Morning Pitch Asia – Special Edition in collaboration with Wavemaker Partners

Speakers

Speaker's Profile:

Andy is a General Partner at Wavemaker Partners. He leads the firm’s early-stage fund, Wavemaker Ventures, working closely with the investment team and founders from fundraising to scaling. He also oversees Wavemaker’s corporate innovation initiatives—partnering with leading enterprises to access disruptive startups and grow their presence in Southeast Asia through strategic partnerships, investments, and M&A. Wavemaker Partners is Southeast Asia's leading venture capital firm investing in Enterprise, Deep Tech, and Sustainability startups. Since 2012, it has backed over 200 companies in the region, with over US$500 million in total committed capital across Wavemaker Ventures (early-stage investments), and Wavemaker Growth (growth-stage). The firm has also generated over US$2 billion in enterprise value through successful exits. Its notable limited partners include Pavilion Capital, Temasek Holdings, the International Finance Corporation, Cercano Management, and DEG.

Moderator's Profile:

Gempei is Head of ASEAN Region in Deloitte Tohmatsu Venture Support. He is leading Morning Pitch Asia, which aims to create innovative new businesses between startups and large corporations or investors across the Asia Pacific. His expertise is finance and he has a lot of experience in helping startups get funding and expand their footprints into other regions to scale up. He has been supporting a government agency to promote open innovation between ASEAN startups and MNCs in Singapore. Before moving to Singapore, he launched multiple startup supporting programs in Tokyo, Japan, and help quite a few startups from seed to growth stage using his financial expertise. Besides, he was engaged in corporate venturing activity such as building corporate venture capital arms or running acceleration programs with Japanese large corporations.

Speaker's Profile:

An NUS alumnus with a decade in tech, Leon Lim is the CEO and Founder of Groundup.ai, a Singapore deep-tech company advancing Physical AI and agentic machine intelligence to eliminate unplanned downtime for critical assets. Having successfully scaled and exited two ventures, including managing 3,000 servers in a Tier III data centre, Leon draws on his background as a Singapore National Youth Orchestra French Horn player to drive vibration and acoustic anomaly detection. Groundup.ai is a Singapore deep-tech company advancing Physical AI for the world's most critical assets, serving mission-critical defense, maritime, manufacturing, and infrastructure sectors. Our Cognitive Maintenance platform is powered by the Groundup.ai Asset Library™, trained on millions of tri-parameter data points spanning sound, vibration, and thermal signals. By combining advanced signal processing with agentic reasoning, the platform transforms raw telemetry into autonomous operational intelligence.

Speaker's Profile:

Dr Mark Lim is the CEO of Aliena Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based space technology company pioneering electric propulsion systems for small satellites. He leads the commercialisation of advanced Hall thruster technologies, helping satellite operators achieve efficient mobility in orbit. With expertise spanning engineering, strategy, and deep-tech commercialisation, he actively contributes to the growth of Singapore's emerging space economy. Aliena Pte Ltd is a Singapore based full stack electric propulsion company for spacecraft, spun out of Nanyang Technological University. Aliena designs, builds, and tests Hall thruster systems that give satellites the ability to maneuver, adjust orbit, and extend their operational life, capabilities that are becoming essential as space missions grow more ambitious and more varied.