Managing Director, B71
Name Surname
Global
B71 / Team
Stewards of innovation.
Small teams, close to the ground in every market, with leadership stewarding the entire ecosystems globally.
Global leadership
The people whose life work is fostering B71’s ecosystem.
Head of corporate partnerships
Name Surname
Programmes
Country manager
Name Surname
Corporates
country manager
Name Surname
Network
Your go-to people
Your go-to-person in each country.
One lead per market. For anything high-value or local, start here; each name links to their country page.
- [01] Singapore Name Surname, Head of B71 Singapore. The flagship, incubation intake and visits. Visit the country page
- [02] San Francisco Name Surname, Head of B71 US. The crossing into US capital and customers. Visit the country page
- [03] Jakarta Name Surname, Head of B71 Indonesia. Three hubs, one team. Visit the country page
- [04] Suzhou Name Surname, Head of B71 China. Research and enterprise partnerships. Visit the country page
- [05] Ho Chi Minh City Name Surname, Head of B71 Vietnam. UniVentures and the Becamex partnership. Visit the country page
- [06] Nagoya & Tokyo Name Surname, Head of B71 Japan. STATION Ai and LiSH host relationships. Visit the country page
B71’s External bench
Meet our advisory board:
Advisor - USA
Tara Tan
Tara writes first cheques into technical founders at Strange Ventures, the San Francisco fund she founded after seven years as a General Partner at IDEO. She knows how the Valley reads an early-stage company.
Strange venturesEx- IDEO
Advisor - USA
Aihui Ong
Aihui made the NUS-to-Valley move herself: founded Love With Food, grew it into one of Inc's 50 fastest-growing women-led companies, sold it in 2018. Now a General Partner at Transform Capital, she helps founders raise on US terms.
Transform capitalXFACTOR VENTURES
Advisor - USA
Daniel Theobald
Daniel founded Vecna Robotics and co-founded MassRobotics, the hub where much of the US robotics industry gets built. He knows what American industry expects before it will buy, partner or invest.
VECNA ROBOTICSMASSROBOTICS
Advisor - USA
Khim Wee Lee
Khim scaled Singapore-founded Neuron Mobility into international markets as COO. Now co-founder of Jinetics in San Francisco, he has made the crossing founders come here to make.
JINETICSEx-Neuron
Advisor - USA
Weng Hong Teh
Weng Hong runs global manufacturing and operations at Excelitas, supplying US medical, semiconductor and defence customers. Two decades at Intel and SanDisk taught him how American industry builds and buys hardware.
ExcelitasEx-Intel
Advisor - USA
Wesley Zhang
Wesley left a faculty post at NUS to build here: co-founder of Volansi, sold to Sierra Nevada Corporation, now CEO of YC-backed Posh. His path is the one B71 founders arrive to take.
poshvolansi (exited)
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