialization includes online social networks, mobile-web applications and games. A frequent speaker at local and regional events on the topics on online social networks and entrepreneurship, he enjoys engaging the community of entrepreneurs, investors and industry players in Singapore and looks forward to more working opportunities within. His blogs at his personal site.

Weichang LAI

Weichang founded (Pinkcube) at the turn of the millennium in his mind during his teens but only formalized it 2 months after he was diagnosed with cancer in 2004. The illness was so serious then that no one dared to ask for a prognosis. Knowing that he had nothing to lose, Weichang tried and failed many times in his entrepreneurship endeavors during his chemotherapy and radiotherapy sessions. But he never gave up, and with the help of his partners, he founded one of the biggest tuition agencies in Singapore – ManyTutors.com. His hunger for creating business does not stop here though, and Weichang is currently managing numerous businesses including retail brand – Otaku House and internet projects to build the next Google.

Investor & Advisor

Nicholas Aaron KHOO

At 31, Nicholas has tasted both success and failure working on more than 10 companies in various positions ranging from founder, principal, to investor and advisor. With a passion for everything tech, Nicholas blogs for CNET Asia and devotes more than 30% of his time on non-profit work trying to make a difference in the gaming industry. This geek is a digital nomad who lives out of a suitcase working with regional governmental and financial institutions. You can also catch him presenting at local and regional conferences quite regularly or talking about gaming and new media in the news.