Prog.ai, one of our more recent investments, has launched its product. Prog.ai lets you find and hire developers. The tools-for-thought app, Muse, has now launched Muse for teams in beta. Collaborate, plan and think together. If you haven’t already, listen to Muse’s excellent podcast, Metamuse. Singapore-based neobank Aspire recently raised USD 100mn in its series-C [...]
Research assistant at Approach World Approach World is a Singapore-based global consulting firm founded by two Swedes, Lisa Enckell and Andreas Ehn. We help operating companies with their technology, product and marketing challenges. We advise venture capital and private equity investors on new investment opportunities. We’re now looking to expand our team with an independent [...]
Say hello to RiseML – a platform for deep learning on Kubernetes. The Berlin-based team behind RiseML just released version 1.0. RiseML lets your machine learning team treat individual GPU servers as a single compute cluster and share its resources for training machine learning models. This allows your team to focus on what really matters, [...]
A small group of experienced growth marketers is gathering in Singapore in May 2018 to work on their marketing, data analytics, PR, branding and product management skills. It will be intense, demanding and hopefully very rewarding. It's time to level up. Instead of continuing our daily work routines or attending a traditional conference, we’ve put [...]
Geographical distance can be a barrier to sales. Customers in many time zones make it hard for a sales team that needs to schedule a call to onboard them. These challenges are often taken as excuses for excluding customers far away, but could instead be tackled by automating marketing and sales processes. Making your product [...]
Having lived in the US, we know how complicated and expensive it is to file taxes there. TurboTax and similar services help, but if your case is more complicated, you often need professional help, which tends to be expensive. If this is you, we think you should give our new portfolio company Visor a try. Using smart [...]
We're looking to expand our team with an independent and pro-active executive assistant, based in Singapore. Is this you or someone you know? Apply now! Executive assistant at Approach World Approach World is a Singapore-based consulting firm founded by Lisa Enckell and Andreas Ehn. In 2015, after several years with startups in Stockholm and San [...]
The first country we lived in as part of this project was Indonesia. We spent the fall/winter of 2015/2016 (Northern Hemisphere calendar) in Jakarta and got to know a lot of great entrepreneurs, accelerators and investment funds. This is a summary of what we learned. E-commerce is hot E-commerce is very hot and competitive. If [...]
It’s been two years since we left San Francisco to start the Approach journey. We have met amazing people and learned a lot about Indonesia, Singapore and Berlin. We have also learned a few things about how to live this kind of life and have decided to create a base in Singapore. We’re not giving [...]
It should be as easy to create a new kind of plant as it is to build a mobile app, at least if you ask the synthetic biologist Antony Evans who we met at EmTech Asia in Singapore. Mr Evans and his team launched TAXA last year, an open-source platform for synthetic biology. Anyone can [...]