TNGlobal Q&A and Interviews

[HK Special Report] Alibaba HK Entrepreneurs Fund sees ‘significant’ opportunities at the intersection of tech, industry & international markets

In a recent interview with TNGlobal, AEF Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer Cindy Chow discussed how the fund's investment strategy has evolved over the past decade, what it looks for in founders and why it believes Hong Kong’s role could extend beyond being a gateway to becoming a launchpad for Asian companies going global.

Thinking Machines’ Niek van Veen on measuring enterprise AI beyond the pilot [Q&A]

Thinking Machines Data Science VP Niek van Veen discusses enterprise AI evaluation, legal oversight, workflow redesign, employee adoption and boundaries for autonomous agents.

UST’s Rohan Chowdhary on the factory constraints behind Singapore’s semiconductor growth [Q&A]

UST's Rohan Chowdhary discusses brownfield factory integration, semiconductor AI, cybersecurity, talent and the Singapore-Malaysia manufacturing corridor.

MetaGO’s Kunal Kapoor and Dr. Kaushal Patel on clinician-led digital GLP-1 care [Q&A]

MetaGO's Kunal Kapoor and Dr. Kaushal Patel discuss clinical oversight, health-data tracking, AI safeguards and long-term outcomes in digital GLP-1 care.

Sumsub’s Penny Chai on workforce identity risks in the AI era [Q&A]

Sumsub's Penny Chai discusses help-desk impersonation, event-driven identity checks, employee privacy and governance for AI agents and other non-human identities.

Asialink’s Patricia Poco-Palacios on scaling MSME lending with credit discipline [Q&A]

Asialink Group Deputy CEO Patricia Poco-Palacios discusses MSME underwriting, thin-file borrowers, portfolio quality, financial literacy and AI-assisted lending.

Paydibs chief executive Tee Kean Kang

Paydibs’ Tee Kean Kang on sales-linked financing, transaction data and SME credit [Q&A]

Paydibs CEO Tee Kean Kang discusses sales-linked merchant financing, transaction data in credit assessment, affordability and how embedded finance could change SME access to working capital in Malaysia.

JFrog’s Yashaswi Mudumbai on governing software dependencies as AI agents enter development [Q&A]

JFrog's Yashaswi Mudumbai discusses how AI coding agents change dependency governance, where controls should sit, what actions still need human approval and what enterprises should retain for auditability.

Shourya Agarwal, Founder and CEO of Flam

Flam’s Shourya Agarwal on turning interactive AI content into repeatable enterprise workflows [Q&A]

Flam's Shourya Agarwal discusses repeatable interactive AI deployments, agent guardrails, enterprise metrics, localization and the company's Indonesia expansion.

AnyMind’s Kubo Akinori on where AI avatars fit in live commerce [Q&A]

AnyMind's Kubo Akinori discusses how brands should compare human and AI livestream hosts, disclose AI-generated presenters, localize across Southeast Asia, and keep humans in the loop.