Vanessa Ho is the co-founder of Fintech Nation. Fintech Nation Fund is a venture capital fund investing in early-stage startups across Southeast Asia. Fintech Nation also leads fintech community initiatives and thought leadership.

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👋🏼  How would you explain your job to someone outside tech?

We invest in fast-growing fintech startups that enhance the way money is moved and earned, and connect the dots with our community initiatives in the finance and tech industry.

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🧐  What's something about you or your job that would surprise us?

I did not major in finance in school and had to learn everything at work.

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‍🏆  What has been the biggest highlight of your career so far?

Barely getting started, but leading a sizeable S$5m venture debt round recently, as our first venture debt deal, and helping the company get access to strategic working capital to scale faster, was very fulfilling.

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🔍  What's a startup trend or space you're watching this year?

Anything in embedded finance or powering the gig economy.

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💼  What advice would you give someone starting out in your industry? 

Stay curious. The industry moves so fast that we have to keep reading and learning every day.

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🗣  What's one thing you can keep talking about for hours? 

When my friends and I whom I co-founded an angel network with hang out over drinks, we just talk about deals and more deals. It gets boring to anyone not in the group.

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🎥  What's your favorite movie/TV show? 

For something stimulating, Shark Tank, and for pure entertainment, Only Murders in the Building.

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🍨  What's your go-to ice cream flavor?

Earl grey lavender.