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Kelvin Kim and the value of a quiet afternoon
Before Cashnote became a daily tool for millions of Korean businesses, Kelvin Kim went looking for a moment when shopkeepers had time to talk. His second company grew from what he heard between the lunch rush and dinner.
6Estates
6Estates is a Singapore-based enterprise AI company that turns messy, unstructured financial documents into structured decisions. Spun out of the NExT++ research center (NUS, Tsinghua, University of Southampton), it builds domain-specific large language models, intelligent document processing, and agentic AI tools that banks and lenders across Asia use to automate credit assessment, financial statement analysis, and trade finance checks.
Fluid
Fluid is a Singapore-based B2B payments platform that lets suppliers and marketplaces offer their business buyers flexible credit terms and installments at the point of purchase. Its AI underwriting engine approves buyers in seconds, pays suppliers on day one, and automates reconciliation - bringing consumer-grade buy-now-pay-later mechanics to business commerce across Southeast Asia. Founded in early 2023 by former Atome and Uber operators, Fluid has raised US$7M and serves 3,000+ businesses across Singapore and Malaysia.
PT Pendanaan Teknologi Nusa
PT Pendanaan Teknologi Nusa is an Indonesian financial-technology company that runs pendanaan.com and its flagship KTA Kilat mobile app, a peer-to-peer and digital-credit platform that delivers small, collateral-free cash loans to consumers who are typically underserved by traditional banks. Backed by parent company Hadoop Fintech (Hong Kong) Limited and Chinese venture firm Legend Capital, the company uses big-data credit scoring to assess and disburse loans quickly through mobile devices. Registered with Indonesia's Financial Services Authority (OJK), Pendanaan has served hundreds of thousands of borrowers and positions itself as a bridge between individual borrowing needs and lenders across Indonesia.