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Chandni Chainani Bet on Speed. Then She Chose the Harder, Smarter Pivot
The Dropezy co-founder once raced groceries across Jakarta in minutes. A close reading of the numbers led her somewhere less flashy and more fundamental: Indonesia’s fragmented poultry supply chain.
Ammar Roslizar Built the Software His Travel Company Needed
A halal-tourism operator found his next company hiding in years of WhatsApp orders. Ammar Roslizar's path from ARBA Travel to Yezza is a study in building from the work already on the desk.
Srinivas Sarkar
Srinivas Sarkar is the co-founder and CEO of Coupl, a Y Combinator-backed neobank built for couples in India. After a stint as a management consultant at EY and a Founder in Residence run at Entrepreneur First, he set out to fix a gap he kept noticing: banking products for couples had not kept pace with how couples actually live. Coupl offers a zero-balance digital joint account that opens in under a minute and serves married, unmarried, and LGBTQ+ partners alike. The company has grown to 80,000+ couples and 300+ crore in transactions without paid advertising. Sarkar is a Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia honoree, an Entrepreneur 35 Under 35 listee, a BITS Pilani alumnus, and a three-time TEDx speaker.
Daryl Lim
Daryl Lim is the co-founder and CEO of Augmentus, a no-code robotics company that lets factory operators program industrial robots by 3D-scanning a part instead of writing code or CAD. Founded in Singapore in 2019 and now US-headquartered near Austin, Texas, Augmentus targets surface finishing, sanding, welding and spray coating for high-mix manufacturing. A serial entrepreneur since his teens, Lim was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in 2022 and has raised roughly $16-17M across seed and Series A rounds, including an $11M round in July 2025.
Kevin Diao
Kevin (Shengxin) Diao is the co-founder and CEO of Meixin (MX) Global, a New York-based cross-border fintech and investment management company he started in 2015 at age 26. The firm builds technology that gives Asian wealth managers, private funds and family offices access to global alternative investments, aggregating investor subscriptions to lower minimums and costs. A graduate of NYU's Stern School of Business, Diao previously worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Greentech Capital Advisors and Societe Generale. He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list for Finance & Venture Capital in 2017 and to Tatler Asia's Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow list in 2019.