Kuo-Yi Lim

Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Monk's Hill Ventures

Speaker

Kuo-Yi is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Monk’s Hill Ventures, a leading early-stage venture capital firm in Southeast Asia. He is based in Singapore and led investments in Ninja Van, Padlet, KKday, Delos, Rainforest, UrbanMetry, Hypefast, GoGet and Cinch.

Prior to Monk’s Hill Ventures, Kuo-Yi was CEO of Infocomm Investments, a $200M growth-stage fund of the Singapore Infocomm Development Authority investing in technology startups globally. Kuo-Yi led Infocomm’s investments in Twilio (NYSE:TWLO) and Quid. Kuo-Yi was also a founder and early employee of various startups in Boston, San Francisco and Singapore.

Kuo-Yi serves as a board member of SG Growth Capital, an innovation focused fund platform formed with the merger of EDBi and SEEDS Capital. Kuo-Yi is also a board member of Great Eastern Holdings and the Singapore Venture & Private Capital Association. He currently serves as a member of the Technology Council at the Global Private Capital Association.

Kuo-Yi holds the bachelor’s, master's and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from MIT. His research was in the area of nanophotonics and photonic crystals. He started his career as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in Boston, MA.

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