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Ian Sikora

Startups at AWS

Singapore

Invests in

Sectors:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $3,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $4,000,000.00

Skills

Product Management
Data Analysis
Research
Business Strategy
Economics
Mobile Internet
Telecommunications
Python
Django
AngularJS
PostgreSQL
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Excel
Mandarin
English
Management

Education

Work Experience

  • Head of Startup BD, ASEAN

    2024

    Supporting our customers to build the next generations of companies with AWS

2016 - 2024

  • Executive Director

    2022 - 2024

    Seventh employee of the firm and first member of the Portfolio Success team. Worked closely with technical and commercial leaders in the portfolio across Southeast Asia to solve problems and grow their businesses. Board member for Igloo Insurance, Datature, Beleaf Farms, Broom.id, iSeller, Pathao, Zenius. Led investments in Pluang, Kinetic, NSC Innovation, Thryve.earth, GoPlay.

  • Director

    2020 - 2022

  • Vice President of Technology

    2016 - 2020

HOOQ

2015 - 2016

  • Head of Product

    2015 - 2016

    The first member of the tech team and right hand to the CTO. I recruited, hired and led HOOQ’s product & engineering teams. In a year of work the team rebuilt HOOQ’s entire system from scratch.

2014 - 2015

  • Partnerships Manager

    2014 - 2015

    Early member of a fast-moving startup where I wore many hats. My longest area of focus was building up the marketing and sales infrastructure.

2011 - 2014

  • Project Manager

    2011 - 2014

    Built products that drove up Internet adoption in the Philippines. Most notably I collaborated with Facebook on the global launch of Internet.org. After only six months in the market, we brought 1 million people online for the first time.